Papua New Guinea Redux

[rbp71854]

Been working on the nuts and bolts that require to be done to get a theater to run.

Map with airfields so I can figure out a frontline and splash screen to fit the time frame.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Excellent news Bob! If I can be of any assistance with the airfields etc let me know.

Love that RAAF poster!

 

[rbp71854]

The recruiting poster these days would be considered highly offensive to the ladies.

Thanks Clive for the generous offer. Of course I can use the help in the airfield area. I have maps, sketches, and data on most of the airfields. A lot of the airfields were marsten mat, coral and or just dirt, some were even swamps. So pick your poison,let me know by private message and I will send you the data. Right now I am concentrating on 1941 to 1943 action.

png	alexishafen I	airfield	S5*5'0"	E145*48'0"	0		Alexishafen I	png01	Japan
png	alexishafen II	airfield	S5*5'0"	E145*48'0"	0		Alexishafen II	png02	Japan
png	awar	airfield	S4°8'0"	E144*51'0"	0		Hansa North	png03	Japan
png	but-west	airfield	S3*23'0"	E143*12'0"	0		But West	png04	Japan
png	but-east	airfield	S3* 24'0"	E143*18' 24"	0	34	But East	png05	Japan
png	buna	airdrome	S8*40'08.00"	E148*24'00.00"	0	0	Buna Airdrome	png06	Japan
png	lae	airdrome	S6*34'50"	E146*59'56"	0		Lae Airdrome	png07	Japan
png	madang	airdrome	S5*12'31.74"	E145*47'15.83"	0	0	Madang Airdrome	png08	Japan
png	nubia	airfield	S4*12'0"	E144*55''0"	0		Nubia Airfiled	png09	Japan
png	saidor	airdrome	S5*34'0"	E146*30'0"	0		Saidor Airdrome	png10	Japan
png	wewak	airdrome	S3*34'0"	E143*38'0"	0		Wewak Airdrome	png11	Japan
png	kila-kila	airdrome	S9*29'25.36"	E147*11'31.41"	0	0	3-Mile Airdrome	png12	RAAF
png	berry	airdrome	S9°24'0"	E147*18'0"	0		12-Mile Drome	png13	RAAF
png	durand	airdrome	S9*22'0"	E147*9'0"	0		17 Mile Airdrome	png14	RAAF
png	jackson	airdrome	S9*26'36"	E147*13'12"	0		7-Mile Airdrome	png15	RAAF
png	rogers	airdrome	S9*2'37.12"	E146*53'40"	0		30-Mile Airdrome	png16	RAAF
png	schwimmer	airdrome	S9*22'25.56"	E147*13'56"	0		14-Mile Airdrome	png17	RAAF
png	gurney-strip-1	airfield	S10*18'15"	E150*20'20"	0		Milne Bay No.1	png18	RAAF
png	gurney-strip-2	airfield	S10*19'0"	E150*15'0"	0		Milne Bay No.2	png19	USAAF
png	turnbull	airfield	S10*18'0"	E150*23'0"	0		Milne Bay No.3	png20	USAAF
png	horanda	airfield	S8*46'45"	E148*20'35"	0		Dobodura Airfield	png21	USAAF
png	port-moresby-seaplane-base	seaplane	S9*28'0"	E147*10'60"	0		Port Moresby Seaplane Base	png22	USAAF
png	finschhafen	airdrome	S6*37'15"	E147*53'0"	0		Finschhafen Airdrome	png23	USAAF
png	samarai-seaplane-base	seaplane	S10*36'36.1656"	E150*39'42.9588"	0		Samarai Seaplane Base	png24	USN
png	gasmata	airdrome	S11*20'02.5000"	E154*07'34.0800"	0		Gasmata Airdrome	png25	Japan
png	rapopo	airfield	S4*31'24.45"	E152*18'56.9100"	0	0	Rapopo Airfield	png26	Japan
png	tobera	airfield	S4*24'45.5904"	E152*14'40.2072"	0	30	Tobera Airfield	png27	Japan
png	vunakanau	airdrome	S4*40'39.68"	E152*08'44.9700"	0	490	Vunakanau Airdrome	png28	Japan
png	kerevat	airdrome	S4*20'59.5500"	E152*3'50.3568"	0	90	Kerevat Airdrome	png29	Japan
png	lakunai	airdrome	S4*13'37.1568"	E152*10'40.2000"	0	20	Lakunai Airdrome	png30	Japan
png	malaguna	emergency-strip	S4*14'10.7988	E152*8'0.0000	0	0	Malaguna Emergency Strip	png31	Japan
png	ballale	airfield	S7*5'17.0200"	E155*45'57.81"	0		Ballale Airfield	png32	Japan
png	buka	airfield	S5*25'19.34"	E154*39'56.92"	0		Buka Airfield	png33	Japan
png	bonis	airfield	S5*26'48.83"	E154*43'8.32"	0		Bonis Airfield	png34	Japan
png	kahili	airfield	S4*6'8.6300"	E152*59'10.7200"	0		Buin Airfield	png35	Japan
png	kara	airfield	S6*41'11.3700"	E155*50'12.7100"	0		Kara Airfield	png36	Japan
png	torokina	airfield	S6*12'32"	E155*04'05"	0		Cape Torokina Airfield	png37	Japan
png	borpop	airfield	S3*52'34"	E152*48'45"	0		Borpop Airfield	png38	Japan
png	kavieng	airfield	S2*34'46"	E150*48'29"	0		Kavieng Airfield	png39	Japan

 

[gecko]

Looks like a great map Bob! The one thing about Rabaul in PTO was that it was near the edge of the map and the elevation data was missing in that area. Looking forward to seeing some proper Rabaul action here!

