AEthelraedUnraed Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 On 4/23/2023 at 11:21 PM, Flyfinn said: Some info about the map here. Maybe you already know..? The goal of 2023 is to have the central area of the map, the Karelian sthmus and the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, completed and tested by the Virtual Pilots multiplayer server with the gaming house. The flying area of the Karelian Sithmus map is 280km x 210km. Outside of this delimitation, there is fairly ready-made terrain 70 km north, east and south. We will finish that area in 2024 when the first version is ready for publication. After that, the size of the map is about 410km x 410km and the area to be flown is about 350km x 350km. Lentorykmentti 3 - Virtuaalista ilmasotaa (kanttorinkone.com) website ?️ @ those working on this project; I've build a tool a while ago for private use, and that I think could be useful to you. It can: - automatically place building objects on village textures as defined in the Surface.dat files (so you only have to place the textures; my tool will place the 3d objects), - convert roads to and from either group files or .dat surfaces so you can edit roads and railways inside the Mission Editor, - merge several .dat files into a single one while keeping textures intact. If you're interested, just send me a PM and I'll share it with you guys 4 2
KevPBur Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 Tämä on todella hyvä uutinen. I'm really looking forward to flying around mypartners home town of Kotka. Plus, of course, learning more about the seperate wars in the area as part of the wider Second World War.
JLean Posted April 25, 2023 Posted April 25, 2023 How I have been missing this discussion. Great news guys!!! This will extend Il-2 really to the new front. JLean 1
Rothary Posted April 26, 2023 Posted April 26, 2023 (edited) I notice a lot of the cyrillic transliterations of the Finnish names are very wonky, some being weird translations, others following English pronunciation, for example "Ylämaa" has been transliterated into "Хайленд", which is literally the English word "Highland" in cyrillic. Likewise the letter J has been transliterated in all Finnish names into "дж", which is the English J sound, such as in the name Jason (transliterated into cyrillic as "Джейсон"). I'd recommend checking the appropriate Russian/cyrillic versions on something like Yandex maps set to Russian language (Russian Google maps only transliterates major cities and thus doesn't provide much help) . You can see this issue quite clearly here comparing the Karelia map to the same area on Yandex: Edited April 26, 2023 by Rothary 2
LLv44_Kanttori Posted April 27, 2023 Posted April 27, 2023 (edited) I removed the Karelia map page from the ler3 server because it was forgotten to appear there for completely different purposes than the "official" publication of the project. Despite everything, the map is indeed a work in progress and progressing well, but we can't promise a release date yet because we are doing it completely voluntarily in our spare time. We still have a lot of work to do when we model historical buildings and build cities and airports. So slow down... Edited April 27, 2023 by LLv44_Kanttori 4
LLv44_Kanttori Posted April 27, 2023 Posted April 27, 2023 (edited) On 4/25/2023 at 11:55 AM, AEthelraedUnraed said: @ those working on this project; I've build a tool a while ago for private use, and that I think could be useful to you. It can: - automatically place building objects on village textures as defined in the Surface.dat files (so you only have to place the textures; my tool will place the 3d objects), - convert roads to and from either group files or .dat surfaces so you can edit roads and railways inside the Mission Editor, - merge several .dat files into a single one while keeping textures intact. If you're interested, just send me a PM and I'll share it with you guys @AEthelraedUnraed We are interested in your tools and I tried to send you a private message. For some reason this IL-2 Forum won't let me send you a PM. Can you please try sending me a message. Edited April 29, 2023 by LLv44_Kanttori
Juri_JS Posted April 28, 2023 Posted April 28, 2023 (edited) @AEthelraedUnraed Did you disable your inbox? I also couldn't send you a message. Edited April 28, 2023 by Juri_JS 1
AEthelraedUnraed Posted April 30, 2023 Posted April 30, 2023 It seems my inbox was full and as a result I couldn't receive any more messages . I cleaned it up a bit so now I should be able to receive PMs again. @LLv44_Kanttori I tried to PM you but now it says *you* cannot receive more messages... Is your inbox full as well perhaps? 1
LLv44_Kanttori Posted May 1, 2023 Posted May 1, 2023 17 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said: It seems my inbox was full and as a result I couldn't receive any more messages . I cleaned it up a bit so now I should be able to receive PMs again. @LLv44_Kanttori I tried to PM you but now it says *you* cannot receive more messages... Is your inbox full as well perhaps? Yes it was but I was also cleaned it and sent you a P.M.
