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CTRifle wrote:Sorry if you already said it, but where can all the textures be found to use with Tpaint?

CTRifle wrote:Sorry if you already said it, but where can all the textures be found to use with Tpaint?

lucky.BOY wrote:What are those grey rectangles supposed to be? I can make out helipads, runways and parking lot just fine, but not the rest.

You might want to add some hangars close to helipads, or fuel depots etc. For runways, you need to connect them to hangars with taxiways, but make sure that they are not too long .

Are those big transport planes meant to use the airfield regurarly, or are they just there with the invasion force? If that area they are in is used by big planes regurarly, maybe make it part of the airstrip, i.e. modelled, and connect it to nothern runway.

EDIT: Also on airfield with multiple runways those runways are usually connected, as the active runway is selected according to direction of wind etc.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;1789312']Airbase Layout
When designing your airbase layout, you should try and base your runway layout on a realistic layout, even if your making a fictional map with a functional airbase, just to keep the airbase looking, feeling and behaving realistically. You can do a few things differently if you feel it will help gameplay but its best to keep things as realistic as possible, with the only thing you can't do realistically for the most point is keeping the scale of the real runway, as runways in PR are much smaller due to our map sizes. Simply search on google images/google maps etc for airbases, using terms like RAF and USAF etc and just looking at layouts, perhaps noting down bits of each one or better still, picking one to go off and perhaps making a few alterations, or if your making a map based on a real area, find as much as you can about the airbase in that location and make it.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll ... 7&t=h&z=15

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;1789312']Taxiways
When doing your taxiways its important to ensure they can't be used as "mini runways" as this just looks retarded and brakes immersion and enables jets to get up in the air more quickly than they would otherwise be possible. Instead you should try to think of ways in your airbase design to try and stop the taxiways being used as a runway. Having a short taxiway system is the simplest route, if the taxiway is too short then it can't be used as a runway since the jet can't get enough speed to get into the air. Putting obstacles in the way at the end of the taxiway is also another good method, as jets don't want to slam into a big flood light at the end when taking off, but if the taxiway is long enough the jet can possibly climb over or serve away from this obstacles at the last second. Its important thou not to put too many near the runway in an unrealistic fashion as this could impact jets using the runway correctly in an unrealistic manner. Twists and turns in a long taxiway system also help with braking it up but not a perfect solution either. There is no one solution to this problem, but something you need to keep in mind all the time.
For Camp Bastion luckily there wasn't much of a taxiway system to be used as a runway, so it was pretty simple to ensure it couldn't be used as a runway.
For the Falklands for the Argentinian airbase (BAM Rio Grande) There also wasn't much of a taxiway system, but still just enough to potentially be exploited so I put lots of flood lights up, repair stations, fences and drainage pipes about to ensure that one, the taxiway system had to be used and two, anyone trying to use it as a runway would smash into one of these obstacles.

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;1789312']Runway Length
On runway Length, you should aim for a ~800m runway minimum for fast jets. The longer you can make your runway the better but measure out the area on your map to ensure its going to fit in well, a ~1000m runway is really an ideal length if you have the space and even longer will ensure that even the worse pilots have a good chance at landing on it. Also keep in mind the runway length needs to be in line with the grid size of the concrete blocks. For example you can't have a 750m runway with an 8m grid square without your last grid square not being able to fit fully on the runway and 1/4 of it having to be chopped off the end, looking odd.

Grid Size
Each grid square should be 8x8m, with every texture tile containing 3x3 grid squares, so each texture tile should be 24x24m. While you can technically have a different grid setup, its inadvisable. When UVing the texture to your airbase, its really a simple matter of calculating how many tiles you need. For example if you have a 800m runway, and your working on a 8m grid square, with each texture tile having 3 grids in it, with each tile being 24m, then 800 / 24 = 33.3333 tiles, which basically = 33 tiles and 1 grid block from the 34th tile. Also keep in mind however that the max amount of times you can tile a texture in BF2 is 16 (although technically 32 if you start your tiling at -16, -16 going to +16, +16) so you may need to cut your model up so you can brake the UV tiles at some point, but that isn't really much of a problem if you know how to do that and how to move your UVs correctly.

Stemplus wrote:Well tbh I based this on Burning Sands airport, and then added a few parts (like the round'bout from IRL airports). And yes, this is ment to be small commercial airport (So noone will kill me if I will put a NATO airbase 5,5km from it )

Stemplus wrote:Also, I am planning to use the normal 1km runway + taxiways made by painting the terrain.