 

[rbp71854]

Yes should be able to get some great bomber runs on Simpson Harbor, also battle of Bismarck Sea, some of battle of coral sea, and definately the 45 days of defending Port Moresby by the RAAF.

 

[sixstrings5859]

Outstanding news ! Excited ! Thank you so much for the work and effort ! Regards, Scott

 

[Hiede]

Yes should be able to get some great bomber runs on Simpson Harbor, also battle of Bismarck Sea, some of battle of coral sea, and definately the 45 days of defending Port Moresby by the RAAF.

The battle of the Bismarck Sea and the RAAF defense of Port Morseby was done in CFS3 Rising Sun by Talon many years ago.He also did Carrier strikes on Rabaul for PTO,my son(his nephew)still flies them.

Hiede

 

[rbp71854]

The battle of the Bismarck Sea and the RAAF defense of Port Morseby was done in CFS3 Rising Sun by Talon many years ago.He also did Carrier strikes on Rabaul for PTO,my son(his nephew)still flies them.

Hiede

Yes, Al contributed a considerable amount of quality and very accurate work to all the pacific theaters that we worked on. Sorry that a lot of Al's work did not get into an update to RS before everyone scattered back to the ETO.

 

[rbp71854]

Still making progress, have finished up the rivers portion of the theater. Started work on the lakes, however, it will be a slow go as the world shapefiles include the swamps as lakes which is not going to fly. So I will have to do the lakes on PNG island point by point using the topos.

Started removing some of the rs aircraft not part of the PNG. Also been working on the uimusic, I think I got it right now. Have to relearn all these ins and out of the game. Took me 2 days to figure out how to do an alpha and process the splashscreen in DTX 555-1. geez. I have just forgotten so much.

 

[gecko]

Still making progress, have finished up the rivers portion of the theater. Started work on the lakes, however, it will be a slow go as the world shapefiles include the swamps as lakes which is not going to fly. So I will have to do the lakes on PNG island point by point using the topos.Started removing some of the rs aircraft not part of the PNG. Also been working on the uimusic, I think I got it right now. Have to relearn all these ins and out of the game. Took me 2 days to figure out how to do an alpha and process the splashscreen in DTX 555-1. geez. I have just forgotten so much.

Wow, that's a lot of water, and great progress Bob! Another thing I have wondered about is the possibility of creating a hi-res in game map based on the theater creation files. Is it possible to put those shape files into some sort of very large bitmap or jpg?

Also, an interesting challenge with the jungle is how the trees overhang and cover everything. Having spent some time in PNG and flown over some of those jungles, there's a lot of those streams you'd never know were there.

 

[rbp71854]

Yes it is a lot of water. You should see all the amount of swamp areas. I have been using a map generated by gm to create the theater map. Did it for all the theaters in RS. I have used tiff, and png exported maps of the PNG islands and then flood fill the 2 colors in corel. Very difficult to get a high resolution map after processing to extended bmp 555-1.

Wow, that's a lot of water, and great progress Bob! Another thing I have wondered about is the possibility of creating a hi-res in game map based on the theater creation files. Is it possible to put those shape files into some sort of very large bitmap or jpg?

Also, an interesting challenge with the jungle is how the trees overhang and cover everything. Having spent some time in PNG and flown over some of those jungles, there's a lot of those streams you'd never know were there.

 

[Pat Pattle]

Hi Bob,

On that list, are the co-ords correct for the new map? Am assuming they are but just wanted to check!

 

[rbp71854]

The coordinates are from 2 different sources, Pacific Wrecks and Airdromes Guide of Southwest Pacific published by FEAF 1944.

Now the map will be needing tweaking once all the bits and pieces are put into a theater. The present coastline of the map was produced by using 1945 US Army army topos. Some of the scanned topos were skewed some so there will be some problems that will require tweaking.
Right now I have 3 different sets of alt_xxx.bmp maps ready to see which ones are best.

Clive you have now been drafted into the FEAF.

Hi Bob,

On that list, are the co-ords correct for the new map? Am assuming they are but just wanted to check!

 

[rbp71854]

Making progress, still a long way to go.

 

[sixstrings5859]

Oh Yeah ! Keep up the good work. Thank you ! Regards, Scott

 

[rbp71854]

Work continues. Its a slow slog right now. Working on dirt roads and dirt trails. Each line has to be manually done. Not many roads in the 1940's on these islands. Mostly native trails linking the various villages, plantations and missions. The brown lines are the roads and the green lines are the trails.

 

[sdsbolt]

do you have a map of the roads and trails?

 

[rbp71854]

I am using the 1945 US Army topos as the source, tracing the map. I am also using a shape file of the 1970's when the topo and shape match, to decrease the need to trace out the road vector.
Some cases I am finding it is easier to create a straight line then go back and insert vertices to match the curves.

 

[rbp71854]

Need a little help with Japanese translation. The attached map indicates its an aeronautical map. It looks more like a shipping lane map?.

 

[rbp71854]

I have run into a major snag, in PNG. The Rabaul area has major phantom islands when placing the Lakunai airfield. I have tried all different flattening tricks to try to eliminate them to no avail. I could flatten the whole area as was done before, but one of the reasons for redo was to get terrain elevations in the Rabaul area.
So right now the theater is on-hold in the hopes that I can come up with some clever solution or if not it the existing work will be abandoned.
So I am off to work on getting individual theaters of Pearl and China uploaded. I also have another thing that I have started on.