http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=68278&id=768464854&l=40b3fde61a

Here's from my deployment, except for three from Boston Times.

Your pictures look way better than ours.

Thanks for those, they show a lot of varied lighting conditions too, which is helpful. And the buildings close up, way more primitive than the stock ones I bought in at the start. We've done a lot of photo research and we've discovered that the world is a very beautiful place we can never do justice to.

We're just learning how to overcome shortcomings of the primitive editing tools to get reasonable results. We get better as we go though.

http://combathelo.blogspot.com/

Note #3

All of the roads have been leveled and painted which is a massive job out of the way. 80-90% of the terracing artifacts have been smoothed-out and the map is looking much better for it.

Although not very green yet, the greenzone is coming to life. The dikes and mud divisions that run between fields are being constructed directly in the height map. It creates a 3d effect that is actually usable for cover (for ground troops that is. ). I dont believe any flight sim has built terrain in this way before.

The following screenshots show the dike structures for the major greenzone that runs East-West from Herat out into the mountains. It's a 25KM area of lush vegetation. There will be several green zones on the map. There's still much painting and planting to do but when we're finished they'll be as beautiful as they are dangerous.







Cheers

That is some kick-ass work, AD. Looking good!

Everytime I look at these updates I get all tingly

Great idea about this development diary. Looking forward to fight some enemies among those trees.

Unfortunately that's all I have. I had more but lost it in a computer crash, but usually you can get a good selection from the CJTF-82 site, as they show pictures from all over.

And as a country (without the fighting), Afghanistan is no different

CJTF-82 Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=fb69b9a00dd7f79a1c69a900e2620c6d&next=http%3A%2F%2Fdailyphoto-1402445175.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com%2Fdailyphoto%2Fapplications%2Fbuffer%2Fid%3A2%2Fpid%3A6528485937902888684%2Ffrom%3Apublisher.attachment.own.image%3Fref%3Dnf&v=1.0&canvas&locale=en_US#!/CJTF82?ref=nf

Note #4

The villages have been laid out on the map and the basic field structures have been added. An undercoat of green has been applied to all of the fields. All of the vegetation is still to be added. Then it'll be onto placing compounds, special buildings, bases and target areas.





Cheers

I took some pics during some of our day flights around Kabul and Kandahar, an put them online as well. May be marginally helpful for aerial views of built-up areas.

http://halo5.net/gallery/v/notwork/astan/

Nice shots!