Rustman1980 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 Not really a mod, but I wasn't sure where to post this. Anyway, I like having physical topographical maps. For me it makes it quicker to read the terrain than flying the camera around the game world. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find that anyone had actually made any, so I just started making my own. This was my initial attempt at one of the smaller scenarios. It turned out... ok, I think. I can't actually get to a printer at the moment to see what it looks like on paper, but in theory it is sized to print on a 5x8 card. I'm going to keep making them regardless, but if anyone thinks that they might be useful I could post them on here as I finish them. CryHavoc.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 I think that this is a pretty cool idea. Execution wise there is an issue. To get the map to more or less fill a 8.5x11 page I had to use a scale of 300%. The image is a bit low res / high compression and I can see jpg artifacts on the printed page. Even then the title is so far away from the map that what I did cuts off the title even though the left, bottom and right border are pleasant enough. Personally I would target 8.5 x 11 or A4 instead of half size cards. But if you really like the card size perhaps just creating the image such that others can scale it up to fit a full page. Thumbs up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheForwardObserver Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 @Rustman1980 Nice. Glad I'm not the only one making physical maps for the game, with MGRS coordinates overlayed etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman1980 Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 4 hours ago, IanL said: I think that this is a pretty cool idea. Execution wise there is an issue. To get the map to more or less fill a 8.5x11 page I had to use a scale of 300%. The image is a bit low res / high compression and I can see jpg artifacts on the printed page. Even then the title is so far away from the map that what I did cuts off the title even though the left, bottom and right border are pleasant enough. Personally I would target 8.5 x 11 or A4 instead of half size cards. But if you really like the card size perhaps just creating the image such that others can scale it up to fit a full page. Thumbs up. Well, technically my goal was 1:25k scale because that is the most detailed military map scale that I have a protractor for... it just happens that the maps are so small that they all will probably fit on a 5x8 card. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustman1980 Posted August 13, 2016 Author Share Posted August 13, 2016 Ok, I made a version that is scaled up to 1:10,000 for letter sized paper. CryHavoc10000.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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