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by Snake Man
2002-03-01 16:09:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: About the couloring of a bitmap, if I'm not mistaken, that would mean you would have to do a 1024x1024 bitmap (for a 128x128 terrain) I guess so if Julian ment with the 512x512 reference as 64 segment theater. But if we are looking for one pixel - one tile, the...
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 15:39:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: 1- I don't think this should be done in CATE, which should stay purely script based, IMHO. This would be at the edge of CATE actual features, but why not. But see point 3. 3- This would probably be too slow in VB, so again, if xjussix could make another program...
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 15:21:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Re: Terrain types according to altitude

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: Sorry, another pic (satellite view) BTW, I'm downloading these, too, in case the sites go away. Hehe you are posting before I get to reply, great :) Yeah I saved those images also in my F4Terrain.Afghanistan/ dir, good to get the stuff at your own drive. who knows,...
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 15:18:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Re: Terrain types according to altitude

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: Something like this: That was excellent image! quote: I'll keep looking. How about at the same time check upon the actual images of the terrain types mentioned there, to get some basic information for new tiles. Wonder how easy those are to find... yet its very goo...
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 15:05:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by xjussix: Sure, I'll try it this weekend. Any chance of screwing my F4 install up? ;) Terrainview and CATE dont mess up your falcon installation, as you work with the new theater.L2 files not in Falcon4 dir. Its very rarely when I even need falcon installation when working...
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 13:03:00
Forum: Vietnam
Topic: installing Nam...
Replies: 2
Views: 8117

Re: installing Nam...

Read instructions from this threat (if you missed the instructions on the manual)

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/cgi-bin/u ... 2&t=000157

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 06:04:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by Zaggy:
If you need pics to describe this, just ask...
Yes please, post some example images.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 03:00:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/tiling.php

Now everybody take a wild quess who is the last tiler out there?

Hint: he's the big devil behind all this :)

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 02:56:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Re: Terrain types according to altitude

quote:Originally posted by ccc:
wow, sounds like a quantum leap in terrain making!
Aim to perfection, ouh! :)

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-03-01 00:43:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Re: Terrain types according to altitude

quote:Originally posted by T_Rex: So what we need now are some maps that show what kind of geographic areas in the area have what types of soil, right? Like arid, desert, other kinds I don't even know of? Correct. We need detailed map illustration of differend kind of terrain types. If we cant find...
by Snake Man
2002-02-28 14:09:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

Here is small example image I prepared to explain the 4-tile-set autotiling replace thingy. http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/screenshots/4-tile-set_example.jpg In the actual segment screenshot you see road and a river (features) which are not effected by the fourtileset because it searches the terrain ...
by Snake Man
2002-02-28 13:03:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

Autotiling features (roads/rivers/cities) with CATE?

Would that be possible?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-28 04:50:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Re: Terrain types according to altitude

quote:Originally posted by krfrge:
How do we go about getting this utility?
http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/cgi-bin/u ... 1&t=000301

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-28 04:50:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

quote:Originally posted by hhheagle: How does one acquire ReadL2 ? You and krfrge were the first guys to ask for it, nice to see Skyfires util kicks off with warm welcome :) If Skyfire does not oppose it, the CAKE util should appear in the downloads with some PMC tutorial soon. Very soon. quote: I'...
by Snake Man
2002-02-27 09:51:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Terrain types according to altitude
Replies: 26
Views: 31184

Terrain types according to altitude

With the new CATE util by Skyfire, we can place any tile types to any elevations. Here is quick example I've just put on Vietnam: 1ft -> 660ft swamp/jungle 661ft -> 1640ft dry farmland 1641ft -> 3280ft wet farmland 3281ft -> 6560ft forest 6561ft -> 11480ft mountain rock 11481ft -> 99999ft snowcap Yo...
by Snake Man
2002-02-26 10:06:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

[quote]quote:Originally posted by Skyfire76: On a last note, I think we need a better name for this small util : ReadL2 is really lame. Your suggestions are welcome :) I'm not sure if you are familiar with Dr. Fred Balding's LODFixer utility which replaces specified tiles with 4-tile-set's. It works...
by Snake Man
2002-02-26 04:53:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

I made some tiling to the assignments that were the most likely never be done.

The tiling progress chart have been updated, again.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-25 19:46:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Tiling
Replies: 11
Views: 14699

Re: Tiling

I'm running ReadL2 into the Afghanistan terrain and we can expect it to start looking much better than the first version.

There is still incredible amount of river and city tile fixing, as rivers are broken and such things but it does look good now.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-25 18:45:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

Re: ReadL2 Util

ReadL2 Utility by Skyfire76 Util that reads your autotiled (or whatever) theater.L2 file, scans for tiles by your rules that you are written in the configuration file. It changes tiles based on the elevation, so for example you can set it to tile desert tiles to 1-1000ft, darker mountain tiles for 1...
by Snake Man
2002-02-25 18:38:00
Forum: Terrain / Theater
Topic: All these airbases would look better if....
Replies: 2
Views: 2849

Re: All these airbases would look better if....

quote:Originally posted by CAG:
It would look great if they could add parked aircraft.
There was discussion about adding parked/decoy migs into Balkans theater airbases. I just cannot remember what was the end result, sorry.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-25 09:46:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: ReadL2 Util
Replies: 345
Views: 239800

ReadL2 Util

ReadL2 Util - to fix those tiles in our terrains.

