Afnor - Morocco realized!

[Jagdflieger]

Rami's new MTO installation guide is up and ready for downloading.

Thanks Rami!

 

[kelticheart]

Japlance,

That's now in Achim's North African airfields package in the new library. Those .bgl and texture files should be removed, because they conflict with Jean Bomber's new scenery.

Hi Rami! Not only those.

The airfield buildings from previous gsl installs, namely Achim's, should be removed from the gsl file, as they conflict with JB's Casablanca airfield structures. By using Martin Wright's GSL tools it's easy to isolate Casablanca gob and remove it from cfs2.gsl. This before installing JB's GSL Morocco file.

I am having a little visual problem with villages built on the shoreline. The casbah walls follow the shape of the watermasks and look different from the screenies I see here. Mine go up and down the coastline cliffs and look a little weird.

I have all of Rhumba's mesh and watermask files installed with nothing else but JB's Afnor mesh. Should a flatten switch be used in this case or did I miss another install passage, since I read in the instructions that JB placed already placed flattens in the *.bgl files?

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[dombral]

Afnor Jean Bomber suite

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Hi, :salute:I hope the best for this new year to all! :ernae:I've uploaded the Afnor Morocco, and I hope to have not forgotten a piece and then all will work.Also, sorry for my absences but R/L today is not a long quiet stream.
A special thank to Wolfi for the casbah wall gate and tower objects that have superb damage effects,these coupled with the new Penwin32 TAF flak guns ,I 've had some fun moments charging with rockets on this forts again the flak bullets .
A special thank to Rami to be so patient... ..

. JP

félicitations pour le résultat final des sceneries de l'AFN .C'est époustouflant . J'ai réinstallé les fichiers que j'avais sur le le Maroc et je suis en train d'essayer mes missions correspondantes . Aparrament elles fonctionnent parfaitement et votre nouveau GSL est plus réaliste que celui que j'avais fait en utilisant les objets de Malta. J'ai en réserve un stock de missions de l'aviation française couvrant la periode 1939 à novembre 1942 ainsi que les équivalants US et britanniques . il ya donc : la drole de guerre , la campagne de France , les combats contre l'aviation italienne , l'attaque de Mers el Kébir et du Richelieu à Dakar , l'opération Menace sur Dakar et le raid de représaille sur Gibraltar , les campagnes de Syrie et de Madagscar sont déjà publiées et l'opération Torch ; Ceci représente quleques dizaines de missions . Elles sont toutes ilustrées avec les avions et leurs peintures le plus historique possible . Problème : Je ne parle pas suffisamment l'Anglais pour les publier sur CFS2 , aussi j'aurais besoin d'un Beta testeur et interprète . Y a t'il un volontaire ?

et bonne année à tous

 

[Jean Bomber]

J'ai en réserve un stock de missions de l'aviation française couvrant la periode 1939 à novembre 1942 ainsi que les équivalants US et britanniques . il ya donc : la drole de guerre , la campagne de France , les combats contre l'aviation italienne , l'attaque de Mers el Kébir et du Richelieu à Dakar , l'opération Menace sur Dakar et le raid de représaille sur Gibraltar , les campagnes de Syrie et de Madagscar sont déjà publiées et l'opération Torch ; Ceci représente quleques dizaines de missions . Elles sont toutes ilustrées avec les avions et leurs peintures le plus historique possible . Problème : Je ne parle pas suffisamment l'Anglais pour les publier sur CFS2 , aussi j'aurais besoin d'un Beta testeur et interprète . Y a t'il un volontaire ?

et bonne année à tous

Salut Dominique,
les missions ne sont pas mon fort mais si ce n'est qu'une question de traduction ...
To resume you have the missions and You need a tester translater to help to finalize some Vichy french side missions.
"Y a t'il un volontaire ? "

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I am having a little visual problem with villages built on the shoreline. The casbah walls follow the shape of the watermasks and look different from the screenies I see here. Mine go up and down the coastline cliffs and look a little weird.

I have all of Rhumba's mesh and watermask files installed with nothing else but JB's Afnor mesh. Should a flatten switch be used in this case or did I miss another install passage, since I read in the instructions that JB placed already placed flattens in the *.bgl files?

