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Erik Rutins -> Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/28/2009 9:39:59 PM)

A full size JPEG image of the entire Admiral's Edition Map is now available in the Members Club for registered Admiral's Edition owners. Just click on the Members link in the top Navigation Bar on our site, login, register your game and you'll find it under My Games -> Private Downloads (for WITP AE).

Regards,

- Erik



AttuWatcher -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/28/2009 9:40:36 PM)

Thanks Erik [8D]



hellfirejet -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/28/2009 9:42:25 PM)

cheers on my way [8D]



steveh11Matrix -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 12:29:52 AM)

Cheers, Erik - d/l now. [:)]



jwilkerson -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 3:04:47 AM)

Wonder how much kinkos would charge to print out a wall sized bitmap version ... like a 10 foot acrosser? I'm guessing $300USD. Boy that would look cool and would help game play if it was right on the wall behind my laptop!



Mike Solli -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 3:05:44 AM)

Of course you'd have to laminate it too. [:D]



jwilkerson -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 3:12:51 AM)

Actually I was scaling up - the $80 price I paid for a laminated map I got them to do for me a couple of years ago. A period topo of Saaremaa - for a "future" game of the German invasion in 1917. So yes, I was thinking laminated, but forgot to say it!




aoffen -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 5:29:45 AM)

Anyone got any suggestions on graphics utilities to use on a JPEG file. Something that would allow me to draw text notes, arrows boundary lines etc etc
Regards
Andrew



n01487477 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:51:39 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: aoffen

Anyone got any suggestions on graphics utilities to use on a JPEG file. Something that would allow me to draw text notes, arrows boundary lines etc etc
Regards
Andrew

Another BrisVegas boy (although I'm out of country right now), that makes 3 of us [;)] Photoscape is a nice free download, as is Paint.net ... I'm sure there are other things out there that look great (look at some of the AAR's on the WITP site), but these are what I use.

Cheers




Plodder -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:54:49 AM)

you could also try MILSketch



Lützow -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:14:33 AM)

Nice map. Now I need a free ground floor, 2k counter and a minion (wife) for positioning. [:)]



V22 Osprey -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:19:48 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: aoffen

Anyone got any suggestions on graphics utilities to use on a JPEG file. Something that would allow me to draw text notes, arrows boundary lines etc etc
Regards
Andrew


Paint.



Mike Solli -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:49:15 PM)

Check this place out:

http://www.mycolorcopies.com/

They charge $4 a square foot.  3' x 3' would be $36.



henri51 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:56:51 PM)

Wow - big map...

It would be nice if the blue ocean could be represented as white. Otherwise its gonna cost a fortune to print out.

Henri



Charbroiled -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 8:59:19 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Wonder how much kinkos would charge to print out a wall sized bitmap version ... like a 10 foot acrosser? I'm guessing $300USD. Boy that would look cool and would help game play if it was right on the wall behind my laptop!



I wonder how much I would have to "bribe" my wife to even allow me to put a map like this on the wall. [;)]



Mike Solli -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:02:09 PM)

If you're successful, please let me know how you did it. [;)]



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:11:00 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Charbroiled


quote:

ORIGINAL: jwilkerson

Wonder how much kinkos would charge to print out a wall sized bitmap version ... like a 10 foot acrosser? I'm guessing $300USD. Boy that would look cool and would help game play if it was right on the wall behind my laptop!



I wonder how much I would have to "bribe" my wife to even allow me to put a map like this on the wall. [;)]


Well you could project it onto a wall with a digital projector and the right kind of video card. Of course, you might have some 'splainin' to do when you turn the thing off and there are felt-tip markings all over the wall with arrows and scribbled messages like "nandi landing 11-14-42, 2nd Marine Div."

A cool, though time consuming, idea would be to project it onto a wall then trace and paint it. You could scale up to 8' x 12' and make your wife (or mistress or GF) wear a short skirt and have her move the pins around..."no...higher...put it up at Nome...up there in Alaska...".



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:16:02 PM)

Recommended uniform

[image]http://www.seayourhistory.org.uk/images/themes/navyspeople/infocus/women/image/sailors/2002_55ex1_330.jpg[/image]



Mynok -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:38:38 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: The Plodder

you could also try MILSketch


[X(][X(] Where has THAT been for the last five years!!!! Nice!



