PzC/MC Planning maps posted at SDC

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Speaking of planning maps, and not to hijack the thread, but has anyone notice that there are planning maps included in the install of F14? They are all included in the default install, in the START button folder for the game under (appropriately enough) "Planning Maps". :)

Thanks for these planning maps, I love 'em -- very useful! Having done them myself for F14, I know how much work it is to make them.

I only posted the thread since someone here had made a request when I had posted something about the Civil War Battles series' maps a few months back -but in truth, it was actually your maps that inspired me, Ed... although I have to admit that I have never figured out how to get a pdf file as small as either a jpg or a gif -and I am fairly sure some of the maps I have done would have to be of similar (usually smaller I think) than the ones you did for F '14.

Actually, I am sort of torn on whether or not the approach I did with the PDF is "good" or not, or if I should have left them as a large .jpg or .gif art file. The good thing about the PDF is that it is small in size, but when you zoom in it is generally poor quality, although you can still see everything and read the map labels though. I guess that is the trade off between having it as 30+ Mb image or a 5 Mb PDF file. :conf:

I do have all the F14 maps in "better" quality if anyone wants them... hmm, maybe you can put them on SDC site with the others? Send me an email if you want them and I will convert them from .psp to .gif.

I'd love them for the site... email sent. Trade offs are really the thing, aren't they? I had some of my first Civil War ones come back at over 100 mb apiece; which I had to scale down -if for no other reason, than my ISP has bandwidth limits here.

One thing -which I am not sure that I mentioned, is that for MC/PzC -I think eventually I will go with separate pages for each game title. I do really want to show some of the mod work on a full map too. I probably will do the smaller ones to start with (say the ones from Salerno and Market-Garden); as I am sort of juggling projects at the moment as well. So those ones will get an earlier MapMod treatment.

I do want to take a second to thank 'Grumpy Old Man' for sending through some big maps last night.