.kju 3245 Posted September 27, 2007 Quote[/b] ]Raster, 11m. (Terrain)grid = 11 (i guess) Sahrani has 50. That should be the reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nubbin77 0 Posted September 28, 2007 Wow I wouldn't have thought it, but that terrain undulation makes a WORLD of difference in combat. Really Really significantly changes the outdoor combat. At first glance I thought this island looked a bit boring (I know it wasn't meant to be complete or anything...) but this is really really usable and for the most part gives a better playing experience then sara. Not to mention the performance is great. If this tool can generate this kind of stuff, its great news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dwarden 1125 Posted September 28, 2007 very nice good fun with AI on this ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squeeze 22 Posted September 28, 2007 Great Island but can anyone get a mission to run on a dedicated server with this island......my hardDisks go nuts when I try. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrn 0 Posted October 1, 2007 Quote[/b] ]can anyone get a mission to run on a dedicated server with this island I tried too and the server just hangs creating a massive report file, here is a sample. <table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">*snip*Unrecognized texture type '.png': 'gardinasisland\data\layers\m_010_013_lco.png' Unrecognized texture type '.png': 'gardinasisland\data\layers\m_010_013_lco.png' Unrecognized texture type '.png': 'gardinasisland\data\layers\m_010_013_lco.png' Unrecognized texture type '.png': 'gardinasisland\data\layers\m_010_013_lco.png' *snip* Damn shame, it's a nice island. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RN Malboeuf 12 Posted October 1, 2007 http://www.armabase.de/cms/alexsworn/FTP/Tools/experimentel4.png http://www.armabase.de/cms/alexsworn/FTP/Tools/experimentel5.png Roads tool and object tool added. http://deadeye.pytalhost.com/manual/index.php?topic=252.0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nubbin77 0 Posted October 1, 2007 I wish I could read German... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gaffa 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Come on there must be a nice enough German person out there who speaks fluent English! Pleaseeeee translate this fine peice of work! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mechastalin 0 Posted October 2, 2007 its only single words, so an online translator could probably do it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gaffa 0 Posted October 2, 2007 The program is yes, but the manual is not Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeppSchrot 0 Posted October 2, 2007 What manual do you mean? The posting itself from Alex.Sworm or the linked pdf file for Visitor3? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mattxr 9 Posted October 2, 2007 Great Stuff Alex. We all love you!! Â Â That island is GREAT for a DC3/Hercules Landing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Balschoiw 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Quote[/b] ]The program is yes, but the manual is not There is no manual. If Alex.Sworn needs some help with fixing the typos in his menus and to have a multilanguage version of the tool and the manual he can contact me anytime. Btw, sorry to read about the relation with BIS, Alex. I can understand how you feel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NoRailgunner 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Would be nice if BIS could pay a little more attention to addon projects. The tools are still not final and have some bugs and missing features. Is BIS afraid of better stuff -made by community? Some more communication would be better... even to show on what they're working now - related to ArmA1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
txalin 2 Posted October 2, 2007 Quote[/b] ]The program is yes, but the manual is not There is no manual. If Alex.Sworn needs some help with fixing the typos in his menus and to have a multilanguage version of the tool and the manual he can contact me anytime. Btw, sorry to read about the relation with BIS, Alex. I can understand how you feel. what happened between alex and bis? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeppSchrot 0 Posted October 2, 2007 He complains in his posting about the lack of support from BI regarding the documentation of the file formats and such. And that BI declined his offer to help them correcting bugs like the floating trees on the QG islands. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bravo 6 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Just tested it, Its AWESOME ! Great JOB! Great Feature for the future maps! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
honchoblack 2 Posted October 2, 2007 Since many are intersted in these tools (myself included) I took the liberty to tanslate the text on  Alex Sworn forum. Quote[/b] ]Weekend is over and I desperatly need a vacation.  I still kept working though.  Work continues on the Island tool.  Since many people took interest and many questions were raised as well es expectations, now we have something to look at. This process works as followed.  From the sattelite data and a nice arial picture sattelite map and terrain is generated.  It only takes mere seconds.  Now the program dictates how many and which Detail maps (textures? rem. Honcho) are used.  The Layer map is generated automaticly.  The config and the collection of the other data is generated as well (Texture config for the textures etc.). The result is  a folder with the data and a file folder in which the other parts are saved. Now its possible to draw on the satelite map, every colour can be assigned to a specific group or a single object.  Whole regions can be automaticly placed with objects (forrest etc.).  This works with the predefined ground colours of the map.  Further its possible to place single p3ds, like in Visitor (no enhancement here).  But a clear benefit is the tool to manualy terraform the ground.  Pick a point, enter the value and click with the mouse (this change can be best be compared to wrptool).  But further enhancements regarding the terraforming are included, like smoothen the hights and hight dependency based on neighbouring points (kind of like erosion option in wrptool rem. Honcho). This weekend I also added a funcional road tool.  With that it will be possible to finally be able to place roads.  The BI tool doesnt seem to work. Further I added a tool to duplicate objects (in coordenace to heading or xy, further options are planned).  This is helpfull if you want to place objects in a row (landing lights). Further tools are planned, like a tool that will allow the placement of fences.  Draw a line free hand square, ring or elipse. *Pictures showing sattelite maps and their implementation into ARMA* What I always wanted to say. I really got the press the fact that its frustating that we dont get any support from BI.  Questions are not answered, we recieve no information.  May it be formats, files or anything else.  Even the offers, like the fixing of things on the QG island (floating objects, etc.) are taken up friendly but forgotten 3 days later, and noone seems to remember.  Even offers to create whole new islands are one day regarded so the other day so.  A well, just leave it be.  Even BI should realize that people are starting to get turned down and down feel like creating anything anymore.  And it slowly gets impossible to keep on going.  Specially since other firms are making tempting offers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Auss 208 Posted October 2, 2007 Great work Alex, would it be possible to get the sat and mask plus pew files from gardinas so I could try to get it working properly in a MP envioronment? It seems to good an island to not be used in MP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
honchoblack 2 Posted October 2, 2007 He already released them, you can find them on the page of his Visitor 3 manual page, just scroll down to the ASMAPvisitorfiles.rar. http://deadeye.pytalhost.com/manual/index.php?topic=241.0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RN Malboeuf 12 Posted October 2, 2007 For the moment already on the island one works. Roads are built and many other small objects are added. As soon as the island is finished this is freely given. Also the Vistor files. I renewed also the data to the ASMap. A new version of the guidance is also in work. This will be in English then on German and. http://www.armabase.de/cms/alexsworn/FTP/Tools/roadtoolpixxl.png Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dmarkwick 261 Posted October 2, 2007 Hi Alex. I just tried out this map, and I can see that this method will be one of the most important future map developments in ArmA and ArmA2. The forested area is easily the most realistic I have seen, and I especially like the terrain detail in this area, ensuring that battles in the forest will be very interesting & realistic indeed. Congratulations. I look forward to any developments from you with great interest. It will be a great test place for my planned forest fire addon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
twisted 128 Posted October 2, 2007 this tool seems to be a major step forward. i hope BIS do extend support to you as this kind of innovation can only help the whole userbase. really looking forward to things! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dab_burns 0 Posted October 2, 2007 this is impressive do you think BI have translation problems and thats why they ignore us? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
malick 0 Posted October 3, 2007 This looks better and better Let the huge islands come, now ! However, i'm a bit confused : is this already available for download, or is it restricted to a selected bunch of beta-testers ? Anyway, excellent tool with very promising features. Thanks for your time and hard work ! Keep us informed... Malick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
