Hmm, have to adjust Nordsee and Ostsee a little bit better.....


For the Map up for Download!
You can read the names at best, when u are at the third Zoomlevel!

Would like to hear if somebody find all Seanames i have included... :lol: ;)


:)
Sale

Great again FLB!
I'm at my work now. When i go back to my house I will download and post a feedback!

Greetings,

Rubini.

How about something like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Beery/Map001.jpg

I don't know the German translations, but what's important to me is not really the seas and oceans - I pretty much know whether I'm in the North Sea or the Atlantic. What I like to be aware of is the geography around me - if I'm somewhere west of the British Isles and the sea gets shallow in the area I want to know whether that's Rockall Bank or the Faeroe bank. I also want to know whether the islands around me are the Faeroes or the Shetlands.

I wish I could do the work myself, but Photoshop LE doesn't let me play with layers (the image just appears black in Photoshop). Maybe I should go out and buy a program that supports layer tweaking.

My version of Photoshop doesn't recognise 'raw' as an image file, so I can't even get it to load.

Hey Beery,

I worked on the biggest Zoom (8,29 MB) map....

for those zoomlevels i have to work with the other map (222mb)

It is no problem to have those things inside... but a lot of work for that!

This version i uploaded is the small map which is responsible for the maximum Zoom outside! Those Seanames u can only see when u are in the last 3 Zoomlevels! Not when u zoom inside the Map!

U can`t write text there, because when u try to write small text. U can`t read anything because it is very pixelig!

So i have to write the Text in the Big Map! (222MB)


The only Problem is on the big map (which is responsible for the high zoom Levels) that u will see written text inside, very long while zooming in or outside!

I will explain it tomorrow....


Damn that Map, needs 20 Seconds for deactivating in ME ;)



But `ll do some tests.....

We can completely change the Look (the whole World) in the Map!
Because u can only change at the moment, the Alpha channels!

Don`t have a better proggie as PHP 8 & 9. With PHP it goes without Probs but it also has some limitations what i can do/paint/write in the RAW Dats.


:cry:



Oh, here something if anybody wants:

7 Fonts for Windows or all Writing Proggies from WWII!
Nice letters in an old historical look.

Download here if anybody wants:
http://rapidshare.de/files/6575881/FontsWWII.ace.html

The picture I showed was from the 3rd biggest zoom map. It should be the same resolution as the map you used to place the text in the game. The text is not much smaller than the text you used for the 'Nord See'.

If the pixelization is really bad it's possible to use a computer font that only requires about 8 to 10 pixels (like this one).

What programs can read 'raw' images anyway? I think I'm going to go out and buy something that can handle this format (as well as layers), as I'm tired of Photoshop LE not being able to do what I need it to do.

Paint Shop Pro opens RAW images from SH3...

Which version? Paint Shop Pro 9 is the current release (I think). Is that the best one to get? I'd like to save money as much as possible, so if I can get an older version (on ebay for example) that will do the job, I think that would be good.

Would be great if someone could crack the greater zoom levels - placing ingame friendly minefields on the map would be great.

Hi guys,

I have another approach to insert images or text on the Nav map. I discovered this a few months ago while working with minefields maps into the nav map. I'm able to work on the highest levels of zoom. And this way the info will only appears after a specific amount of zoom (the same of the cities and bases or another definition). But it is a bit more complicated than just write over the map. So if the direct work with the map don't be enough we have this other option.

Rubini.

Using PHP 8 and 9.

8 is very good and u can do all with it! :)


@ Rubini
Thats another maybe to put them inside like the Harbours etc....
Cfg Dats to write inside the positions shouldn´t be much heavy.....


I am triying farther that things......


@ Beery

I will see another Fonts to get all that things inside!
Which Names or things u wanna have inside?

Tell me the names and locations...... or show me Screens.


Tomorrow i will work again on the RAWs.....

It shouldn`t be a prob with those things Beery meaned. I hope.


I do my best guys, time is the problem..... :shifty:



Greetings Sale

Okay, this just struck me as funny:

In response to FLB sale U-999's request for more info I decided to try to find maps in German of the Atlantic Ocean. So I put into my search engine "Atlantische ozean karte" which (hopefully) means 'Atlantic Ocean map' in German.

So my search engine pulls up a bunch of sites. but it asks me "Were you looking for "Atlantic ocean karate".

I dunno - it just cracks me up. I wonder if there are ocean-going karate schools? A sort of martial arts version of sailing perhaps?

I don't mean to be demanding. It's just that I get an idea of what I want in my head and I get this singleminded need to pursue it. Usually it's something I can do myself so I just get on with it. In this case I don't have the tools, and you're the poor guy who has shown the talent to do it, so my animal instinct kicks in and I start making unfair demands.

Anyway, on with the unfair demands (hehe). What I'd like to see are the following (I put them in red - they shouldn't be in red on the actual map):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...y/NorthSea.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...thAtlantic.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...thAtlantic.jpg

LOOOL

Hey Beery,

you understood me wrong! Sorry for that!

I am not angry or something like that!
U all noticed that my english isn`t the best, so maybe i wrote that wrong.... :D


It is no problem to build all that in!

I will do a version for you where only those things are inside!
Just for Test. no prob.


I mean the only Prob is the time for me!
My girl friend will kick me in my a** if i will sit the whole Weekend on my PC and not on her (You now what i mean ;)).....


U are right, it is not bigger Fonts like the one i wrote ,,Nordsee or Ostsee.


You want english names?

:lol: thats not so historical correct i think....


Keep on working :up:

No. I didn't think you were angry. I was just joking around (although it's true I can be a hard taskmaster - I keep myself up until 3am most nights doing this modding stuff). I guess I need to use more smiley faces and stuff - humour doesn't translate well over the internet - especially my brand of dry humour. :88)

Definitely not. But I can't find an atlas that has the names in German. The names should definitely be in German.

I like this. Very helpful. Would Nico71 be able to do the translation?

FLB,
Beery,

I just try the first FLB work and I guess that we are in the right way. The only downside is that these names only appears on the first three zoom levels. So if we want some more "persistent" names will be needed to work with the big map too. But let's waiting the results, perhaps even with only the first three zoom levels we get a really useful map!

:rock: :rock:

Rubini.

I see that as an advantage. I worry that it may get distracting if these names appear on higher zoom levels.

Very nice job guys :P

A wait for your mod impatiently :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Thanks to everymod for all the mods. SH3 is more and more realistic and nice due to all the hours of your work :D