Mapping TFS 5.0 v real locations

[ATAG_Pattle]

Hi All, Darryl, one of our community members, recently asked if our recent pictures are based on historical locations. We have attempt to recreate towns, airfields and emplacements, roads, etc as accurately as possible. It has been a massive task to find aerial photographs and maps to assist in this process. Not everything is easily available on the web! In many ways, books still give us the best sources of information.

 

Our mapping team are working very hard to further enhance the look of the North African theatre, with major improvements seen by the TFS in each new internal update, which will continue up to release.

 

Big Week, launched mid year, and proved very popular amongst the WW2 flight sim community, showcasing a number of new aircraft and game components each day, for a week.

 

We are aiming for Big Week v2 in late November/early December, with December now our aim for Beta Testing commencement.

 

A number of new and updated elements were recently released to the broader TFS team. Looking forward to announcing those very soon, hopefully as part of Big Week.

 

Back to the map question! A comparison of one location is Bardia, which is one of the team's newest areas of work (and still a WIP). 

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Pattle

[Missionbug]

Definitely a good representation when compared to the photograph, nice work.

 

When I was working on my Vietnam colonial map for the old modded 1946, finding any kind of period image was extremely difficult, thankfully members of the French community came to my aid for that as far as some of the major airfields were concerned, however, towns and villages, even Saigon was problematic, so much for the digital revolution.

 

Books will always be your best friend, however, finding some still in publication and available will always be hard considering the events you need to portray are so long ago and using modern photographs is a problem due to extensive rebuilding or even complete abandonment since WWII.

 

Anyway, your guys are close enough, thank you very much for the update.

 

 

Wishing you all the very best, Pete.

[InProgress]

Kind of shame we don't have that slopes modeled, still cool tho

 

[Buzzsaw]

Please note:

 

Map is work in progress... missing boulders and large rock formations.