Taviana Island for ArmA 2!

[-martin- 10]

Thank you everyone! :) We've passted 100 000 views of this thread!

I can't believe that this day came, but I've basically finished the main island on Taviana - only some forests left to do now! After this I'll finish the smaller island on the other side of the huge bridge and it’s all done. This means that I'm going to release BETA 3 with the completed main island shortly, followed by the final full version of Taviana Island in a few months.

The Northern part of the main island..

A look at the largest port - Ekaterinburg.

In the port

I got complaint's that there are not enough forests and places to make campsites on Taviana. So 70% of the Northern part of the island are bare, uninhabited forests , rocks and fields.

One more airport (Jaroslavski Airport) has been added! Bringing the total to 3. 2 on the main island, on the smaller island.

Jaroslav town (Jaro-slav is an old Slavic name meaning “Glory of the spring/sunâ€).. This town is named after a real person who has given me lots of help!

Jaroslav..

More farmland added!

The Northern tip of the island..

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Edited August 5, 2012 by -Martin-

[krycek 349]

Tried with 1.62 and I see now that the AI can drive on the off-ramps when leaving the highways,but now I see another problem,they cant drive on the right part of the highways anymore,they just crash through the fence and drive on the other part(the left part).

[-martin- 10]

Tried with 1.62 and I see now that the AI can drive on the off-ramps when leaving the highways,but now I see another problem,they cant drive on the right part of the highways anymore,they just crash through the fence and drive on the other part(the left part).

This all has to do with the AI, I'm glad that it improved in 1.62 and can now use the highway exits. I hope that in future versions or ArmA 3 the AI will be able to stick to the same road instead of choosing to cross over to another one meters beside it. Let’s keep our fingers crossed (*BIS*)

[cuel 25]

Looks good!

[.Taffy 10]

Great news Martin, Tavianna just gets better and better!

[-martin- 10]

Taviana Island BETA 3 Released!

Location and population

Taviana (Officialy: Tavianska Sovjetskaja SocialistiÄiskaja Respublika - TSSR– The Soviet Socialist Republic of Taviana) is an island country situated in the Baltic Sea approximately 120km off the coast of Lithuania or Kaliningrad. It has a population of approximately 1 500 000 inhabitants of who 90% are ethnic Slavs called “Rustakiâ€, Russians or Poles and 10% ethnic Lithuanians. The capital and second largest city of the republic is Sabina which is located on the Southern coast of lake Umag, has a population of approximately 150 000 and has the republics main international airport.

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Language

Flag

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The official spoken language on Taviana is Tavianian (Tavijanski Jazik) which is an Eastern Slavic language written in a variation of the Latin alphabet based on Jan Hus’ modern Czech alphabet. Lithuanian, Russian and Polish are also officially recognised languages of the republic.

Religion

The largest religious group consisting of 70% of Tavianas population are Orthodox Christians, the second major religious group in the republic are Catholics consisting of approximately 15% population where as 15% of the population have no religion.

Independence and the revolution

Following the 1917 uprising against the Tsarist autocracy Taviana gained independence from the Russian empire and established a Socialist government lead by the SPT (SocialistiÄiskaja Partija Taviany – The Socialist party of Taviana) to the present day. A 50 meter statue of Lenin was also built in the capital cities main square called (Sredmestje Vladimira IliÄa Lenina - The Square of Vladimir Illich Lenin) to commemorate the 1917 revolution.

Economy

Approximately 50% Tavianas economy consists of the extraction of natural resources such as oil and gas which are drilled mainly on the islands North coasts. Fishing and farming form another 35% of the republics economy while heavy industry such as metal works, chemical plants and shipyards from the remaining 15% of the economy.

Wars

874 – The first recorded conflict on Taviana took place on the site where today’s port Molotovsk stands in the year 874 between Slavic migrants from the East and native Nordic inhabitants which were eventually forced out of the island.

1240 – 1241 – In the year 1240 Norwegian forces invaded Taviana in an attempt to conquer the island but were forced out one year later in the final battle that took place on the fields of Stari Bor.

1015 – In the year 1015 the Roman empire launched a series of failed attempts to conquer the island.

1600-1611 – In the years between 1600 – 1611 Taviana was invaded by Swedish forces during the Polish-Swedish war but where forced off the island by Polish forces in the battle on the fields on Novi Bor.

1625-1629 – In the years between 1625 – 1629 Taviana took part in the Polish-Swedish war fighting on the Polish side.

1914–1918 (World war 1)- Taviana remained mostly untouched by World War 1 although some conflicts were fought in Prussia and Kaliningrad in attempts to seize the provinces from German control. The years between 1914 – 1918 also saw the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 which gave Taviana independence from Tsarist rule and in which the Socialist Republic of Taviana was born.