88l71 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:46:22 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Well you could project it onto a wall with a digital projector and the right kind of video card. Of course, you might have some 'splainin' to do when you turn the thing off and there are felt-tip markings all over the wall with arrows and scribbled messages like "nandi landing 11-14-42, 2nd Marine Div."

A cool, though time consuming, idea would be to project it onto a wall then trace and paint it. You could scale up to 8' x 12' and make your wife (or mistress or GF) wear a short skirt and have her move the pins around..."no...higher...put it up at Nome...up there in Alaska...".



On the plus side, the latter idea would certainly motivate me to pay more attention to North Pacific/China theaters...[:D]



Sgt.Fury25 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:51:40 PM)

Thanks Erik.



DrewMatrix -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 9:56:41 PM)

I have had Kinko's print things for me up to 24" wide, but I gather they can go to 60" wide (depending on what kind of paper/finish you want). They can go to any practical length using a roll.

For decent quality photo paper it is about $8/square foot.  So if you make that map 24" wide it will be about 2.5 feet long, and about $40. That is about the largets I could handle.

I have clear plastic panels I can lay over the map to write on with washable felt tip pens.

One can also crop the image and print out smaller maps of Guad, the PI, Malaysia etc.






kfmiller41 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/29/2009 10:12:26 PM)

Thanks for the site Mike, I will probably order a 3'x3' poster of the planning map from them. It is much more reasonable than kinko's




henri51 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/30/2009 2:55:36 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: henri51

Wow - big map...

It would be nice if the blue ocean could be represented as white. Otherwise its gonna cost a fortune to print out.



Ok You can do that in Photoshop with a couple of clicks with the substitute color command (I did it).

Henri



Al Boone -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/30/2009 3:38:35 PM)

I just ordered a 4' x 5' full color poster standard map from http://www.mycolorcopies.com/ .  The cost was $80 plus $15 for Fed Ex shipping.  Even at this size the diameter of a single hex is only .25 inch!  This size may still be too small for conveniently reading names and details!  I printed and laminated a similar hex size WITP map previously.  It was 33" w by 31" high with .25" hex diameters.  Before printing and laminating the original WITP map, I printed the hex numbers in small size gray color along the map edges and at several open ocean and land areas around the map for easy searches of locations.  The AE map is so much bigger that adding some hex numbering to wall maps may be helpful.  If I had more display wall area I would have been tempted to go 5' x 7' in wall map size.  Rediculous as it sounds, we may be in the situation where a separate map projection program on another computer may be useful to find game locations by hex numbers and to view other portions of the map.  It could also be made useful for calculating distances. 



Nomad -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/30/2009 7:11:52 PM)

I took mine to work and printed it up on 24 x 36 in full color. It looks impressive tacked to the wall. [:D] The cost? $0.00USD



henri51 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (7/30/2009 8:53:47 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Nomad

I took mine to work and printed it up on 24 x 36 in full color. It looks impressive tacked to the wall. [:D] The cost? $0.00USD

24 feet by 36 feet?!!!You must have a big wall....[:'(]

Henri



JeffroK -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (8/1/2009 12:53:21 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: henri51


quote:

ORIGINAL: Nomad

I took mine to work and printed it up on 24 x 36 in full color. It looks impressive tacked to the wall. [:D] The cost? $0.00USD

24 feet by 36 feet?!!!You must have a big wall....[:'(]

Henri


Plus a bloody big photocopier!!!



Cherek8 -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (8/2/2009 2:56:56 AM)

Can check this site out and use your home printer to make a larger map.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/




Found this on the web also


Directions:


In MS-Paint, left click on "File" and "Open" and select your saved copy of AE_MAP_FULL.JPEG.

Once loaded, click on "File" and "Page Setup".

Un-check both Horizontal and Vertical in Centering.

Set all margins to 0.75.



Play around with the following settings until you have a map the size you want.



Set Orientation to Portrait or Landscape.


Set Scaling to Fit to: ? by ? page(s).

Left click "OK".

Left click "File" and "Print Preview".

Once you are happy with your settings click Print




TR Shrum -> RE: Full Size AE Planning Map Now Available! (8/2/2009 4:19:32 AM)

I can't find any place to register my copy of WITP AE.  I log in just fine (Members Club), but I see no lising.  What am I missing please.



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