TerrainEditor + Tutorial by ref
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Hopefully someone better informed on the topic we are discussing will pop up and he will shed some light :) Quote:
- as a package containing only the modified areas, which can be re-merged to any version of the SHIII terrain data using the Extractor/Repacker; - as a ready-to-use terrain data which can be enabled as normal mod using JSGME The first method would contain the download size and it would allow more flexibility, because it would let any player free to choose which terrain data (mega mod) he wants to use as base for the merging of our modifications. The con, is that its installation would be a bit trickier. :hmm2: |
ops... while writing my previois reply I had missed SquareSteelBar's link (thank you mate!) :doh:
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Something interesting : http://www.kartengruppe.it/immagini/...0/0088G-SB.jpg (from : http://www.kartengruppe.it/index.php/nordsee-deutsche-admiralitatskarten)
But although the map was printed in 1943, it's based on a 1913 map. In 1943, the island was bigger, as you can see on this picture : http://www.303rdbg.com/pp-heligoland.jpg |
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I don't know how far the Nazis went with their expansion plan, anyway the sandy beaches of Helgoland and Düne are subject to a strong tidal erosion, and their size and shape might have changed over time. Add to that the fact that after war the Brits tried to sink the main island :o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hKwjoKa-c |
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http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u...0Helgoland.jpg |
I have outlined the two islands of Helgoland and Dune on an equirectangular map projection (as the one used in SH games to represent the globe)...
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u...lad%20Dune.png and I have placed them on a 1deg lat/long quadrant of the size used for SHIII terrain masks. This is the result: http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u...20Dune%202.png The resolution is poor indeed, but those are the limits imposed by the game. :hmm2: |
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Jokes apart, any other shape would cause a misalignment of the islands relative to the in-game coordinate system both in terms of latitude/longitude and KM quadrant and, due to the small size of the two island and the low resolution of SHIII terrain masks, the difference in terms of "good shape" would be hardly detectable anyway :yep: |
HELGOLAND PLAN
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Other pictures of Helgoland :
http://i.imgur.com/xlTj80H.png http://i.imgur.com/4qgMzjQ.png http://i.imgur.com/N8Xpl5Q.png http://i.imgur.com/gAZiV6x.png |
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...but as I said before, your clean drawing will make little difference once it is scaled down to fit in the small space of SHIII's terrain masks. In my opinion, having the islands in the right place and with the right size is more important, even though they will look a bit stretched in game. The equirectangular map projection used in game makes it easy to convert from lat/long coordinates to metric offsets relative to the equator/Greenwich meridian: 1° = 120,000 m; 1' = 2,000 m; 1" = 33.33 m; 1 pixel on a terrain mask = 6" = 200 m. As long as the terrain masks are edited correctly, calculating the correct in-game position of lighthouses and other objects relative to each other and to land, will be as easy as doing a simple math based on the lat/long of those objects in real world. There is more. As you know, many lighthouses have "blind" spots and/or their lights have different colors depending on the angle that they are looked at. Most nautical charts have those angles displayed on map (see map.openseamap.org for example). Supposed that the above can be mimicked in game, we could calculate the correct light angles directly on charts rather than wasting our time with a trial and error approach, but for this method to work we need to place everything at its right place and to work on equirectangular charts. Most nautical charts use a Mercator projection but, for small areas, stretching them to fit an equirectangular projection is quite easy :) Quote:
I had no realized how many coastal batteries where located on the island. Maybe we could add them in game :hmm2: :D |
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I need to open .raw files but I don't have photoshop .... :damn:
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Here what it looks like with 200x200 meters for each pixel : http://i.imgur.com/8s8lyfk.png |
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The islands would be so better rendered with 50x50 meters squares ! ... :wah:
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