Possible Location for Afghan Map???

[soldier2390 0]

Hi everyone!

I am going to start work on a New Afghan Map for Arma2/OA, however I dont know where I want to do, this thread is for suggestions using my guide lines!

Guide lines are:

-Small Active U.S. Air Base(or Big as long as the other guide lines are met)

-Few small Towns/Villages(No Hugh Citys, unless smaller then Zargabad)

-Remote Area(Dont care if it has large Mountians or flat deserts)

-Some what of an Active Battle area(not too worried about this one)

I already looked into Bagram, Mazari-Sharif, Kandahar, and many other most know areas however the citys are too big for me to make, So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions please help!

Dave,

[The Hebrew Hammer 10]

Areas of Kunar that haven't been explored such as the Shuryek valley and the Chokway valley. Pardon my spelling if thats wrong. Also theres Khost, Nowzad, Pakita and many others.

[soldier2390 0]

Areas of Kunar that haven't been explored such as the Shuryek valley and the Chokway valley. Pardon my spelling if thats wrong. Also theres Khost, Nowzad, Pakita and many others.

Hmmm, I looked into Pakita, not the others tho, do you know if they have any Air Bases there(that fit my Guide Lines? My Main focus is to have a map with an Air Base centered in the middle!

I did want to do Bagram as thats where my unit was stationed, but I also like Tarin-Kowt, as my cousin was stationed there with the 82nd!

Edited October 28, 2011 by soldier2390

[exikutioner 10]

Khost would be bad ass! It's a larger city, but mostly covered with farmland, so it is do-able.

[soldier2390 0]

Khost would be bad ass! It's a larger city, but mostly covered with farmland, so it is do-able.

Yeah my cousin showed me a fly though of Khost before, would be bad ass, will take a second look into Khost again!

thanks for the suggestions so quickly!

[The Hebrew Hammer 10]

Yeah sorry, I didn't see that it required an airfield!

Kunar Province is really beautiful minus the 1000's of fighting positions in the mountains that can hide the enemy from 500 pound bombs and strafing runs..

[soldier2390 0]

lol yeah Kunar be a bitch to live in, specially now that we pulled out most of that area and taliban took it back over, new training camps and what not are there now!

But yeah, I am still obsessed with Bagram, since my firends/Unit memebers was there(and was my future destination had i not been discharged lol), plus its got so much history there since the start of the war, and the area is mostly farm land so i think it can be done, only problem is im not no good with visitor(well not like IceBreakr and other Map gods) but first is first, wheres the best place to get very, very high res Sats for this kind of stuff?

Also how do i go about making sure these mountains are as exact specs as it is in RL???

How does BIS make there maps using real sats so perfect? is there a trick i do not know yet?

[wld427 1705]

pick anywhere you please in afghanistan.

I need someplace to test PRACS nuclear weapons.

no love left after my 2 tours there.

[soldier2390 0]

pick anywhere you please in afghanistan.

I need someplace to test PRACS nuclear weapons.

no love left after my 2 tours there.

Hey bud, glad to see your still around, and PRACS too!

But yeah I feel ya, my Visitor skills have not got any better from the last time you talked to me, so I need something simple to start with. Sad thing is we need more then Visitor to create decent and realistic maps, something like what VBS2 has would be nice. Well it would sure make things easier, as I am still having problems getting mountains to be shaped as I intended them too!

But for some reasons even though Bagram would be a bit too demanding for some one with low skills in Map making as myself, I just can not stop thinking about going for it...atleast for the hell of it!

[rhaggan 10]

Musa Quala,

Nadi ali

[tomolyons 23]

Do a map based in helmand province, it would be nice to see a map with a lush greenzone with compounds and fields etc

[soldier2390 0]

A few good people are working on Helmand Province Maps, not tryng to step on no ones toes ;)

But i have PM'ed a few good people who know about Map making, hopefully I can get things rolling! If so and I somehow become the next IceBreakr of Map making...which I serously doubt, then I will make a map of every part of A-Stan! lmao

[soldier2390 0]

Ok, I am thinking of possibly doing Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan! Where do I get good high res satmap to use? Also is there a way to get a hight data map of the area to make sure when i make the terrain in Visitor3 its acurate?

BTW does anyone with Visitor3 skills want to help me make the terrain for Visitor3?

[antoineflemming 14]

Shahikot... :P Whatever you do, include mountains. REAL, rocky, mountains. Also, it'd be cool if there was some snow patches on the ground.

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Do a map based in helmand province, it would be nice to see a map with a lush greenzone with compounds and fields etc

we already have helmand.

