New Taviana Screen Shots!

[-martin- 10]

Hey everyone, I'm still working on my Taviana island and I have just released some screen shots on my website:

http://www.ofpbase.co.nr

I'm sorry I can't post them on the forums right now becaouse I am too tired but I will post them here as soon as I can, please leave your comments :)

[leondus 0]

cool screens, love the 1960's blocks and your on target on the farms.

Keep up the good work

[ricoadf 0]

that looks very good, keep it up :D

[anguis 4]

This island looks like it'll turn out to be one of my favorites. The Czech theme is great! The more Czech touches, the better - I visited Prague 15 years ago, while studying in Rome: it turned out to be my favorite city in Europe! I wish I could have seen more of your country, and, particularly, your home town. Come to think of it, OFP and a bottle of Pilsner Urquell seems like a good idea to me. . .

And, no, I've never seen a good supermarket without beer.

[stgn 39]

Great work!

Looks really good.

Do you merge textures?

STGN

[CyberDaemon 10]

this is looking good

thanx

BTW

supermarket isn't first:)

[rellikki 7]

Looks really good! Very detailed. I like the look of the town of Lubol so far. Also, nice to see some wheat fields too, not many OFP islands had those... or at least some good looking ones like your island seems to have.

I'm looking forward to it! :)

[marcomio 0]

Nice work! Especially the pavements were missing since OFP was released! Keep up the good work.

[-martin- 10]

Thanks for your replyes guys :)

@STGN

No I don't use texture merging.

@Anguis

Thx, I'm trying to put lot's of Czech stuff on the island.

- Martin :bounce3:

[DOA 20]

Screen Shots look great. I'm looking forward to the release. Thanks for all your work. It is much appreciated. OFP will live forever!

[Franz_von_Humboldt 0]

Now that's what you call an 'island'. It's good stuff Martin. Looking foward to next update. I only hope it runs smoothly on my pc. It's not that bad but you never know.

[-martin- 10]

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your comments, I would just like to inform you and show you some of my new screenshots.

If you wish to read about them please visit my site: www.ofpbase.co.nr

Please lave you thoughts here :)

[icebreakr 3157]

-Martin-: any plans to join us in Arma/A2 community? :) I own all of OFP titles but I don't have will to reinstall it, ... besides my work dir work ArmA island is now around 10 gigs ;)

Anyway, just dropped by to tell you keep up the good job!

[stgn 39]

oh come on it is not like its going to kill you to install it:D

STGN

[ProfTournesol 956]

-Martin-: any plans to join us in Arma/A2 community? :) I own all of OFP titles but I don't have will to reinstall it, ... besides my work dir work ArmA island is now around 10 gigs ;)

Anyway, just dropped by to tell you keep up the good job!

Come on ! There are enough addon makers for ArmA, leave the few last OFP ones alone !

[-martin- 10]

@IceBreakr: Hi, well I don't think I will join you in the ArmA community becaouse I do own ArmA and I tried to install it and give it a chance many times but every time I eneded up uninstalling it becaouse of the crapy controls.

But if ArmA2 is better I will join the community for sure. :)

[-martin- 10]

Hi Guys (sry for the double post)

I just got an idea to export Taviana island in to ArmA, I read on the PMC Tactical website that this is possible, but I've never done this and I dont really get the instructions on how to do it eather :crazy_o:

Anyway, I would like to ask for your help to get this island in to arma if anyone knows how to do it. Please reply :rolleyes:

[rellikki 7]

What will happen to the OFP version then? Will you abandon it and move to ArmA?

[-martin- 10]

Noup, I will finish the OFP version but so that more people can enjoy the island I also want to bring it in to ArmA and then ArmA2, also becaouse ArmA 2 is able to create that eastern block look and feel much better then ofp.

[-martin- 10]

Taviana Freedom Tunnel Screenshots

One of the big features on Taviana is the "Freedom Tunnel" that goes all the way under the capital city "Koronenberg" from the West to the East side, as the city is the only main crossroad from the West side of the Island to the East side this tunnel provides a shortcut for traffic that just wants to cross the city so that it wouldn't have to go trough the city it self.

Since tunnels are very hard to make in OFP not a lot of islands have them. The Freedom Tunnel is 700 meters long probably making it the longest tunnel in OFP and features 3 tunnels, one for cars, buses etc... and 2 tunnels for trains, not only that but the tunnel also features an underground train station which is the main train station in the city and looks like a metro station. I think that this is very exiting because it is very hard to go underground in OFP so this is something quite new.

It took me 1 month to create and fit this tunnel together in OFP, it's not completely finished yet but bellow is a screen shot of how it looks in game.

Once the tunnel is complete it will be unnoticeable with streets, roads, grass an buildings sitting on top of it. Bellow is a screenshot of the street that runs across the entrance to the tunnel seen in the screenshot above.

Just to show you a bit how the tunnel works and how un noaticeable it is I've made a screenshot showing how the tunnel looks underground and a piece of land that is on top of it.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the guys who created Ensk Island for ArmA for letting me use their Lenin statue that can be seen in the background in the screenshot above, see their website: http://arma.at.ua/

But not only that, the tunnel also acts like a bridge crossing a river, see the screen shot bellow:

Please leave your thoughts!:)

[stgn 39]

Well wow Is all I can say hope I am able to run it at a respectable framerate.

STGN

[rellikki 7]

Looks really promising. The island sounds like it'll be really unique. :) How does AI perform with the tunnel? Are they able to move in it and on the top level?

[-martin- 10]

Looks really promising. The island sounds like it'll be really unique. How does AI perform with the tunnel? Are they able to move in it and on the top level?

Sure, the tunnel acts like a real road so AI can drive trough it normally, the streets on top of the tunnel are not in the original tunnel model but they are separate sections so AI can drive on them just like on a normal road :)

- OFP is a unique game so addons should be unique too ;)

EDIT: For people who just came go to PAGE 2 to see screenshots of the tunnel

[-martin- 10]

Hey everyone, I just got back from holiday and I'm continuing to work on Taviana, just now I made some paper money bills for this island that I intend to use in commercials, in the OFP block that contains the mission briefing, in a separate money addon that can be used in missions and just images that can be used in missions that involve money e.g. Nogoville, Serial Killer etc... so that they can be displayed on screen etc...

Bellow is a screenshot of the bills (Tavianian Crowns):

I'm planning to make something similar for all the BIS island but I haven’t got much time now as I'm focusing on developing a realistic electrical grid on Taviana and also making some pretty big buildings for the island.

I'll release some screen shots later and hopefully a working demo version around September but I can't say for sure that the demo version will be released around this time for sure at this stage, hopefully it will so wish me luck

:bounce3:

[Big Dawg KS 6]

If only OFP were as well optimized as ArmA... :(