Mediterranean Air War

[griffon]

regardez ces videos !

http://www.medairwar.com/maw/main.htm



une seconde jeunesse pour CF3

un nouveau theatre la WW2 en Meditterranée

de nouveaux avions

des modeles de vol enfin réalistes !






une superbe réussite ! un mod de 9 gigas !

[aheuc]

9 Gigas !! Tu en es sur ? Une fois DL, on peut même pas en faire une copie sur DVD à ce compte


Pourtant ce mod à l'air interessant, il y a pleins de chouettes avions italiens on dirait

[griffon]

je me suis trompé j'ai du charger 11 ou 12 tranches de 100 Mega !

mais qu'importe le jeux en vaut la chandelle !

aussitot tout cela installé

je commence un AAR que j'intitulerais "SAVOIA" !

pour narrer les aventures de l'As de la Regia Aeronautica

le capitaine Don Griffonni !

tiens cet AAR te seras spécialement dédié !

[Elvis]

En realisme , ca vaut IL2 ?

[griffon]

c'est ce qui se dit ......

sur les forums et dans les articles du magazine "Microsimulateur"

je le saurais ce Week end !

[griffon]

cela a vraiment l'air alléchant !

"Introduction to MAW
Mediterranean Air War (MAW) is a massive new freeware standalone campaign and theatre of operations for the the Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3.1 engine. It will be made available to the public in three chapters with the release of Chapter One.
MAW will feature over a hundred new aircraft with new flight dynamics modelling, new damage modelling, new scenery, new vehicles, new ships, new buildings, new villages, new weather conditions, new visual effects, new sound effects, new armies, new sightseeing goals etc.

New Life For CFS3

This is a wholly updated version of Microsoft's CFS3. The original CFS3 'Battle for Europe' had a rather sterile, lifeless, environment. MAW has life in it. Life, in many forms, like seagulls flying around the harbour sides, cows, sheep and pigs dotted around farm fields with farm houses that have smoke curling up from their chimneys. There are camel trains with their Bedouin overseers meandering across desert dunes. There is traffic on the roads - cars, trucks, military vehicles, cyclists, even horses and donkeys pulling carts and wagons on the roads. On the airfields, camouflage nets, working sirens, hangars, workshops, control towers, dispersal bays, aircraft blast pens, anti-aircraft gun positions, personnel tents. You might be assailed by blistering desert sand storms, you will be awed by spectacular sunrises and sunsets, the new kinds of clouds, realistic water and horizons.

Standalone Application


MAW is a standalone application based on the CFS3 product by Microsoft. You will need the original Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 loaded onto your computer and you also need to get the CFS v3.1 patch available at the official Microsoft 'CFS3 Insider' site.
The special MAW installer produced by the 'Desert Rats' will then create its own application from CFS v3.1 on your computer, using some core components of the original Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator. You will end up with two separate versions of CFS3 on your hard drive. The original Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3.1 'Battle For Europe' for your Northern European campaigns and the new CFS3 'Mediterranean Air War' for North African, Mediterranean Sea and Southern European scenarios.

The New Scenery

The terrain in MAW features custom tailored autogen scenery and high resolution landclass textures. The coastlines are geographically more accurate than any other flight simulator. Important historical locations such as the Pyramids and Sphinx, Acropolis, Suez Canal, even active volcanoes appear in this brand new combat flight simulator 'world'. Famous Second World War locations like the Ports of Taranto and Salerno - Italy, Valetta Harbour - Malta, Piraeus - Greece, Suda Bay- Crete, Tripoli and Benghazi - Libya, Alexandria - Egypt, Bizerta -Tunisia and Messina - Sicily. The battlefields of Bardia, Tobruk, El Alamein to name a few are modelled with authentic detail right down to the barbed wire entanglements and individual trenches, machine gun pits, pillboxes and artillery emplacements.

Realistic Visual Effects

One major improvement With the MAW simulator is in the realm of visual effects. Not just in the more spectacular area of explosions, fire and smoke. Naturally, these things have been improved upon but with an eye to realism more than pure 'flash'. We have nothing like nuclear weapons in MAW but firing two 40mm Vickers 'S' guns at a Pzkw IV tank from your Hawker Hurricane Mk.IID as real pilots did back in the early 1940s isn't bad if you like a few 'fireworks.' MAW is intended to be an history based simulator, not just an arcade game. Our visual effects specialists have worked on the more mundane but important things to give the MAW environment a truly realistic feel. Splashes in the water, bow waves and wake waves for boats and ships have been greatly improved on - they get larger or smaller depending on the ship's speed. Not only have things like flack and AA fire had their visual look improved, our FX specialists have been able to make adjustments so that these effects will have less impact on frame rates than they did in the original CFS3. You will notice dust being kicked up by animals, people, vehicles and aircraft, tyre and caterpillar tracks left in the sand. All these little details enhance the overall feel of the North African desert. Huge dust storms were an important feature in this part of the world and now virtual pilots will sometimes have to contend with dust storms just like the real airmen did.

