A dynamic chronicle of the Allied invasion at Normandy --> Project 44 - The Road to Liberation
SCENARIO DESIGNER’S WORKSHOP – Making Maps
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Battlefront map making conversation --> Oddity with Map
Battlefront conversation about adapting maps from one title to another --> Scenario editor assets
Battlefront conversation about creating scenario specific roadsigns --> Roadsign Request for Rollbahn D
Battlefront post showing a way to more precisely align graveyard headstones --> Map Making Tutorial - Orderly Graveyards
Military European topographic maps 1940's & 1950's --> WIG Map Archive
Scalable topographic maps --> Free topographic maps, elevation, relief for any location in the world.
National Archives wartime reconnaissance photos --> National Archives recon photos
Bookmarked both. Good catch.
Question about map objectives.
In a map I have adapted I have a number of locations that are worth 50 points in the editor, but upon testing the map and occupying the objectives, their value is only 30 points in the end screen?
Any ideas as to why this might be the case?
In a map I have adapted I have a number of locations that are worth 50 points in the editor, but upon testing the map and occupying the objectives, their value is only 30 points in the end screen?
Any ideas as to why this might be the case?
I've noticed something similar in a scenario I made. I never quite figured it out and pointed it down to some behind-the-scenes ratio calculations, where possible points for objectives and casualties get added together and then somehow it redistributes them at a later stage...
If this is a quick battle map, the game will take the points values you attributed to them in the editor and scale them so that they add up to a total that depends on the battle type.
For example, QB meeting engagement has 600 points for objectives - you cannot change that. If you defined, say, 20 x 50pts objectives in the editor, the game will turn them into 20 x 2030pts so that they add up to 600 400 The remaining 400 600 points can be awarded for enemy casualties.
Probe/Attack/Assault maps have a different allocation for objectives - assault has 750, probe has 500, don't know about attack.
For example, QB meeting engagement has 600 points for objectives - you cannot change that. If you defined, say, 20 x 50pts objectives in the editor, the game will turn them into 20 x 20
Probe/Attack/Assault maps have a different allocation for objectives - assault has 750, probe has 500, don't know about attack.
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Correction - 400 points for objectives in a ME, not 600.
Second World War photo recon maps --> WW2 Aerial Reconnaissance Studies
More WW2 recon maps; Aerial Photo Request SW Malmedy --> NCAP - National Collection of Aerial Photography | NCAP - National Collection of Aerial Photography
Type "Malmedy" in the search bar and 3 photos are listed, all taken on 24-December-1944.
Type "Malmedy" in the search bar and 3 photos are listed, all taken on 24-December-1944.
Nice find, saw your post over at BFC with the same link, already found some ww2-era aerial photos of my own neighborhood on there too!
From the Battlefront forums --> Trench Facing?
I found the above referenced geoportal france especially helpful for its 2.5 and 5 meter V.I. contour maps which can be pulled up from a menu at the top left of the screen. These contour lines are more reliable than the 1:25:000 maps used by the allied forces in WWII. Indeed the 1:25,000 maps have a diclaimer printed right on them recommending caution in respect of overall reliability. Occasionally a contour has been cut through by a new highway since WWII, such as the one near les Hauts Vents but this can be easily compensated for.
The same site also includes aerial photos taken of most of Normandy around 1950 which gives a better, although not perfect, idea of the remaining bocage, orchards and village layouts pre-modern development, before urban sprawl and factory farming such as are currently visible on google maps.
Cheers,
Kandu
The same site also includes aerial photos taken of most of Normandy around 1950 which gives a better, although not perfect, idea of the remaining bocage, orchards and village layouts pre-modern development, before urban sprawl and factory farming such as are currently visible on google maps.
Cheers,
Kandu
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Some helpful hints creating bridges on a map --> Bridge Elevations