Mega New Elk WIP

[beelee]

@Black_Elk do you remeber how to move the names ? I want to center S Austria under the PU

I guess I could move the PU Bavaria needs to tidy up too

[beelee]

Uggh this is becoming almost unusable. I'm spending as much time restarting the machine as I am working. Wasn't this bad yesterday.

I'll see if I can boost my memory. I'm pretty sure it's maxed out.

[beelee]

Well, unfortunately, it's still freezing up for me. Mega Elk is the only map in downloadedMaps now. I guess I'll set vmoptions back to 1250 and see what happens.

Sadly, I'm not gonna be able to work on this map if I can't solve this problem.

[beelee]

Last try and I'm out of ideas after this. I'm real close to printing out the triplea dude and taping it to my machine, going out the backdoor and using it for tatget practice

WWI Trench Sweeper Program

Finally got triplea to fire up again. Had it all fckd up too

Well w/e guess i'll just do a Giant Bong Hit and struggle on. What a Major Bummer. Was all jacked up to work on this again.

[beelee]

Kinda hammered it's name but f it lol

[beelee]

@Black_Elk

hmm that Infanatry looks as if it's got that tangent thing going on. I think that's what you called. Idfn lol

Maybe just boost him up a 5 spot

[Black_Elk]

@beelee Yeah I mean for the tiny spots sometimes gotta just do what ya feel I think. Looks fine to me long as the overflows aren't all running into each other should prob be good. Nice work!

Using WCs I made this in the Edit for a quick 1939-40ish vibe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GMH5ESeHwNbYXvtQqiNX4kZ9eSKZAMc2/view?usp=sharing

Not sure if I caught all the spots, Cuba I think would still be Pro-Side Allies probably. I didn't add the Mongolians, Congo might need a different handling or a few more pro Axis in the Balkans, just depends on the start date, but something along those lines for a more UHD look I think would prob work for the familiar. If doing up a scenario for that one as well

oh there we go, forgot it was too large to attach hehe

[beelee]

@black_elk

Sweet

Balkans are done. Well almost. I'm gonna flow Bosnia left and Croatia lower left .

lol

Edit

Yea that's better. The dudes are primarily gonna be going east, although Italy a little trickier. Whatever they gotta go somewhere

[wc_sumpton]

@beelee, @Black_Elk

Wow guys! Thumbs up to you both!

Making me feel lazy! (Mega New Elk, S&G 1914, North Africa, maybe I just need something to do, like a new project.)

Just fantastic!

Cheers...

[beelee]

Eastern Front getting a little crowded, but sometimes you're just gonna have a little bit of that

[beelee]

well I was gonna try and not spam out the thread but I guess I already have lol

4 more and mainland europe will be done for the reich. Silesia turned out nicely

Start on the commies next. Actually, I guess I should do those fascist bastards in Italy as long as I'm in Europe. Gotta do Scandanavia too.

Well, I guess it doesn't matter what order it gets done in lol

[wc_sumpton]

@beelee

Looking good!

I would think about commenting out unitInitialize section while doing this to get a cleaner look at the map.

Cheers...

[beelee]

@wc_sumpton

hee hee East Prussia last one for mainland G. I'll update to git so I don't get to far in front of my skis.

Snowmobile the way to go anyway. That's still a workout though

I was gonna be a pit dude on the ALCAN 200 for this guy but he punked out lol.

Sorry roads closed. Wtf ? Snowmachine race. Had to fry at the KPI in Haines Junction lol

They don't like outsiders

[beelee]

got G done for mainland europe. I'll upload to git in a bit

@VictoryFirst here's how your G start looks now

[beelee]

hmm .. maybe Danzig PU should go a bit higher
well w/e lol

[Black_Elk]

Looking cool! I would just call those marshes Pripet for simplicity, might have been a typo when flying to knock out that original key.

I wish I could offer more guidance on the labels, but I think short and sweet makes sense, since the space is at a premium. There is some awkwardness in that Hepster's initial draft (that I built from) alternated between regional labels and then metro labels. So sometimes you'd have one territory named for say a province or a state, other times for a major city or geographical feature, and it's not terribly consistent there. I also wasn't considering the actual display in GCD, since we knew there that they'd only display during the mouse over with the cursor. Then there are some instances where it seemed to make sense to use a more generic name, like North X, East X, South X, West, Central X, whatever, just to try and be more catch-all and since those were easier to simplify N.W.S.E. Cen. Though I'll admit I find that a bit lackluster at times, since it's rather less useful as an educational tool or as an aid to memory. I feel like it's just this endless can of worms though, where it's pretty hard to find a satisfactory compromise, and people will of course have opinions on it all. On the one hand there's some definite jingoism in defaulting to English conventions, but I feel like this is unavoidable if we want it feel consistent across the board, or especially if using Abbreviations for stuff. Anyhow, if something seems questionable, I would default to whatever seems most familiar to you. We can always go back and make adjustments for that stuff later on. Whatever is easy

Nice work!

[beelee]

@black_elk

heh heh yea I'm just kinda winging it on the names. Figure if I can undertand it, most others can.

It's a pretty low bar

Well gonna git and then Scandanavia. Still need N Africa but w/e it can wait lol

Gotta reup back in a few

Edit
Updated to git https://github.com/beelee1/mega_new_elk/pull/15

[beelee]

Struggled hard with Bergen-Vestland lol took an hour lol

It'd be nice to move the Names. Well, we can deal with it in the future

[wc_sumpton]

@beelee said in Mega New Elk:

It'd be nice to move the Names. Well, we can deal with it in the future

Create a new folder called "territoryNames". Select "Map Creator Tools" and set the map folder. Next select "Step 2: Map Utilities". Then select "Run The Decoration Placer" and select pu_place to start, after the PUs are loaded on the screen select "Save Current and Keep Them On The Map and Load New File" and select name_place for the next file. Make sure you select "Text File Full of Points" because the default will be "Folder Full of Images". It should load a default "TerritoryName" image. This will show you where all the territory name are being printed on the map and also where you place the PUs marker. Move the names at your leisure. Do not reload the PUs because things will start getting confusing. Save, quit then reload. If you want to do PUs, load territory names first and then load PUs.

Hope this is helpful.

Cheers...

[beelee]

@wc_sumpton said in Mega New Elk:

"Text File Full of Points" because the default

hmm ... I'm not familiar with that. Will check it out