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Gerald
02-20-11, 03:54 PM
The trip starts at Port Said through the canal, a few lakes where there are DD's that you have to take out of play, at one of the pictures so there is a label "Mark" 1, "Mark" 2 (Land units) behind them are three DD as you can get away in periscope depth, otherwise it is a lot of water but no traffic further down the Red Sea before the Gulf Von Aden so there could be some commercial ships, this trip was in mid-1940, do it in 1941.1942, you get resistance from Egyptian patrol boats and aircraft, and any mines,

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Gerald
02-20-11, 04:44 PM
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And to Mogadishu, where our new "friends" have taken over the city ...... very temporary, it is a bit tricky to enter the first time, but an option to receive new eels and Ammo

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Sailor Steve
02-20-11, 05:28 PM
Oh good grief! Do you ever get tired of playing an arcade game?

Just because the game lets you be superman doesn't mean you have to.
Gerald
02-20-11, 05:35 PM
Oh good grief! Do you ever get tired of playing an arcade game?

Just because the game lets you be superman doesn't mean you have to. Arcade game, I take as an insult, but since you mentioned the word superman, which I see as a superlative, so it is even, I did this just for fun, which you sure have figured out already.
Snestorm
02-20-11, 06:32 PM
Hr Vendor, you are both crazy and cool.

How about a Great Lakes cruise next?
Missing Name
02-20-11, 06:36 PM
The Great Lakes are blocked off. I wanted to cruise by my hometown but...
Snestorm
02-20-11, 06:45 PM
Give Vendor the town name.
I'll bet he figures it out, and sends you a picture.
Gerald
02-20-11, 06:51 PM
Hr Vendor, you are both crazy and cool.

How about a Great Lakes cruise next? Sir, thanks for the very gift that was present, with these words, which is a prerequisite for survival!
Gargamel
02-20-11, 07:40 PM
The Great Lakes are blocked off. I wanted to cruise by my hometown but...

I'll wave on the way by!
Gerald
02-20-11, 07:46 PM
I'll wave on the way by! Great idea!
Sailor Steve
02-20-11, 10:09 PM
Arcade game, I take as an insult, but since you mentioned the word superman, which I see as a superlative, so it is even, I did this just for fun, which you sure have figured out already.
No, I didn't figure that out. I apologize. I got tired of blowing things up just for fun about 20 years ago.
Missing Name
02-20-11, 10:24 PM
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/Noepgreaty.jpg

Note the complete lack of water where the Great Lakes are.
Gargamel
02-20-11, 10:32 PM
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/Noepgreaty.jpg

Note the complete lack of water where the Great Lakes are.

Least they have the topography mapped.... somewhat... I cna pick out the Cuyahoga, I think.... and is that the Genesee by your house there MN? the line running E-W. Thats the Black and Hudson running NS there....
Gargamel
02-20-11, 10:37 PM
No, I didn't figure that out. I apologize. I got tired of blowing things up just for fun about 20 years ago.

:timeout: :stare:

No... that can't be..... We need to get you some explosives and something cool to detonate. That always brings a smile to peoples' faces!
Missing Name
02-21-11, 12:43 AM
I bet I could try mixing some RDX in the chemistry labs.
Schwieger
02-21-11, 12:46 AM
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab303/MissingName/Noepgreaty.jpg

Note the complete lack of water where the Great Lakes are.

:haha::har:


Where was that terrain editor

*points at someone else other than himself*
Gerald
02-21-11, 01:48 AM
No, I didn't figure that out. I apologize. I got tired of blowing things up just for fun about 20 years ago. Steve! Easy no hard Felling from my or your party, and you do not need to apologize, but the funny thing of it all, was a arcade game, which I have not played for 25 years or more :salute:
Bakkels
02-21-11, 09:19 AM
Those great lakes missing makes me think of another error in SH3.
The map of the Netherlands is wrong. There are two large pieces of land that didn't exist yet during WWII. It is now our twelfth province, but one piece of it was created in '42 (so that's a little hard to incorporate in the game) and another piece of land was created in the 50's. It has little impact on the game, since your U-boat will never go there, but the look of the map still annoys me. Too bad Ubi didn't do a bit more research.
CCIP
02-21-11, 10:58 AM
Those great lakes missing makes me think of another error in SH3.
The map of the Netherlands is wrong. There are two large pieces of land that didn't exist yet during WWII. It is now our twelfth province, but one piece of it was created in '42 (so that's a little hard to incorporate in the game) and another piece of land was created in the 50's. It has little impact on the game, since your U-boat will never go there, but the look of the map still annoys me. Too bad Ubi didn't do a bit more research.

The game maps are based on what I suspect is the SRTM data, a freely-available set of terrain elevation files taken by space shuttle radar. These were acquired in the late 90s, so that's why that represents a world that's obviously not from WWII.

The other thing of note is that SHIII only models water that is at sea level in the real world (again, as per SRTM data). This is why the great lakes are waterless - the real things are well above sea level. It's possible to edit them in, but the editing would be a little trickier than it initially looks. You'd have to lower all the terrain around them as well and remove things like rapids and the Niagara Falls - effectively making the waterways flat. The flat water modeling does make some sense though - the game mostly takes place in the ocean...
Jimbuna
02-21-11, 01:30 PM
The game maps are based on what I suspect is the SRTM data, a freely-available set of terrain elevation files taken by space shuttle radar. These were acquired in the late 90s, so that's why that represents a world that's obviously not from WWII.

The other thing of note is that SHIII only models water that is at sea level in the real world (again, as per SRTM data). This is why the great lakes are waterless - the real things are well above sea level. It's possible to edit them in, but the editing would be a little trickier than it initially looks. You'd have to lower all the terrain around them as well and remove things like rapids and the Niagara Falls - effectively making the waterways flat. The flat water modeling does make some sense though - the game mostly takes place in the ocean...

^+1 :yep:
Bakkels
02-21-11, 05:29 PM
Thanks for the info, so that explains why it is problematic to realistically add the Great Lakes, but the pieces of land in the Netherlands I'm talking about are already below sea-level, infact, they used to be just that: sea. So just converting that wouldn't be that much of a problem. Not that it is particularly important though, just something I noticed.