Campaign Series: East Front 1939-1941 Sneak Peeks, Coming Attractions, Work-in-progress

[Crossroads]

Looking at the locations I want to depict for CS: East Front 1.0 , I am going back and forth as whether to do them as separate maps, or whether to start over in some cases and to do a full Isthmus map.

Here's Isthmus, copy-pasted from 1:100k maps available at www.karjalankartat.fi to this master file, a snippet below.

Just doing the square bit, which would be more than enough I'd wage, that's 120 * 110 kilometers, or 480 x 440 hexes. But with encouragement and tips from Jason, I will do them one smaller area at time.

The grid visible is a 2km x 2km grid, so each square is 8*8 = 64 hexes.

[Crossroads]

Luckily, or because of some significant mapping done earlier, I have the upper left quadrant covering the Viborg Bay area already available. So the first task is to extend that one midway towards Lake Ladoga in East, to cover the Vuosalmi area (of which I already have a high quality map available). But better to have a master map.

Once there, onwards to shores of Ladoga next, covering the Taipale river area. Those areas alone will cover the heaviest fighting in Winter War in the area.

[Crossroads]

Jason of course already has some crazy big maps, covering Smolensk for instance. Great times!

[Oberst_Klink]

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Klink, Oberst

[dox44]

hate to say it...but i love the new maps.

great job!

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: dox44

hate to say it...but i love the new maps.

great job!

[:)]

[Big Ivan]

Have to say Crossroads, I do like the 3D look in your #3 post above.

Seems a lot crisper and more pleasing to these old eyes!

Thanks[:)]

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: Big Ivan

Have to say Crossroads, I do like the 3D look in your #3 post above.

Seems a lot crisper and more pleasing to these old eyes!

Thanks[:)]

Thanks! Early times, as Jason pointed out too. Middle East graphics there for the most part, still, with some legacy buildings resized as placeholders. [:)]

[sinbuster]

Hey Crossroads, this is all looking really great. Had a question about the linked campaigns. Were you planning to bring them back, update them, or perhaps add more to the mix? I really loved those - although there was never enough of them, especially for EFII. There are so many great opportunities for mini-campaigns on the East Front I wouldn't know where to begin.

If you do add those LGC, please include a better operations map. The original map between missions wasn't ideal. It was especially bad on the WF campaigns where the red dot would basically obscure the whole target.

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: sinbuster

Hey Crossroads, this is all looking really great. Had a question about the linked campaigns. Were you planning to bring them back, update them, or perhaps add more to the mix? I really loved those - although there was never enough of them, especially for EFII. There are so many great opportunities for mini-campaigns on the East Front I wouldn't know where to begin.

If you do add those LGC, please include a better operations map. The original map between missions wasn't ideal. It was especially bad on the WF campaigns where the red dot would basically obscure the whole target.

Thanks! As for LCGs, they are still around, for instance CS Middle East had a few of them. We overhauled the front end user interface a bit for Middle East 2.0, so there's a larger space available for the LCG map IIRC. Also the red dot marking the objective has been replaced with the modern icon used to depict a location, so hopefully that helps too.

[sinbuster]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads
Thanks! As for LCGs, they are still around, for instance CS Middle East had a few of them. We overhauled the front end user interface a bit for Middle East 2.0, so there's a larger space available for the LCG map IIRC. Also the red dot marking the objective has been replaced with the modern icon used to depict a location, so hopefully that helps too.

Good to know. That should hold me over for a bit. I do hope I'm not the only one that really enjoyed those LCGs. Big red one, blue and gray in normandy, screaming eagles, rumyantsev...fun stuff.

[Tidavis]

Hello Everyone. Has the install process changed at all. I have a computer using win10 and JTCS seems to have problems with it.


Install the base game then the newest patch?


If one of the developers would please contact me I have a question or two about subjects left over from my time on the team.

Thank You.

[Crossroads]

Email sent! If you have still issues with JTCS on your latest computer please post on the Tech Support subforum.

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Another progress report: the area marked with the red square is some 47 000 hexes. So still one or two hexes to fill. We're all mad here. [:'(]

[Big Ivan]

Very Nice!

Keep knocking her out Crossroads!

Some of the top down graphics peaks I'm seeing are real good stuff!

Thanks!
John[:)]

[Crossroads]

Happy new year everyone! It's been a bit quiet with festive season and everything, but here's little something that has been going on. Namely, 'DM729' upgrading the East Front German unit images:

ORIGINAL: DM729

Here is the PzII. The original was pretty jumbled. I cleaned it up and gave the turret a makeover. Now you can see the main armament.

ORIGINAL: DM729

Here is the new and improved PzIB. It was a tough one to say the least but I think I got the hull angles to stand out along with view ports and the headlight. It's one of my favorite tanks so I got rather obsessive with it!

A few small touch ups here and there but she's out of the barn!

ORIGINAL: DM729

Work on EFIII units continues. The PzIVD is here to pound some bunkers on the way to Warsaw.

ORIGINAL: DM729

I hope everyone had a great Holiday!

Here's a Panzer 35(t) I've been working on. The turret face is all redone as well as the engine deck.

Gotta love those Czech tanks!

[Crossroads]

ORIGINAL: DM729

The new Panzer IVE is here.

The road to Moscow is open!

[Crossroads]

Don's been at it again [:)]

ORIGINAL: DM729

I just uploaded to 18 Germany:

Early War Colors only-

PSW 231 (6 RAD)
PzIB as well as mixed Pz platoons w PzIVD
PzIIA-C and F
Pz35(t)
Pz38(t)A-E
PzIIID
PzIVD
PzIVE

Going to start on the Flamm units next.

Here's the PzIIID:

[Crossroads]

Similar to what I posted at the CS Middle East Matrix forum, here's the same for CS East Front.

ORIGINAL: Crossroads

Build time again for all games under development, meaning new BETAs for CS Vietnam and CS Middle East (2.01 UPDATE), and new ALPHAs for CS East Front and CS Cold War.

Or, new builds for our Modern and WW2 game engines, put another way. As we work towards the eventual release of the Vietnam game, with all new code, graphics, and features added, we keep the other versions up to date and run automated tests on those as well.

Here's a fresh look for the current BETA for the CS Middle East 2.01 UPDATE. I've resized the original 3440x1440 screenshot, but otherwise what you see is what you will get, too. This is the 3D Zoom-in view, with large toolbar. Also note the unit list on the right - edit: err, on the left - is extended as there's more screen estate than compared to the regular HD monitors with 1920x1080 screen sizes.

it is, at CS Legion.

Screenshot from East Front ALPHA, instead:

[Crossroads]

If anyone is curious: JTCS 2.x was compiled with Visual Studio 2008 which is native to Windows Vista (remember that?). Vista was perhaps not the most succesive operating system ever, but at the same time it was introducing many new things, dynamic scaling IIRC one of them.

I still have JTCS actively installed, and it too runs on the above setup [:)]