1939–1945 (World War 2) – World War 2 was a very dark chapter in Taviana’s History. The island was invaded by the Third Reich which forced the Socialist government and the Taviana armed forces in to exile in the Soviet Union where the Taviana armed forces merged with the Red Army and fought against the Third Reich. While fighting continued the Jewish population of Taviana was deported to death camps in Poland while the native population of Taviana was forced in to labour, manufacturing weapons.

In the last phases of World War 2 Taviana was liberated by Red army troops and surviving troops of the Taviana armed forces who reinstalled the socialist government.

1945 onwards – From 1945 onwards Taviana saw a large number of Lithuanian, Russian and Polish migrants feeling from the destroyed European mainland who took on the task of re-building the republic.

Today Taviana is still one of the Soviet Union’s key allies and serves as an important strategic location for the Soviet Union as well as a important submarine repair base.

Video:

Official promotional video:

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Download links:

Download the installer and follow the onscreen instructions to install this addon:

Taviana Island BETA 3 Installer:

http://narod.ru/disk/59408468001.8d8596e19fd2e77d03efe26b469c2243/Taviana%20Island%20BETA%203%20Installer.exe.html (~690MB)

Official screenshots:

Read me:

Please read the read me before you ask questions, there is a good change that it is already answered in the read me.

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Taviana Island for ArmA II (BETA Version 3.0)

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Taviana (Officialy: Tavianska Sovjetskaja SocialistiÄiskaja Respublika - TSSR– The Soviet Socialist

Republic of Taviana) is an island country situated in the Baltic Sea approximately 120km off the coast

of Lithuania or Kaliningrad. It has a population of approximately 1 500 000 inhabitants of who 90% are

ethnic Slavs called “Rustakiâ€, Russians or Poles and 10% ethnic Lithuanians. The capital and second

largest city of the republic is Sabina which is located on the Southern coast of lake Umag, has a

population of approximately 150 000 and has the republics main international airport.

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What does this BETA version contain?

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This BETA version contains the entire part of the island from the previous release and also features

approximately 20km² of new land in the Northern area of the island, including dozens of custom models

with custom textures, such as a cable car, motorway, tomb, airport building, underground train

stations, a race track and much more...

This is a BETA version which is fully game ready, and ready for missions to be made on, however some

bugs may still be present. No further changes will be done to the completed areas of the island seen

in this BETA in future releases, however if you do spot a bug, please report it.

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What is this BETA version for?

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I am releasing this BETA version for a number of reasons:

- To present what I have accomplished since the release of the previous BETA version.

- To release a version of the island with bugs that were present in the previous version removed.

- To allow users to create missions knowing that nothing will change in what is already done.

- So that you could have some fun!

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Changelog:

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- Main island completely finished (1/4 more playable land added)

- ALICE civilian module support added

- Airports now usable by AI

- Missing ILS error fixed

- Airport runway surface fixed (now smooth)

- All missing texture/object errors fixed

- More clutter added to forests

- Sabina bridge fall through bug fixed

- Various satellite, layer mask and clutter bugs fixed

- Various road sign misplacements corrected

- Highways emergency U turn sections added

- Jail building added on separate island

- Strange mesh bug at the bars fixed

- More tree variation

- Various missing map names added

- Cyrillic support added for main menu title (Russian users)

- Bratislav bridge illuminated

- Parliament building river fall through bug fixed

- Road segments not appearing on map fixed

- Street names added to Lepestok, Sevastopol and other towns…

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Reporting bugs!

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Have you found a bug or are you having trouble with this island?

Please leave a reply in the official Taviana thread on the BIS forums or PM me:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=105530

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Authors & Credits

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- Martin (Height map, sat + layer mask, all object placement, modelling, texturing)

- Bushlurker (Countless help and support =) )

- Richard (Help in modelling of various models)

- Hevoc100 (Coming up with the name - Taviana)

- Broseph (Various textures for models)

- Zenger (Tavianas release screenarts, support and regular updating of arma.at.ua with Taviana news)

- BIS (Creating the wonderful engine and amazing game)

- Fargustino (Improving the satellite mask, ideas and race track model)

- DKM MOD (Windmills)

- Ensk Island team (Lenin Statue, wooden church and more...)

- Electronic engineers (for making all this technology possible)

- Pathetic_Berserker (Stadium)

- USEC, Mattaust & Rocket (Offshore Rig)

And a special thanks to:

http://www.arma.at.ua (for regularly posting news about Taviana and giving Taviana a place on their

home page)

Thanks to all the other countless fan sites for mirroring and posting news about Taviana!

