Welcome,Comrade, to the Russian Front! (10bears new terrain)

[10Bears]

Thx guys thanks Leonid, that's SW Russia btw.. took me an hour just to find to place  .. they changed the name in 1960 to Volgograd.

I asked Duckwing, who's putting together the Stalingrad scenario, to d/l Orge's mapmaker program (he's got bigger harddrive) The first map we made (no textures yet) just seemed too big 512x512 toooo flat 0 elevation everywhere I checked. Duckwing turned me on to the Terraserver site. They got everything! geopolitical maps for placing cities, towns etc. Good relief maps to use with Wabbit's bit2map program which I used for Luzon and seems to work good.
  Next off to the library for some more "Air Over" books I got "Britain from the Air" (wanted castles) and "Earth from Above" neither had what I wanted.. winter from above.. Had to wing the textures with graphics program. Anyway the snow blends in well with clouds. (I took screenshot of clouds so snow would be exactly same color)

Part of Duckwing's scenario involve tanks.. lots of em.. He's going to get back to me where he wants VH bases located. I've also changed a couple of the city tiles I wasn't happy with.
  1st step is to send finished map to HTC for any changes Pyro wants me to make then you guys can play in the snow  ..
  I put a bow on clipboard map (ahhh how cute) and am calling it the "Christmas Map"
10Bears--

[Westy]

 I can't wait!! Thanks 10Bears. And thanks for the info Gatt!

 -Westy

[edan]

Stalingrad!!!!!
Red Oktober factory, Krasnaya Sloboda, Mamaev Kurgan, Pitomnik....
What a scenario!.
But I don't think the game has the "hardware" to run it with a minimun of "inmersion".  
We lack Sturmovik, T-34, Katyushas, Nebelwerfer, He-111, Stuka, Ju-52,U-2 biplanes.....
Anyway the first thing, the soil, looks great.
 

[TheWobble]

Beautyfull terrain, however in h2h everything is a bit too spread out for only 8 players. cant do much more than ffa, however it is pretty enough to excuse putting beauty before function  

[Westy]

 Ah!! But for paying customers it IS beauty and function.    
 See?  H2H is an Aces High hors d'oeuvres not a regular entrée.  

  -Westy

;-)

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 11-28-2000).]

[Ripsnort]

 

Originally posted by TheWobble:
Beautyfull terrain, however in h2h everything is a bit too spread out for only 8 players. cant do much more than ffa, however it is pretty enough to excuse putting beauty before function  

Wobble, its not intended for  HTH, and was not intended for  a HTH download, at the time I put up a session, I called the session "Alpha-Private" and Cobraj came into the room as we were flying, so kindly tell him not to host that terrain until 10bears can get the final copy up.  Thanks. (Thinks "next time I need to add password...")

[TheWobble]

I wasnt trying to diss the map or anything, i love the spacing (being a bomber dweeb), i think they should replace the map in the MA with that one.

[LJK Raubvogel]

Wow 10Bears! Looks great.

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LuftJägerKorps

[Snoopi]

Nice 10Bears !

Nice Christmas Present  

You have found your calling in life bud !  

[eskimo]

<S> 10bears !

Tanks may stand a chance of blending in in there!

eskimo

[-ammo-]

Thx 10bears, you are the man!

ammo

[Sundog]

<S> 10Bears!

After Luzon, I was wondering what your next terrain was going to be! Looking forward to checking that out. Thank you for all the Hard Work you and Duckwing are putting into this.

SD

Addendum: Almost forgot, Thanks for posting the pic Ripsnort!

[This message has been edited by Sundog (edited 11-27-2000).]

[Ogre]

10Bears,

I don't see flat terrain when I test random parts of SW Russia.  Also, the latest version can also make terrains at any size you want (i.e. smaller than 512x512).

So, if you want to try using output from the USGS topography and land use database through my program again, drop me a line at reaper@cris.com with the area you are looking at and the size terrain you want (256x256, whatever).  I'll just email you the elv and typ files.

Ogre

[Maniac]

Nice!!!

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WB : -nr-1-

[GrinBird]

 

I accidently ran into Stalingrad last night 10Bears. I am absolutely astonished its .. aaaaargh So Good! The guy who was host didnt know where it came from, he had got it same way I did: By logging on a random h2h host.
You should place your signature and version number on the clipboard 10Bears, so people know its you, and if its an early or finnished version of the terrain they are in.
Once again fantastic. Immersion was great allmost expected my wind shield to be covered with ice from my breath.

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GrinBird