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Originally Posted by IceFire
I'm thinking of making a China themed map. Perhaps starting with a dogfight map to cut my teeth on it. Anyone have resources that could help me with that? I'm trying to decide on an area... and then try and get photos of airbases and the like.
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China's a bit tricky since the parts where combat occurred were mostly heavily populated and there aren't as many East Asian objects (or specifically Chinese objects) as there might be.
Additionally, IL2 limits you to two different ground textures and parts of China were much more diverse in their terrain. For example, you can't have a mountain/hill terrain texture, plus a tea plantation texture, plus a woods texture, plus a rice paddy texture, all of which you might encounter within a small area of Central China.
To make things even more interesting, many parts of China are prone to floods and farmers flood their rice paddies at certain times of the year. This means that the water textures for the spring map would be very different from those of the autumn or winter maps.
Possibly a map of part of Formosa/Taiwan would work, since some combat took place over it (Japanese invasion in U.S. Carrier raids in 1944). But, the problem there is that the PRC would make trouble for UbiSoft about anything relating to the the Chinese Nationalists, so our Chinese overlords get to veto that one.
A less controversial and equally useful map would be Hong Kong. It would be easier than it looks, since the population and development in 1941 wasn't nearly what it is today. It saw aerial action during the Japanese invasion of 1941, and suffered numerous Allied air raids during the Japanese occupation.