Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Axis vs Allies => Topic started by: Panzzer on April 06, 2006, 08:12:50 AM
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We won't be having a rolling plane set for the next week. Thanks to the friendly neighborhood Terrain Team we have a winter map to try.
ETO Winter 1944-1945
Allies - Rooks:
P-47D40
P-47M (sub P47N)
P-51D
Spit XVI
Spit XIV
Tempest
B-17 (limited to rear fields)
B-24 (limited to rear fields)
Lancaster (limited to rear fields)
Mosquito
C-47
Vehicles: M-series, T34
Axis - Knights:
109G14
109K4
190A8
190D9
Ta-152
Me163 (A2 only)
Me262 (A2 only)
JU87
JU88
Ar234 (A2 only)
110G2
Ju-52 (sub C47)
Vehicles: Panzer IV H, Ostwind, M3
Settings:
terrain: Winter Rhine
Friendly collisions are off.
Fuel burn is 1.0
Visibility is 12 miles
All Ack is .25
Radar: Full friendly & enemy
Killshooter: off
Capture: 20 troops
We'll see the first days with those, if it's nothing but Temp-fest we'll be moving the jets closer to the front.
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Sounds like fun. Can't wait! :)
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Cool.
Is the map available for for download yet?
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Sorry double clicked.:(
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Sounds very nice. Wouldn't it be great if we could have terrain "skins" like AW had? Imagine Karelia in autumn!
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Originally posted by Shifty
Cool.
Is the map available for for download yet?
Yes, you can get it from here: http://downloads.hitechcreations.com/AHRHINE2.EXE.
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Originally posted by eh
Sounds very nice. Wouldn't it be great if we could have terrain "skins" like AW had? Imagine Karelia in autumn!
The default skin can be built in the terrain, the rest of the skins will be the same as in every other arena. Most of the terrains don't have built-in skins (Karelia being the exception).
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As Panzzer said, we can (and do) change the default skin for certain planes... and the terrain download size costs about 2 extra megs per plane! :)
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Sorry, I guess I didn't make my daydreaming very clear. In AW, you could get different skins just for terrains (separately from plane skins), so that each player could change how an arena looked to him simply by choosing (for example) default, desert, winter etc., just like choosing a plane skin.
Of course, the terrains were rather "primitive" in the sense that the trees were very sparse and crappy looking, so it made those skins much easier to do in AW than they would be in AH. Probably AH also uses different methods for building terrains than were used by AW, so that would complicate matters a whole lot.
But I can dream, can't I? It will be so kewl to see a winter terrain in the Allies vs Axis. I plan to die in there all next week.
:aok
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Ah, I get what you mean now... yeah, that would be too cool. I believe we asked for that long ago, but I don't think it's a practical option for HTC... not with the way their terrains are constructed.
FWIW, it's a simple enough thing to convert an existing terrain... that's all this "new" Rhine2 is; just the old Rhine with winter textures replacing the default ones. We'll probably do the same for some other maps, Like France or BoB.
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cool 262's??? cant wait :D
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That would be so kewl. I seem to remember when karelia first came out that the trees were in autumn foliage. Am I wrong? I know that asw made a rather large terrain for the CT (northern Europe?) which had varied environments: high valleys had snow and, at lower alts, the valleys and plains became lush green. The variety added a lot to the game. Anyway, I am glad to hear that such additions are being made. The same shade of green in all arenas at all times is a bit boring.
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The Rhine map was one of ASW's maps as well.
Who modified it to winter terrain?
RTR
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looks like the germans need a t&b plane or there will be allot of running/chasin going on
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I concur with egler the G6 might be added in order that every axis won't be playing the ack running game.
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I did, RTR.
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Setup done.
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Cool Dux, I can hardly wait to see it!
Thanks!
cheers,
RTR
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Map feedback.
first of all its too grey... not the sky but the land... I know winter can be really grey.. ask me I live in gothenburg sweden the grey capital...
Still the land is too grey and the country side is tooo snow filled. Its so snow heavy that it looks more like northen sweden or finland in winter then europe.
Tex
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I think the map looks cool - has a IL2 feel
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Tex... what is the time of day in the arena? I saw the same grey stuff in FSO, but figured it was the angle of the sun. Trust me, it was white snow when I sent it in.
As for the amount... well, that's what was requested of me. This texture set was rushed out to make it in time for FSO, but we will be making better and more varied textures soon enough.
Thanks for the feedback!
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I think it looks great. Flying there makes you feel cold. Even in Texas.
Well Done Dux !:aok
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Um, I have the clock set to run from 6 hrs to 18 hrs, maybe it wouldn't look as grey if I set the day to start later and end sooner - something like 8-16 maybe.
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I don't think that's the problem, Panzzer... I've been looking at posted screenshots from FSO (the filmviewer doesn't show arena settings, so sky is blue and time is noontime) and those are all grey also. I'm looking into it further...