[MOD] English Channel 1940-1941, 1942-1945 Summer & Wi

Hi all,

Well, I'm really pleased to announce that my English Channel map is finished and available for download. You'll find that there are 4 maps - summer and winter versions of the 1940 - 1941 version, and summer and winter versions of the 1942 - 1945 version.

The download is very large - the maps come with hundreds of custom objects and airfields so be patient. You'll also need some other 3rd party object mods (see ReadMe for details). I've provided an auto-installer, though of course if you're ok with mods a manual install works too.

Not much more to say really. Enjoy the map and make lots of campaigns and missions!

Oh. One last thing to say. Please please please don't swamp me with installation questions/problems. Try and sort it out yourself. I'm only going to reply to those that I think aren't just caused by lack of mod-use experience etc.

Anyway - I'll end on a nice note. Thanks to all who gave advice/ideas/comments etc. I really hope you'll enjoy the map and have good fun recreating the dogfights over Europe.

Joe

DOWNLOAD LINKS:

http://rapidshare.com/files/272710677/English_Channel.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/272724808/English_Channel.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/272739703/English_Channel.part3.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/272742311/English_Channel.part4.rar

Edited entry by moderator:

For those where the rapidshare links don't work, such as myself, there's a post on page 7 describing some download links.
I took the liberty to move the links here. As I kept getting .rar files with the size of 3,4 Kb...

	FZ wrote:
	English channel map part I - IV http://www.megaupload.com/?d=980LE9I9 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PWYP0OUS http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z2H5R0QX http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LRYL4T0P

Cheers
Arctic
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FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T SAVE 1942-1945 FMB MISSIONS

Check your static.ini file and remove the extra 'b'. So,

[buildings.Plate$bitumenearthGroundTurn]
Title Turn
Mesh 3do/airfield/bbitumenearth/Turn/mono.sim

to

[buildings.Plate$bitumenearthGroundTurn]
Title Turn
Mesh 3do/airfield/bitumenearth/Turn/mono.sim

Other users were also able tosolve their issues by downloading and installing the Beta version of the map, available here :

http://www.allaircraftarcade.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5332

If you have CTD/Graphical Issues

There are two things to try:

1) Download these 'lite' actors.static files and follow instructions in ReadMe. All objects except trees are present.

http://www.canons-skins.com/aaa/EnglishChannel_lite.rar

2) Try this suggestion by vtrelut

	Quote:
	I ran again IL2 Setup.exe (it is at the root folder of the game and configures your conf.ini mainly), set the graphic card parameters to the maximum, and then switched to personalized settings; I made only 2 changes: enable S3TC texture compression and anisotropic filtering of textures.

Edit by moderator; reason: this might help some

FA_Bong wrote:

After working on this for 2 days, backing up all the pertinent files and keeping a record of what I was doing (thankfully I have a secondary install) I have figured out what the best way to install this map with the fewest headaches. It goes without saying that for this map to be included with any update it would have to self-install (without having to add anything to the static.ini) and for those people who really don't know how to do this manually that would create the least amount of headaches.

1. Start with UI_1.1.1 , this is best for everybody, it's not that hard to have multiple installs of this game for trying out new Mods.
You holdouts who haven't got it need to get on the bus.

2. If you already have 1.1.1 you Do Not need to install the Hanger Mod or the Fortification Mod, this will simplify things a little.

