Burma - Tavoy & Mergui 1b

[UncleTgt]

UncleTgt submitted a new resource:

Burma - Tavoy & Mergui - Completion of the Burmese coastline, as far SE as the Thai border

Burma-Tavoy/Mergui Scenery for CFS2 by UncleTgt

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This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the region of Burma, heading south from Ye to the Thai border at Victoria Point. This is the latest in a series of scenery releases, to expand & build on this area to cover more of the Burma theatre of operations.

It is designed for use with Rhumbas mesh, but as it's outside the SWPTO, should work well in a stock mesh install too.

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[kdriver]

Great work John - thanks very much!

Here is the latest map showing your new airfields.

 

[skylane]

Thank you for the new scenery, John!
And thanks Kevin for the map.

 

[Captain Kurt]

Even more impressive when you can see all of the work on a map.

 

[UncleTgt]

Thanks for the (few) kind comments.

Unfortunately this southern area saw precious little combat activity after the first few days of the Jap invasion, but sometimes it's just nice to fly between points & admire the scale & beauty of these places - & there are a few easter egg locations.

I had no idea there were so many tin & wolfram mining locations along this part of the coast until I started looking at gsl creation...

 

[hertzie]

"Thanks for the (few) kind comments."

(few) x 100, ok?

hertzie.

 

[msfossey]

Thank you for this great addition UncleTgt.

 

[stoney]

Mostly I just fly around, low and slow to look at this amazing scenery. Just beautifully done!

 

[Worthless]

I don't know how you do it UT, but many thanks from a happy simmer.

 

[Browncoat]

Howdy Uncle. I need some help. I followed your installation instructions, but the scenery is a patchwork of 'bland' blues greens and oily grey blocks. What am I missing and/or doing wrong? I have attached a in flight screenshot near Bokpyin, and images showing my scenery listing. Thank you for your help!

 

[UncleTgt]

Usually this means the shoreline filenames in

CFS2/TEXTURE

&

CFS2/SCENEDB/WORLD/TEXTURE

don't match

There is also a small coral reef off Bokpyin, so it could also be a missing "coral" or "lagon1" bmp?

The shorelines in this area have all been used in my previous CBI scenery releases, there's nothing new there texture-wise.

Did you copy the contents of the zip's SCENEDB & TEXTURE folders into your CFS2 install?

 

[kdriver]

Hi Browncoat,

I'm not sure how critical it is, but the CBI Reefs should be above the CBI Deltas.

 

[Browncoat]

Hello Uncle,

I did make sure to copy the contents of the zip's SCENEDB and Texture folders into my CF2 CBI install, and I copied the world/scenebd/texture files and copied them in to the main Texture folder. I didn't find any files that were 'new', 'missing' or having a different size or timestamp.

I noted that when I turned off Burma_UT, the square bland blocks went away, but the terrain still looked messed-up stock terrain.

Hello Kdriver,

I appreciate the check and made the change, but it had not effect on what I was seeing.

 

[UncleTgt]

Browncoat, I've just checked back through all the G2K asm files & think I've found the issue.

For the sandy beaches of the Mergui archipeligo I made use of Maskriders PT-waveless-shore1.bmp, but didn't include it in my upload.

For old hand recycling an existing install, you won't notice as you'll already have a copy of this. But for a fresh install

I've attached a copy here. Let me know if this resolves the issue & I'll update the upload accordingly.

Sorry for missing that one!!

 

[Browncoat]

Thank you Uncle! That did the trick when placed in to the Burma_UT texture folder!

 

[UncleTgt]

UncleTgt updated Burma - Tavoy & Mergui with a new update entry:

Small update to include MR's PT-waveless-shore1.bmp

Just a small update to include the missing PT-waveless-shore1.bmp left out of the initial release. Everything else is the same.

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[Browncoat]

Howdy Uncle,

I found another issue in my install with Burma_UT. Flew the tour mission for gsl_Mergui_viewer, and noticed the island at N11* 54.18' E98*15.59' were again the bland quilt patchwork of non-textures. Are you able to look at the G2K asm files for this area to see if there is another case of a missing Maskrider texture? I appreciate your help.

 

[UncleTgt]

UncleTgt updated Burma - Tavoy & Mergui with a new update entry:

Small update to include MR's PT-waveless-shore2.bmp

Same as last time. There are 2 instances of use of PT-waveless-shore2 in the Mergui_E_8_fixed.bgl

THe simple fix is to add the PT shorelines to:

Burma_UT/texture
CFS2/Texture
CFS2/SCENEDB/WORLD/Texture

folders. It's easier than me trying to locate the vtp lines & replace them with something else...

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[UncleTgt]

Howdy Uncle,

I found another issue in my install with Burma_UT. Flew the tour mission for gsl_Mergui_viewer, and noticed the island at N11* 54.18' E98*15.59' were again the bland quilt patchwork of non-textures. Are you able to look at the G2K asm files for this area to see if there is another case of a missing Maskrider texture? I appreciate your help.

Browncoat, you got me again!!!

In the Mergui_E_8_fixed.bgl I found 2 instances of PT-waveless-shore2...

Rather than spend hours finding & replacing them, it's easiest to add PT_waveless-shore2.bmp to your Burma_UT/texture folder.

For completeness I'd also add them to the

CFS2/Texture & CFS2/SCENEDB/WORLD/Texture folders

 

[Browncoat]

Thank you Uncle! That did the trick! Your scenery looks amazing!