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fatty_finn

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shallow water problem
« on: April 16, 2017, 08:13:08 AM »

Hi all
image attached shows part of my Norfolk island map, which I am revising for a new map.
A snag has appeared though, that has me tossed.
I made a new Mymap_c, and processed in the usual way.
On the new map [seen here in 4.13.2, with modact], there are several areas around the land where I can NOT get shallow "coast" textures to appear, or get surf on the beach.
This is also how it looks in my 4.12 map making version.
Image shows a shallow-water grid I drew in the ocean to demonstrate the problem. The whole grid was drawn with the same Gimp [ver2.8] brush/colour setting, but the result is not consistent!
Seaward from the red arrows, only limited shallow water texture will appear. The problem appears to be very roughly like a square [or two], south of the island [south is at the top here].
[Northern end is OK.]   Green arrows show where all is working OK, including surf.
Any advice?
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Zoran395

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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2017, 03:44:53 PM »

I would check the textures you are using on the coast or the tiny islands where you do not get the surf.
Did you check them already?
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2017, 07:17:32 AM »

Check your conf.ini to see if your "water" value is set to basic or something more advanced.
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2017, 09:59:31 PM »

Dear Zoran & Mandrill,
  Thanks for your help with this
re "check the textures...."  -are you suggesting some coastal textures will not allow waves?
I've always been confused about that. My experience is most of the textures I have used here do not inhibit waves.
eg Screenshot attached shows my Lord Howe Is map - which uses many of the same textures as Norfolk.
The LH island map [as released in 2016] has waves all around it - with the very odd exception of 2 very small bits of coast - enclosed by the pink frame here.
I cant get waves to appear here, or the shallow water offshore. Seems as if some sort of invisible bit of code is blocking waves & shallows in just one square section of the map - and most of that square is under the land!

regarding conf.ini setting : I was using Carsmasters waves, so had a water setting of 4.
When I turn that mod off, and change water setting to say, 2, I still have the " no wave" problem.
Any further suggestions ?
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2017, 12:11:39 AM »

ahh - think I've solved it.
the map_c & map_t files were slightly mis-aligned.
Serves me right for "hand-building" these small  island maps!
with apologies
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2017, 12:28:07 AM »

Cool, glad you got it sorted and thanks for sharing the solution.
Map building must be one of the most tedious section in IL-2, glad I've got no clue about it 8)
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2017, 06:46:57 AM »

ahh - think I've solved it.
the map_c & map_t files were slightly mis-aligned.
Serves me right for "hand-building" these small  island maps!
with apologies
f_f


No apologies necessary. This is a mistake any of us could do - and probably will - and it is great to have someone work through the problem and find the answer.
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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2017, 07:33:32 AM »

Thanks for the encouragement chaps.
But it turns out I maybe solved only part of the problem, and the smaller part at that.
Bigger problem is this:
On checking through all my own textures: I see a lack of waves ONLY for  textures having a "-2" size index.
This may be related to the problem I raised earlier , in thread  "Map texture problem - is this a known bug?".
As noted there, if you use any texture at "-2" in map-maker, then "perfect" mode shifts the tile, about 1.6km from where you meant it to be.
On the coast though:
if the texture is shifted out to sea, you cant see the shift, because you only see water.
But seems  the shifted texture has some sort of "submarine" effect , in blocking  shallow water & waves! 
Simple solution: dont use "-2" textures  [except as "coast river", where -2 seems quite OK].
Il2 forever!
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ps  looks like the -2 texture shift is always to the south & east. 

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Re: shallow water problem
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2017, 04:59:35 AM »

You are right "coast river" will have its surf killing effect irrespective of the depth of water.

The game engines reads the values of the pixels of map_t for that.

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if the texture is shifted out to sea, you cant see the shift, because you only see water.

So you really need to check RGB values directly in map_t (in Gimp/Photoshop) and not rely on what you see in FMB+

On the side I am not a big fan of "-2" textures but I do use a few "2" ones, you get nice contrasts when assigned over a limited area...

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