3. You need to have winrar you can get it here and use the trial forever http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
or here http://download.cnet.com/WinRAR-32-bit/3000-2250_4-10007677.html

4. If you have all the above covered put the 4 parts in a folder on your Desktop and left drag a box around all 4 parts and right click,
extract all 4 parts to English_Channel/ (that means hold the left mouse button down and drag the cursor over the 4 files) if it asks if its okay to overwrite say yes

5. Open the folder after you've extracted it and find the read me and get these 2 mods:
MadToc TOW Objects:
http://allaircraftarcade.com/forum/downloader.php?file=BranToc_objets_ToW.rar
KevinP Road Plates:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ljtwmtzw2nm
Once you have them you can drop the Road Plates Mod in your Mod folder Located in: C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
You will have to open them with winrar also and you must open them to find the root folder of each before dropping The Road Mod in, inside there will be an add to ini list for each. For the ToW objects you will have to create a Folder called Buildings and a Folder called 3do then you must drop the folder called ToW into Buildings, Buildings into 3do, and then 3do into STD in your Mods folder so that the end result looks like this: C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD\3do\Buildings\ToW
(again this should really be in the installer so that everybody who hasn't done this before isn't not going crazy)

6. I bet you thought you were done, right ? Not quite, you still have to locate your static .ini found in
C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\IL-2 Sturmovik 1946\MODS\STD\com\maddox\il2\objects
make a copy of it and put it in a folder and call it Origstatic, you can zip it up and keep it outside your game like in the Ubisoft folder if you like just in case your game goes wonky on you. Add the text from the add to static to the bottom of the static .ini
at the bottom right above the line that looks like this:

//===========================================================================
// eof
do the same thing with the RoadMod insertini.txt and the BranToc Tow objects static_ini.txt
go look at the last line of text above that that looks like this:
3do/airfield/bbitumenearth/Turn/mono.sim
and remove the extra b that I underlined,

Now Canon's Read Me has some of this already but this is for those of you that have not had the experience or are not sure I thought that this would clarify things and answer most of the questions all at once
I have a 32bit AMD2800+ on a PC Chips MB with 1.5 Gb Ram and an Nvidia GS7600 OC 512Mb agp card
I can get solid 35fps in a Spit or Hurri over London. I haven't had any Paratroop error so I cant speak to that and I have no problems with creating DF's or Coops and saving them in fact I already made a coop with 32 planes with little loss in framerates
I hope this helps someone sorry about the long post Good Luck and Good Hunting

FA_Bong

Cheers, edit ended by philip.ed

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An edit. Deutschmark would like you to know that there is a model WW1 tent that is included in the download (but not actually used on the map) that he made. He'd like you to know that I didn't make it. It somehow made it's way in to the download (I assume that after I imported the model for EasyRider's Ck project, it was just left over in my building folder). So, just to confirm. The WW1 tent that isn't in the map, but is included in the download, was made my Deutschmark. And not me.

Fly_zo - please feel free to download and if you're happy with the structure/download etc transfer to Official Map Section.

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Last edited by canonuk on Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:03 pm; edited 3 times in total

Yee Haw !!! Thanks for your supreme effort on this.

Wow! Thanks Joe Very Happy

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Yusssssss! You just made my day! My month! My year!

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Squiffy

Ouch!

Rapidshare says it's reached it's d/l limit.

What to do?

Thanks looking forward to it.

Triad

I LOVE YOU!

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Official MrJolly's fan !!!

respect and honor connects all pilots

I knew it was right to remain seated in front of the computer refreshing the browser every few minutes Razz

AT LAST, MAN!!!!!! AT LAST....
I have been waiting so long for this... Downloading now...
Not sure if I will get some sleep tonight... But...who cares...

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Thank you very much for this and all the hard work involved in creating it.

Downloading right now!

Very Happy

Wow thanx!

I know this is going sound and be a pain but I could only download the 1st part m8 Embarassed

Any chance of you upload to mediafire or somthing to get these really great maps?

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AWESOME!!!!!
Thank you for this much anticipated map and all of the hard work you have put into it.

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Come on now really, Rapidshare only allows you to download one part then your screwed if you don't have an account. Can't we get this here or on filefront? I can seed all of FA with Live Mesh after I get it. But I've reached my limit with part one.

You need to wait 15 minutes from the end of your first download, then it lets you do another; I assume this will repeat for the 3rd and so on, just onto my second d/l part now.

.......and now the third just started Surprised

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The most waited map of all times... downloading Very Happy

Thank you!