Flyfinn Posted May 3, 2023 Posted May 3, 2023 I hope that @AEthelraedUnraeds tool can help this Karelia map project..?️? 1
YoYo Posted May 15, 2023 Posted May 15, 2023 Some time ago, last year, I wrote that the next theater will be Winter War. Did I hit a point? ?
ITAF_Rani Posted May 16, 2023 Posted May 16, 2023 My best compliments to the team developing Finland map...sure they are talented guy... Hope after Finland map they will develop an Italy map time frame 1943... Beat regards.. 2
GenMarkof007 Posted June 15, 2023 Posted June 15, 2023 S! Great Work on this Finland / Russia Map to all of you guys... Quick question, what is the process (or applications) to create a map like this one, for IL2 Sturmovik? I was thinking of maybe creating a small map about the Austrian vs Italian Alps... of the WW1 era. Thanks for any follow-up on my question. Cheers, GenMarkof
AEthelraedUnraed Posted June 16, 2023 Posted June 16, 2023 On 6/15/2023 at 2:19 AM, GenMarkof007 said: S! Great Work on this Finland / Russia Map to all of you guys... Quick question, what is the process (or applications) to create a map like this one, for IL2 Sturmovik? I was thinking of maybe creating a small map about the Austrian vs Italian Alps... of the WW1 era. Thanks for any follow-up on my question. Cheers, GenMarkof Well you can already edit everything you need. The Mission Editor loads custom maps without problems. To edit the various maps, you can use the ROF tools that you can download on that forum. 1
GenMarkof007 Posted June 16, 2023 Posted June 16, 2023 6 hours ago, AEthelraedUnraed said: To edit the various maps, you can use the ROF tools that you can download on that forum. S! Do you have the name of the ROF tools or the link? A big thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it! Cheers, GenMarkof
LLv44_Kanttori Posted October 30, 2023 Posted October 30, 2023 (edited) On 6/16/2023 at 12:44 PM, AEthelraedUnraed said: Well you can already edit everything you need. The Mission Editor loads custom maps without problems. To edit the various maps, you can use the ROF tools that you can download on that forum. The Official ROF Tools Package is good from the start and it's similar with the Official IL-2 Sturmovik Map Tools. Both of them contains the following applications:Water Compres Tool (this compresses large water files and also forest files for the game engine)Height Process Tool (this brings in the height map needed by the game engine)Plant Generator Tool (this modifies the density and presence of tree species in forests for the game engine) In addition to the tools mentioned above, you need the free QGIS vector application (making roads and railways with vectors), a lot of Photoshop or Gimp (free) applications (editing textures and e.g. land cover files) and - funny enough - a calculator! During November, I can probably tell you more about both the map work and our Karelia map. Now I can't and won't have time to write more of this, so draw your own conclusions about it, maybe something nice will happen in the very near future. Edited October 30, 2023 by LLv44_Kanttori 6 2
NiiranenVR Posted December 9, 2023 Posted December 9, 2023 https://stormbirds.blog/2023/12/08/exclusive-interview-with-the-il-2-karelia-map-team/ 2 1
LLv44_Kanttori Posted December 13, 2023 Posted December 13, 2023 Hello folks!WE HAVE NOW OUR OWN OFFICIAL Karelia map discussion You can finally discuss about the Karelia map and ask questions to us Kartta Kompania mapmakers and me. I am now the Moderator of that forum and we want to concentrate all the information in one and the same place. So welcome there and we can close this thread now! 6
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