[Fryslanboy]

Great!! Waiting to give links! :wink:

[redko]

Holy Smokes! Okay, you listen up! You get this map out to us as soon as possible, or I'll give you a dirty look. And I'm not kidding!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

For respect to people who dyed here I will do the best map as possible. I really wonder what's possible to feel when flying over this piece of history...

[redko]

I read your posts guys thanks.

Ok here is the deal. A gray sand island which fit with the popular represantation of the island, or something more natural? I know that this map is an Icone for both US and Japaneses, and sometimes icone overwrite the reality. Of course at bombing period it was only a grey piece of rock and sand, no more. But as someone said and proved by nice pics, there is vegetation at some period of the year. Maybe i will find a middle way bewteen these 2 conceptions.

Will post new pics soon.

I will look at for a beer now and start the work.

[redko]

Necessary to extract this to paint it?:

[buildings.Mountain$Suribachi]
Title Suribachi
Mesh 3do/Buildings/Mountain/Suribachi/live.sim

Shure i will. thanks.
Will try the contrast increase technics, maybe i can make a mount without any 3d object...

[redko]

I made a green Mt Suribachi for my own version of the Pacific Islands map....do you want it?

I like the pix of your beta

Shure !!!

Is it on your download links ?

[redko]

Are you trying to make the island more green with more vegetation?
Wouldn't most of the vegetation have been blown up by the bombardment and shelling?
I would also think that all trees would have been cut down by the Japanese to use for their hundreds of bunkers and fortifications.

I know...A question for all the people here. Does you have any idea of what was the look of Iwo before U.S start bombing it? Was there a that period of the year only sand of still vegetaltion?

[redko]

Looking great so far! One thing to remember though, the airfields are part of the original textures- are you planning on adding them to your textures, or just leaving them? Also, I know it might be asking too much, but are you planning on adding the black sand beaches? I feel like that's a really big part of what people think of when they hear Iwo Jima. But, as you said, it's not even beta status yet, and if it's anything like the Okinawa map, I know we won't be disappointed! keep up the good work

"the airfields are part of the original textures- are you planning on adding them to your textures, or just leaving them?"

i don't know for now but i want to integrate it. nothing is decided but if i can keep it i will. Airfields appears as textures here i don't know now how to keep these textures without having them repeated in all the map. will check this.

"Also, I know it might be asking too much, but are you planning on adding the black sand beaches?"

Yes. the problem is as the island is very little and the game engine deals only with big textures, that's not easy to put the beaches in a photorealistic way coast to coast with the rest of textures.
So same answer i will see...but all i can say you know is i want those beaches on my map.

I'm thinking to a " interpenetrated set of textures"...i mean some parts of texture A are also on texture B....the result is a more natural transition between texture A to B and so far. I used this on a little scale for Okinawa map. More transitions are sweet more photorealistic the result will be.

[panzerkeil]

Iwo was actually quite green, but the beaches and sandy places were black (volcanic ash instead of sand)
Vegetation is minor though and mostly low, as islands like these catch quite some wind.

[VonBarb.]

redko, check PM, I'm working on a map_T file that should solve your black beaches problem. The default Map_T file only uses 4 of the 32 texture slots available... so far

Cheers

Nico

[fabianfred]

http://www.4shared.com/account/file/145 ... bachi.html

[redko]

http://www.4shared.com/account/file/1459...bachi.html

Ok let's see this.

I'll never be able to do miracles with this map if this.......this wart stay in the same time. :roll: :wink:

This little mount is the key of the map!

[redko]

Thanks for your work Redko, Iwo Jima really needs new textures.

Another map that needs to be retextured is Chichi Jima. It's certainly the worst looking map in the game, even worse than Iwo Jima.

You have missions in this map? I try to provide new repainted map for those who have missions with.

[Juri_JS]

Thanks for your work Redko, Iwo Jima really needs new textures.

Another map that needs to be retextured is Chichi Jima. It's certainly the worst looking map in the game, even worse than Iwo Jima.

You have missions in this map? I try to provide new repainted map for those who have missions with.

The reason why I ask for a Chichi Jima retexture is that I thought till some month ago, that the Bonins are desert like volcanic islands, because of what I saw in the game. Which is completely wrong. I was very suprised when I saw pictures of the islands. They are very green, with a vegetation of trees and bushes.

[Juri_JS]

This might be useful. Aerial photos of Iwo Jima from 1945, some of them are in color.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineL ... /iwo-0.htm

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineL ... iwo-0a.htm

[Lejo]

Wikipedia shows some images of Iwo Jima as it looks nowadays, at least it gives an indication of the vegetation 'cause those photo's were made in February and March, the same period of the year as the battle took place.
Looking at the weather data it must have vegetation the entire year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwo_Jima

To me it all looks more greenish, yellow and sandy then expected. The beaches do have the dark brown colour though.

Maybe this link will help; the scale model which was used by the US during the invasion shows where the vegetation was and the dark coloured beaches.

http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/TourTe...woJima.htm