Propitious Crane
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Hi all
Sorry about being late back to this thread. I thought I got notifications when someone replied, but it seems I don't, so I didn't realise anyone had responded.
I have added these files to my Dropbox account. I don't believe you need an account of your own to download them from there. I haven't used this before, so if anyone has trouble, PM me your email address and I'll ping you a zip file.
Planes folder link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sgxady4yl4h8vbg/AADg5ur8qpCTGCUQ4wghX_7Na?dl=0
Ships folder link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6lts29mdjqonf7a/AADiVfIRrmnm5i9S3A3ewpqGa?dl=0
One thing I didn't realise to begin with was that there's a scale in use. So something like a Sunderland is meant to fill the screen, whereas a single-seater would be teeny-tiny. I kinda paid no attention to that, and made big aircraft not all that much bigger than small ones. It still looks OK to me.
You may be able to recognise the crew figures. Captain Kirk is flying some of the planes. Others are piloted by Sir Les Patterson and others by Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich.
With the ships I have paid attention to the scale, so a pre-dreadnought is the correct size relative to Graf Zeppelin is the correct size relative to the cancelled CV Europa.
I have some scenario maps too, if anyone's interested. I reworked the Indian Ocean and Task Force Z maps and created Sink the Bismarck and Operation Ikarus (German invasion of Iceland) maps from Google Earth. The playing area is 1,440 by 1,680 sea miles, and on this size of Google Earth screengrab, the curvature of the earth significantly distorts distances. Basically, you are grabbing a dome-shaped map and squashing it flat, so the middle of the map comes out too close to the corners. To address this I "pulled the corners out" on some maps, so India doesn't look as V-shaped as you'd expect but the distances between map loci are correct.
I think the .srf only gives you the pictures, right? I am a bit anal about the text descriptions of each plane, so I make them all look like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vc0l9a0ux1srg4y/plane%20text.png?dl=0
Is there a way to upload all the text?
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