Thanks to all the people who reported bugs and leave comments for me!

A big thanks to everyone who has been following Taviana on the BIS forums and other websites,

everyone who left replies, their thoughts and encouraged me to get to where I am now, without you,

Taviana wouldn't be possible! =)

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Installation & Requirements:

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This addon requires ArmA 2 or ArmA 2 Combined Arms, there is no difference in terms of functionality.

THIS ADDON IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH STANDALONE ARMA 2: OPERATION ARROWHEAD!

To install this addon follow the instructions bellow:

1) Launch the Taviana Island BETA 3 Installer.exe installer and follow the onscreen instructions.

The default ArmA 2 installation path is:

C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\AddOns

(Where "X" stands for the drive on which ArmA 2 is installed.)

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Permissions

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All credit for this addon belongs to its respective author (Martin).

1) Using (on other maps/games) or modifying any model contained in this addon is forbidden at this time.

2) Modifying this addon in any way is forbidden at this time.

3) Using this addon or any of its components for commercial purposes is forbidden!

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Disclaimer

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Taviana Island is a free, unofficial add-on to the Armed Assault 2 series. It has been provided to you

free of charge and must always be re-distributed free of charge. The modification or usage of any

material contained within this add-on is not allowed for personal or commercial usage without written

permission from the authors. This add-on has been downloaded by you at your own risk, therefore

Riptrough Studios, Bohemia Interactive or any other party cannot be held responsible for any damage

done to your computer by this add-on. “Taviana Islandâ€, the Taviana Island logo, flag and coat of arms

are the property of Riptrough Studios. Riptrough Studios and the Riptrough Studios logo are the property

of Richard and Martin.

100% compatibility with another addons cannot be guaranteed.

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Contact the author

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You can contact me on:

E-mail: Bauerek@hotmail.co.uk

ICQ: 595-556-446

BIS Forums: http://forums.bistudio.com/member.php?u=51263

www: http://www.ofpbase.co.nr

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15th of August 2012

Have you found a bug?

Have you found a bug or are you having trouble with this island? Please leave a reply in the official Taviana thread on the BIS forums or PM me:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=105530

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[jeza 5416]

ArmAholic informed, and to be posted shortly.

Once again fantastic work and many thanks!

Jeza

[-martin- 10]

ArmAholic informed, and to be posted shortly.

Once again fantastic work and many thanks!

Jeza

Thank you, much appreciated :cheers:

[vivadiga 10]

yea my favourite island is almost done thx you r my hero ;)

[derdoe 10]

Hi,

congrats on the updated release.

I noticed some FPS lags at the newly added jail island. It seems the amount of interiors causes heavy lags. Would it be possible that you make the jail barracks enterable? I tried to get into there but i didnt find a way in :D

Cheers!

[-martin- 10]

Hi,

congrats on the updated release.

I noticed some FPS lags at the newly added jail island. It seems the amount of interiors causes heavy lags. Would it be possible that you make the jail barracks enterable? I tried to get into there but i didnt find a way in :D

Cheers!

Thanks. Yes the FPS drops A LOT on the jail island As a result I’m thinking of making only one wing enterable with interiors and the rest un-enterable with no interior to ease the number of models in the area and remove the lag.. The jail isn’t done yet so I will definitely make it enterable all the way from the outside in the next release

[derdoe 10]

Thanks. Yes the FPS drops A LOT on the jail island As a result I’m thinking of making only one wing enterable with interiors and the rest un-enterable with no interior to ease the number of models in the area and remove the lag.. The jail isn’t done yet so I will definitely make it enterable all the way from the outside in the next release

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Well sounds like a good trade-off to make only 1 wing enterable and replace the other barracks with barracks without interior. I like the jail island layout very much, well done. Just an idea, you could add a helipad somewhere there :)

[-martin- 10]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. Well sounds like a good trade-off to make only 1 wing enterable and replace the other barracks with barracks without interior. I like the jail island layout very much, well done. Just an idea, you could add a helipad somewhere there :)

Hmm I'll try to - if I find some space :D

[derdoe 10]

Rooftop helipad for the really bad guys ^^

Anyway off to discover more off the updated Taviana, have fun :)

[[aps]gnat 28]

Love the terrain but HATE exe installers

[-martin- 10]

Gnat;2208246']Love the terrain but HATE exe installers

Me too, but when I released BETA 1, I got so many people telling me "I can't see the custom objects on your island, I can't see this, I can't see that" so I had to tell them to extract all the .pbos and so on... So now that I got even more .pbos for oil rigs and stuff I figured there would be even more confusion

Maybe it would be better if I release two download links, .zip file and .exe installer?

