NTTR....Why no modding love?

[markturner1960]

I use this map a lot and its great, it's been out a long time, but I am not aware of ANY mods for terrain / textures.....wondered why this is? It would be really great if there was some available such as Barthek or TAZ have done for others.......

[Mr_sukebe]

Agreed.

For one thing, NTTR seems to be the easiest map for GPUs.  

[Hoirtel]

54 minutes ago, markturner1960 said:

I use this map a lot and its great, it's been out a long time, but I am not aware of ANY mods for terrain / textures.....wondered why this is? It would be really great if there was some available such as Barthek or TAZ have done for others.......

Its the oldest textures in DCS, even Caucasus has had an official update. There must be something planned as this map can look quite bad now... and as its small a super high res version could be a bit more achievable. I have seen the mesh on the mountains in Sinai.. want that everywhere!

[LucShep]

I'm actually in the process of modding the NTTR, atempting to give it back the "desatured" (and correct) tones that its initial release (DCS 2.0) had then.
I've been on and off with experiments and got nothing to show yet, but it will eventually be done.

BTW, this thread explains the current issue with the overly saturated color/tint in the NTTR map of DCS:  

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by LucShep

[IndyNavy]

Can't wait @LucShep! 

[Art-J]

If you read that linked thread to the end, you'll notice that Luc encountered blocking issues about how .lua files editing affects the map and thus he unfortunately had to cancel his attempt.

[LucShep]

On 9/26/2023 at 10:43 AM, Art-J said:

If you read that linked thread to the end, you'll notice that Luc encountered blocking issues about how .lua files editing affects the map and thus he unfortunately had to cancel his attempt.

Yes, that is correct. I'm very sorry if I created expectations but, right now, it's impossible to acomplish.  

As said on that thread, while readjusting the vfstextures I discovered that, afterall, there are more concerning issues, namely with (I'm 99% sure) the Clipmaps and/or the Terrain.CFG.lua, and both of those are non editable (encripted). 
What happens is that, with the experimental textures it only works from certain altitudes, no difference once you get nearer to the ground, and it's still the same ugly saturated red/orange tones....  To resume, it would be a lot of trouble to acomplish nothing.
 

Edited October 3, 2023 by LucShep