New ETO Scenery Build

[Pen32Win]

After almost two years away from CFS2 I finally got a flight controller and replaced my back-up (wimpy 250W) power supply so now I'm getting ready to do a fresh ETO Install. Something in my old one is making it lockup and perform very poorly. So instead of trying to sort out exactly what is giving it fits :isadizzy:I've decided to start from scratch Scenery wise. I've D/L'ed Rami's ETO Install guide which was produced in 2009, I believe. My question is.... Since then have there been any changes that concern the Landclass, Terrain Mesh, Waterclass, Shorelines, etc.? I've been looking at all of the add-ons and can't see anything other than one update to the mesh to replace a bad sector. I know about the Thames addition and plan to install that too.

Airfields and localized scenery can wait until I get the base scenery done. I just want to make sure I get it right the first time so I don't end up in the same fix I'm in now.

Also, ETO texture sets, what's the best out there these days and I read something about an new Operations Area file for the ETO/MTO but haven't been able to locate it.

Thanks in advance for your input and helping me get back into the air.

[Rami]

Pen32Win,

Gotcha covered...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=49&id=2931

Here's one for the MTO as well, in case you need it.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?action=jump&catid=49&id=2932

There may be a bad link in there for one of Rhumba's mesh sets...here's a place to find a fix...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?43692-Rami%C2%92s-ETO-install-guide-file-problems

[Pen32Win]

Thank you Good Sir!!!

Did you do that Operations Area File I read about? (But now can't locate again....Duh)

[Rami]

Thank you Good Sir!!!

Did you do that Operations Area File I read about? (But now can't locate again....Duh)

Pen32Win,

Jagdflieger did a Mission Builder support package. Here is the first version: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/downloads/download.php?lloc=downloads&FileID=10293

Here is the Operations file update: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/downloads/download.php?lloc=downloads&FileID=10885

Here is the second, updated version of the Mission Builder support package: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/downloads/download.php?lloc=downloads&FileID=13484

[Pen32Win]

You're a Godsend Rami.......:salute:

[Pen32Win]

Well I got it all D/L'ed last night and got three fresh installs (ETO 39-43, ETO 44-45, MTO) done, cleaned out of all of the PTO stuff and replaced all of the sounds, FX's, infrastructure, GSL, etc. with my favorites. So tonight I'm hoping I can drop all of the scenery in.

There's still a question of textures.

For the ETO.....I don't even remember which ones are loaded in my old ETO install.....

And question for the Desert Rats, what's the top of the sand heap?

[Jean Bomber]

Hi Pen32Win,
For the desert fox and rats I've done the desert scenery beta to put under the sand heap,on top on the rhumba's lod8 mesh,that give coastlines at sea level,roads,railways,new water and land masks to fit with these mesh from Alexandria to South Tunisia :salute:
There is some winds,the last weeks and today, in these places,Tobrouk is falled!
http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/page.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=15733
it's a beta version, we could debat about the textures used, the landclass is mainly a patching of the cfs2 bugs and just a begin of it . It's a desert_scen that I hope will have its desert_bases scenery one these days.

JP

[Rami]

For the ETO.....I don't even remember which ones are loaded in my old ETO install.....

And question for the Desert Rats, what's the top of the sand heap?

Pen32Win,

As Jean Bomber has just stated, his scenery, along with Achim's bases, are the top of the heap. Jean Bomber has done WONDERS with Gibraltar, Pantelleria, and other islands in the area. Bruno's Malta (2nd version) is also wondrous, and, Jean Bomber is soon to release Afnor, Part II, which will have Casablanca and other areas in Morocco.

His desert coastlines are included in the MTO guide I linked you to.

Oh yeah...before I forget...you don't have to use Achim's bases in the old warbirds archive. I repackaged them by country / region to make the installation process infinitely easier. You can find them in the new library. Just click here...

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links_search.php?action=show&userid=584&sort=d

[Pen32Win]

Thank You Gents;

Excellent information. I knew about the re-pak of Achim's bases and will be all over them as soon as the ground is ready for them.

The MTO will be a whole new ball of wax for me. I think the last time I did anything with the MTO was in CFS1....

Thanks Again!!!

This will be a great resource thread.