Lowlands Warrior: Leusderheide & Havelte terrain

[shadow 6]

Judging by the pictures this island looks amazing. Going to try it out when I get home. Wish I saw this last night instead.

How big is the island?

[tankieboy 0]

The training one? Big enough.

[Matthijs 40]

We going to see aircraft out of this picture?I know the dutch use the CH47D and then some sort of other transport.Then you got the AH64 used by the dutch military.Are you guys planning aircraft?

Yes. A Chinook was/is in the works, but right now it's on ice. Reson is the Leopard and Mercedes jeeps. Redoing the whole thing right now. Reduced vertex count of the leopard by almost 20%, with no visible loss of detail. After that, I will have to create the lower LODs. One hell of a job. I don't like criticising fellow modellers, but the creators of these vehicles should have payed attention to creating proper LODs.

Quote[/b] ]Hm, judging by the screenshots, the Leusderheide looks exactly like the training ground in Budel/Weert, beneath the german Luftwaffe barracks.

Actually, it looks even more like the Leusderheide, between Zeist and Amersfoort.

Quote[/b] ]Judging by the pictures this island looks amazing. Going to try it out when I get home. Wish I saw this last night instead.

How big is the island?

[Imshi-Yallah 0]

Isnt it funny how every european country insists on training its army in a muddy hellhole....

Why dont we ever get to train in nice places?

[the_shadow 0]

becouse the nice places is used for recreation centers, hotels, and parks ;)

as we say about all the exercis fields in sweden.. "the place wich god forgot, satan did´nt want but the military bought" (probably cheap too)

ant the fact that military presence tends to make it even muddier and more hell like

but, war is hell right??

still love it though

[vektorboson 8]

Actually, it looks even more like the Leusderheide, between Zeist and Amersfoort.

I believe you, after all this map is called Leudersheide  

It's just funny that the training grounds in Budel look so similar to this one.

btw. will there be soon a new International Soldier?

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Isnt it funny how every european country insists on training its army in a muddy hellhole....

Yeah, and the Dutch prefer a muddy and sandy hellhole  

[Parvus 0]

i have to tell that the textures, especially between desert an woodland are very *real*   .. i only saw this effect on Zaphana, till yet ...

as i said ... very well done  

[ShadowY 0]

Maybe i`m wrong but I suggest it anyway...why dont you get rid of all the static small "forest" at the coast of Leusderheide?

I have the feeling that this will increase the performance of the Island, surely for low end users.

But most of all it`s dead ugly to see and useless to have on the island imo.

The rest of the Island is very nice for battles and whatever so GJ

[HotShot 0]

why dont you get rid of all the static small "forest" at the coast of Leusderheide?

You mean the stuff on the non-training bit of the perimeter fence? I like it. If it wasn't there, you would see the sea, and it wouldn't look so realistic. It's not as if you will ever really need to go beyond the fence and get up close and personal with the forest anyway.

And that is an excellent picture Parvus, i am surprised your OFP didn't blow up while using those settings.

And any update on whether or not a Mareinhiusan (spelling) urban MOUT place could be on the way?

[Cribban 1]

Love the islands nice and mudy (with rain)

[Matthijs 40]

why dont you get rid of all the static small "forest" at the coast of Leusderheide?

You mean the stuff on the non-training bit of the perimeter fence? I like it. If it wasn't there, you would see the sea, and it wouldn't look so realistic.

Exactly. It's a 2 hour drive from Leusden to the coastline. That's exactly why Wouter put the forests there: to make it realistic. If you would be talking about an amphibic operation near the Leusderheide, you would sound infinitely stupid to any Dutch citizen.

Quote[/b] ]It's not as if you will ever really need to go beyond the fence and get up close and personal with the forest anyway.

And that is an excellent picture Parvus, i am surprised your OFP didn't blow up while using those settings.

And any update on whether or not a Mareinhiusan (spelling) urban MOUT place could be on the way?

Marnehuizen. I haven't seen anyone work on that. Wouter is looking to create an island that is situated in the carribean...

[ShadowY 0]

Exactly. It's a 2 hour drive from Leusden to the coastline. That's exactly why Wouter put the forests there: to make it realistic. If you would be talking about an amphibic operation near the Leusderheide, you would sound infinitely stupid to any Dutch citizen.

It's not as if you will ever really need to go beyond the fence and get up close and personal with the forest anyway.

Well I`m Dutch and it aint sounding stupid to me

Nobody talks about a amphibic landing, it`s simply to much...he could had done with one or two rows of static forest/trees.

Now it`s simply to much and not very smart done, while there could be alot lesser then those hundreds of static bushes/forest around the island.

But it was only a suggestion....I`ll leave the chopper at home next time, so I cant see the sea and that ugly static sh*t anymore

[sv5000 127]

You guys just came out of the blue for me, I must say your work looks great. D/L the pack As I speak

[miss_cleo 0]

adding a few of MIG's cows to the Havelte countryside makes for an excellent sunday drive, much better than the scenery here in florida

[HotShot 0]

adding a few of MIG's cows to the Havelte countryside makes for an excellent sunday drive, much better than the scenery here in florida

Yeah, i guess blown down palm trees and flooding everywhere isn't exactly beutiful

But that carribbean island sounds a good idea. Apart from Cuba island can't think of another carribbean type island out for OFP.

[the_shadow 0]

i got a sugestion for a upgrade on Leusderheide island (if there is a future upgrade)

since you said it´s mainly a tank exercise field (and home of the military driving school) i suppose there is a tank obstacle track somwhere, and a ofroad course for jeep´s n stuff... right??

would be really nice if you could att that to the island

[Wachtmeester 0]

@ Shadow Y: you'r right about the amount of blocking forests in some areas. I first intended to make a larger island but that resulted in very much lag so I cut the island down to it's current size, the things I couldn't use where filled in with the blocking forests becuase it's supposed to be a real life copy. I will see what I can do about it in a newer version where the tree in the water also is going to be removed.

@ the_shadow: That would be a fine upgrade, but I won't add it to the Leusderheide because it simply isn't there in the real one. But I intend to make a terrain 'the Vlasakkers' in the longer term. This terrain is right next to the Leusderheide and used for driving lessons etc.. It's not to big so mayby it won't take to long to created it.

@ all others: thanks for the great reply's, this is truly helping me to start on a new project, as Matthijs said, a Carribian one.

[the_shadow 0]

um... just played around a bit on Havelte island....

in i came to think "this would look great as a ww2 island... with the houses from the farm pack something, maybe a bitt bigger though, and only the northern parts, with a few bigger towns (3-4) a few smaller villages (4-5) and the rest flat farmland like on this island"

could you or anyone else make that? it actually looks good as a ww2 island using the CwC vegetation...

[mr reality 0]

Hey guys did you realise that there is a closed gate which is unopenable. on your Havelte island.

[RASP 0]

read the sign

[tankieboy 0]

lol.

[mr reality 0]

read the sign  

So even the military has to keep out of its own compound.Great security,no one can enter...  

[Bikecop 0]

Ahh damn privacy fence....*Bikecop walks inside and sees ice cream stand* ahh you call that a military object?!

[nils 0]

HI, i'm new here and i'm interested in the leusderheide landscape. i'm dutch and i play OFP cold war crises. i can't download the lvl but why not? i like to get some atvice from somo one! plz E-mail me! NILSRAVENHORST@MSN.COM

[JdB 151]

HI, i'm new here and i'm interested in the leusderheide landscape. i'm dutch and i play OFP cold war crises.

Then you are in trouble anyway, as the island is only usable with Operation Flashpoint: Resistance.