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ORIGINAL: pekische

I would be interested in maps from post 48 also

ORIGINAL: W1ll14m

jds1978, z1812: I would offer a set of maps with these elevation colors if I had the web space for them. A theme map pack is another 200MB, and bound to grow once Mad Russian or the community create more maps. But I don't have that space.
When Matrix Games starts hosting mods / scenarios, I'll happily upload all map themes to their web space. Until then, I'm not going to bother with annoying file hosters, or creating another personal Dropbox / Google Drive / Skydrive account to host the files.

The other thing that would help would be the game accepting .jpg maps, which (in my case) are about 60% smaller than (optimized for size) .pngs.

ORIGINAL: W1ll14m

The other thing that would help would be the game accepting .jpg maps, which (in my case) are about 60% smaller than (optimized for size) .pngs.

ORIGINAL: Sabre21

Nicely done. I like the looks of the grid lines, gives them a militaristic look to them. One thing I would say is that I think you over did the small individual type trees.

ORIGINAL: W1ll14m

ORIGINAL: Sabre21
[...] One thing I would say is that I think you over did the small individual type trees.

The thing I noticed about living over there was that there were 3 types of terrain. Built up area, heavy wooded areas, and farmers fields.

I attached a pic I took over an area that was referred to as "Little Switzerland" due to its hilly terrain. This was in Bavaria and if I can find more I will post them. Note that where there are steep inclines or hills, there are trees, and outside of towns and denser forests there are farmer fields with few if any individual trees.

The Germans farm every bit of land possible. There are very few trees outside of the towns and forests. [...]

Great comment. I'm also not happy with the randomly placed individual trees. However, I was less happy with the empty "clear" aka "mixed" hexes, whose look didn't match their meaning the game: these empty "mixed" hexes are harder to see through (4 hindrance vs 2), and to move through (5 hindrance vs 3) than fields. It didn't feel right to put arty units or HQ units in empty "mixed" hexes instead of "fields" hexes, although this is the right thing to do.

Now the roads are positioned right (see post above), I like to try filling the "mixed" hexes in a more appropriate way. For "mixed" hexes containing roads (and most of them do), lining up these roads with trees and the occasional building probably looks better (as in the bottom of your Bavaria photo).
For other types of "mixed" hexes on hills, putting in small clumps of trees might be an improvement.
I'm not sure what to do with the remaining mixed hexes (probably representing breweries, landfills, power stations, automotive test tracks - I can check on Google maps),

William
p.s. Sabre21, thanks for your contributions to this forum. Your posts have added greatly to my understanding of helicopter tactics, and to me enjoying the game!

ORIGINAL: tombo

help...i try to D/L the maps but the D/L stops half way through..then i get a diagnostic warning that it breaks?? Tried a few times and get maybe 6 to 10 files. Not seen that before.

ORIGINAL: W1ll14m

(This update is very much inspired by The Plodder's introduction of urban textures. Without these as an example, I wouldn't have been able to come up with good 'perimeter blocks' to define rural/city roads, houses and trees. Thanks!).

Zoom-in on a map (Red Storm 1, 'Inverted Summer' theme):


As of this update, towns and cities are represented through "perimeter blocks", and houses and trees are planted accordingly, except where there is a road, stream, bridge or hillside. This yields better looking towns, with more realistic town outlines.
Additionally, I've toned down blurring of the terrain.
All 27 maps have been re-rendered, in Summer, Inverted Summer and Winter themes.

William