Sofu Gan revisited

[aanker]

I haven't lost interest in seeing Sufu Gan in SH4. Right now the best I have seen is the RSRD mod adds it as a place name on the chart which is nice.

Wiki says, it is approximately 84 meters east-west and 56 meters north-south, with a summit height of 99 meters. (plus the 60' water depth at that location in SH4)

325' = 99 meters above sea level (sea level is 60' above seabed at that location)
385' = 117 meters tall if placed on seabed
276' = 84 meters east-west
184' = 56 meters north-south

Since Sofu Gan was an important navigational landmark during WW II used by submarines and aircraft I for one would still like to see it added to SH4. I pass that location on many of my patrols (and I would bet that others do too) so it wouldn't be wasted effort to build it.

I'm not sure how to do it though plus I don't think I have the right software. I have built 3ds meshes and textured them for an astronomy program but my past efforts with SH4 have not worked.

- need to build a rough mesh 84m x 56m x 117m high and maybe texture it using the actual Sofu Gan picture from Wiki, edited and converted to tga(?) for a texture (complete with bird droppings - on the Sofu Gan basalt pillar ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofu_Gan

Or here is a rock that is roughly the correct shape. Does anyone know how it could be enlarged... lol - I am desperate!



- (please don't beat me up for starting a new topic on this... I reviewed the old topics but they mostly focused on Truk)

Happy Hunting!

Art