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Oooooh I like it! Very Happy

Sorry Michael I don't have anything to contribute in the way of aerial photos. All the books I have are ground level photos and most are not helpful with regard to map making. i.e. close-ups of units with little valuable background imagry.

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Since most of us try to learn from our mistakes in our daily lives what could be better than learning from someone elses mistakes eh?! Very Happy

In the spirit of that...

Have a plan from the beginning before doing ANYTHING. If we were writing a book about modding you could devote an entire chapter to this phase of modding. You say "How can I have a plan when I don't even know how to use the tools or know what needs to be done?". Well that's partially true but I can tell you from experience that you'll save yourself a LOT of time if you only have to do this stuff once rather than re-doing it because you have to update your info because you didn't have a plan.

Start from a broad, general viewpoint and work toward the minute, most specific details. You must be able to answer these questions with 100% specificity if you are doing a FULL BLOWN mod:

You must do this until every last detail is accurately understood.
Now it's not completely necessary to reinvent the wheel since a great deal of this information has been painstakenly researched by many of the mod makers before you and already exists. If you're lucky the information you seek will already exist within another mod and you can borrow that information for your mod. Most modders, like myself, are extremely flattered that someone would be interested in using their work and allow use of their mods work for other peoples mods without seeking permission but it's always good to ask before using that work.

When developing your plan you may choose to do a mod about a very specific thing rather than changing the entire game. Perhaps a mod that improves a specific aspect of someone elses work or introduces an element that existed in history but isn't represented in a specific mod or version of the game.

Regardless of your goal just attempt to understand as much as humanly possible about what you'd like to mod and you'll save yourself a great deal of time.

Hey guys sorry for the late reply. I've been scalp deep in map making which is the last thing to prevent us from releasing the mod. We've actually got many volunteers to help with map making so maybe we can shorten that process. It's not likely that we'll release before Christmas tho. The deadline I've given us is before Red Phoenix comes out so we're looking at February or March.

Also keep in mind that since this mod is focusing on the period from 1940-1941 (which is January of '41) the two principal sides are the British and Italians. No Germans yet. Next mod.

INSTALLING MAPS
STEP 1 - Visit http://www.close-combat-now.com/CC5Afrika.html

STEP 2 - Download ALL the maps on that page.

STEP 3 - Download the Terrain and Elements plugin. The link in text at the very top of the page. BE SURE TO ADD THE .pln EXTENSION TO THE FILE NAME WHEN SAVING OTHERWISE THE FILE WILL NOT WORK WHEN INSTALLING. The file you download should be called CC5Afrika.pln when you've finished downloading. For some reason my OS changes the extension back to .zip so it winds up not working with Plugin manager so I have to manually make sure the extension is correct which is .pln.

STEP 4 - Place the Terrain and Elements plugin file (that's CC5Afrika.pln) in the plugin folder within in the CC5 configuration manager program folder. Make sure you have the current version of configuration manager which is CfgV13.

STEP 5 - Open configuration manager and install the Terrain and Elements plugin. Close Config manager.

STEP 6 - Install the maps into your maps folder. You do this by double clicking each WinRAR self extracting exe that you downloaded and when prompted specify the C:/Program Files/SSI/Close Combat Invasion Normandy/Maps folder.

STEP 7 - Open CC5 and look for the Afrika 40-41 maps. YOU MUST NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY A GRAND CAMPAIGN OR OPERATION! The btd files are not set up for play with the GC or ops so if you attempt to open a GC or ops the game WILL crash. SINGLE BATTLES ONLY!

If anyone has any problems please post here and I'll attempt to address them. Please be very detailed on the problem you are experiencing or I won't be able to help. Also please make sure you've followed the directions carefully.

Have fun! Very Happy

Please let me know what you think of the maps once you've had a chance to play them.

Very nice indeed. Thanks Michael!

I'd be interested in getting in touch with pzt_generaser cause I've got some ideas for several nam maps that I'm itching to do. I've got five excellent aerial photos of special forces camps that I'd like to make maps of and also have some ideas for LZ maps as well as a few river maps. Unfortunately lots of plans and very little time. Confused

Also wanting to do OMG maps as well. Shocked

Gotta get Afrika 4041 done first tho. Very Happy

Anyway eraser get hold of me if you see this.


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