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Topic: Want to see Falcon 4.0 tiles in European Air War?

Shatterer of Worlds
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Member # 1477

posted 03-10-2000 10:13 PM

I have images displayed at my website. The entire F4.0 tile set will be finished tomorrow (March 11) since I still need to finish rivers and mountains. The images are on my Falcon 4.0 Cockpit Page so don't get scared by the modern technology you see there (hehe)

Here is my URL:
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/msngamingzone/crazyammo

[This message has been edited by Shatterer of Worlds (edited 03-10-2000).]

Posts: 1416 | From: Modesto, CA, USA | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Gen Savage
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Member # 585

posted 03-10-2000 10:46 PM

Shatterer-Looks great. I've never played Falcon 4.0 (hate jet sims), but I like the terrain, particularly the rich green of the color. Good work!

Posts: 1642 | From: Houston, Tx USA | Registered: Oct 1999 | IP: Logged

Shatterer of Worlds
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Member # 1477

posted 03-10-2000 11:15 PM

Thanks Gen Savage,
While Falcon 4.0 is arguably the best modern jet sim out there, EAW is undoubtably the best of the pre-modern combat sims

. I enjoy them both and fly no others.

Posts: 1416 | From: Modesto, CA, USA | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

randy
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Member # 1149

posted 03-11-2000 01:10 AM

SOW,
Great looking terrain,can't wait until
today.(11th)Hmmmm.I've been up to long.

Posts: 138 | From: Washington | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged

Pretzel
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Member # 800

posted 03-11-2000 01:26 AM

Now thats a new flavor

looks good
Cheers Pretzel

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hoover2701
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Member # 1955

posted 03-11-2000 01:37 AM

SoW:

That looks brilliant!!! I can't wait to load that one up into matttm's stab! Hurry!!!

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Hoover's Flugzeugwerk

Posts: 150 | From: Celle, Germany | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Emil
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Member # 1289

posted 03-11-2000 01:46 AM

Shatterer,

The terrain looks really good, but your Bf-109G6, the Ju-88 and that P-51D need a new paint. Try some nice new aircraft skins for an even better look.

Emil

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"Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden." - Schiller

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Posts: 578 | From: Belgium | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Gambler_78th
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posted 03-11-2000 01:54 AM

If it's anything like your 1024 cockpit (which is my favorite) I'm sure it will be great.

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splatterpunk
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posted 03-11-2000 03:08 AM

SOW: WOW! That looks really good. Having never played Falcon 4.0, I'm curious, what part of the World do these tiles come from or are they supposed to represent? I hate to be the devil's advocate here, as your work is truly outstanding, but the terrain doesn't look like Europe of the early 1940's. Purists may have an issue with that, but, I personally can't wait to try it out. GREAT WORK!

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Shatterer of Worlds
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Member # 1477

posted 03-11-2000 06:48 AM

Hi Emil,
I have tons of skins for the Desert settings and the Pacific but I am still using the defaults for Europe. I really need to get those changes

Gambler,
This terrain only took about 2 days to do as opposed to the three months it took to do the cockpit. It surprisingly isn't taking too long to do the conversions although there is a fair amount of airbrush work in Paint Shop Pro to contend with. Falcon 4 only uses 128x128 tiles while EAW uses 256x256. This means that I have to use 4 F4.0 tiles to create one EAW tile.

The terrain is working out well but EAW is lousy when it comes to getting rid of terrain shimmering effects. There is a lot of terrain shimmering with this tile set due to the thin lines between fields. Otherwise it looks pretty good.

Spatterpunk,
This terrain represents Korea. I could release this tile set as an Asian mainland set (China, Burma). I'm not sure . I could do what Jay did with the Pacific and have large areas of foresty vegetation with little islands of fields.

Posts: 1416 | From: Modesto, CA, USA | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Shatterer of Worlds
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posted 03-11-2000 06:54 AM

I'm not really familiar with the geography around the Far East Asian mainland. I can't physically change the elevation data for mountains but I can perhaps manipulate the scenery so that larger amounts of foresty area shows up (forest, jungles, etc) like Jay did for Pacific water in his tile set.

Any ideas out there concerning how I might be able to tweak these tiles so that an area like China could be depicted? I would need to know types of terrain and terrain ratios.

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NJG88_Greywolf
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posted 03-11-2000 09:18 AM

SOW,

I love the terrain from what I've seen of it, but a quick question. In Falcon 4 one of the neat features when "Mud Moving" is flying low and following the ground terrain contours. How is your terrain as far as modeling the 3d effects of the landscape. Are all those hills and valleys from Falcon 4 really there, or is the terrain just colored like Falcon 4 and is it flattened out?

Posts: 149 | From: Chicago, IL, USA | Registered: Jan 2000 | IP: Logged

Wasp
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posted 03-11-2000 10:09 AM

Paul,
WE'RE NOT WORTHY, WE'RE NOT WORTHY, WE'RE NOT WORTHY!!!!
Regards
Wasp

Posts: 565 | From: Letchworth, Herts,England | Registered: Feb 2000 | IP: Logged

Emil
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Member # 1289

posted 03-11-2000 11:06 AM

Sounds good.
A new terrain exclusively designed for a new BOB aka "Battle of Burma"! Soon we will have all the planes for the Burma theatre: P-40 Warhawk (we still need some Chinese AVG insignia), Hurricane II, Oscar, Nick
Still no sign of the Ki-43 Oscar and Ki-45 Nick on Cord's site

Is someone working on a Ki-21 Sally?

Posts: 578 | From: Belgium | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Cortilein
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Member # 1503

posted 03-11-2000 11:13 AM

Hey Emil!

The Oscar and the Nick are set up now... enjoy!

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Cord Hartmann

Cord's EAW Page

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Shatterer of Worlds
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Member # 1477

posted 03-11-2000 11:41 AM

Hi NJG88_Greywolf,
So far as I know none of the terrian guys who have done tiles sets have been able to actually manipulate the map in any way. All we can really do is change the look of the tiles.

Posts: 1416 | From: Modesto, CA, USA | Registered: Dec 1999 | IP: Logged

Bigshot
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posted 03-11-2000 11:57 AM

Boy, would I love to meet up with a gaggle of ME262s in my Falcon. HEHEHEHE. Just give me that cheat code for unlimited missles. HEHEHEHE.

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