Hi Guys,


here are a few screenshots I particularly like ...

Hurris coming home :




Zero in trouble over China:



B24's on coastal patrol in China:



P47's in dispersal Bays somewhere in Britain :



Adler Tag :



some new, some old, but I like them

cheers,


Pobs

...and here are a couple I 'aged'








cheers,


Pobs

The aged Typhoon shot is very cool Pobs.Cheers
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Great shots Pobs. The B&W work is very period. 4 stars to you.

Here is one of my 100th Bomb Group...

awesome screenies.

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rob

Looking so good everything MUST be photoshopped and NOT programmed. Especially the airfield beneath the Hurricanes.
And with SUCH screenies, Pobs, you´re going to destroy my future projects (2015?) for my WW2AW scenario.....

Hi Fran,

no photoshopping except on the 'aged' images .. I will admit some jiggerypokery there ...

the airfield in the hurri image is one of col. gibbons 16-tile fields, I set it up with the buildings and stuff in the correct positions to see how it would look. I really like the tiled fields myself, but it is tricky to blend them into the background textures, something I have been working on....

taking off from them is fun too, taxiing to the end of the runway from dispersal and then gunning the engine and away .......

Pobs,

When you get a chance could you explain how you get the TMODS so accurately placed in the airfields.

Thanks

Hi Pobs.

I'd love to know what files were used to create screen 1.

Like the Hurri ( very BOF look ) and the Typhoon one. Thanks for posting them.

Hummmm....I think the trick is to provide the airfield tiles with some surrounding fields. Those could have their own boundaries like hedges, small field boundaries, ways etc. which can be blended easier into the main terrain?

The problem is that the target editor shows the terrain but the airfield just shows up as a red dot like all the other TMODS.

It's extremely difficult to get good TMOD placement without going into the game after every addition or change. Multiply that by the 150 or so airfields in the game and you have a VERY time consuming project.

Hi Col,

that is the 16 tile airfield you and Moggy made, skinned with the JAS texture.. now we can add transparency to round off the edges as you know so it looks even better now really.

Ray,
you hit it on the head ... I place the objects, then fly over the site using F12 (freeview) to position myself so that I am looking from a view I can easily replicate on the tile in the target editor and do a screenshot of it. Then I open the image in paintshop pro next to the editor window and realign the picture to line up with the tile in the editor, then I can see how I need to move the items in the picture to line them up. For real accuracy I zoom to extreme levels in the editor, sometimes until only a couple of pixels are showing and then I can place the object very accurately. Remember it took me 3 years to do SAW and its taking me almost as long to do the WW1 sites... so speed isn't really my thing... of course now we have the tfl files you can do a template and as long as the airfield is aligned the same at each site ( I use Gurneys editor for that one procedure, its quick at it), then you can just rename the tfl file to the new airfield name and it copies it over.... very quick and since no one sees more than one or two airfields at the same time, who will notice ?....

Fran,

you are right, with the combination of boundary-hiding features like copses and ditches etc, and the use of transparency, we can blend them quite well.

cheers,


Pobs

In a word, WOW.


P.S., try a shot of the flightline using multiskins.

This explanation leaves me in awe

Can you email me a copy of that setup, please Pobs.

Just goes to show how much I've fogotten.