changing longitude/latitude

[deleeuw]

All,

I am wondering how one can change the default latitude and longitude within the sim. Currently, all missions take place in the Crimea (N and E), but I need to take place in North America (N and W). I have already edited th MapCoord.lua, but I cannot change the "E" to "W".

 

Thanks

[Brit_Radar_Dude]

Sorry you can't.

 

Only the Black Sea area is mapped - Crimea peninsula plus the Krasnodar region of Russia down to the Abkhazia region of Georgia. The next addon (Black Shark) will add a little more Georgian territory down to the Turkish border.

 

If I tell you that it took several man-years of effort to make the existing Lockon maps, placing all the roads, railways, bridges, rivers, buildings, forests, etc then you can see why the map is "limited". But it has every different type of terrain you might want for a mission - cities, industrial sites, flat farmland, rolling hills, high mountains, deep valleys, lakes, etc so it isn't really limited at all.

 

Why is the map based around the Black Sea? Well, the Lockon developers (Eagle Dynamics) are from Moscow......

 

Check out the Map Tours to see how much work went into making the Lockon map....

 

Crimea Tour

Crimea Tour link

 

Caucasus Tour

Caucasus Tour link

[deleeuw]

I assume this is for all variants of the sim, as I am using a version which flies the new A-10C. At least I can change the Lat/Long numerical values (48 to 120).

And I agree with you that Eagle did an excellent job in developing the software, especially in giving one the options to edit the .lua's.

 

Thx

[NotiA10]

thats interesting - could you pls post a screenshot of the ingame cockpit of the a-10c

 

thx mate,

:pilotfly:

NotiA10

[deleeuw]

Sorry

 

Sorry for the delay in my response. Unfortunately the sim is on a friend's laptop and he's out of town.

[NotiA10]

no stress mate - a couple of weeks up or down are no prob - but if you can some pit screens would be cool.

 

cheers

:pilotfly:

NotiA10