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WIP Grenadines Islands

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I'm doing a new island using GE for satmask based on two islands from the St. Vincent and Grenadines Island chain, Canouan and Mustique.

http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=12.712521,-61.304226&spn=0.077698,0.168743&z=13

http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es&ie=UTF8&ll=12.877074,-61.174107&spn=0.077648,0.168743&z=13

It is a 10 meter cell map, 10 x 10 kms. 80% of the terain is finished as well as the road net, of which I have already finished a 60%. I've already changed water colours and the two airports are working for the AI, although there are some problems with the landing, taxi in and taxi off positions. I intend to make it fully ALICE and SILVIE compatible as well, and I have manually (and boringly) edited the beaches slope to make landings in those areas easier.

I'll try to post pics ASAP.

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Sounds VERY good! Looking forward to seeing those pics...

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Edited by Bushlurker

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LOL mankyle, thats the island I've been trying to recreate. Isn't there a golf course and owner of this isle is ... ? :)

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Well some pics, although I think my work is not what we could call "ICEBREAKR Quality", I mean, Gold Standard.

From Mustique airport

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2467/arma22010021522012528.jpg

Compare to this pic from Panoramio

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3208035

Canouan Airport

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/4467/arma22010021521585359.jpg

Canouan Overview

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2812/arma22010021521590503.jpg

Map Overview

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6900/arma22010021522003203.jpg

I'm having trouble with the trees and the mustique airport. It's very difficult for the big planes to land in that airport. And also all F-35s crash when taking off from Mustique.

I'd like to redo the mask because now I'm using only four colours and I don't like very much some of the mask textures.

I'm also having a problem with the Sat I think, an error pops up when loading the island.

Will keep posting pics

Edited by mankyle

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Nice! Another island can't wait to be invaded by the 27th MEU :D

So St. Vincent and the smaller ones are going to be on separate "maps"? Or will that be a scaled down version?

Also if my memory doesn't fail me, someone was working on Grenada island...

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It is just a two island map. Size is a little bit bigger than Utes and there aren't any flat areas, only two small ones near the airport at Mustique.

Maybe I'll create another map based on Union or Becquia islands.

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Why not include bequia while you're at it?

That's a really nice island, been there and i loved it.

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Mustique Airport Overview

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/3234/arma22010022220375929.jpg

Canouan Airport at night

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/2039/arma22010022220393946.jpg

Bequia is quite large and has too many trees for being a good choice. Also the terrain is quite steep.

I had started getting GE images from Nuku'alofa and Eua but for that I would have had to do a 20+ km map, and with 20 meter cell doesnt look well. And with 10 meter cell to performance goes to hell.

Also, does anyone knows how to use the erosion tools? Every single time I use them I end up with very flat terrain or even underwater heights.

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