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Offline oneway

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2010, 01:52:36 PM »
I was told you could actually destroy the Flak Towers in the Capital.  So you really can't then?  There have been a couple of times where I dropped 2 1k lb bombs on one and it did NOTHING.  I would figure at least the guns would go poof....

It is a Headquarters 'style' object as the indestructible for the city...there are three distinct flak towers within the entire city complex...this stands in as one type...and incidentally I missed a second one that is located in grid K-10

Hawk is right...91'st bomb group for the Triangle A...Salute Hawk  :salute

Thanks all....appreciate the comments...next to be rolled out will be the Fuel Factory...
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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2010, 06:25:34 PM »
I think I am having a little too much fun with this....fuel map is almost done...this is just for fun...

I love the fuel factory...bombing it that is...tons of flame and smoke...most favortist strat target...barbque enemy...whats not to love...

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2010, 04:48:28 PM »
Fuel and Radar Complete...





And Troops...



And Ack Factory...



And Ammo Factory...



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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2010, 06:15:38 PM »
Superb work Sir, PM sent

Is it ok to distribute via email to the rest of the DHBG? (crediting your good self of course)

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2010, 06:28:03 PM »
Superb work Sir, PM sent

Is it ok to distribute via email to the rest of the DHBG? (crediting your good self of course)

Steely

Absolutely...

This is for the entire community...and especially the guys into events and historical stuff to flesh out the immersion...

Unfortunately for now most of the special events arena's are still using the old style strat stuff...but over time I am sure that will be updated...

I finished the entire pack and will post the link here and all asking for PM's will get a link back to this thread and that post...

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2010, 06:46:44 PM »
Here is the finished package...

Note: I am a little up in the air on what is and is not indestructible...so for now I have left them out...

http://www.cadframers.com/ah/clip_map_pack.zip

I kind of rushed the last couple of maps and didn't pixel blend the edges, but you can hardly tell...

Included in the pack is a read-me.txt file with instructions on how to incorporate these maps into your game experience...

Contents of the read-me file:

Instructions:

Extract the contents of this zip file...

Copy all of the *.bmp files and paste them into your Aces High \maps\ directory...

Included is a modified "deault.lst" file...which is the default menu info when your in game...

By including this *.lst file, you won't even have to go through the trouble of manually getting these to work..

The default.lst file will handle all of that for you automatically...

If you already have custom clipboard maps then skip the *.lst file as this will overwrite your current settings...

For 99% of the guys who have never made changes to their clip maps...include it in the copy paste routine and your good to go

If you do not want to use the included default.lst file...then you must add them manually

Instructions for adding clip maps manually are as follows:

1) Copy the bitmap files to your \maps directory
2) Load up the game (offline or online)
3) Pull up the clip board
4) Right click and choose 'Clipboard Maps' from the drop down menu
5) Choose 'New' map
6) Select the file from the file drop down box
7) Name it
8) Apply the changes
9) Repeat for each map you want to add to the clip map collection


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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #21 on: November 18, 2010, 07:02:22 PM »
Great work  :aok

Thanks for posting
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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #22 on: November 18, 2010, 07:08:32 PM »
Thanks oneway nice work indeed!
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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #23 on: November 18, 2010, 07:21:56 PM »
Thanks MachFly & Reschke...

An interesting sidebar to this little effort was leveraging the terrain editor and creating a terrain that had a "Magenta" colored tile for terrain texture of type 'Grass'...

Replacing the default grass texture tile with magenta color allowed me to take screen grabs from the modified terrain in the mission editor...and then transform those images by replacing everything in a 'Magenta' range with a Transparent color...this let me cut out the stuff such as roads and buildings...and in essence allowed me to discard everything in the image that was superfluous...

Once I figured out how to do that the rest was cake...


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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #24 on: November 18, 2010, 07:40:42 PM »
Good Work!  :aok
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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #25 on: November 18, 2010, 07:42:53 PM »
Thank you again, will point the rest of the Squad here for download.

Salute!

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #26 on: November 18, 2010, 09:46:33 PM »
Very impressive and way too cool.

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #27 on: November 18, 2010, 10:13:57 PM »
Very impressive and way too cool.

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Exactly why I should be on the back end of one of those FLIR units...

It's about making it happen...getting it done...

Lame how crap is set up......

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #28 on: November 19, 2010, 01:54:25 AM »
oneway,

Any plans to doing the same for the airfields, ports, towns and vehicle bases?
I know our squad would certainly benefit from your period style maps.

Please consider making them up as well to complete the set.   :salute

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Re: Working on period clip maps for the new strats...
« Reply #29 on: November 19, 2010, 02:59:01 AM »
Great stuff, nice work!  :rock :salute
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