Adding new maps: Which one would be the most useful?

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by IceFire

That would increase the size of the map significantly... And I'm not sure what campaign would happen there. Sounds like it was mostly an infantry war. No airbases. What else happened?

South Sakhalin island was controlled by Japan until 1945, and there was an airfield there, so it represents a valid target.

And, if the Japanese had more fuel, I'm certain that they would have attempted to provide air support for Sakhalin during the Soviet invasion in 1945 from bases on Hokkaido.

Given that there was very little action on the Kamchatka peninsula during the war (mostly U.S. bombers flying parallel to it on "great circle" flights from the Aleutians). I'd change the area covered by the map so take in as much of Hokkaido as you can (ideally including Sapporo and Chitose), plus the three most southern of the Kurile islands and the tip of Sakhalin.

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

South Sakhalin island was controlled by Japan until 1945, and there was an airfield there, so it represents a valid target.

And, if the Japanese had more fuel, I'm certain that they would have attempted to provide air support for Sakhalin during the Soviet invasion in 1945 from bases on Hokkaido.

Given that there was very little action on the Kamchatka peninsula during the war (mostly U.S. bombers flying parallel to it on "great circle" flights from the Aleutians). I'd change the area covered by the map so take in as much of Hokkaido as you can (ideally including Sapporo and Chitose), plus the three most southern of the Kurile islands and the tip of Sakhalin.

That would be a map larger than anything in IL-2 right now. I'm not sure how well that would work... nevermind being an issue for a rookie designer like myself.

If we're talking about Japan itself... if all goes well then a community effort to build a Tokyo map would be a better option perhaps.

[Sita]

Btw ... about any Help to MapMakers ...

i think need do and show some tutorial for those Guys wand do some simple 3d models ... like buildings and some small stuff ...

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Sita

Btw ... about any Help to MapMakers ...

i think need do and show some tutorial for those Guys wand do some simple 3d models ... like buildings and some small stuff ...

Yes, I think that would be helpful. The actual objects tend to be much simpler than aircraft. Some buildings from the original game and even from the newer ones are not much more than some simple shapes and I can't imagine the backend hooks being too much more complicated. Textures are important here.

[daidalos.team]

Originally Posted by Sita

Btw ... about any Help to MapMakers ...

i think need do and show some tutorial for those Guys wand do some simple 3d models ... like buildings and some small stuff ...

IL-2 Modeling bible:
http://www.smsp.org/il2/3d_modeling_...ceobjects.html

Reference models:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...object_ref.rar

[Sita]

Good one) Thx)

but one more .... need some tutorial about how to create building for Il2 ... when i try to do some i found only one on Sas

[Juri_JS]

I haven't looked at it, but there is a tutorial for making 3d buildings by Kevinp:
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/fo...p?f=82&t=32219

There are numerous other tutorials at AAS that might be useful too:
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/fo...p?f=82&start=0
http://allaircraftsimulations.com/fo...forum.php?f=70

[IceFire]

Made a little progress on this project. I was having trouble with the mapping tool running out of memory. I ended up finding a beta version of their 64bit executable which doesn't have the same problem. So I now have the underlying map.

I actually need to go back over it and redo some of the process to trim a bit of the northern section. But there is progress.

Apparently fixing up the coastline is going to be a nightmare... Hrm