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

Kelti,like the difference there is with the stoney's pics and the mine with the lod9 mesh? the difference between mesh lod9 and lod8 (R's dem8).
I do the sceneries on lod9 to be nearest of that they are in real and btw the gsl are done the get the best with the lod9 mesh.
the scenery works with the 946190m.bgl ,lod9 mesh used in the the PartI,personally I've put my all my lod 5 7 8 9 in the scenedb/world/scenery but as you know it's possible to put them as sceneries outside the game ..etc..
The bgl cover the south of spain until Casablanca it's sized to cover a FS lod5 ,if you already have it installed perhaps there is a problem with the hierarchy or perhaps it's not set up ,like to think it's set up and it's not ,I say that by some experiences or a conflict with an old african water flatten bgl.
I try to limit the use of flattens for the fps ,no need to flat the sea,doing flattens only for the airfields,ports,lakes and rivers the rest of the sceney has flattens except for some anomalies that can appears sometimes due by some big buildings of today.

JP

 

[Rami]

Reply...

Dombral,

If I recall correctly, they are the same missions that you have sent me. I would like to update and release them, but the holiday to Europe kind of threw a monkey wrench into my free time, and because a couple of the missions require the unreleased Bizerte scenery, it makes it kind of difficult to release them now. However, I will continue to work on them and translate them.

 

[kelticheart]

Kelti,like the difference there is with the stoney's pics and the mine with the lod9 mesh? the difference between mesh lod9 and lod8 (R's dem8).
I do the sceneries on lod9 to be nearest of that they are in real and btw the gsl are done the get the best with the lod9 mesh.
the scenery works with the 946190m.bgl ,lod9 mesh used in the the PartI,personally I've put my all my lod 5 7 8 9 in the scenedb/world/scenery but as you know it's possible to put them as sceneries outside the game ..etc..
The bgl cover the south of spain until Casablanca it's sized to cover a FS lod5 ,if you already have it installed perhaps there is a problem with the hierarchy or perhaps it's not set up ,like to think it's set up and it's not ,I say that by some experiences or a conflict with an old african water flatten bgl.
I try to limit the use of flattens for the fps ,no need to flat the sea,doing flattens only for the airfields,ports,lakes and rivers the rest of the sceney has flattens except for some anomalies that can appears sometimes due by some big buildings of today.JP

Hi Jean!

This is what I meant and I realise I should have posted pics before, but yesterday I replied from work.

Like I said, I have Rhumba's LOD 5, 7, 8 and watermasks installed, plus your LOD 9 mesh files. I set up your Afnor mesh files in my scenery library right above Rhumba's, as it should be since they are one level of detail higher (LOD9) than Rhumba's.

Mehdia is the most evident, because it sits right on top of the cliff. You (and Skylane) used it as an example of your beautiful scenery, but both yours look quite different than the below.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[Jean Bomber]

Hi kelti,
Looking the pics the lod9 seems not works,try to put the 946190m.bgl in the Afnor_scen/scenery folder,just to see, I hope that would do it
In other subject does somebody has done a night fly and take a beer over one of the three Rick's Cafe Americain the are in the scenery, as kdriver has already done ,I would like also to upload a soundtrack for the ambiant :ernae: but I can give you the title:
Caravan by George Shearing ,Rami know it

.

JP

 

[kelticheart]

Hi kelti,
Looking the pics the lod9 seems not works,try to put the 946190m.bgl in the Afnor_scen/scenery folder,just to see, I hope that would do it
In other subject does somebody has done a night fly and take a beer over one of the three Rick's Cafe Americain the are in the scenery, as kdriver has already done ,I would like also to upload a soundtrack for the ambiant :ernae: but I can give you the title:
Caravan by George Shearing ,Rami know it

.

JP

Roger, Jean!

I'll do it this eveninig after I get home from work. I'll report the results.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[dombral]

Dombral,

If I recall correctly, they are the same missions that you have sent me. I would like to update and release them, but the holiday to Europe kind of threw a monkey wrench into my free time, and because a couple of the missions require the unreleased Bizerte scenery, it makes it kind of difficult to release them now. However, I will continue to work on them and translate them.

