MaskRider Gilbert Islands

[Shadow Wolf 07]

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Also, one other thing that might cause an issue. I used the default B24 as a scenery object at Bonriki Airfield, Tarawa. It shouldn't be a issue but it might be.

Let me know and, oh, yeah, I almost forgot- hows about posting a few screenies!



Cheers!
MR

I didn't have my joystick plugged in but I took a few shots of Butaritari on the ground in FF:

 

[MaskRider]

Hiya SW.

Thanks for posting the screenies. Its good for me to get to see what everyone's installs looks like. For comparison sake I took these screenshots from my install of Butaritari. The first is a view to the east from the end of the default runway (slightly elevated using slew). then to the north and then to the west.

Cheers,
MR

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

I hope soon to be able to show some of those islands/atolls in combat picks, if I can get my MB started in Win 10. Those are some great pics Chris! Here are some from Makin:

Greg

 

[MaskRider]

Now Hear This! Now Hear This! MaskRider, arriving!

Listen up!

I just realized that I forgot to include in the Gilberts pack a very important scenery object that sits on the beach on Butaritari Island. Namely the Kawanishi Emily Wreck generously donated by Shessi about the same time that he released his excellent Kawanishi Emily package. This wrecked Emily was used by the Japanese as a snipers nest during the battle for Butaritari Island.

It is a stand alone, non-placeable object permanently anchored in the small inlet just south of Kings wharf. You may already have a folder where you install such objects. My suggestion for installing it would be to create a folder either in your main CFS2 folder or else in your SCENEDB folder and name it "Misc Scenery Objects" with a scenery and texture sub-folder. Place the Kawanishi Emily Wreck scenery and texture files in the proper folder and then activate the folder.

This wreck is a key piece of eye candy at Butaritari so don't let it slide! ;^)

I will add it to the download here at SOH and attach it to this post.

That is all. Resume normal in-port daily routine.

MR

 

[MaskRider]

I hope soon to be able to show some of those islands/atolls in combat picks, if I can get my MB started in Win 10. Those are some great pics Chris! Here are some from Makin:

Greg

Greg, could you post a top down view of Makin for me. Something just isn't right.

Here is what it should look like:

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Worthless]

What a great new addition. Better than advertised back last October, MR. Well worth the wait. Greatful thanks!

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

You are correct. Something ain't right. I installed the rhumba mesh according to Rami's PTO instruction guide and your scenery per the instructions and this is what I got:

Below is my scenery cfg too:

[General]
Title=CFS2 World
Description=CFS 2 Scenery data
Cache_Size=10M
Clean_on_Exit=TRUE

[Area.001]
Title=Default Scenery
Local=scenery
Active=TRUE
Layer=2
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.002]
Title=Terrain
Local=Scenedb\world
Active=TRUE
Texture_ID=1
Layer=1
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.003]
Title=CFS1 Library
Local=Scenedb\library
Active=TRUE
Layer=3
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.004]
Title=Airport Facilities Data
Local=Scenedb\AFDFiles
Active=TRUE
Layer=4
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.005]
Title=Scenery Ships
Local=Scenedb\Ships
Active=TRUE
Layer=5
Remote=
Required=FALSE

[Area.006]
Title=Aircraft Weapons
Local=Scenedb\weapons
Active=TRUE
Layer=6
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.007]
Title=Vehicles
Local=Scenedb\veh
Active=TRUE
Layer=7
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.008]
Title=Effects
Local=Scenedb\fx
Active=TRUE
Layer=8
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.009]
Title=Runways
Local=Scenedb\runways
Active=TRUE
Layer=9
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.010]
Title=Buildings
Local=Scenedb\inf
Active=TRUE
Layer=11
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.011]
Title=FS2000_props
Local=Scenedb\fs2kprop
Active=TRUE
Layer=12
Required=TRUE
Remote=

