MaskRider Gilbert Islands

[Shadow Wolf 07]

How is it going with your scenery updates? It has been a while since you've posted any new pics.

Greg

[MaskRider]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to upload the Gilberts pack and keep getting an error message informing me that the file is too large for the file type. It is a standard zip file, slightly over 6MB in size.

Was ist los?

MR

[MaskRider]

Never mind.

Got it.

MR

[Shessi]

You wouldn't have been trying to upload the 6mb file where the picture should be and vica versa.....???

Cheers

Shessi

p.s Wouldn't be the first time I've tried doing that...dohhh!

[MaskRider]

Yes, that is what I did.

[MaskRider]

A new entry has been added to Add-Ons Library, category CFS 2 Scenery Add-Ons

Description:A nice little collection of airfields located in the Kiribati, Gilbert Islands. The pack includes Makin Island, Butaritari Island, Abaiang Atoll, Marakei Atoll, Tarawa Atoll (2 airfields), Maiana Atoll, Kuria island, Aranuka Island, Abemama Atoll, Nonouti Atoll, Tabituea Atoll (2 airfields), Onotoa Atoll, Tamana Island, Beru Island, Nikunau Island and Arorae Island.

All of the usual credits are included in the readme file however a couple of notable credits deserve mention for the contributions to this scenery in particular.

First let me say a great big thanks you to Kevin Driver for Beta-Testing and helping to develop the scenery bgls to make them more efficient.

Second, Robert Sprackland for coming through with a neat little searchlight scenery object when it was needed. Thank you Robert! Robert's searchlight is included in the scenery pack.

Also, I should mention that I made use of a lot of scenery objects developed by No Dice for his Viet Nam project. I listed all of the included No Dice scenery packs in the readme. I also provided the link at my website and here to the FreeFlightSite webpage where they can be found. Thanks Dave!

BTW, this scenery is meant to be used with Rhumba's mesh.

Hopefully everyone will have as much fun with it as I had making it!

That's about it!

Cheers. MR

PS: BTW here is a link to my Gilberts picture album so everyone can get an idea of what these airfields are supposed to look like.

PS: Just uploaded a slightly modified version. Nothing at all to do with the scenery. Just changed the wording in the mr-gilbert-islands-acs-gps-related-readme file from "Personally I would fly without it!" to "Personally I wouldn’t fly without it!".

To check it out, rate it or add comments, visit MaskRider Gilbert Islands
The comments you make there will appear in the posts below.

[Shadow Wolf 07]

Okay, I read above that the Gilberts package is being uploaded. I'm gonna grab that when I get home. What's next mate?

[Rami]

MaskRider,

Very nice, mate! Looks like I'll have to dust off my Pacific installs again.

[MaskRider]

These modified readme files have no effect whatsoever on the scenery itself. They just clarify a few syntactic/grammatical issues in the respective readmes.

THE DOWNLOAD CURRENTLY AVAILABLE HERE AT SOH ALREADY CONTAINS THESE UPDATED READMES.

Only the first 5 or 6 downloads contained the unmodified readmes.

No biggie. Just a bit of gravel I needed to shake out of my shoe!

Cheers,
MR

[bearcat241]

Well Chris, after getting all of the Viet objects installed in my PTO setup (added another 51 DP's to my already over-capacity objects_dp folder BTW), i reached a sticky point when i began to look into this part of the readme:

• Avoiding possible scenery conflicts: Deactivate any MR Micronesia (MN) scenery folder you may have installed. These new Gilbert Islands airfields will conflict with quite a few of the airfields in the MR Micronesia pack.

Seems that i have a lot of your old MR_Micronesia_100707 bases which are actually NOT represented by name in the new package. Since there's no obvious conflict with between these and the new names, would these still need to be deactivated?

[MaskRider]

Seems that i have a lot of your old MR_Micronesia_100707 bases which are actually NOT represented by name in the new package. Since there's no obvious conflict with between these and the new names, would these still need to be deactivated?

Hehe,

Hiya BC,

Yes, I guess I should have taken the time and done this already.

Here is a list of all the airfields from that 100707 pack that you should pull and put into a holding folder:

MN_Abemama_Atoll.BGL
MN_Aranuka_Island.bgl
MN_Beru_Island.bgl
MN_Kuria_Island.bgl
MN_Maiana_Atoll.bgl
MN_Marake_Atoll.bgl
MN_Tabiteuea_Atoll_North.bgl
MN_Tabiteuea_Atoll_South.bgl

Also, remember that these listed airfields from 100707 were built to fit stock masks (and stock mesh, what little there is of it). Pretty sure that the listed airfields were also API macro based- not GSL. Not all of the airfields in 100707 were built to fit stock mesh and masks with API macros instead of GSL. But these particular ones were. This new pack is built specifically to fit Rhumba mesh. There is actually a significant amount of elevation to many of the islands in the Gilberts pack.

I will add the list to the readme- siiiggghh! ;^)

Cheers,
Chris

[bearcat241]

Thanks for the reply...(wipes brow)