Different Scenarios

Even the less well known conflicts that took place in the Balkans will be covered in MAW. You can experience air combats over Albania between the Royal Hellenic Air Force and the Regia Aeronautica, combat over Yugoslavia between the Luftwaffe and Royal Yugoslavian Air Force. The oilfields of Ploesti have been modelled in Romania and you can fly the new MAW B-24 Liberator from North Africa to Romania and back, battling against Bulgarian Air Force Dewoitines and Romanian IAR 80s. There are many original models of bombers like the Vickers Wellington, Bristol Blenheim Mk.I and IV, B-17F & G Flying Fortress, Martin Baltimore, Fiat Br 20, Savoia-Machetti SM 79, Junkers Ju 290, Heinkel He III and Dornier Do 17 and Do 217. These highly detailed, original, new models will give bomber enthusiasts plenty to play around with.

In the past, most commercial WW2 combat flight simulators only covered the air forces of US, Britain, Soviet Union Germany and Japan. MAW introduces the 'combat flight simmer' to lots of different aircraft which were operated by twenty different air arms. Unlike all the other commercial combat flight simulators of the past, MAW is built by people interested in the historical aspects of air combat in the Second World War. We have read our history books and take notice of them! MAW is not just the standard collection of Spitfires, Messerschmitts and Mustangs fighting the same battles over the same landscapes. You will feel you are playing around with something different and far more realistic than the commercial combat flight simulators of the past. - MAW is a 'cut above the average'!


MAW comes with many items never before seen in flight simulators in terms of buildings, infrastructure, vehicles and combat facilities. The opposing naval fleets operating in the Mediterranean Sea are well represented. Some of the ships, submarines and torpedo boats are 'drivable' so you can get a sailor's point of view of the action. The aircraft list so far contains more than 100 aircraft types and variants, most of them brand new and the majority being player flyable. Only a few of the less important types will be AI only. For the time being! The bottom line is, if it flew in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations we will most likely have it in MAW.

1% Flight Dynamics Modelling

The AvHistory team joined in with 'The Desert Rats' team of designers from the inception of MAW project (more than two years ago!). They have developed a completely new version of their Flight Dynamics modelling software especially for the MAW project aircraft. The new version uses the same algorithms developed by NASA and the USAF (the same used by the Aerospace Industry). They also provide a first for a Microsoft flight model: instead of using a seed flight model and editing portions, every parameter and table is specific to the aircraft modelled and creates the most historically accurate flight modelling available for a PC. All the damage modelling has been improved upon as well.
Historically Accurate Textures

The Desert Rats includes a team of talented texture painters who use programs like Photoshop and Paintshop Pro as well as Martin Wright's DXTBMP software to convert the texture files into an editable form. All the 'skins' on MAW aircraft will have high quality paintjobs that have been well researched, look historically accurate and very realistic. They will come in high and low resolution formats so that those with lower end computers can choose which textures they prefer to use if they are worrying about loading times and frame rates. If your computer and video card can run CFS3 you should not have problems with MAW.

'Open Architecture' Still Applies

One of the great features of this simulator is its 'Open Architecture'. When you get MAW on your hard drive you can modify it and add to it as you please. If MAW inspires you to build things for it go right ahead, we can always use some help in this ongoing project. We prefer you to keep it historical though! If you are inspired by MAW to build new things for it, please contact us. There are a few aircraft types we have not been able to produce at all yet or only appear in AI form. Naturally more buildings and ground installations would be nice. What we have done is pretty good but there is always room for improvement.


MAW will be Released in Three Freeware Chapters

Chapter One - June 1940 - December 1941

Chapter One will contain the all new Mediterranean Theatre and will focus on the timeframe June 1940 - December 1941.
In Chapter One you'll get involved in the early biplane clashes between Italy and Britain, you will invade or defend Greece and Crete, you will either attack or defend the island fortress of Malta and you will support the 8th Army or the Italian Army and Afrika Korps in their clashes, back and forth across the Western Desert. Huge armoured battles will take place below you on the desert floor as you zoom over in your Fiat, Messerschmitt or Tomahawk looking for action.


Chapter Two - January 1942 - September 1943

Chapter Two will pick up directly from Chapter One and cover the period January 1942 - September 1943 Chapter Two will introduce the USAAC and will cover the Tunisian Campaign, the invasion of Sicily. It finishes at the time that the invasion of Italy begins. The majority of Italians reject Fascism and join with the Allies. Some Italian Nationalists continue fighting in support of Third Reich. 'Operation Torch' is unfortunately not possible due to the design limitations of CFS3.

Chapter Three - October 1943 - May 1945

Chapter Three will concentrate on the war in the Balkans and the hard slog of the Allied forces up the Italian peninsula until the end of the European conflict of World War II. "

[Elvis]

Ce ne sont que des scenario, ou il y a une campagne ?

[griffon]

réponse ce WE !