[lao fei mao 21]

when goofing around the cities, the fps stutters constantly, and I checked the rpt file, it's keeping write numerous "Error: Vertex shader ID out of limits", which I think the reason of stutters

[vilas 477]

Gnat;2208246']Love the terrain but HATE exe installers

you know.... community changed "a little" , OFP users with their knowledge, skills and ... were different ;)

some of today's users even have problem with google bans , some other are far underaged to Arma limits (came to Arma community seeing "desert special forces with SCAR")

or "want professional DLC from professional studio" (or try to make rats race between addonmakers etc.)

Edited August 16, 2012 by vilas

[BasileyOne 10]

anway love IDEA of island/project :-)

[oldbear 390]

@Martin : Thanks for informing us about the release !

New on front page at Armed Assault.info

Link to updated mirror :

Taviana Island for Arma2 (v Beta 3.0) : http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=islands&id=169

[Tankbuster 1747]

Gnat;2208246']Love the terrain but HATE exe installers

Me too. Use 7z to extract the contents of the file.

---------- Post added at 10:23 ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 ----------

That aside, it's a beautiful island.

So often in this game we see huge islands that are vast tracts of uninteresting nothingness with a few copy/pasted forests - you can see how the trees are all in a line on parade. Or tiny maps that are painstakingly detailed, but too small to be of wide use.

But this is very different. The gently undulating topography, the sympathetic town design, the rail and road network have all be tweaked to such an extent that they *look natural*. That's a very hard trick to pull off, but he's done a great job here. It's big, but it has the attention to detail.

Couple of thoughts - the mountains are too steep, they are effectively dead ground. Even in countries that have some mountains, people do live there. Perhaps it's too late to ask, but

On the dual carriageways, the AI sometimes drive on the wrong side and take to smashing through the central reservation when they realise they've got it wrong.

The roundabouts - the AI almost always go round them the wrong way. :)

Ai pilots get a bit confused when flying near the suspension bridge.

[krycek 349]

The Bar building still glitches from time to time,the difference is that it doesn't glitch everytime now,pain in the ass building isn't it?:p

Also not sure what happened between Beta 2 and Beta 3 but I took a hit in fps in Sabina(never had probs with the capital or island in general),this kinda worries me because I was the only one and another AI soldier on the map.

Regarding AI driving its really funny to see them drive completely crazy on highways,driving on the left part of it but opposite direction,driving on emergency lane.Is there any chance you could improve pathfinding further or it's 100% fault of AI??

Very nice to see the island completed,really like the north part,you kept it less populated which is a big plus when making some guerilla missions.The mountains could be pimped up a little with more trees or rocks especially the top part,the base of the mountains is well covered.Anyway your choice.:)

[Biwi 10]

Hey -Martin-

Nice Island.

After i have tested the Beta3, i have found a funny bug:

http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2985/lq2ybxf8_png.htm

and the position marked on the map:

http://s14.directupload.net/file/d/2985/nxad4ghb_png.htm

But the rest is awesome.

I'm waiting for the release.

Good luck with the rest.

Greets,

Biwi

P.S.: One tip: You know the little passage in Sabina, where the lake flows in?

it would be amazing, when you would add something to land there. Stairs or something.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Biwi

[hacfirebird 1]

Nice work mate! Really good map! Hope to see some rooms enterable in your hotels on the future ;)

Some tips from me in order to make this map more beautiful than it is.

1) Prison Island

Except from the doors that are not working on the perimeter and the interion that i couldnt fin either..

I found a bed on the air at the right side of the front door.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1614-50-36-78-1.jpg

Also at the left side the building is not connected correctly with the main one.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1614-51-11-30.jpg

2) Schools

For some reason in the main city i cant see the school buildings. I only see this:

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1615-03-44-24.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1614-53-35-83.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1614-53-20-86.jpg

3) Tram Main station

I saw that you had some car bars. when i tried to get myself on them...

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/ArmA2OA2012-08-1614-52-15-12.jpg

The bars left and right work correctly, only the center needs something.

4) I have marked with my mouse the location of a bug. In this area below, when you move towards the sea the player stucks in the line of the sidewalk.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn310/hacfirebird/2012-08-16_00003.jpg

Thats all i've got. Hope you find it interesting :)

I'm waiting for some vehicles to complete this beautiful map. :)

Regards.

[commanderjbug 10]

It would be awesome if someone would make a script that makes the ski-lifts move/be enter able. It could make for some awesome over-the-top action with heli's.