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Here are some preview pictures of the new Supreme AA42 map file:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=y4zgjijznyi
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=brwuuznezde
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=0dmmyz02zem
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=l4xzdhad4m3
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=w4h2khozm2w
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=ndzjwmizvng
First quick impressions :
1. The land textures look fine. They are identical to the original map, right ?
2. The water colour is too bright for me and on the preview pictures it looks like the water is just a plain colour. No textures there ?
3. The swastika symbols are an absolute NoGo for me.
4. The “Franklin Gothic” font suits the map.
5. The Axis&Allies logo east of Madagascar is very ugly. ( may I dare to say so ? )
6. Glad you removed all that tanks, fighters, subs and especially all the silhouettes of political leaders.
Apart from those few criticisms it is well done. Congratulations.
water does not need a texture. Water on every AA map has none, so mine too has none.
Water textures make the art look too busy IMO.
The NAZI symbol was just something i tried because i get so many people asking for it and i have declined to add it in the past.
This is a base map, and the next version will have the pictures similar to the OOB map.
The logo is plain. I didn’t mean to make it like the OOB logo.
I downloaded your other ‘42 map. I got mounted and cut today. It’s basically the size of AA50 (45.75" long x 23.5" wide). It’s the first time I’ve ever been able to set up an A&A game WITH NO CHIPS! It’s freakin’ AWESOME!
Thank you a million times over IL (again :-D) !
Pics to follow soon…
…and this is why IL has my vote for president. He made this possible:
Well thanks!
Glad I came across this thread, I was about to have your previous AA42 map printed. Now i will definitely wait for the supreme map. I’d gladly pay to have the file put of a DVD and shipped if that would be possible. Are you going to make any changes or additions?
Are you going to do something similar for AA50? I know the production map already has those textures on it but I’d love to have a larger version printed out. We have a large group of people that meet up regularly and the supreme map would blow them away. Your non-supreme map would too, but now I will wait!
It’s already been said but I’ll say it again…Thank you for what you do, I’ve been inspired since finding your work.
AA50 is about 65% based on much of the same artwork.
I cant sell my work because i am not making an original product, but another version of a produced map. I will find a way to get the files online as soon as i can.
I will complete some new versions ( both clean and with artistic embellishments)
Then perhaps make one radically different based on on my interpretation and including lots of neutrals and new territories perhaps similar to AAE and AAP.
@Imperious:
AA50 is about 65% based on much of the same artwork.
I cant sell my work because i am not making an original product, but another version of a produced map. I will find a way to get the files online as soon as i can.
I will complete some new versions ( both clean and with artistic embellishments)
Then perhaps make one radically different based on on my interpretation and including lots of neutrals and new territories perhaps similar to AAE and AAP.
What if someone were to send you a self addressed stamped envelope with a blank DVD? I can understand you being leery about taking anyone’s money to even just pay for charges incurred but an SASE with blank DVD is no different than putting it up on mediafire (or whatever other site allows large uploads). Just throwing it out there, I’m sure sites that host large files are charging for it and you can’t love us that much!
Look: find a site that allows large downloads and does not cost anything or make you register all sorts of information. I will then upload the file, but only after i get it finished. What i posted was semi final, i have some improvements to make.
Keep us posted! Your new map looks great.
Edit: Dell has a DataSafe service that allows you to upload up to 2 gigs free (as a trial). It allows you to share files with anyone.
https://www.delldatasafe.com/
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What’s all that junk? I had a 1 year subscription about a year and a half ago from purchasing a laptop from Dell and their datasafe worked without a hitch.
How about compressing it with for instance winrar, and then uploading it in chunks of say 200MB? Then upload those 4 chunks to mediafire, and everyone can get it. Or use megaupload, it allows uploads of up to 1024MB I think…
.RAR is the biggest pile of dogcrap ever designed. I refuse to ruin my work with that rubbish. That format is like a virus. I loaded up the program and it totally thought it has some job to reconvert everything in another extension into .RAR and when i removed this rubbish from my computer it made it impossible to reconvert the files back , so they because useless inventory of pictures that could never again be accessed. Thanks RAR!
I advise anybody to never upload that program that uses RAR format. I think its called Paint shop pro?
What program are you designing and laying this out in?
Illustrator CS3 which is .ai or i can PDF it
I have Illustrator CS3 as well. How small is the .ai when you .zip it? Did you embed all the images or do you have them linked?
Edit: Might be able to cut down on file size if you zip the source files and .ai separately and have multiple downloads.
Hey guys, I’m going to post my own topic, but I wanted to post it on here since so many people have been talking here. I have IL’s map and another map. I live in the USA…I went to FEDEX/Staples and asked them to quote printing out IL’s map (72.5in by 36.5in) and another map that was already split up into 12 sections of 22in x 15in pdf pages. They quoted each at almost $300. That is WAYYY more than I wanted to pay to print them out.
I was looking for tips/files/instructions/offers to print/anything that would make it easier to get a big map printed so my friend and I can start playing. If anyone has these maps split into 8.5in by 11in letter paper sections, that would be PERFECT. Or if you know how to split pdfs into sections, that would be fantastic.
Any suggestions would be more than welcome.
Please please please get back to me! Thank you!
first of all stop going to those kind of printers. Find a good mom and pop print shop and get a real price. Kinkos is the worst print shop on earth.
When I worked on IL’s map I also wondered why his files always reach such an excessive size. I found that you included a lot of unnecessary things like a lot of brushes from AA50. Deleting all these might help. And one more : For some reason all the paths in your map were doubled. Some were there without a fill and without a stroke. I’m not sure if this is true for your new version but maybe it helps to reduce the file size finding those doublegangers.
And finally : I really don’t understand your paragraph about PaintShopPro and RAR. What’s the relationship between a picture application and a compression format ?
