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MR Marianas & Bonins UT

MR Marianas & Bonins UT 1b

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UncleTgt

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UncleTgt submitted a new resource:

MR Marianas & Bonins UT - A back-dating of Maskriders Marianas xcenery to the Summer of '44. Includes Bonins & Iwo Jima

Marianas & Bonins Scenery for CFS2 by UncleTgt

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This is a reworking of Maskrider's sceneries for the Marianas, Bonins & Iwo Jima islands, originally released in 2010.

At that time Maskrider based his scenery on the period after the US B-29 bases had been built. I felt I could make a decent job of using this base scenery & reverting it back to a summer '44 appearance, exchanging US bases for new JAP bases. It became a much more extensive reworking than I...

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Thanks UT,

Now my son can redo the Marianas missions to fit your new scenery.Much appreciated.

Hiede
 
Hiede,

These might be leftovers from Maskriders Marianas - check the objects required from his readme.
Remember I was back-dating from his package, not installing from fresh.

Looks like I need to revise the useful scenery links list again... :cower:
 
UT,

I also wanted to know.Are a lot of the airfields grass or did we make a mistake adding everything?

Hiede
 
I can't find -barracks1 and wmtower.I'm going to check to see if I missed a d/l.

Hiede
I think these are in Gary20's RAF Objects. Maskrider used them to depict the USMC barracks at Orote. I saw no reason to change it.

 
UT,

I also wanted to know.Are a lot of the airfields grass or did we make a mistake adding everything?

Hiede
I don't use grass runways, they call for the grass.R8 bitmap which is just awful looking.

I do use "invisible" runways (quite often) when I don't think the limited choice of textures we have will cut it.

These allow the airbase bitmap to show through.

eg. As Iwo was volcanic, I decided the CFS 2 dirt runway texture was too "bright".

I've attached a description of the texture decisions made for each of the Marianas/Bonins land runways. Hope you find it useful.
 

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I extracted the layouts for John's Japanese Bonins and Marianas to see all the required objects.
 

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I don't use grass runways, they call for the grass.R8 bitmap which is just awful looking.

I do use "invisible" runways (quite often) when I don't think the limited choice of textures we have will cut it.

These allow the airbase bitmap to show through.

eg. As Iwo was volcanic, I decided the CFS 2 dirt runway texture was too "bright".

I've attached a description of the texture decisions made for each of the Marianas/Bonins land runways. Hope you find it useful.
UT

Seems not all the coral runways are not showing up.Going to check later to see if we made a mistake while putting the scenery in.

Hiede
 
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