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quote:Originally posted by javanree: Did you manage to get the TDF files working (full roads / airports in Germany?) Yes there were no problems creating Germany features. quote: Are you still considering 128 theater or is it definately 64? I'm open to all suggestions, but at least the 128 would tak...

Heh ok stop joking and tell how did the conf files work?

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Snake Man

Is the theater maker available for anyone?

Umm if thats the q, then yes. check out the downloads.

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Snake Man

So you guys want to work on the Belgium objectives or overall the theaters objectives?

KBMIL you got email waiting with the bitmaps.

If anyone else wants to have the background bitmaps for tacedit to use with Europe theater, just email me and request the zip (333kb).

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quote:Originally posted by Quicksilver: Hey, if it works, it works. :D Thanks a bunch SM, I'll plug all this in right away. It was first the transitions and then features of what I did, lastly airbases... let me know how you make them work out. quote: I hope you don't have any copyright claims for ...

I was working half the night for this PAK map and finally its working, man am I tired.

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Snake Man

I finally got some activity in the campaign. Guess how hard was it to do?

Change one number from 5 to 95. sigh...

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I changed the Iran to Gorn. Some old days there was talk about gorn not being used and somehow the impression was that its not going to work, well at least the campaign runs when Iranian objectives are change to team 7 - gorn. So far no luck with the campaign activity. We do have 4 x AWACS flights a...

quote:Originally posted by ccc:
guess f4 campagin logic wont work.

What logic are you referring to?

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Here is my example files which I used for European (default tileset) terrain. CateAB.Europe.Conf ABFileName=D:\F4Terrain\misc\CATE\csv\euroa3.csv [AirbasesDef] AirbaseDef=1 0 -1 1 1 (01_19,05_23,32_14,34_16,36_18) AirbaseDef=2 -1 0 1 1 (08_26,11_29,12_30,21_03,23_05,26_08,30_12) AirbaseDef=3 0 -1 1 ...

I have full confidence in your Conf file making abilities. You have done outstandig job so far.

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quote:Originally posted by ccc: Being the supreme producer of many theaters, could you summerize current status? Hah supreme lamer more likely :) Okay here is the status: Operation Desert Storm - (128 theater) Internal beta on SP2 but more likely aimed to SP2a builds. All those nasty 128 theater bu...

The first campaign I'm creating, more or less Enduring Freedom (altough we cannot make 100% realistic due f4 engine constraints) would contain these countries or teams in falcon terms: teams 1 US == U.S. (no ground objectives). 2 ROK == Pakistan. (allied). 3 Japan == India/Iran. (neutral). 4 CIS == ...

I mean NOT tiling features into ocean tiles. At least in the european L2 file lot of features get tiled into ocean tiles because they are so near (and over) the coastline.

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quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: transitions between more than 2 terrain types (e.g. forest in the middle, plain to the N, ocean to the E) The areas which have three different terrain types are more or less rare. Of course it happens. Also we should make rule if we want to tile features into o...

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: I see you've been busy submitting ideas ... :( quote: how many different terrain types can I expect to find in any theater ? Give me the upper bound Why is there going to be some limit in CATE? I'd say we should reserve space for lets say... hmm 20 different ty...

Tacedit can be found on downloads.

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quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: I'm confused about which TDFs are doing the crashing, roads or rivers? India river, turkmenistan road, china river and road. Uzbekistan road missing and DEML2 crashes! quote: What, if anything, can be done about it? Not much with DEM2L2. Its just too slow and buggy...

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76:
Anyway, I can't send it yet since my mail server is still FUBAR ...

Hmm damn shame, we should try to get ftp server for you to upload. Do you have full ftp access or is that limited also?

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Snake Man

Here is something to try out.

Desert, two shades of green vegetation, two shades of dark mountain.

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Now we would need input from other people too. So anyone, suggestions?

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quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76:
I need rules to know how to tile terrain.

So what if I tile some messy segments (after the current CATE results) and I try to explain along with images of what I actually did?

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Snake Man

Well what if we just extend the forest coverage if we run into messy parts?

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quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: forest type, with farm to the south, and forest around otherwise, with a road to the north and the east, then I should put the tile #1506, i.e. HFORR2F7.pcx Now I must say that I have never used that tile type, those are very special tiles. But yes, in your abo...

quote:Originally posted by krfrge:
I am running F4 Patch_Standard_41RP5a,

You are running 108i2 + RP5?

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quote:Originally posted by Ninja:
Hi all just checking in and indroducing myself

Welcome aboard Ninja!

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Another few pics of Afghanistan land usage.

These two are really alike, but I got them so why not post them huh?

You guys figure out the rest heh.

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Snake Man

I moved this topic to terrain area

Okay I got few guestions.
What file did you edit (instant.cam, te_new.tac or saveX.cam)?
What executable are you running?
Did you edit alot to get CTD results, what did you actually edited?

Lets beging with those for starters.

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Update for the rivers... no can do honey. I let it run for two days and it still was not finished when I had to reboot the computer

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quote:Originally posted by flanker: Congratulations to the Europe theater. Really has turned out well. I'd like to think so, considering it took me about two-three days to put all together. quote: Ramstein AB is missing a pity, this Send more details on missing important objectives and those get ad...

quote:Originally posted by BelgianTiger_5:
If you ppl need any info on Belgian bases and other interesting tgt's or scenery's pls let me know.

Have you guys ever used Tacedit?

We could use help on object placement for Belgium and other countries too.

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quote:Originally posted by prelude:
I do not have sptinstall after installing ODS should i use eF4PTInstall instead?

You do not have SPTinstall.exe after installing ODS into a \falcon4\ dir or some dir without spaces in it?

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quote:Originally posted by prelude: Thats correct, and yes there are spaces in the directory name. Use text editor like notepad for example and open the theater.lst file, make sure there are line: terrdata\theaterdefinition\DesStorm.tdf That should fix your theater not showing up error. And spaces ...

quote:Originally posted by prelude: Off of the problem with not having sptinstall in the directory i dont have it either when i install it Do you have spaces in your falcon path name? For example "C:\Program Files\Falcon4" quote: installed ODS and then started F4 went to the UI and it wasnt there. ...

quote:Originally posted by Johnny the Janitor:
Where can I get the F4Patch for Vietnam? I've looked all over the place but I can't find it.

There is no such thing as F4Patch for Vietnam.

Wait few more weeks to get Vietnam for SP2a!

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Snake Man

Can someone shed some light on the issue of rivers on high altitude areas like mountains. What about so high that we have snowcap, I believe (with my retared mind) there there are zero rivers as ... well they would be frozen... :? But what about some rocky mountains, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Afg...

Gentlemen, my offer is this: nothing.

In fact, I'd appreciate if you would find the download link by yourselfs from here:

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Version 3.31 have been added into the downloads page. Be prepared to be overwhelmed the rules and power of CATE! First theater to see CATE power was Europe and it looks rather good considering it took whole 5 minutes to process. There are still some work to be done on few items, but we are now movin...

quote:Originally posted by 87th_striker: Some comments about the 3D objects in the beta. I think they are placed to randomly, the building types don't "fit in". And guess why? because they are korean 3d objects. There is no edited ground objectives at this point in falcon 4. quote: I guess there is...

I have no idea how these multiple installs work.

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