Manchuria WIP

[enigma6584]

I noticed your Su-27s had Chinese markings on them. Great touch!

[T-Bone]

Yep China will play a huge role in this area.

 

Also, there is potential for North Korea, South Korea, and also Japan to get involved in addition to just NATO, China, and Russia.

[T-Bone]

OK I did some more edits on the terrain texture and made it less repetitive looking and more detailed. I also edited the color some more so that vegetation looks less tropical and more temperate. It is now 4x the resolution of the default LOMAC FC terrain noise file.

 

I'm now completely satisfied with the melding of the high resolution terrain noise and the overhead satellite terrain imagery and I'll be moving on and modelling the rest of the terrain on the map now. I'm happy with the way the land looks at both low and high altitude.

 

Enjoy the screenies :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mustang]

Whoa, that terrain looks superb, so much potential! :surprise:

[borchi_2b]

hi t-bone

 

this project looks very good, and very promising.

 

here is a link for you, you might want to join this group.

http://www.simmodders.org/

it is the official simmod forum, where we eather people right now, to have a good resource of people who are making mods and who like to work with 3d and textures.

so we would be happy to see you there

[T-Bone]

Some last medium altitude shots before I hit the hay.

 

 

[Fahrenheit92]

Any News?

[T-Bone]

I am working on perfecting the satellite imagery now.

[jctrnacty]

Hi T-bone , awesome work!!!

 

Could you make a short video and put it on the you tube, it ´d be great to see it in the move.

[Scudslaker]

yes big work. good job excited to receive betas!)

[T-Bone]

Hi T-bone , awesome work!!!

 

Could you make a short video and put it on the you tube, it ´d be great to see it in the move.

 

Glowing Amraam and Fahrenheit are going to do some movies once it is ready.

[Vekkinho]

Great looking terrain mate!

[pauldy]

Really nice~ We need a new theatre for Lock On. ^^

[Glowing_Amraam]

Glowing Amraam and Fahrenheit are going to do some movies once it is ready.

 

Indeed....AFTER project 10 :D

[TKMR]

This looks fantastic! Definitely a lot of potential missions/campaign possibilities! Looking forward to that video, though if GA is going around teasing about ANOTHER video, I might be taken in to the looney bin. =P

[Total]

Awesome work man!

 

And GA loves to tease.....it's in his blood lol

[T-Bone]

 

Update, I've obtained higher resolution images with "Truecolor" terrain coloration. I'm rebuilding the terrain with this new data, and it should look much more crisp. Screenshots will follow.

 

 

Old data vs New data

[Total]

I dunno who teases more.

 

You, Glowing Amraam, or my wife lol!

[T-Bone]

The updated map with the satellite data:

 

 

A preview render of Vladivostok in Global Mapper:

 

 

The satellite imagery is not perfect and some data is not 100% lined up either. There are some clouds that also need to be edited out.

 

Once this is done, and the terrain mesh is created, I'm going to create new farm textures and add in roads, rivers, cities, and airports.

 

Due to lack of better data, I'm aiming for the map accuracy to be an "approximate representation" rather than killing myself getting the 1m resolution accuracy city/road/airport data. In the end this is a game and we aren't CIA or military.

 

Even FC 2.0 is an "approximate representation", IE Runway 13 at Batumi.

 

 

The terrain will end up being about the same land mass as the DCS/FC2 map.

Edited March 22, 2010 by T-Bone

[T-Bone]

I dunno who teases more.

 

You, Glowing Amraam, or my wife lol!

 

 

Tease? How about this landscape for a potential future project? ;)

[Total]

Dude! I'm at work right now. Don't show sexy stuff like that!

 

I can't get away from my desk right due to a sudden shift in the pants!

[T-Bone]

Hey man that's TMI lol

[T-Bone]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=nw20100320141212989C560893

 

Seems like this could be a good setting for a hypothetical civil war scenario too now.

[T-Bone]

Some test shots using the new satellite imagery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GGTharos]

Not bad :)