CAT's Afghanistan Revisited

[quicksand 0]

Ag Smith sorry to be part of the dozens who ask for a revert to CAT's textures but I will have to.The island in itself is great and an obvious improvment from v3 but the textures made by CAT really put the island in a league of it's own and gave a great desert feeling.

If it's not to much will you consider making a new version,I am sure ofp.info wouldn't mind hosting it.

[TabloMaxos 0]

Fantastic Island!!!!

I have no lag.

I gonna use this for my missions

[sanctuary 19]

I don't really understand the complaint about textures, Resistance textures are already great by themsleves on this island.

Certainly CAT's ones were higher resolution, but the size textures can take in memory can have its importance when you try to make more important mission with fewer lag.

[bonko the sane 2]

lovely job...txs ag_smith,

for updating one of the best islands in OFP

[philcommando 0]

Hey thanks Smith!! FINALLY! a beautiful playerable island with no lag and u dont need tonnes of other addons to download just to open it ingame !!!! I could start WW3 on that island!

[Thunderbird 0]

I never download islands but this one I will try it

[Gollum1 0]

This is a great improvement over the old island, but please, please give us a version with the old textures.

[ag_smith 0]

Hello everybody, I'm very glad you like it.

To answer a few of your questions:

1. I tried to keep it as lag-free as possible. I managed to keep object count below 25K and I think I achieved a very good effect. During testing, in most places I could play with viewdistance of 3000m and this is the first island that allows me to do that on my crappy PC. So no worries there.

2. There WILL BE an update. Thanks to fighter I got this nice trees:

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/news/pics4/des_akat_01.jpg

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/news/pics4/des_akat_02.jpg

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/news/pics4/des_akat_03.jpg

They'll replace the current ones. You have to admit they blend in much better. I'll also add some more objects to the western part of the island which is still quite empty. I'm going to start working on it in a week or two, so that I could include any other suggestion, that you might come up with.

3. What you all are asking about... textures... Reverting to BIS textures allowed me to cutdown .pbo size by 50MB. CAT's original textures still miss many transitions, so if somebody shows me the easy (automated) way to create transition textures, I could consider making SE version, that will use the old texes.

A side note, the original CAT's textures were the same resolution as BIS ones, 512x512.

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Yea, I know they added the unique feel to the island.... I liked them too.

[klavan 0]

Great work, AGS.

I've played around the island and It's sure a great improvement.

The only thing that "hurt" me are the few things (rocks, waterpools) that were be moved here and there.....They're just the  same that serves me in the mission I'm currently editing, damn!

I'm not sure what to do: modify the mission or still use the old version of the map....

The huge rock hill with ladder near Herat is moved west from the original position, half in the mountain and half in the air...

However, this remain a great improvement.

Sorry for my english!

[ag_smith 0]

The only thing that "hurt" me are the few things (rocks, waterpools) that were be moved here and there.....They're just the  same that serves me in the mission I'm currently editing, damn!

I'm not sure what to do: modify the mission or still use the old version of the map....

The huge rock hill with ladder near Herat is moved west from the original position, half in the mountain and half in the air...

However, this remain a great improvement.

Sorry, this could happen... as for the rock with ladder, I'll make sure it will go back where it was. The waterpools are gone for good. They didn't look good nor realistic (thanks to OFP waves) so I decided to remove them.

[ofpchaos 0]

Resistance textures ? Oh, no plz. don´t change the cool textures of CAT Afghanistan Island.

[theavonlady 2]

The waterpools are gone for good. They didn't look good nor realistic (thanks to OFP waves) so I decided to remove them.

I saw one on my flyby, somewhere in the mountains.

But you can't make me talk.

[berghoff 11]

3. What you all are asking about... textures... Reverting to BIS textures allowed me to cutdown .pbo size by 50MB. CAT's original textures still miss many transitions, so if somebody shows me the easy (automated) way to create transition textures, I could consider making SE version, that will use the old texes.

A side note, the original CAT's textures were the same resolution as BIS ones, 512x512.

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Yea, I know they added the unique feel to the island.... I liked them too.

Visitor2 does it automaticly for you about 5-10min work.

[ag_smith 0]

3. What you all are asking about... textures... Reverting to BIS textures allowed me to cutdown .pbo size by 50MB. CAT's original textures still miss many transitions, so if somebody shows me the easy (automated) way to create transition textures, I could consider making SE version, that will use the old texes.

A side note, the original CAT's textures were the same resolution as BIS ones, 512x512.

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Yea, I know they added the unique feel to the island.... I liked them too.  

Visitor2 does it automaticly for you about 5-10min work.

There we go... thanks Berghoff.

[Placebo 29]

Looks good, great job

[GoOB 0]

Very nice! And the filesize is wonderful too

And I really can't say that I miss the old textures either, top job AGS

[andersson 285]

Very nice! A good island made better!

Quote[/b] ] I'll also add some more objects to the western part of the island which is still quite empty.

I dont mind some empty desert areas as that can be good sometimes. Please put your effort into the transitions instead.

Thank you very much!

[Cpt. FrostBite 0]

Already a job well done, and with the updates trees and (possible) return of the old textures it's gonna be totaly awesome!!

I loved the old afghanistan island. And I truely love the update.

[Gordy 0]

no comment really.

[Placebo 29]

Was a CTI ever released for the original? It's my favourite way to explore an island

[robbo 0]

Agent Smith excellent work with the island, all the things that have been missing in the past versions are now all there

And a big thanks to everyone else involved with this island from the very beginning

Here is another mirror

Opflash.org Mirror

Regarding the textures, reverting back to the previous textures will only increase the filesize marginally compared to the original size of V3. Madaussie last year removed about ~70mb or so from the file size by removing the unused textures in the .pbo file. It will still be large, but no where near the 144mb?? that it was 2-3 years ago.

Anyway Excellent work once again, makes me want to restart the nomad mod

[ExtracTioN 0]

Great work ag_smith

Maybe some small rivers with some wooden bridges will make this my favor island

[Munk 0]

<s>You nuked RAAB HQ, now we have no where to repair all the Landies I crash?  </s>

[Acecombat 0]

LOL robbo check out this , these were the true file sizes when upzipped

So even if its 70 MB after the old texs are back i'll be more then happy .

Ag-Smith how about getting a few more tree models? If anyones feeling grateful enough to make them that is or donating them to you like berghoff or anyone?

[hellfish6 7]

I like this island very much, though I wouldn't mind seeing an SE version with Cat's original textures either.