[Area.013]
Title=MR Formosa GSL
Local=SCENEDB\MR Formosa GSL
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=15
[Area.014]
Title=MR Micronesia
Local=SCENEDB\MR Micronesia
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=16
[Area.015]
Title=MR Solomons
Local=SCENEDB\MR Solomons
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=17
[Area.016]
Title=MR_DEI_090912
Local=SCENEDB\MR_DEI_090912
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=18
[Area.017]
Title=MR Palau BGLs LIT
Local=SCENEDB\MR Palau BGLs LIT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=19
[Area.018]
Title=MR Iwo Jima Japanese
Local=SCENEDB\MR Iwo Jima Japanese
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=26
[Area.019]
Title=MR Marianas
Local=SCENEDB\MR Marianas
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=27
[Area.020]
Title=MR Papua New Guinea
Local=SCENEDB\MR Papua New Guinea
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=20
[Area.021]
Title=Stock runway excludes
Local=SCENEDB\Stock runway excludes
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=10
[Area.022]
Title=SWPTO_Islands_UT
Local=SCENEDB\SWPTO_Islands_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=21
[Area.023]
Title=SWPTO_Reefs_UT
Local=SCENEDB\SWPTO_Reefs_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=22
[Area.024]
Title=SWPTO_Rivers_UT
Local=SCENEDB\SWPTO_Rivers_UT
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=23
[Area.025]
Title=Carolines_Islands
Local=SCENEDB\Carolines_Islands
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=24
[Area.026]
Title=Carolines_Atolls
Local=SCENEDB\Carolines_Atolls
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=25
[Area.027]
Title=MR Gilbert Islands Masks and Excludes
Local=MR Gilbert Islands Masks and Excludes
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=28
[Area.028]
Title=MR Gilbert Islands Water and Landclass
Local=MR Gilbert Islands Water and Landclass
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=29
[Area.029]
Title=MR Gilbert Islands
Local=MR Gilbert Islands
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=30
[Area.030]
Title=DEM Mesh
Local=SCENEDB\DEM Mesh
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=13
[Area.031]
Title=DEM mesh LOD8
Local=SCENEDB\DEM mesh LOD8
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=14

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Another shot:

 

[MaskRider]

LOL!

Sadly, Shadow, if someone puts one of those scenery cfg files in front of me all it does is make my eyes glaze over!

Hopefully someone whose is a bit quicker on their feet than I will pop by and be able to tell you whats up by looking at the screen shots and the scenery cfg file.

All I can say is that it is fixable.

Be patient.

MR

 

[stuart277]

Hi Shadowolf
Just glancing at your Scenery CFG. There is a lot of [Area.'number'] that do not match with Layer='number'.
I do not think that matters much, however my mesh LOD's are the first scenery area's after the standard setup.

e.g.

[Area.012]
Title=DEM Mesh LOD 7
Local=SCENEDB\DEM Mesh LOD 7
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=12

[Area.013]
Title=DEM Mesh LOD 8
Local=SCENEDB\DEM Mesh LOD 8
Remote=
Active=TRUE
Required=FALSE
Layer=13

Good luck
Cheers
Stuart

 

[MaskRider]

You are correct. Something ain't right. I installed the rhumba mesh according to Rami's PTO instruction guide and your scenery per the instructions and this is what I got:

SW,

Did you follow this instruction?

LWM type scenery included in this package requires copying contents of your scenedb/world/texture folder to your main CFS2 texture folder. It’s a one time deal- it won't hurt a thing. NOTE: If you are going to install PacTex (highly recommended) wait until you have done so before copying these files.

Also, I normally put my new scenery installs near the top of my scenery library list.

MR

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Dumb me. I forgot the step of moving the textures as MR said. All ok now.

 

[MaskRider]

Excellent!!!



That's more like it, eh?!

Well done, SW!

Until later,
MR

 

[MaskRider]

BTW Shadow, and any one else who might be interested, I switched over to ShpHawk's Replacement Runway Textures a long time ago and never looked back.

They can be got here.

Cheers,
MR

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

A side note:

What's next? Are you going to update the Philippines to GSL and maybe using Rhumba's mesh?

 

[ElsnerMarkus]

What's next? Are you going to update the Philippines to GSL and maybe using Rhumba's mesh?

I Hoe we will see a Update for PHP Hawaii with Rhumbas Meshs

 

[MaskRider]

Hi Guys,

Sorry to disappoint.

I have several projects in the works.

None quite as ambitious as a complete redoing of the Philippines. Although I have been working for many years on a massive Manila Bay/Luzon Island Project.

More immediately I have a rework/expansion of DEI that is nearly in the can for release here at SOH.

Also making good progress on Line Islands, Phoenix Islands, Tonga Islands, Ellis islands,Cook Islands and American Samoa projects. All of these island groups have been represented by smatterings of locations in past MR Micronesia releases. Now I am including all of the islands in each group and releasing them as individual groups instead of one big massive Micronesia pack.

Meanwhile, a few screenies from the Gilberts featuring W. Faber's Consolidated PBY-5 "KNIL", 1942 cruising between Aranuka Island and Abemama Atoll!

Cheers,
MR

 

[MaskRider]

And a few more!

 

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Outstanding shots Chris! Glad to read that you are working on Manila/Luzon. Would love to see the rest of the PI, but a bite will suffice over the whole meal. I'd love to have Leyte and Ormoc Bay but...

 

[MaskRider]

More fun: Kawanishi Emily flying from Marakei Atoll to Tarawa.