Dark_Angel's Normandy Island Options

[Dark_angel]

Seems that Jones couldnt finish the Normandy map so maybe I can do it.
I already made a 100sq m map of a part of Normandy and tested it. Pics u can see below. I reduced the area which I want to fill with objects coz just like Jones said, it takes a lot of time to finish it. I concentrate on the area of Carentan where all the bloody fights were taken. I used 1024x1024 heightmap and 4096x4096 sat/mask image to make it. The satellite images was taken from ~3km but I think its not so badly looking if I fill the area with objects. For designing the height I used google maps data and some old maps which I found on the net.
Problems are mainly with tide. The max height of it is nearly 5m. I flooded some areas around Carentan at 2-3 meters and the most ugly thing u will see are the waves, is there a posibility to remove them or lower the tide?
There is also a problem with blurring the river banks. Effect in using gaussian filter (radius ~2) is not so good. If I want to get the river sharp I got smth like "pixel edges" but if I increase the radius, the banks are too flat but the effect of pixelizing is gone. U can see on the pic that the area is very flat and I think it should be more edgy. Someone knows how to make it properly?
Im a begginer in placing objects and so on so it definitely take some time to fill the map with roads, trees, bridges and buildings but so far I understand the process of map-making and editing terrain.

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I worked on it whole weekend so now I need some rest - after some time I will come back to work!
Adios

[Dark_angel]

Heads up mates - here comes a small update:



The work is not moving quite fast as I would like to. I managed to fix problem of AI not moving around roads and bridges - I changed texture size to 20x20 in project parameters and the problem disappeared. I also found out how to build a new rail parts from the others as u can see in the picture (sorry for low quality). I also dealt with problem regarding to crossroads - removed all of them and put only straight/terminator parts because of black textures which I've seen in game.
Now I am slowly trying to build the road net, concentrating my work on the area between Carentan and Vierville. Next I will put some houses etc, last thing will be nature elements but I think I will finish this next year because there is really A LOT to put on the map. I think if I put enough trees and hedges the effect of bad looking terrain textures will be diminshed a little...

Is it possible to export this map to Arma 2 without any big issues? I would like to do it in the future, coz seems to me that no one is still playing this version :>

This post has been edited by Dark_angel: Jan 10 2012, 00:37