Marshall Islands Scenery for CFS2 by UncleTgt
This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the entire Marshall Islands chain. It is designed for use with Rhumbas mesh, but the scenery excludes provided should mean this works well in a stock mesh install too.
Contents: New Ground2K scenery for each, including fringing reefs.
New airbase scenery, made using FSSC.
New GSL infrastructure.
New custom Landclass & Waterclass.
Some simple missions using the stock F4U-1A Corsair for viewing the GSL airbases & scenery.
The sceneries are as prior to the US invasion, apart from: The airstrip on Delap island, Majuro Atoll, which is depicted after the US had taken what was essentially an unused runway space & developed it into a major four-engined airbase, with a substantial logistics base attached. This was all achieved before the summer of 1944.
The airstrip & facilities on Eniwetok Island, again developed double-quick after the US landings to provide a serviceable airbase by the summer of 1944.
I did run across several issues with sloping water when trying to match the runway altitudes with the mesh (they did build these runways right across the island landmass in a lot of cases. In some cases forced A16N flattens using FS Flatten or FSSC helped, but in some I had to make some compromises on runway altitudes.
Similarly I came across disappearing backgrounds (overhead view, Mission Builder only) for the NW corner of Engebi AB, & the W half of Kwajalein AB. I was unable to resolve the issue with Engebi, but a forced A16N flatten added with FSFlatten & named so it loads last of all A16Ns in this area did seem to fix the issue at Kwajalein. I may revisit my Wake scenery to see if that FS Flatten trick works there.
Credits
Thanks to: Jean Bomber for his inspiration, advice & support. He talked me through getting to grips with G2K & more…
Maskrider for all his airbase packages & the blended airbase tutorial. This set the standard for airbase sceneries for the game.
Rhumbaflappy for the new more accurate world mesh – it was a desire to make best use of this development that is the driver for many of my scenery projects. He also developed the vtp1 fixer programme to fix display errors in vtp bgls compiled from Ground2K. I also used one of his 2019 VTP mask excludes to get rid of the default coastlines across this area as my usual method of using Exclude8 to generate .bgls kept causing CTD when loaded.
GavinC for his reworking of the stock airbases, making individual base reworking/ revision much easier.
Shessi for his water textures, that were the inspiration for my reworking of Jimkos Pacific Blues, & indirectly lead me to develop this latest set of water textures.
Lindsay Watt for all of his scenery objects & innovations.
Wolfi for his scenery objects.
Xavier for all his scenery objects & airbase sceneries, opening up a larger world for us all to fly in
Martin Wright for all the various software tools that are so useful!
Russell Dirks for his EZ landclass programme, making large scale land/ water class adjustments possible
Christian Fumey for his excl8 & Ground2K programmes, making the creation of completely new scenery possible for CFS2.
UncleTgt,
JUN 2020
This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the entire Marshall Islands chain. It is designed for use with Rhumbas mesh, but the scenery excludes provided should mean this works well in a stock mesh install too.
Contents: New Ground2K scenery for each, including fringing reefs.
New airbase scenery, made using FSSC.
New GSL infrastructure.
New custom Landclass & Waterclass.
Some simple missions using the stock F4U-1A Corsair for viewing the GSL airbases & scenery.
The sceneries are as prior to the US invasion, apart from: The airstrip on Delap island, Majuro Atoll, which is depicted after the US had taken what was essentially an unused runway space & developed it into a major four-engined airbase, with a substantial logistics base attached. This was all achieved before the summer of 1944.
The airstrip & facilities on Eniwetok Island, again developed double-quick after the US landings to provide a serviceable airbase by the summer of 1944.
I did run across several issues with sloping water when trying to match the runway altitudes with the mesh (they did build these runways right across the island landmass in a lot of cases. In some cases forced A16N flattens using FS Flatten or FSSC helped, but in some I had to make some compromises on runway altitudes.
Similarly I came across disappearing backgrounds (overhead view, Mission Builder only) for the NW corner of Engebi AB, & the W half of Kwajalein AB. I was unable to resolve the issue with Engebi, but a forced A16N flatten added with FSFlatten & named so it loads last of all A16Ns in this area did seem to fix the issue at Kwajalein. I may revisit my Wake scenery to see if that FS Flatten trick works there.
Credits
Thanks to: Jean Bomber for his inspiration, advice & support. He talked me through getting to grips with G2K & more…
Maskrider for all his airbase packages & the blended airbase tutorial. This set the standard for airbase sceneries for the game.
Rhumbaflappy for the new more accurate world mesh – it was a desire to make best use of this development that is the driver for many of my scenery projects. He also developed the vtp1 fixer programme to fix display errors in vtp bgls compiled from Ground2K. I also used one of his 2019 VTP mask excludes to get rid of the default coastlines across this area as my usual method of using Exclude8 to generate .bgls kept causing CTD when loaded.
GavinC for his reworking of the stock airbases, making individual base reworking/ revision much easier.
Shessi for his water textures, that were the inspiration for my reworking of Jimkos Pacific Blues, & indirectly lead me to develop this latest set of water textures.
Lindsay Watt for all of his scenery objects & innovations.
Wolfi for his scenery objects.
Xavier for all his scenery objects & airbase sceneries, opening up a larger world for us all to fly in
Martin Wright for all the various software tools that are so useful!
Russell Dirks for his EZ landclass programme, making large scale land/ water class adjustments possible
Christian Fumey for his excl8 & Ground2K programmes, making the creation of completely new scenery possible for CFS2.
UncleTgt,
JUN 2020
