Mosul area Iraq

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

i edited the terrain hightmap so the city mosul is not present on the map think this lookes allot bether right now

MII5SgxShLo

Edited April 4, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[Spartan 163 0]

Sweet idea dude. I agree with you. You fly over most maps too quickly so the search and rescue guys find you in less than 5 minutes. Add some oasis and a nice air field like in area 88.

[ArmAriffic 10]

800x800 sq - nice

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

i think i will build 1 city 1 big airport i might use the airbase template from "Macadam Cow" it almost fills the spot of mosul airport, 2 or 3 airstrips, a powerplant, industrial area's and a few villages but not too dence its realy a map where u could use engineers to set up temporary airstrips for a C130 to land, drop off troops and equipment and leave again.

i think i place a city where mosul should be but allot smaller.

oow and the river the tigris is running across the map too so a few bridges here and there have to be placed too

the map is huge it takes +- 5 minutes flying fullthrottle with the A10

and i can fly the RKSL typhoon fullthrottle 1345 kph and maintain that speed bevore i get even close to the border of the map

Edited April 4, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[esco7800 10]

nice map so far

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

the map is huge it takes +- 5 minutes flying fullthrottle with the A10

I love these types of maps. I'm still in love with the 31st Normandy/Fields of War- Normandy terrain. It took me 30-45 minutes just to fly across the English channel in a C-47 at full speed. :D

Have you found anybody to help as far as custom buildings go?

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

@darkhorse

no in fact im doing everything myself

but if someone have the skills and time :rolleyes:

i would be the last one to say no :)

[sas troop 0]

Wow, this is nice map WIP. I don't prefer Iraqi climates, but this one gained my attention. Good luck for it!

@Darkhorse

I was driving near the shore with truck. It took me 4 REAL hours to do this at speed as I remember 80km/h. If speed is equal to reality in this game, Normandy map should be at scale 1:1,52 :P

I expect at least half of that size BlackMamba :D

[Craig_VG 20]

800x800!!

I don't care if it's 10gb, this will be awesome!

[Morphene 10]

Mosul is a rather large city, and has an airport. The city is VERY densely populated.

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

its going to be beatifull eventualy but i have to watch the file size its 375mb just plain terrain lol...

only the airfield shown in the picture is bigger than utes

Screw the file size. If it's accurate enough I'd download it even if it was 2GB.

[anderson965 10]

Hi its me blackmamba messaging from my telephone. I'm going to alter the hight map to where the city doesn't show on the map I will never be able to fill a city occupied by 1.500000 people on a map this size however there will be 2 bigger city"s in it just smaller if I keep this hightmap the city mosul shows on map wich would look horrible I keep the river the nice terrain type and the map size

[Macadam Cow 1]

Nice project, I love flying in ArmA thus I love big maps :)

I saw you might use my template, feel free to modify it as you wish.

Or if you have any request I can try to modify it myself to your liking.

Wish you the best, keep up the good work !

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

i have my new hightmap ingame and its twice as nice

no big city's on the hightmap so i dont have to edit it in photoshop

thank u macadamcow for letting me use your airport template

ill show a new video and picture soon..

[edited first post]

Edited April 4, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

today i let a chinook fly from lower left to upper right corner of the map wich is 57km... it was a long flight, flying with a speed of 260 it took 8.44 minutes

and boy could i use some help getting villages and roads in the map.

specialy roads ...

Edited April 10, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[minimalaco 30]

for the roads use roadpainter

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=97074

Edited April 10, 2011 by Minimalaco

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

yes already tried to but i need loads of dust roads.

so could i replace the normal roads by dust roads in the editor??

without issues/crashes ??

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

a little update

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[=kct=blackmamba 44]

oow boy this is going to be a loong proces

i could realy use a little help here feel free to contact me if u think its a nice project and u want to be part of it... U CAN!! name will be listed in the credits :)

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

still a huge desert map consists a large green zone big desert area's (duh):rolleyes:

the river the tigris is crossing it wich makes the bridges important points to defend

its called Mosul Area, this is going to be changed eventualy as its infact dahuk province upper left corner of iraq with border between syria/iraq/turkey

ive reduced terrain size to get the most out of the satalite image

instead of 800x800 km2 now its 400x400 km2 still bigger as chernarus/takistan still lots to do, edit colors, road networks, buildings airbase runways needs to be smoothened (atleast AI finds their way to the runway and succesfully land), more vegetation, etc etc...,

new images and video

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in the future the terrain gets an even higher detail, ive cut this image out of the bigger sat image wich was 5gb and so far exceeded the 2gb file size limit in photoshop.

so now the terrain is smaller i will be able to download at higher resolution wich would still be editable in photoshop....

Edited May 6, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[CameronMcDonald 146]

It's a sweet looking terrain you've got going there. Be sure to work over the sat mask to ensure that it matches your detailed terrain texture, or else it will seem like you are standing on a platter of dirt significantly darker than the surrounding area. :) Keep it up!

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

thanks..

ill keep that in mind :)

im shooting for that greyish dust color but preserve all the greens, those darker brown spots u see on the map are somekind of grain fields ?? i think.

i have to wait another week bevore ive got my higher detailed sat.lco it only lets me download 7000 images in 24 hours ive got 9000 images now i need another 55000 to build it up again, maybe i can determin wat it is.

for now im filling up the green zone with trees figuring wich ill keep and wich wont be in.

Edited May 6, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

A few new screenshots.

most things changed are highres satmap, roads, airport, bridge, minimal/maximal height set to realworld heights, ground layers and colors.

oow and infact the area is faysh khabur dahuk smallest province in the northern area of the kurdish part in iraq also the main border with syria and turkije.

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Edited July 8, 2011 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[aidas2 10]

That is so awesome, love how vast and not tuned for gameplay it is.

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

could u explain wat u mean with "not tuned for gameplay" ???