[darkfenix100 0]

Hi soldier

I reckon a Nad-e-Ali would be pretty ace, glad your back working on a map

[Fox '09 14]

Shahikot... :P Whatever you do, include mountains. REAL, rocky, mountains. Also, it'd be cool if there was some snow patches on the ground.

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we already have helmand.

ebanks has already done shahikot..

Khost would be really cool man, you should do it

[soldier2390 0]

Ok gents....with the help of Robster, him and mini are doing a fantastic map, based on Kunar region, I am trying to help them with getting my buddy to get good photos of the ground for them to get finished on there alsome map....but yeah thanks to them fellas I am slowly but surly getting the hang of this, Robster is gonna help with making the mountains off of Digital Elevation Maps so that will insure the map is perfectly acurate!

Also Icebreakr gave me some helpful advice as well along with others, Plus my bud ebanks has been helping me for awhile now but he is in the Army last i talked to him, so i got very good people backing me and helping me out so thanks to you guys!

Now......duh duh dun....and the map is going to be.....Khost Airfield Area(Including Camp Chapman in the middle) if all goes well I plan for it to be as big as Takistan, tho I will probly release it in a smaller size when a good bit is done(which is probably awhile away), It will have many mountains, flat areas, nice medium sized Airfield(bigger then Takistan map),now that I kind have gave up on addon making(not permentaly tho) and tho my RL is falling apart around me, hopfully Map making won't lol! If this goes well I am doing Bagram since that is where my unit was stationed, And so many other areas flowing throw my head!

Warning, beside my Skin Cancer...my other physical problems, I have very bad O.C.D. which oddly enough may prove to be ideal for Map making, since anyone who knows me knows I try to do things perfect, which will take longer then most to finish but I hope to have a great Map for everyone! Once this underway and things hopfully are working out then anyone who wants to help will be welcome.

And thanks to everyone who is helping and who shared thier ideas here, probly would still be stuck with my thumb up my ass if it wasn't for everyone posting there suggestions.

Dave,

[mcnools 62]

Khost Airfield sounds very interesting, from what I've seen in pictures it looks like a suitable area to add to the game. I'm sorry to hear about the skin cancer though, I hope it all goes well eventually, hang in there! I'm looking forward to the map :)

[soldier2390 0]

Khost Airfield sounds very interesting, from what I've seen in pictures it looks like a suitable area to add to the game. I'm sorry to hear about the skin cancer though, I hope it all goes well eventually, hang in there! I'm looking forward to the map :)

Thanks McNools, Will hopfully get this thing done, I have been reading tuturals and trying out the tut maps provided in the BI Wiki!

[The Hebrew Hammer 10]

For the love of god if you do Kunar please use trees similar to the ones you'd find in Chernarus, Ebank's map is good, but it's little shrubs instead of evergreens like what is really there.

[Donny 10]

Maybe Baghlan or Kunduz would be an good location too.

I'm missing the north loacations of Afg.

But please do me a favor - dont use OPX for that, every Afghan/iraqi map i know have bugs due to OPX...

But, have fun on working, im waiting for WIP screens ;)

[soldier2390 0]

Thanks I plan to hopefully have some of the terrain formed in the next week or so...as said before I am total new to this and never really have done anything in Visitor3/Wilbur/nothing related to map making TBH! But i got tired of try to make a bunch of addons that just chill in my computer. I am still reading tuts and doing little practices on tut islands found on the BI Wiki...still not as good as I hoped I would have been after an hour of reading shit lol!

But yeah.....ONLY REQUIRMENTS will be ArmA2/OA!

Dave,

[mr.g-c 6]

Really nice!

Are you going to make it 1:1 Scale? If so, it would be amazing :-)

[abs 2]

Really nice!

Are you going to make it 1:1 Scale? If so, it would be amazing :-)

Ugh....stop spamming all map threads with this question. You make me puke every time I see it.

Abs

[soldier2390 0]

OK gents...problem!!!

Khost has proven to be a little out of my reach. It will take me over a year(with my O.C.D.) to do all the little towns in the Khost area, and with Skin Cancer...I dont know what next year will bring(that an I am lazy..lmao)!

So I found a better place that fits my personal requirements better...Shindand Airbase, Western Afghanistan! However before I go an start on the DEMs(which is proving to be a bitch aswell) I want to make sure I can find a FREE and very high resolution Satmap before I create the map, problem is, Google and all that does not provide Sat of the newly created Airbase built there!

So I need Help!!!! Can anyone find me a very high res Satmap of that area(Shindand Airbase)! I plan to make this map bigger then Takistan, tho I may release it as maybe a 10x10 map at first so ya'll have something to play with while I finish the rest!

I would buy a high res sat but I am too broke....and I can not justify that money spent to my girl...who would hang me by my balls for...in her words "spending money on something so useless"...so yeah any help please????

Dave,