Who is doing what terrain.

[Baddawg]

Im just playing around but I made a BoB
map  for the clipboard if anyone wants it. It does not have the  funky colors of the elevation or population maps and has more character than the relief maps
 http://www.vicer.com/99th/Messhall/Euromap512.bmp

The bmp is 512x512

the input parameters for Ogres mapmaker to export are
54.0 Lat

-5.5 Lon
10.0 Width

[Ghosth]

Ogre,
A thousand thanks for the tips.
At last I'm getting the hang of things.

Have my map sized correctly in mapmaker (824km or 512 miles) (worked out to be 7.9 degrees btw at lat 18.75, long 118.5)

This cuts a fair chunk off the S part of the group(Mindenao , etc) but still leaves a HUGE mass of terrain. Got the data into the AH editor and I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

Currently I'm  researching where Airbases & city's were in 1941-45.

Anyone have any tips in this area? Maps?


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Maj Ghosth
XO 332nd Flying Mongrels
Scenario Corp, AH Trainer Corp

[Vermillion]

Guys let me caution you about scaling factors !!!

I see alot of people thinking its "better" or more historical to do 1:1 scaling on terrains. (ie 512 miles real life = 512 miles in game).

There's nothing wrong with this, but realize that you are requiring pilots to fly "historical" sortie's lengths when you do this.

And most historical flight times were hours in length.

Not to many players in the game that wants to fly 90 minutes before they even have a chance of contacting the enemy.

Plan ahead!  

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"

[Downtown]

I am working on one that will feature

Detroit; The Home of Rock and Roll.
Cleavelan; Rock City (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Port Huron, My Home Town.

I am thinking Toronto and London, Ont. Canada.

I will probably have to make some land masses to link Canada and the U.S. cause we can't do pontoon bridges and such.

(I live about 50 Miles north of Detroit.)

The other will be Pearl, probably just Ohahu (sp?) or Ford Island (WE NEED CARRIERS HT, P-36s, P-40s, Vals, Kates and A6M2's too. Oh, a PBy and an earlier version of the B-17, the "C" I believe.

CBI I will have to think about 2:1 would stil be HUGE!  I would like to stick Everest in there somewhere but am not counting on it.

I figure Rangoon for one city, Bangkok for another, Saigon for another and Kumming for the other.  The Japanese would start with Saigon and Bangkok and the English would Have Rangoon, the Flying Tigers (Again need a P-40B, with Kumming.

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"Downtown" Lincoln Brown.
    lkbrown1@tir.com    
 http://www.tir.com/~lkbrown1
Wrecking Crews "Drag and Die Guy"
Hals und beinbruch!

[Vermillion]

Ghost, I have a book called "Atlas of WWII" that has alot of maps of the major battles and theaters of battle, some of which have the historic locations of airbases.

Thats where I got my locations for my Central Mediterranean Terrain.

Where are you looking for specifically, and I will see what I can find for you.

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Vermillion
**MOL**, Men of Leisure
"Real Men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires"