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[max_thehitman]

Rudi, that is one amazing looking airplane skin!  Superb!

Blumax, amazing ground and mountain textures. Realism reigns in those mountains! 

Too cool!!

[carsmaster]

I hope that I will have time to finish the next version with support for textures 4096 pixels.

Here's how it will look.



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[Blumax]

Holly............! that is awsome, i want!    bye bye CLOD i just found me a new game!

[Semor]

..woahaha....this is too brutal. 

next question,how well can the 12 year old game engine handle this texture size??

[Hangman]

That looks so real 

[carsmaster]

next question,how well can the 12 year old game engine handle this texture size??

Temporary version works fine, but I have to finish the job and do the testing.
Everything is in the hands of God.

When?

I do not know...
 

[max_thehitman]

Carmaster good friend... All I can say is... THANK YOU ! 

GOOD BYE Cliffs of Dover and whatever else is out there. The IL-2-1946 is KING !!

[Uufflakke]

I hope that I will have time to finish the next version with support for textures 4096 pixels.

I've watched those screenshots quite a few times at Dispersalfield.ru. 
The first time I thought the plane was shopped in the photo. 

Another problem arises then with 4096x4096 pixels textures: where can we find such a detailed aerial photo's/satellite images for mapmaking?
I think Google Earth is not an option anymore in most cases.

[carsmaster]

.....Another problem arises then with 4096x4096 pixels textures: where can we find such a detailed aerial photo's/satellite images for mapmaking?
I think Google Earth is not an option anymore in most cases.

Yes I agree with you.
I think I have to ask all of our friends to collect HIGH-QUALITY photographs of the Earth.

Or ask all who love the game IL-2 collect and send high quality photographs of the Earth.
You can create a separate section in the forum where everyone can send high-quality land.

[Diving_Hawk]

Well for start one can pic the textures from smaller area detailed photos I guess and combine them.
Then we have enough members around the world so if a texture is wrong they surely will be able to give a better example.
I mean it can't possibly be worse than some of the maps il2 has now,

For example when I look in the area were I live in Italy Afrika Greece UP3 map I can't even recognise it!
( Not to mention some Greek islands are at wrong places if you see real map proportions, I guess it's because the maker wanted distances short! )

The point is it will surely be better than the maps we're used to so far.

Carsmaster is right though.If someone has a good camera and finds a characteristic landscape of his region on a trip let's say It could be nice texture reference

[max_thehitman]

.....Another problem arises then with 4096x4096 pixels textures: where can we find such a detailed aerial photo's/satellite images for mapmaking?
I think Google Earth is not an option anymore in most cases.

Yes I agree with you.
I think I have to ask all of our friends to collect HIGH-QUALITY photographs of the Earth.

Or ask all who love the game IL-2 collect and send high quality photographs of the Earth.
You can create a separate section in the forum where everyone can send high-quality land.

I will look into my computer files for large images of the Earth and textures for you.

[CzechTexan]

I just now read about this new mod.  Looks very promising for the future.  I guess this is the way things will go from now on (maps/skins).

http://www.flashearth.com/  IMO is still the best option we have at this moment.  And I think it was mentioned earlier in this discussion. 

EDIT:  I'm also curious about the effects this might have on memory issues with large maps.  I am currently revising the large BurmaLower map.  Texturing is 90% done. 
How might 2048x2048 textures impact a map such as this?

of course it would look much better but would performance and frame rates take a hit?