blade2k5's Real World+Fantasy Maps

[Pat]

Troy looking real good here wow!!!

[blade2k5]

Thanks Pat.  With my new mapping partner papab2000, I've been busy mapping like a madman.

[papab2000]

Just a note to all, I uploaded blade's map packs to the STEX. The following are now available:

NHPArizona3Pak.zip
NHPConn4Pak.zip
NHPFlorida4Pak.zip

We hope you enjoy them 

[Pat]

sweet there Troy and Ive noticed that you both have been kicking out some wonderful maps!!! Rich thank you for letting us know they are on the STEX now...

[M4346]

I especially love the Florida and Connecticut packs! Great job and thanks! 

[art128]

great map !

[grover_]

hmmm.... who wants to help me  i downloaded some of the maps and well in the overview pictures from the mapper program they are green but when i load the sc4m into it its snow not green i would appreciate any help if this is in the wrong spot just tell me and ill post it elsewhere but i would be extremely grateful for any help. thanks.

[emilin]

Very, very nice releases. Congratulations!

grover: hmmmm... could it be your terrain mod? Perhaps you should try another one (with a higher snow cap). Or is it all snow? In that case, there might be something wrong with the height settings.

[CarmineHilton]

Great maps indeed! Really love the new packs =)
Any chance on doing Turin, Italy one day?

[blade2k5]

Of course   Gonna map the entire planet once I get an imaging program to convert tiffs into 16bit pngs......I lost my CS2 when my pc got hit with 16 Trojan horses last week and had to do a disk format and re-install everything, but can't find my CS2 disk .......

[CarmineHilton]

16 trojan horses Oh my.... =p

[blade2k5]

Got them through MSN, which I'll never use again completely knocked my pc for a loop, couldn't get my firewall back up, couldn't read the 'net for more than 5 minutes at a time, but all that is now in the past and my pc is back up and running much, much faster than it did a week or two ago.

[grover_]

Very, very nice releases. Congratulations!

grover: hmmmm... could it be your terrain mod? Perhaps you should try another one (with a higher snow cap). Or is it all snow? In that case, there might be something wrong with the height settings.

in sc4 mapper its all white (im guessing that means its snow) eg. when i put the sc4m for the salt lake city region by blade its all snow but on the overview from mapper he gives its green and snow. hopefully someone can help me and hopefully im giving adequate details of my situation if im not just tell me 

[Grneyes]

So are those DC/Boston/Baltimore maps still going to be uploaded?

MaryBeth

[blade2k5]

I don't use Mapper and I for one am at my wits end as to what the issue is with the sc4ms.  Until this situation is resolved, I will not be releasing any new maps.

Just out of curiosity to see how widespread this problem is, how many others have this issue with my sc4ms?  Is everyone having this issue with my sc4ms?

[M4346]

If you like I could check them for you and help diagnose the problem? Exactly what, and with what, is wrong?

[cogeo]

Just one question, 1-arc means 90m, or 30m? There is a noticable difference.

[blade2k5]

Hi cogeo   To answer your question, 1 arc means 30 Meter, 3 arc is 90 Meters.  1/3 Arc is 10 Meters [USA maps only] and yes, there is significant difference between 1 arc and 3 arc.  International data [any country outside the US] is absolutely crappy data.

[cogeo]

I meant there is a noticable difference between the 1-arc and 1/3-arc maps too (looking at your images in the previous page). For 1-arc maps there is nearly one elevation value for every two SC4 tiles, if the map is going to be real(?)-scale. I think this is enough for making a good map. I wonder what method the program uses to calculate the height values. If it isn't a simple (bilinear) interpolation maybe we should try just this one. I think any other (more "sophisticated" or "advanced" algorithm) would rather produce worse results.

[blade2k5]

If you like I could check them for you and help diagnose the problem? Exactly what, and with what, is wrong?

From what I understand, when users like grover load my sc4ms into Mapper or sc4tf, the elevations are completely off.  When I load the sc4ms that seem to have this issue, they load just fine for me and look exactly as they did when I finished them and created the sc4ms.  I've gone as far as re-uploading new sc4ms, but that hasn't seemed to fix the problem these users are having.  I'm at a complete loss as to why this is happening, thus can't offer any solutions to fix the problem.

What I need from for users who have this problem with loading my sc4ms is what maps are afflicted with this issue and some pics so I can see for myself what's going on.  I also need to know how many other users have had this issue and those who haven't to get a better idea if this is widespread through-out all of my recent releases or just a few.

And yes, if you would like to help out trying to figure out what's going on and come up with a diagnosis that would be great.