[REL] Colored Maps

[IFRT-WHUFC]

BrownGrey version of my colored Map

BrownGrey Map here: http://www.filefront.com/15774407/Brown_Grey_Map.rar

Browngrey Map Fix for OLC based GUIs: http://www.filefront.com/15774411/Br...based_GUIs.rar

Images: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4...1023400839.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6...0234032640.jpg



Had a bit to much spare time on my hands and messed about with Photoshop a little and came up with this:

Colored Version:

Pic: http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6718/newmapl.jpg


Download here: http://www.filefront.com/user/IFRT-WHUFC JSGME Ready.

if you are interested!!

thanks
Rick.

[Hitman]

Very interesting

But does it work only in higher zoom levels? (The file is quiet small)

I would like to see a colour scheme that resembles more a real chart, with white instead of blue water. Any chance of doing that? (White to grey for different depths) Also please with FLAT earth, i.e. just one colour in light brown.

[IFRT-WHUFC]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Very interesting

But does it work only in higher zoom levels? (The file is quiet small)

I would like to see a colour scheme that resembles more a real chart, with white instead of blue water. Any chance of doing that? (White to grey for different depths) Also please with FLAT earth, i.e. just one colour in light brown.

The maps are game size! The pic was made smaller just for upload sake!

file contains 2 maps and an updated terrain.act

I can try making a greyscale version! Give me a few days! It might just be possible!

ok
Rick.

[verte]

Originally Posted by IFRT-WHUFC

I can try making a greyscale version! Give me a few days! It might just be possible!

Please do! It would be great to have a realistic colour map, like Hitman said.

[Rolf Eschke]

Looks nice,Thanks !

[sergei]

That looks nice

[verte]

Originally Posted by Hitman

I would like to see a colour scheme that resembles more a real chart, with white instead of blue water. Any chance of doing that? (White to grey for different depths) Also please with FLAT earth, i.e. just one colour in light brown.

Hitman (or someone else) - do you know a precise colour for the flat earth? I'm looking at different Marinequadratkarte's, but they're poor scans so it's difficult to take a precise colour from them.

[verte]

Experimenting with it, but the water looks quite odd. It is olc gui, so the colors in screenshot are slightly distorted.



Second thing - I think that the colors of water in kriegsmarine maps were inverted - the deep water was white, and shallow dark (?)

[h.sie]

looks great. little idea. big improvement for the game.

[verte]

You can try it yourself (jsgme-ready):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4055585/Real%20map%20colour.rar

Please help if you have some knowledge about those maps so we can make a realistic map for sh3.

In this post you can find kriegsmarine maps:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show....php?p=1259825

And another site:
http://www.kartengruppe.it/

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If you wish to do it yourself the only file that you must edit is data/terrain/pal/Terrain.act

There must be some simpler method to edit this file, but I do it by opening e.g. 4320_2160.raw in Photoshop, then Image>Mode>Grayscale, then Image>Mode>RGB Color, then Image>Mode>Indexed Color..., then in the window that opens Palette>Custom..., then Load and point to Terrain.act file - then in the same window you can edit the colors and save a new Terrain.act file. Thats it.

One more thing - remember that you can make subtle changes to map colour by changing colours of StrTactMap.tga

[kartengruppe]

Hi sailormen!

I'm happy that a game makes you interested in maps of the WWII German Navy.
I am a collector and this is my passion!
Now, here a present for you (scanned from the original), directly from my site http://www.kartengruppe.it
And have fun!!
Pino

PS: the first is Stiller Ozean but, if you are interessed, I'll change in the next days. Contact me and tell me what's your desiderata.

[Hitman]

Hello kartengruppe, and many thanks for the nice scan

You have an excellent website.

[KL-alfman]

just great!
thx for sharing