I must admit, of all the cool developments occuring this year in Combat Aviation Simulatio, the development of a mod map which covers SW England and NW France is the one that I'm most excited about. Coupled with new Mod 4.09 server software, these mods give TX a chance to field new capabilities in Il2 Server offerings.
I want to present these as potential future OC-3 maps, to give OC-3 users and Squadmates a better understanding and preview of what's possible in the near future with our server.
There are currently 3 mod maps which span Southeast England, the English Channel and the French Coastline (plus varying degrees of inland France) in various stages of completion.
The first map, by Fly_Zo - at the aaa forums and included in the unified installer (i.e. most of you already have it) is
"Normandy with COAST OF BRITAIN", which shows up in FMB as fly_Zo_BOB_A (Autumn textures), fly_Zo_BOB_S (Summer) and fly_Zo_BOB_W (winter).
While this is a very high quality map, it is an immersion killer for many of us in that this Normandy area has been 1 of only 2 maps in Il2 that cover France since 2004 and, therefore I and I'm sure everyone else already sick of imagining Normandy as every other area in Western Europe.
The second map, by the great UK skinner Canon
Note Radar towers (2 types)....
Holland ground textures
I love many of the features of Canon's new map - except it's not 1:1, more like 3:1.
I'll present the last map in a second post. To wrap up these two maps, Fly_zo's is already available to unified installer users, while Cannon's final map is due to be released sometime soon (this has been it's status for about three months). A beta version of Cannon's map (incompatible with the final release) is available at AAA forums in the mapmods section.
S~
Gunny
