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#3639905 - 09/07/12 02:17 AM Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS?  
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I'm learning BMS now and on my first campaign mission I realized the terrain in this game is very very very bad looking, the way they just repeat the same textures over and over . Was just wondering if there are any terrain overhauls or if I'm just flying in the wrong theater or something.

EDIT: Found the isreal theater for download, it seems to look better I'll give that a shot.

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#3640006 - 09/07/12 10:28 AM Re: Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS? [Re: redpiano]  
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There is a huge project on the go called F.L.A.R.E that completely redoes the Korean terrain. It looks absolutely fantastic and will likely be released integrated in a future version of BMS. It seems to be on a bit of hiatus right now due to RL considerations, but it will be awesome when it's finally done. http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?5443-FLARE-for-Falcon-BMS&highlight=terrain

Israel Theatre is excellent, but the campaigns are in the process of being updated for BMS as there are some issues with ground objects. It's one of my favourites though.

Balkans is also great, and very active. http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?58-Aegean

I haven't tried Agean yet, but it's also very actively developed and the screen shots look brilliant. http://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?59-Balkans


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#3640012 - 09/07/12 11:10 AM Re: Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS? [Re: redpiano]  
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As I said in another thread, FLARE seems to be like Fighter Ops at the moment --- great, but I doubt it'll see the light of day. I'd LOVE to be wrong though! Still, it's been a year since the last update and I can't understand why nobody else has picked up the project.

I used to moan about these terrain tiles as well, but with the F-16, I am at medium or high altitude most of the time so it doesn't look so bad. On the attack run, when I'm screaming over the terrain at 800 feet AGL, I'm usually too busy to notice anyway smile


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#3640016 - 09/07/12 11:27 AM Re: Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS? [Re: redpiano]  
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Wow flare looks excellent! I tried the israeli theater and realized it's the same thing, a lot of repeating textures everywhere just makes it so ugly. No matter I'm enjoying the game regardless, hopefully FLARE comes out because it looks excellent.

#3640022 - 09/07/12 11:38 AM Re: Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS? [Re: redpiano]  
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Originally Posted By: redpiano
Wow flare looks excellent! I tried the israeli theater and realized it's the same thing, a lot of repeating textures everywhere just makes it so ugly.


Engine limitation. IIRC it was tested without this limitation but then the performance was poor. So we have to wait for flare.

But stay above 20.000ft and BMS looks ok IMO. wink
More important is, it runs very very stable.

#3640037 - 09/07/12 12:08 PM Re: Any terrain upgrades for F4 BMS? [Re: redpiano]  
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Zeppelin, you swapped the two links for Aegean and Balkans.. wink


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