lightspeed_aust 681 Posted March 5, 2011 Hey guys I think Chernarus is a gr8 map but would like to see it in a winter style with snow covered areas. Now I have never done anything around mapmaking and don't even know if the source code available is there to open Chernarus and retexture. If it was though, how long would it take me to do it and how complex is it? thanx Lighty. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tpw 2314 Posted March 5, 2011 You need to talk to the guys who did the summer vegetation mod for chernarus, which basically replaced all the autumnal trees and grass with bright green summer versions. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=97347 You'd need to do something similar. If you could pull it off you'd get a lot of love from these forums :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ArmAriffic 10 Posted March 5, 2011 to re-tex the ground textures you need the source files for the island, i think only BIS have them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cctoide 0 Posted March 5, 2011 The creator(s) of the Thirsk Winter map may be able to help as that island is quite convincing. They already sorted out the issue with making realistic snow ground textures (and they actually sound like snow, too). However you'd probably want to winterize buildings too, and that's a bit more problematic as you're looking at editing hundreds if not thousands of textures (many of which use multimaterial shaders and are rather confusing to figure out). The real problem is really what ArmAriffic said, though, as you'd need to edit the satellite texture, which only BI has the source files for. In theory it shouldn't be impossible to stitch the sat texture back together and edit it, but I don't know if BI would like that idea, and besides, it would still be a big undertaking to winterize the entire 16x16km texture with decent quality. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Przemek_kondor 13 Posted March 5, 2011 Actually there is mod which overwrite Chernarus sat texture: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6050, so it's possible. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bad benson 1733 Posted March 8, 2011 nice idea! the houses would need to be reskinned too though so they don't look out of place. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andersson 285 Posted March 9, 2011 I guess the problem would be to take away the leafs? Maybe one can replace them with invisible textures using hex edit? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
