Ditched Airfields

[kanttori]

Hello!

1) Why does couple of Shape Groups Airfields (for ex. AFDbl-1) make after landing report "ditched"? I have tried "Runaway" shape, too, and it is the same result!

2) How can I change shapes/clutters in texture? My terr0016 (Snow) is field, and there is little brown (!) snowmen standing there!

3) Is there coming cargo ship convoys in some day to Aces High? I need convoy to Murmansk! Or can I use barges in my convoy?

Best wishes
Kanttori

[10Bears]

1) Why does couple of Shape Groups Airfields (for ex. AFDbl-1) make after landing report "ditched"? I have tried "Runaway" shape, too, and it is the same result!

S-can AFDbl-1 it never worked. Same w/ single runway shape. Just go w/ default fields. Runway, twr, maproom and the pad underneath are the varables I believe.

2) How can I change shapes/clutters in texture? My terr0016 (Snow) is field, and there is little brown (!) snowmen standing there!  

Should be a white snowman, the brown snowman indecates a flaw somewhere on your map. Scroll up to the top of the clutter object list.. the one that ends "000" should be blank.

3) Is there coming cargo ship convoys in some day to Aces High? I need convoy to Murmansk! Or can I use barges in my convoy?  

Yes barges and tug boats are to be enabled in ver 1.10. I believe they plan to include liberity and other supply ships as well.
Aloha!

[CptTrips]

>Should be a white snowman, the brown snowman indecates a
>flaw somewhere on your map.

Perhaps not a flaw.  I believe the snowman is textured with whatever texture you assigned to "terr0016.bmp".  So if you've changed that to a brown texture, your snowman will be brown.

Also, the map room is textured what ever texture you have for grass "terr0001.bmp" and bolders are textured what ever you have for  rock "terr0004.bmp".

Wab

[kanttori]

THX AKWappit and 10Bears!

They were little but very necessary tips! My brand new "Finland-Russian Continuation War 1944" Terrain is soon ready. Couple of more questions to terrain-veterans:

1) I have 68 fields in my map (containing of course Depots and Ports). Is it too much? From help menu I read: you can put only 64 fields to your terrain. Maybe it's old information, 'cause I have seen over 70 fields for ex. in Baltic map?

2) My res-file works good, but I have one problem. I have made all field setups (Bish 1-32, Knights 33-43 and 65-68, Rooks 43-64) in Terrain Editor ready. But when I go to Offline game with my res-file, the fields are not in the same order. It is little bit of mess with them! I must change them everytime in the game...  What is reason for that?

3) How can I re-name my res-file (save as)? It is now: "map.res", because I didn't think the name when i started that first terrain couple of months ago. I want to change the file: "Finland.res". When I tried it, it didn't worked and the it crashed the game! What is the point?

4) When I make the finaly map (Make Map) from my terrain there is too much sunshine in the south . It is brighter than other part of the map, you know. What is best way to hide the sun...?

Yours Kanttori

[NUTTZ]

Originally posted by kanttori
THX AKWappit and 10Bears!

They were little but very necessary tips! My brand new "Finland-Russian Continuation War 1944" Terrain is soon ready. Couple of more questions to terrain-veterans:

1) I have 68 fields in my map (containing of course Depots and Ports). Is it too much? From help menu I read: you can put only 64 fields to your terrain. Maybe it's old information, 'cause I have seen over 70 fields for ex. in Baltic map?

It's an old help file , you can add more feilds now.

2) My res-file works good, but I have one problem. I have made all field setups (Bish 1-32, Knights 33-43 and 65-68, Rooks 43-64) in Terrain Editor ready. But when I go to Offline game with my res-file, the fields are not in the same order. It is little bit of mess with them! I must change them everytime in the game...  What is reason for that?

You need to also copy the .Fld file and drop that into your C:/programfiles/htc/acehich/terrains folder. This is the information on who gets what feild for H2H mode or offline.

3) How can I re-name my res-file (save as)? It is now: "map.res", because I didn't think the name when i started that first terrain couple of months ago. I want to change the file: "Finland.res". When I tried it, it didn't worked and the it crashed the game! What is the point?

You'll need to change the .res file and the folder files as well as ALL the files within the file to the new name.

4) When I make the finaly map (Make Map) from my terrain there is too much sunshine in the south . It is brighter than other part of the map, you know. What is best way to hide the sun...?




Theres a time slider bar to change the time in the game, slide it to your desired times ( shadows on hills, etc. ) then hit "build map"

Yours Kanttori

NUTTZ

[kanttori]

Thank you very much for the help everybody!

My Finnish-Russian map is now tested in H2H-arena with my friends from Leijonat and Lentolaivue 34 Squads. Everything worked as they should be, thanks to you!

Now I am making roads and railways and little bit something there and something everywhere. But the terrain is now 90 % ready.

I have tought with my squad-mates and friends (for ex. Camouflage and BlauK) that maybe the terrain is good to Combat Theater. Who is the big boss to whom I show it? I want to know what I must to do that it should be enough good to CT.

It is 1:4 historical map, almost every airfield and targets are from the real life in Continuation War 1941-44 between Finland (with Germany in Lappland) and Russian. For ex. there is becoming the famous Murmansk Railroad (what we never catched ) .

Yours Kanttori
Joensuu, Finland

Ps. And is the Brewster Buffalo coming in next update?

[aharder]

That time slider you mentioned, it doesn't work.    ...I click it (As well as the Alt slider and animation checkbox) with no response.   The Alt slider updates when I use the joystick to raise/lower the view, is there a keyboard/joystick function for the Time slider? Or is this all a glitch? Thx.

[BenDover]

you have to be running in 1024x768 res mode