More to follow soon.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-24 12:43:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: 10 more and were done! Yes sir, we are getting there. Oh btw, its really stupid to post this kind of thing to a forum, but I dont see any other choice to contact you guys. Ender Wiggin & T-Rex: my emails to you guys was again bounced back... I have no glue w...
by Snake Man
2002-02-23 14:50:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

Striker strikes back with assignment!

Another update for the tiling progress chart. Now we only have 10 assignments out there, not much tiling anymore. Looking good.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-23 06:49:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: Come on guys just few more, with the weekend here lets hope everyone will finish Lets hope so, I just have the feeling that there might be some roadblocks on the way. At least one guy bounces email back to me when I try to reach him etc. So I might have to g...
by Snake Man
2002-02-23 06:40:00
Forum: Afghanistan
Topic: Tiling
Replies: 11
Views: 14699

Re: Tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: When can we start tiling? ODS is about done, and almost done Yeah almost :) We still have basically half of the terrain untiled in ODS. But I'm going to arrange change for the autotiling before we get into that (to reduce the human workload). quote: im not s...
by Snake Man
2002-02-23 01:01:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

Alberto's assignment is in. Saludos!

The tiling progress chart had another update, check it out.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-22 10:11:00
Forum: Nevada
Topic: Theater progressing...
Replies: 22
Views: 20537

Re: Theater progressing...

quote:Originally posted by Com_gp:
you could make the installer for it if you want
Ok, I have the old files here in my drive, more than enough to make installer. But can you send me some updated files, for example if you have tiled some more then I need the theater.L2 file etc.

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by Snake Man
2002-02-21 09:47:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by ccc: Excuse me, according to tiling progress pic, seems the NE part, 64x64 map will be released indenpendently? Well thats what T-Bone wants for his F4ME theater. quote: or in 128x128? Operation Desert Storm is 128 theater. period. quote: so OOB wont count in countries li...
by Snake Man
2002-02-21 09:43:00
Forum: Nevada
Topic: Theater progressing...
Replies: 22
Views: 20537

Re: Theater progressing...

quote:Originally posted by Com_gp: From time to time I tile some segments in the theater How much have you guys tiled now? quote: gotta start again the object placement because its mess up. You don't like the village util results? :) How about creating basic installer for SP2 so anyone interested o...
by Snake Man
2002-02-21 04:45:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin: all we need is the last few and its done. Also are the gray tiles the ones that were transisted? Grey segments are done by me. Thats the way of being tiling coordinator, to "stitch" up the assignments. Luckily there are not much differences on tiling styles,...
by Snake Man
2002-02-21 01:23:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

Another update for the tiling progress chart. It starts to look real good now, only 12 assignments to be returned and then its finished (when I complete the transition stitching tiling).

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/tiling.php

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-20 22:01:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: Detailed OOB for SP2-ODS?
Replies: 36
Views: 25017

Re: Detailed OOB for SP2-ODS?

quote:Originally posted by HotDogOne:
I think i might have the Iraqi OOB somewhere, if its helpful and you havent already got this info let me know, ill dig it up.
Don't have Iraqi OOB here, please send it over if you manage to find it.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-20 09:13:00
Forum: Theater Tools
Topic: Bridge Placement
Replies: 2
Views: 5080

Re: Bridge Placement

quote:Originally posted by krfrge: I have the Object Placer program but am unsure of what steps to take to place bridges. Any suggestions? Sorry about late reply. Well the object placer along with LODfixer uses same kind of tile system, once you got it... you got it :) I suggest you start with defa...
by Snake Man
2002-02-19 21:48:00
Forum: Vietnam
Topic: A few problems
Replies: 13
Views: 15084

Re: A few problems

quote:Originally posted by WOLF-257:
P2-350
I run test runs on my celeron 300@450mhz :)
quote:V3-3000
So when are you going to afford a new graphics card?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-19 07:55:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin:
You did get those ast tiles right?
I seem to get stuff from you, those 54,12 to 59,34 was received ok.

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-19 07:49:00
Forum: Vietnam
Topic: A few problems
Replies: 13
Views: 15084

Re: A few problems

quote:Originally posted by WOLF-257:
I won't be able to run SP and I can't afford an upgrade.
Why you cant run SP?

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-18 13:50:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

Last tiling assignment of F4ME/ODS "North-East" was given out just now. The tiling progress chart have been updated, check it out at: http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/tiling.php The white area left side of the grey line is the ODS 64 segment beta 0.1 releases tiled area. Segments right from the grey li...
by Snake Man
2002-02-17 07:06:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling
Replies: 53
Views: 31151

Re: T-Bone's F4ME and/or ODS "North East" tiling

quote:Originally posted by Ender Wiggin:
im waitin for the next assignment.
Your yahoo.com email address got delivery failure for me, dunno whats wrong with it.

I'll post the assignment here (not something we do). Its segments 60,12 to 63,34

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Snake Man
by Snake Man
2002-02-16 13:25:00
Forum: Vietnam
Topic: A few problems
Replies: 13
Views: 15084

Re: A few problems

quote:Originally posted by Tomcatter: Is Da Nang too short for B-52's or was that some freak occurence? I dont remember my last vietnam testings, but there have been some kinds of problems in the past. Will be looking for this. quote: if I try to fly, the game will crash at the launch splash screen...
by Snake Man
2002-02-15 21:05:00
Forum: Operation Desert Storm
Topic: Desert Storm Baghdad SP2 screenshots
Replies: 35
Views: 20763

Re: Desert Storm Baghdad SP2 screenshots

http://www.pmctactical.org/f4/temp_dese ... aghdad.jpg

New segment just tiled in. Zaggy does the magic for tiles.

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Snake Man