Merci de vous intéresser à mes missions , je sais qu'elles sont peu conventionnelles et certainement difficiles à mettre en oeuvre . Pour le scenery"Bizerte " j'ai utilisé un scenery beta que m'avait envoyé Jean Bomber . J'ai rajouté mon GSL pour mes missions je pense que Jean Bomber doit l'avoir et qu'il le publiera un de ces jours . Sonscenery Afnor est vraiement splendide ; associé à Gibraltar , Malte Tarente et Dakar l'ensemble est un must pour les amateurs de CFS2 , de meme que Pearl Harbor et Midway .
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Translation to English of above post: Thank you for your interest in my mission, I know they are unconventional and certainly difficult to implement. The scenery "Bizerte" I used a beta scenery that I had sent John Bomber. I added my GSL for my missions I think Jean Bomber must have and he published one of these days. So scenery Afnor is really beautiful; associated with Gibraltar, Malta, Taranto and Dakar is a must for all lovers of CFS2, the same as Pearl Harbor and Midway.

 

[stoney]

I put the 946190m.bgl in the Afnor_scen/scenery folder and it worked. All the walled city is fine now. Thanks for the advise. I love this scenery very much.

 

[kelticheart]

I put the 946190m.bgl in the Afnor_scen/scenery folder and it worked. All the walled city is fine now. Thanks for the advise. I love this scenery very much.

It worked for me, too! Great suggestion, thank you very much Jean!

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[Jean Bomber]

Good :ernae: !

I thought also yesterday ...If even with all that installed correctly and if the scenery won't work ...:isadizzy:
Think to give a look at the level of the DEM density,in the advanced image quality setting ,set them to the highest level if it's not.
,here the result as low and middle level with the lod9 mesh installed.....and about the lowest level ...Rami had already experienced it on Gibraltar...

JP

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[kelticheart]

Good !

I thought also yesterday ...If even with all that installed correctly and if the scenery won't work ...
Think to give a look at the level of the DEM density,in the advanced image quality setting ,set them to the highest level if it's not.
,here the result as low and middle level with the lod9 mesh installed.....and about the lowest level ...Rami had already experienced it on Gibraltar...

JP

Yes Jean, I knew that, even if it is still easy to forget some detail about CFS2 inner workings. When I have to clean up my HDD and need a clean start, I get the chills when I think I have to re-install CFS2. I finally resolved I great headache with my joystick I had since October, which made me think it had reached the end of its service life, just because I forgot that when the OS is re-installed, copying backup copies over stock CFS2 files isn't enough to keep one's joystick working porperly. Joystick calibration and setting assignments are necessary as if it were installed for the first time. Now it works prefectly.

Back to the topic, sometimes lowering the terrain and DEM detail helps with mission framerate a lot. After all, we do not pay attention to the beauty of the mesh during combat. I routinely do it.

If we then forget we lowered the detail complexity, the first time we go for a Free Flight, we get surprises like the one you just showed.

In my case, even if my pc is rather old now, I still have enough processor power and RAM that I can keep most of the image quality sliders set to the maximum level when I use it as a regular simulator, flying around to enjoy the scenery and keep my piloting skills exercised.

My problem is that I had all DEMs set to the max and still your LOD9 did not work properly until I placed a copy in the general Afnor_scen/scenery folder. It's amazing how an exact science like computer science is so inexact sometimes! I have other things which do not work correctly, even if they are installed according to their instructions.

One great example is SdC's ETO coastlines in my MTO install. Even if I replaced the bgl file you enclosed in your first Afnor release and removed the bgl file that conflicts with Tobob's Taranto/Bari coastline, I still have coastlines that do not follow Rhumba's watermasks in Sicily, Italy's Southern tips and Malta, creating double shores and fictional lagoons/coral barriers.

I resolved it by removing entirely SdC's Euro coastlines in my MTO install and living with it, but always wondering why they work properly in other computers.

Cheers!
KH :ernae:

 

[gavinc]

Amazing

Hi Jean,
I finally got around to installing your latest masterpiece and I am truly impressed. It pushes CFS2 up yet another notch.

Now all I need to do is find some time to actually create some missions and recreate Operation Torch.

Thanks for all your contributions.

Gavin