wake

Long Bow · Post by **Long Bow** » 2007-08-23 14:11

pasfreak wrote:
THE BF2 wake island, is not welcome here.

making one as big as kashan would require some work, but it would be worthwile seeing that it is realistic and 90% of the map is just water.

Pfft, all the Devs have to do is open the map, click on the outline (when you see the little arrows) and then click and drag out to the size you like. Done, just like that.

For sure the current wake would not work, a much larger scale verion with limited equipment could work. Basically someone needs to put some time into this and present it to the Devs to critique.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-08-23 15:00

Long Bow wrote:Pfft, all the Devs have to do is open the map, click on the outline (when you see the little arrows) and then click and drag out to the size you like. Done, just like that.

have you ever done any BF2 mapping?? From that comment I guess not.

Jarven · Post by **Jarven** » 2007-08-23 15:02

Real life sized Wake island *Drools*

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-08-23 15:08

yes its about 5x5 kms real life size, and thats not including the water around it fit for a carrier.

to do a modenr wake island well IMO would require the following.

- A PLA Carrier
- A PLA Frigate / destroyer
- PLA carrier based figther and bomber jets
- 8x8 km min size map, really would want it to be a 16x16kms thou to have the sea space you really need for the carrier and dog fights.

Red Halibut · Post by **Red Halibut** » 2007-08-23 15:10

It's location is 19°18′N 166°38′E. Plug that into Google earth and you'll get a great sat view that you can use for texturing. I reckon that including the reef the island is around 6.5km E-W and 6.1km N-S, so you could probably do it at just under 2/3rds scale to fit it into a 4kmx4km box, but that wouldn't leave much space for offshore, so 1/2 scale (at about 3km x 3km) would at least give you 500m around the outside (or about a km to one side for a carrier).

Red Halibut · Post by **Red Halibut** » 2007-08-23 16:07

Uhh Rhino? I missed the last part of your post there... is a 16km x 16km map feasible? I knew you'd cracked the 4 x 4 (Kashan Desert), but 16 x 16?!

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-08-23 17:37

Red Halibut wrote:Uhh Rhino? I missed the last part of your post there... is a 16km x 16km map feasible? I knew you'd cracked the 4 x 4 (Kashan Desert), but 16 x 16?!

largest map I've crated is a 8x8km map but its really buggy, but there is no reason I can think of why a 16 x 16 map wouldn't be possible, but would be 2x as buggy as a 8x8km map

also bare in mind each time you dobel the scale of a map, you 1/2 the quality of the terrain.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2007-08-23 17:41

8x8 should be sean and air batles only , then you dont need to care if the terrain is low detailed

VipersGhost · Post by **VipersGhost** » 2007-08-23 18:12

8 x 8 would be sick.

Post by **fuzzhead** » 2007-08-23 18:19

vanilla bf2 wake island is an awful map, sorry.

but yea a 8x8 km sea battle or 16x16 sea battle with an island in the middle would be uber

Post by **MAINERROR** » 2007-08-23 19:20

Just design a completely new map with multiple medium-sized islands, one bigger island (for the mainbase) and the US carrier from Special Forces.

Post by **77SiCaRiO77** » 2007-08-23 20:07

nah , no islands , just pure ship/plane battles .

jackal22 · Post by **jackal22** » 2007-08-23 20:17

the only thing is, by the looks of google earth it will be 10x more open then airport which was already pretty much a support/frag fest.

i dont see how there could be all that much cover maybe among the military complexes but capping the airport would be suicidal.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-08-24 06:38

77SiCaRiO77 wrote:nah , no islands , just pure ship/plane battles .

there wouldn't be much point in calling it wake island there would there? go play the battleships mod for god sakes if all you want is plane/ship battles. You aint going to find any naval warfare in PR.

tekkyy · Post by **tekkyy** » 2007-08-24 06:45

Is there no hope at all?

I was hoping for an air map once PR finish with the jets in 0.9 or whatever.

AnRK · Post by **AnRK** » 2007-08-24 13:32

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:have you ever done any BF2 mapping?? From that comment I guess not.

I think that may have been a joke...

Would be nice to see the Chinese attacking the US on oriental soil though if it were re-done.

Long Bow · Post by **Long Bow** » 2007-08-24 13:36

[R-DEV]Rhino wrote:have you ever done any BF2 mapping?? From that comment I guess not.

Uhhm No I haven't, keen obervation, however you failed to observe the

at the end. I was being sarcastic, the one thing I do know is that it would take a fair deal of work to make a PR proper Wake as you said. Sorry for the confusion.