[TEC] Want Massive Hi-Res Authentic WWII Era Maps for your wardroom????

[Jace11]

Maybe you want a MASSIVE (0.6GB) WWII-Era authentic hi-res detailed nautical chart of your favorite hunting ground to put on your table in your wardroom... its an easy mod, one texture needs replacing.. but you can't find good maps of that era in enough detail..

Check out this site..

http://historicals.ncd.noaa.gov/historicals/histmap.asp?chart=&keyword=&send=Submit+Query&state=PH&type=&year=

The maps are massive...

AND I MEAN MASSIVE

[THE_MASK]

Holy guacamole:up:

[WernerSobe]

mh nice i can find a lot of usefull maps there. Now someone should make drop down maps out of it :-)

[Jace11]

Maybe I went a bit too far...

I took a Suragao Strait map (sid format) and converted it to tif.. it was massive in Photoshop, so I shrank it to 2048 by whatever, rotated it 90 and saved it as Map_Stategic.dds and put it in my tex file.

It is still 21MB and loading the control room takes a bit longer but hey.. it looks nice, I can read the depths etc.. still that is a large texture, maybe I should shrink it a bit more..

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5918/sh4img257200731758562bu1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1483/sh4img257200731959765wf8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The fuzz in these screenshots kinda ruins it a bit, it must be the AA and post effects, however in game these maps look great...

[Jace11]

WOW, the uncompressed tiff weighs in at 605MB...

I have looked at modding the map on the table etc before, I have seen some mods, but the big problem was the lack of detail and finding "free" high quality maps as a starting point..

[Camaero]

Nice find! These will come in handy!

[Bando]

Great find Jace, will keep me nosing there for a while.
Thanks

[THE_MASK]

I tried to look at these maps in full size in windows picture viewer but it just comes up with a message saying dont be ridiculous .

[Jace11]

I had a similar experience, photoshop did open the 0.6GB tif file of the Surugao - Leyte map after I had run mrsidgeodecode.