Come to ride with Jester! New canyon terrain for snaking
When I first watch the Topgun, the scene of first dogfight in the Topgun class with Jester, catches my mind like forever. Thus I always want to fly in a valley between two mountains, and maneuvering to evade crashing. There are some screenshots from my favorite movies, guess which movie they are?
The common point of these scenes is flying between mountains. If I want to do that in FA, I have to modify the height of map. The map editor of toolkit is great, however, it cannot edit whole map in an easy way. I know a lot of pioneers are doing great jobs on map editing, but there is not a tool, which can draw map visually and easily. Thus I develop a tool, FAMapBmp, which can transform T2 file into BMP, and then can be edited by any image process software. That speeds up and expands the possibility of map creation significantly. With FAMapBmp tools, you can grab a contour graph and convert it to T2 in one second.
For test, here is a modified BAL map and a test mission. This terrain is based on this satellite map of Google as follows.
This satellite map will be converted as follows.
In this mission, Jester is chasing you and wanting to shoot you down. Moreover, you have to reach waypoint 1 and not to be shot down by ten MIM-23 and AA guns. You have to use canyon terrain to escape them. There are some screen shot, have fun with Jester!
New BAL MAP Lib can be downloaded here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fash/fi ... B/download
Jester mission can be downloaded here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fash/fi ... M/download
The tool, FAMapBmp, will be released ASAP.
I know how to make the maps larger than 256x256, in fact, most are actually smaller than that so it was really easy to figure out how to do it.