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Tobob_Taranto released!

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tobob

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Taranto, Italy

Rhumba's mesh changes the coastlines in southern italy so now sander's coasts(yellow line) don't line up with Rhumba's waterflattens...

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I have singled out the coast file 952170cst_8.bgl in the Eurw/scenery folder which covers most of southern italy.

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If i remove it, the funky coasts jutting out into the water are gone but then there are no coastlines over a large area(although most don't look right anyway). Maybe a fair trade off for now?

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TARANTO BEFORE - Here is the harbor at Taranto with rhumba's mesh and waterflattens with Sander's Eurw coastlines. Things obviously don't look right...

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TARANTO AFTER - Now I have removed the coast file and did some magic with Ground2k around the Taranto Harbor...

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tobob
 
Can you make a BGL of that for us? it would be great to able to do an accurate British torpedo raid of the Italian fleet in harbour. that looks really great.
 
CrisGer said:
Can you make a BGL of that for us? it would be great to able to do an accurate British torpedo raid of the Italian fleet in harbour. that looks really great.
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Sure C, I would love to see it get some action! In a few days...

tobob
 
Thanks so much, I have stored up as much of the Italian Fleet as i could find on such happy possible event. thanks again!!!:medals:
 
I've tried to duplicate Taranto Harbor a couple of times, but the stock CFS 2 landscape is pretty marginal for such efforts. Still, with many of the harbor objects available and the European buildings by Xaviar, Wolfi and others, it can be a productive effort. Tobo's new Taranto matches my map research closely and would be a great base for further iterations of the Battle of Taranto.

Piloto Azul (Blue Pilot) from Spain made a payware pack of many of the RM units at Taranto as well as a Swordfish for Taranto duplication. I don't know if it is still available or not. At one time, you could get her CFS 2 products at Sim Market.
 
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Jagdflieger said:
I've tried to duplicate Taranto Harbor a couple of times, but the stock CFS 2 landscape is pretty marginal for such efforts. Still, with many of the harbor objects available and the European buildings by Xaviar, Wolfi and others, it can be a productive effort. Tobo's new Taranto matches my map research closely and would be a great base for further iterations of the Battle of Taranto.

Piloto Azul (Blue Pilot) from Spain made a payware pack of many of the RM units at Taranto as well as a Swordfish for Taranto duplication. I don't know if it is still available or not. At one time, you could get her CFS 2 products at Sim Market.
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Jagd and others,

Good morning. Well, as you might have expected, I have something to do with this. A couple of months ago, I went to tobob and and him for some scenery help to complete a few campaigns. Thus far, he has been a tremendous help to me with providing scenery for Bari, Italy and Trondheim, Norway. We also discussed the problems at Taranto, which is a mission covered by the Fleet Air Arm campaign that is awaiting this scenery. I do plan on creating a GSL harbor at that location, and any information that can be provided will be incorporated into my design. Additionally, this campaign requires scenery at Bermuda and Dakar, Senegal, so he has generously pitched in there as well!

And for tobob, the scenery is looking great! Removing the coastlines in that area IS more than acceptable...it is what it is.

Oh...one more thing....the Alphasim Swordfish, which is now freeware, contains a Taranto Swordfish model, painted in the colours of 11 November, 1940.
 
Wow Jag that is great to hear, i will go looking for her pack..that sounds very promising.

thanks again Rami, great call. and thanks for the work on this tobob.
 
Years ago, Piloto Azul (Silvia Borja) has released the Vittorio Veneto, Conte di Cavour, Ciao Duilio and HMS Illustious as a payware. But now his page is closed and therefore this beautyfull ships lost. Maybe someone has contact to him and ask him, if he will release them as freeware? They would be a great addon to a Taranto-mission.

Best wishes
 
Hi Rami,

Here are some shots of Taranto Harbour from the Australian War Memorial website. The aerial pictures were taken after the attack.
 
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Tobob,

I will get to that tomorrow evening, but tonight I am studying to pass my MTEL re-certification for history, and some of the stuff has escaped my memory in the past few years, so I'm going through Ancient history, European history, US History, Geography, and Economics. The test takes up to four hours, I'll be there at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon.
 
I found the website but all the links are kaput..it looks like...

still searching..

http://www.geocities.ws/coreacfs/

here is working links page including the naval units..i e mailed to her and will wait for reply..

http://www.oocities.org/coreacfs/cfs2_2.html

Looks like we have the following ships in the library here and elsewhere for dl:

Rm Vittorio Veneto BB
Rm Zara CA
Rm Pancaldo....a Navigatori DD
Rm Aquila CV
Rm Partenope DD
Rm Miraglia CV Seaplane

so i suppose we can make do but it would be nice to have those extra ships..she did a very nice job on the camoflage ....
 
Sim Market has only two of her planes no ships. I am trying to contact her via several channels. If anyone has contact please advise.
 
At one time Xavier (also from Spain) had contact with her. As I recall, she had some health issues and she disapeared quickly from the sim community several years ago. I could only surmise, what to me at any rate, was the obvious.

We do have enough well made RM ships in the library and over at the big sites to replicate the RM anchorage fairly well. I think that we also have the HMS Illustrious by the Virtual Navy (VN) somewhere as well a couple of British destroyers and cruisers from Collin's Shipyard that can all be used for the raid.

Shot on the left is the Virtual Navy's Illustrious and the shot on the righ is Silvia Borja's (Piloto Azul) Illustrious.
 
I am sorry to hear she had health challenges, I know what that is like. I did hear back from Sim Market already and they passed on my message to her so she is still about it sounds like which is hopeful. Those are both very nice ships, either would be great. Yes it does look hopeful that we can get a good roster of shipping ....very encouraging.
 
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Good morning,

I had the sheer joy of taking the "Taranto guided tour" last night, and I must say that the scenery tobob has created is unsurpassed, and the removal of the coastline .bgl from Sander's work just cures a lot of details.

I also began to see how the finished product might look in GSL....but it's going to take a LOT of work.
 
Hi Folks,
Looking like a cunning plan is coming together!

A small something of interest for you Rami, Yeovilton's just a few miles up the road from me, and were handing out these cards. Follow the site link for personal accounts of Taranto.

Cheers

Shessi
 
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