New Texture Balkans
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Do not mind me this …. I am old grumpy fellow and this post is too short to tell it all and I am too lazy. :uham:
Good luck to us all and perhaps we need more time to see where we can get Falcon BMS terrain and theater making from here.
X2……:D!!!
Dave
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Hey, I’m lazy and also a little grumpy (that’s a franconians nature anyway)
… so x4.
Cheers,
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I frankly find this discussion little low on substance and skimpy of NEW! practical information anyone else can use.
Oh, I don’t know Ted, I was thinking of several new things: The new techniques of variations and supervariations that allow photo real based tiles to be used with virtually no discernable repeats etc. The way that this allows the use of photorealistic tiles despite the 4096 limit. The way that Dave & Lazystone are able to tweak the L2 height variations as shown in the threads in Guam & POH. And the way the tile surface details can be made more 3D. Finally, There is the work on the 3D side of things that Arty etc has been doing to improve the look of cities .
While strictly all not new, but just improvements on what we already knew and had, the combination of these together should be enough to make a massively improved terrain for the different theaters. And if the code limit could be adjusted by the BMS devs, then we will be even happier with the results. Throw in some progress on the tile painting side of things, as you mentioned and……
Some people are pinning hopes on a totally new type of terrain, but realistically, I don’t see this happening (although it should not stop people trying. Does for example anyone else apart from the guy who was doing it, know how the FLARE project worked ? maybe that knowledge / technique could be incorporated as well if that was the case…) - I think the way it is progressing now is achieveable and a fantastic improvement.
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Keep hype and enthusiasm high Mark. Sure there is progress, but only time will show how significant all this is. I am not Falcon4 oldtimer, but have been already around log enough to have a sense of momentum. What you find optimistic and so rosy “quantuum leap” progress - I find, with some exceptions, little rehash of old things.
This is not to say again that there is no artistically creative and pretty impressive examples, but unfortunately not much which would tell me “we are getting to some new frontiers”. I know that many other major players, whom that progress we are talking here about may be contingent and dependant upon, are not currently involved much. At least, not to the extend and scale they had been before. FLARE is one very good example of that…. funny that you mentioned it. We ought not to blame anyone -there is RL besides Falcon & BMS. (BTW the main principal theory behid FLARE has been explained by the author on his blog) .
Again, time will tell. I am involved too in little something, so my ramble is not just empty whining without factual work. I leave at that…
EDIT: Back to topic:tjacked:
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Update cost……
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I love this terrain!
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Can’t Wait to Fly it, Very High Quality Work Bravo :bowd:
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In that case, get Mystic all revved up on sorting the campaign out for it!!! And if he needs any volunteers for manual superfluous object removal etc, let me know. happy to help. If he don’t mind explaining how.
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@Fighting:
Update cost……
You are my inspiration
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In that case, get Mystic all revved up on sorting the campaign out for it!!! And if he needs any volunteers for manual superfluous object removal etc, let me know. happy to help. If he don’t mind explaining how.
Dado from 117th is already working on the campaign in cooperation with the guys who are developing the terrain
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I am so happy, I think I am going to cry……!!!
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Ex ugoslavia * kossovo
For the moment the work is completely manual ( retilling manual ) ……:mad:
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Do you have a signature … very sexy :)))))
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@RAM22:
Yes, but she’s mine, ALL MINE!!!
RAM22
yes very cool ……
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This one is really very well selected and to me very typical for the Balkan area. What is the source of your photo material?
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This one is really very well selected and to me very typical for the Balkan area. What is the source of your photo material?
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