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Afrika Korps scenery?

I hear ya Mark, problem with this one is, it's in the desert with nothing but sand all around, LOL I actually added the ossis the way I did to give something of a frame around the objects so that when at ground level you had some visual cues in the immediate distance.

I actually broke out the rat patrol DVDs last night to see if I could get anymore ideas, LOL Seems the more I watch the shows, the more historical inaccuracies I find, LOL. I wish there was a video documentary on the North Africa campaign. I have a DVD set on Crusade in the pacific which has some amazing footage in it from the PTO.
 
When you do a search on "Afrika Korps" on You Tube you will find some interesting titles.....

like:


You're explanation is your previous post is clear. I would say go for circular parking an leave the sandbags out....

Cheers,
Huub
 
sweet Huub, downloading both as I type, thanks for the info.

As for the scenery, been playing with it a bit after work and I think I have a good solution.
 
If we could only have "all" of Tunisia in this level of detail :banghead:

After some more research, seems the biggest push against Rommel was in Tunisia so I had to see what was available in decent sat imagery. This is color matched to the default and using some free mesh I found at Simviation, not to bad. What you see is about 1/3 of the total PR. The spot under the P-40 is a great spot to add an Afrika Korps supply convoy :rocket:

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Thanks jeff, I am trying real hard to find a stopping point, bujt I keep getting new refences and trying different things, the bane of scenery design, LOL.
 
Hi Michael,

if you want, I can provide a high res mesh for that scenery! I just need some reference what area should be covered.


Cheers,
Mark
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
Hi Michael,

if you want, I can provide a high res mesh for that scenery! I just need some reference what area should be covered.


Cheers,
Mark
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That would be outstanding Mark.
As for reference, ideally Madanin, then north to Sfax, in Tunisia, the area in between these across to the Algiers border. If you can go bigger and even into Algiers, that would be great, but I know that depends on data and file sizes.

BTW I have a
Type 97 Chi-Ha Shinhoto tank, some japanese soldiers and an artillery set if you want it for the Solomons.
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MCDesigns said:
That would be outstanding Mark.
As for reference, ideally Madanin, then north to Sfax, in Tunisia, the area in between these across to the Algiers border. If you can go bigger and even into Algiers, that would be great, but I know that depends on data and file sizes.

BTW I have a
Type 97 Chi-Ha Shinhoto tank, some japanese soldiers and an artillery set if you want it for the Solomons.
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Michael, I'll check the mesh and come back!

As for the tank, great stuff, I'll be happy to use it. Thanks for the offer. I wanted to expand my own static model work toward the japanese side, but have not done so yet due to time limitations. I also have a toyota truck and that small japanese jeep in the pipeline. Moreover, I still have not found a practicable way to model bipeds in 3dsmax without spending weeks on a single object. Oh well. I guess modeling humans belongs to the upper league of 3d modeling.


Cheers,
Mark
 
Hi Michael,

would that cover the area (poly) ? If yes, I can produce it, ETA by the middle of next week!

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Cheers,
Mark
 
Mark, I am having some fun with this myself. A mesh of the detailed area would be great to have. The downloaded mesh from simviation is ok but your mesh would be fantastic. I speak from experience here. Count me in.
 
roger-wilco-66 said:
Hi Michael,

would that cover the area (poly) ? If yes, I can produce it, ETA by the middle of next week!

ak-scen-mesh.png


Cheers,
Mark
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Actually Mark, the area you mapped out is where the current bases are, but the area with the larger photoreal and where i plan to move them to is in this image. The area surrounded in yellow is the minimum area needed, bigger, especially north-western into Algiers would be better. Thanks again!!

Pu2pkB.jpg



BTW Mark, watched your video in the P3D forum, WOW, great stuff!!
 
OK, here we go.
I expanded the area up to Algier / Tunis and along the coast into Lybia a fair bit. It is roughly 2000 km square / 254425 sq km. Should be enough for flying some lengthy missions :) I snooped around and found no anomalies. The lower image (height exaggerated) is the area where the coast bends to the north, it seems geologically interesting - looks like an ancient flow valley that starts in a lake system farther inland and shaped the landscape toward the coast.

If you give the GO!, Michael, I'll resample it into a BGL.

Cheers,
Mark

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I just noticed that there's even a future scenery update in the mesh. The Palegian Islands are also covered, Lampedusa, Linosa, Lamione and the fabulous Pantelleria. All valuable Axis assets during the war.
Malta is outside though, but it would be easy to add.

Cheers,
Mark
 
Oh please add Malta, Mark. A great place to fly the Ju-87 and Spitfire. Looking good.
 
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