DaveyJJ
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By the way, I can't get maps from that French website. I tried the translator, but still no joy. I'm going back in to try again, but any tips would be greatly appreciated.
On the first page in the text input in green box in the bottom centre that says "Je peux choisir un lieu en précisant soit :" type in a location; i.e., Putot-en-bessin, then click the grey results link that appears below.
Then on the scrolling list of dates called "Catalogue" on the left side, click one of the dates you're you're interested in. Make sure it has the red note about being free. In my case, the 1947 photo.
The map should refresh and show a topographic map with little green crosses showing the points of aerial photos. Click one of those to see the area of the photo bordered and highlighted, then click the link in the pop up dialogue box that says "Télécharger la photo [Aide]" and it'll download a high resolution JPG of the aerial photo. They run about 10MB in size. Note, they're also rotated 180 degrees (at least the one's I grabbed were), i.e., north is at the bottom.
Voila! (Note: Your browser's mileage may vary ... it works OK on Safari at home, not at work. Firefox works fine both place. Google Chrome choaked.)
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FWIW, I started work on a 2.5km x 2.5km (6.25km^2) map today. It's of a real area to the east of Vire, for a battle dated 10 Aug.
I'm using a Geoportail Topo map, and a http://loisirs.ign.fr/accueilPVA.do 1947 photo both gridded to 500m squares.
I started by setting my CM map to 2.5 x 2.5km (well, actually 2496m x 2496m), then putting reference hashes every 500m both to the east and to the north. The I numbered each square so-created A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, B1, B2, etc up to E5. These 500x500 squares match the ones on the Geoportail map and the aerial photo.
Next up I've drawn in the road system and the river system. Actually, I haven't quite finished the road system, but it's nearly there. I've also been adding landmarks on the roads, and the names of villages.
That's as much as I got done tonight. It took about 3-3.5hrs working fairly steadily.
Tomorrow I'll finish the road net, add a bunch more landmarks including spot heights, then start the contours. After that will come the buildings, then the bocage and fence lines, then the vegetation, and finally any flavour objects. I'll nudge the roadnet and others around as I need to when I come to the buildings, etc.
Depending on how things go, I expect to have the contours and buildings complete by the end of this week. I'll keep you posted.
Sounds cool. A screen shot or two of the progress would be nice to distract from the wait for the demo, if you could find the time
Also, I noticed you mentioned laying roads and rivers and then doing the contours ... is that the most efficient method?
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However, with all the excitement about the demo, I was wondering if someone in the know could clarify if a Mac demo would also be available and if so, whether this will be released at the same time as the PC version.
Thanks,
Yes, OSX demo same date/time as PC demo. Possibly very very soon.
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Oh, I can do you one better. A couple of months ago a bunch of us watched all 14 episodes and Serenity all in one day. We started at 8 in the morning and went straight on until about 10pm. Much high quality beer and eats were consumed in the process. It was some powerful shiny
Must watch:
Steve
My wife and I are going to watch the whole series again over the summer during her lull in new TV watching (now that most series are wrapping up for the year). Shiny, indeed.
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I ain't the most observant of beta testers.
You have now become the official "why the game was delayed" guy. Shoddy testers, jeesh.
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Cancelling the Firefly show has to be up there with one of the stupidest decisions ever made.
Showing the fourth episode first and assuming people would understand what the hell was going on and who these people were and how they related to one another ranks right up there, though. Loved Firefly.
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A dozen or so buildings surrounded by woods and fields isn't a town in is hardly even a village.
If I recall my urban geography courses from way back in my double major (1985-1989), a hamlet is defined simply a small village, without a church, and usually only with a single road running through it (no side streets connecting to the main road). No market, and usually at about 14-16 houses. A village has a church, and towns have markets. At least that's how I remember it, although I seem to recall one course where population also defined what one called a settlement, but that might have been North American specific. I've done some quick research for rural French hamlet pics from the 1930s and 40s and only a handful of them had cobbled roads ... mostly just well-packed dirt(?) tracks.
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The disks are too round.
They're round?! WTH is Battlefront thinking?
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Looks like someone took Bernard Montgomery, froze him in carbonite, and then mounted him on the side of a tank. Or am I seeing too much into this?
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Mama's boys who'd never met a decent group of angry Canadian infantry. The 12th SS didn't stand a chance the minute the Canucks hit Juno.
