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CFS3 Terrain Creation - is anyone still around?

Well done, you are well on your way to creating a new theater of operations.:jump:
 
islands in the test theater. One small error in the theater desciptor caused me days of confusion. Still plenty of problem areas.


One cool thing I notice is that the only DEM tool you need these days is QGIS which is free and has a good amount of support tutorials. Microdem and Global Mapper are nice tools but not neccesary.


Still not sure if there is a freeware program that can create the 32bit landclass TIFF that tiff2lcf will recognize ???
 

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thanks Joost, I feel like anyone can do with the updated tools and info. I have no clue how pioneers like Martin, Ed and Bob managed it years ago .

Hope to test with srtm3 data next week
 
first run with srtm3 mesh and it's certainly an improvement. I will play with the numbers and see if get even more detail but I am happy thus far.
 

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Wow Steve, you've really made some progress! And without global mapper too! I've had less time than I thought but I'm hoping to pick it up again.
 
rbp71854 said:
Well done, you are well on your way to creating a new theater of operations.:jump:
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Bob, in the RS install are a few theatres "under construction", were any of those ever started?

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There are tantalising alt_map images in the folders!

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Nice to see your still around, even as an observer and to encourage others.

Edit - there are a number of Terrain folders which include data, are these actual theatres?

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Pat Pattle said:
Bob, in the RS install are a few theatres "under construction", were any of those ever started?

aBHYqlc.jpg


There are tantalising alt_map images in the folders!



Nice to see your still around, even as an observer and to encourage others.

Edit - there are a number of Terrain folders which include data, are these actual theatres?
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Yes all the theaters were started and were at different levels of completion. Pearl Harbor was the most complete. The Sino portion I spent most of the time and effort flushing that out with airfields, water, cities, and I spent a considerable amount of time working the Formosa infrastructure.

I am not sure my most uptodate revision was published, it was sent to be released but not sure that it was.

Pity I tried to get someone to take over and continue the effort but to no avail. The vast majority of my data is lost with only a few random files and folders left.
 
Pity I tried to get someone to take over and continue the effort but to no avail.
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I've spent a couple of hours installing the files to make a standalone Sino install. It's nearly there and once up and running will be taking a close look at what needs doing to maybe take it forward. I can see how many hours have already gone into it, amazing!

Cheers, Clive
 
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I've spent a couple of hours installing the files to make a standalone Sino install. It's nearly there and once up and running will be taking a close look at what needs doing to maybe take it forward. I can see how many hours have already gone into it, amazing!

Cheers, Clive
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That's very promising. There are a lot of items that people created and contributed to the theater. Somewhere in the sino install you will find the Temple/Shrine that you created as well.

This is a screenshot of my sino addon airfield folder. Let me know if it matches with your install.
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Most complete Sino Update

The folowing photos should show if you have the most complete sino update I did. I like Global Mapper because I could place topos and city maps onto the terrain and insert them into the global layer.
okayama_GM-2.jpgokayama_GM-1.jpgsino_2012-05-06 09-02-02-54.jpgsino_2012-05-06 09-01-54-10.jpgsino_2012-05-06 09-00-49-98.jpgsino_2012-05-06 08-59-28-68.jpgsino_2012-05-06 08-58-55-90.jpg

Clive here is the global layer csv that I have as most uptodate. Iam vey happy that you and others may want to continue on with this effort. Feel free to modify and improve my initial efforts.
 

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tried different setting on mesh creation tools but still getting roughly same level of detail in game . Mesh take longer to generate so its possible my CFS3 settings just cant display the improvement.
 

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I spent a lot of time a couple of years ago, and found that I could never get the finer mesh to display right. It has to do with some hard coded LOD function, so at certain distances it just reverts to the default.
 
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