India - Chittagong

[UncleTgt]

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India - Chittagong - Next CBI scenery package. This time it's the Chittagong area of India's East Bengal state.

India Chittagong Scenery for CFS2 by UncleTgt

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This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the SE corner of the East Bengal state of India. This is the latest in a series of scenery releases, to expand & build on this area to cover more of the CBI theatre of operations. It coninues the coastline North from the Burmese border past Cox's Bazar & Chittagong.

It is designed for use with Rhumbas mesh, but as it's outside the SWPTO, should work well in a...

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[Browncoat]

Thank you Uncle! I'm installing it now.

 

[Browncoat]

Thank you for this scenery Uncle. I do have a question though. Do you have any idea why it appears that there is a never ending land mass stretching to the west beyond Chittagong? I have the 44E set currently active. Attached Screenshot 52 is a top down view showing the 'magical' land stretching into the Bay of Bengal, where 53 shows a 'low-rez' view of what I'd expect to see.

 

[UncleTgt]

Not sure, but it might be a scenery hierchy issue. Your first screengrab clearly shows where my watermask finishes, so it's something in another scenery layer that's telling CFS2 it's Land.

I will get some screengrabs of how my install looks & post them when I get the chance.

I'm already working on the Fenny area, together with some early G2K wotk for the Ganges delta & as far inland as Dacca... I don't think any of that work would cause any issue though...

 

[kdriver]

Great work John - thanks very much!

I've just installed the scenery and have been flying around Chittagong. Everything looks fabulous. The railway lines came out well. Your curved revetments will be very useful for the northern Australian airfields I'm working on.

 

[stoney]

This scenery is fantastic!

 

[Browncoat]

Hi Uncle. There is certainly something up with my CBI Install, but I'm not sure what. I triple checked the hierarchy, and what I currently have closely aligns with your CBI scenery Library Hierarchy pdf from last year. I even disabled the India_UT and the Bengal Bases within the library view, just to see what would happen. My CBI install is certainly treating the bay of Bengal as vast stretches of farm land rather than salty ocean.

on a whim, I copied down the coords for Lyons and checked out the scenery within my Super Stock install and my PTO installs. My Super stock CFS2 treats the bay of Begal as at best a swamp (picture 54), and at worst, an oil slick. my PTO specific install is very different. It looks close to 'perfect', or at least far better than what I'm seeing in my Super Stock or CBI installs (Install 55).

 

[UncleTgt]

Browncoat,

Just a random thought - I have a recollection that Rhumbas LOD5 mesh &/or DEM4KM files live within the CFS2 folders.
So when I state my packages should work with a stock install, I've always used a stock CFS2 with Rhumbas DEM4KM/LOD5 changes. Maybe that's responsible - does your PTO specific install use Rhumbas DEM4KM/LOD5 mesh changes (maybe)?

 

[stuart277]

Hi UncleTgt
Brilliant as usual.
Thanks very much.
Stuart

 

[Browncoat]

Hi Uncle. Yep I use Rhumba's DEM4KM/LOD5 mesh changes, even in my Super Stock install. They do an amazing job updating baseline CFS2, and that's before really doing any mud moving with Rhumba's heavier mesh.

Now I 'think' I figured out the issue...well I solved it, but I don't know why it works...

I noticed in my PTO install, the Bay of Bengal looks pretty good, so I dug around what was different in that install compared to my CBI. I noticed that my CBI install didn't have Rhumba's Global Surface Water. I dropped that file from my PTO install, and now the Bay of Bengal looks like this in my CBI install (image 56 and 57):

 

[UncleTgt]

Browncoat

Glad you got it sorted, but it does like a workaround - Rhumbas Global Surface Water shouldn't be necessary.

Assuming the stock scenery is active, & the hierachy is okay, the only thing I can think off to turn the Bay of Bengal into land is that some or all of the "cst..." bgls in the SCENEDB/WORLD/Scenery folder are missing?

These bgls are the water/land shapes for the areas outside of the PTO, & they do exist in an OOB install of CFS2.

If you have Jim Kiers LWM Viewer you can load them & see which area each of them covers, as the filenames aren't very helpful on their own.