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So, regardless of what day it makes it's appearance and someone's managed to download and install it, how soon do you think it's going to be before the first complaint topic gets started on these forums?
Can be any type of complaint ... bad artillery aiming, buggy gameplay, poor models, can't plays Brits?, wrong number of lugnuts on the second rear wheel of whatever model of PzIV you're nutty about, unable to install correctly, video card complaints, etc ... but will be characterized by whining and complaining that the world is now unfair and BF have no clue what they're doing, etc etc.
1. Less than 15 minutes.
2. Less than an hour.
3. BF will get at least a three hour break from dealing with us lot.
4. Within 12 hours.
5. At least a day.
6. Release? Hell, I'm planning to complain about something in the demo.
7. What? The current list of grievances we've been whining about for weeks pre-release don't count?
What say the forum members?
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Let me guess you come to Stratford to visit all the Justin Bieber landmarks.
My kids are WAY more mature (and have far better taste than that manufactured boy wonder) than that, jeez.
I come in in March for Hot Lead, one of Canada's best miniatures gaming conventions. That's maturity ... 48 year old men pushing around little metals soldiers.
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Hell, those were nice videos. I actually loved the look of both maps. Can't wait to get my hands on the editor.
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On April 20th Moon said the game will be released "within the next 14-21 days"
21 days brings us to Tuesday, May 10 if my math is correct.
Steve said in this thread that they are looking good to hit this target. If Moons announcement is the one he was referring too.
So if all goes well we should be blowing stuff up next week. Wooohooo
That's exactly the point I was trying to make to gnorffy. On April 20th BF said the game will be released within 14-21 days of that day. May 11th at the latest. They just stated they're still on target, so hopefully by Wednesday of this week ...
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SO that means a release date of June 6th, right?
Steve said "which was set 3 weeks ago and we still think we'll hit" ... that's up to May 11th. Over and out.
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Thanks. Now I can go do other things for the next few days.
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I dont think battlefront ever said that
The gamerswithjobs.com interviewer said it, though, and reiterated that on the forums here, and he was told that by the folks at BF. Not worth arguing over, though, since it appears it's not happening this week. Probably have run into some last minute snags in the demo release which is not unexpected. It'll be a better demo for it. Sigh.
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Something on my Apple IIe, I seem to recall. But my memories of the late 70s are tough to pin down.
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Given the ongoing changes mentioned in another thread, can we now assume there's no demo today? That "a demo next week" was, in fact, a bit premature to announce so publicly?
[i just a moment ago opened my Mastercard bill and there it is, USD$74.00BATTLEFRONT.COM, funny coincidence, that. Sniff.]
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A person from Waterloo. Small world.
Hi neighbor.. I'm from Stratford.
Hey, just down the road. Often find ourselves in Stratford.
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312 QB maps and the efforts of the community map makers, including myself? There'll be plenty to keep CMBN players occupied for a very long time I suspect.
LATER EDIT: Hey, I just noticed! 312 maps mentioned during my 312th post ... it's a sign the demo is coming!!!
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Laptops have effectively one button, and I don't remember when they went to the "Magic Mouse" which at least has awkward support for multiple buttons. What I'm saying is they should have a PC mouse with two large right/left buttons and a scrollwheel between them. No having to press down a key no need to manually figure out how to mimic right-click behavior. It should just work right out of the box.
Steve
Oh, laptop, right (glances down at his own MBP laptop, d'oh!). yes it should work right out of the box, agreed.
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Can we get a CMBN status update app for the iPhone?
Hey, I can make one of those! I'll set it so that at 3:27AM every morning, the countdown timer resets to 28 hours so when you wake up the release date countdown clock will always seem to begin again at 24 hours.
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Good show! I finished reading this book last week, and the 1st., 4th., 9th., and 30th. as well as the 2nd. Armored, 3rd. Armored, 4th. Armored, and later on the 6th. Armored were very intimately involved in the Cobra breakout. The situation was very fluid most of the time, so lots of battalion-sized battles and smaller were critical to the whole operation. Good meat for CM.
Michael
I've heard others mention that's a good book and I know it's in my local library. I'll go and take it out at lunch tomorrow. Thanks for the recommendation.
Compatibility of demo and full game (vs play) ?
in Combat Mission Battle for Normandy
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What's a registry?
(Yet another smug OSX user just passing time waiting for the demo. Couldn't resist.)