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Halfpenny Green...

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IanP

Didn't quite escape.
I just looked at the little map on my site and most of the dots have vanished to say that no-one much has been there this week, so I thought I'd try and put a few back on by releasing something new.... ;)

RAF Halfpenny Green is my local airfield - better known these days as Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green, EGBO. In the modern world, it is a busy GA field with pretentions of grandeur, but back in years gone by, it was home to the hordes of Avro Ansons containing budding RAF Navigators, learning how to know exactly not quite where they are.

In response to complaints that my sceneries don't have support areas, I've built one. It's not accurate - the real support and accomodation buildings at RAF Halfpenny Green were wooden huts, not the brick concoction seen here. In response to demands that I do custom ground textures and release these things as payware, I have included excellent proof that I shouldn't do this... The runways are custom. Horrible, aren't they? And no, they don't have rubber marks on, I know. I'll work out how to do rubber marks in the future possibly, but right now I think I'll stick to doing things the SDK way.

So. A few links to download before you get the scenery (yes, you need them all, sorry) and a scenery at the end. Enjoy or ignore at your leisure! ;)

Ian P.

Ted Andrews RAF Buildings Libraries at Avsim:
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118709
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118672
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=130516
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118758
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118838
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118835
http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=118840

Some dodgy scenery built using them:
http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/historical/raf/hg/IJP_EGBO_v1_0.zip
 
I've gained a large random blob near Paris since last time I looked, as well... :icon_lol:
(Edit: In case anyone is wondering what I'm wittering on about: http://www.ipligence.com/webmaps/s/?u=ac99c9132cd677a6f2f278030381a408&color=1&a=week)

Something I had better note, for anyone getting this: EGBO is probably the one and only time I will deliberately overwrite a default airfield that has AI to/from it with a WW2 recreation. The reason for this is that yes, you will occasionally meet a Mooney, a C172 or a Baron going the opposite way down the taxiway than your Gladiator. There's not a whole lot I can do about this without recompiling everyone's default AI to exclude the field, so sorry about that!

Ian P.
 
Ian,
EGBO is "not a valid archive". I've got all Ted's buildings now all I need is an airfield:costumes:
 
It was a valid archive last time I tried it! :banghead:

Ah. After some investigation, it appears that Vista's inbuilt .zip extractor is refusing to open it. WinRAR and XP will open it fine. Wierd. Investigating.

Edit: Even wierder, Vista will open it happily locally, but if I upload and download exactly the same file, it failed!!! Huh?

Anyway. I've recreated the zip using Vista's inbuilt functionality and it now appears happy, even after upload and download.

Ian P.
 
IanP said:
It was a valid archive last time I tried it! :banghead:

Ah. After some investigation, it appears that Vista's inbuilt .zip extractor is refusing to open it. WinRAR and XP will open it fine. Wierd. Investigating.

Edit: Even wierder, Vista will open it happily locally, but if I upload and download exactly the same file, it failed!!! Huh?

Anyway. I've recreated the zip using Vista's inbuilt functionality and it now appears happy, even after upload and download.

Ian P.
Click to expand...

Uploading and downloading can make strange things to files :isadizzy:
I've experienced this esp. with psd files and other layered image files, sucks when repainting :banghead:
 
Yep very nice!

egbo-1.jpg
 
Thanks folks... As usual, almost all the credit goes to someone else rather than me. Bill Womack for the runways tutorial, Ted Andrews for the buildings, in this case. :)

Ian P.
 
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