Tjoek's 1940 Global Map file and setup charts (Updated May 30th 2018)

[Tjoek]

@Imperious:

How are you able to post a picture that “moves” and shows before and after?

Animated GIF as P@nter replied correctly. Using many of the online gif makers (I used gifmaker for no specific reason) it’s very simple to creat your animated gif. Next I’ve uploaded them to mediafire and that gives you a jpg link you can use when you press the “insert image” option. I actually got the idea of posting it this way on siredblood’s new map thread. He used it there as well.

@Imperious:

Next how do you remove the imperfections from the scan of the map and just retouch the artwork with either the water or land textures? What program is that CS3?

I use a great open source program called GIMP. Call if the open source photoshop if you want. But despite the tool the trick is to manual copy-paste similar looking areas and blend them in by making the edges of your pasted area more transparent. It’s a time consuming task and often takes mulitple attempts before it is ‘right’.

[Tjoek]

@siredblood:

Cool nice job! Incase you didn’t know, im already redoing the map, not that mine is better or anything, but its totally rescaled in Europe/Africa just incase that’s something that interests you. If not, then keep going man, nice to see more map editors.

Thanks siredblood! I’ve seen your thread and really looking forward to your next sneak preview. Although I understand the reason for rescaling parts of the map, I personally don’t like it that much.

Maybe that’s just me being from Europe and disliking the way my lovely continent transformed into an obese monster :wink:

[Tjoek]

An update on Latin America. I’ve finished the face lift.

Brasil gave me some challenges as the board fold goes straight through this country. This wouldn’t be a big problem if it wasn’t a Pro Allied neutral with the angled lines running through it. The solution to restoring those lines to run straight again was to move the bottom half of the continent only slightly downwards and fix the textures over the original fold line.

Don’t bother the white pixel noise on the right sight of the images. This is an artifact from the animated gif creater. It’s not there in reality.

As an added bonus I decided to remove the standing army symbols for the neutral countries. I will be playing with neutral miniatures and will create a setup chart similar to the other nations. So no need for this extra clutter on the board. This layer is optional, so when I’m done I will share the files both with and without the neutral standing army symbols.

Next stop: Europe!

[GeneralHandGrenade]

South America is too long now. I’ll never be able to sail around it on one tank of gas.  :-P

[Tjoek]

@GeneralHandGrenade:

South America is too long now. I’ll never be able to sail around it on one tank of gas.  :-P

Well sir, buy yourself a nuclear sub :-D

[Tjoek]

After some hard work and playing our second game of Global 1940, I’ve finished Europe and have reworked Africa for 80% now. The project of reworking the great map from Ambilzi and Young Grasshopper is taking far more time then expected, but the results are very satisfying. So let me share with you the biggest challenge in Europe: Switzerland. It’s in the middle of a crease and split across two boards. And with the size of the country there’s is not much original artwork to play around with. Please let me know what you think of the results

Please note that the coast of Northern Italy as well as the crease (and text distortion) on both France and Greater Southern Germany have been fixed as well. This part of the board has given me some hard time  :-)

[Dralnu]

Really great work so far! I also plan to print myself a map and with your project going on at the moment, I will pretty sure wait for that to be finished :-)

I know, you already plan 2 versions with different layers, like the standing armies on neutrals.
What features of the Ambilzi/YG map will you keep on your map? Or will you go with the plain original map? Will there maybe be more than 2 Layer Versions?

Personally, I would especialy find the Naval/Air Bases very useful and the extended income tracker.

[Tjoek]

@Dralnu:

I know, you already plan 2 versions with different layers, like the standing armies on neutrals.
What features of the Ambilzi/YG map will you keep on your map? Or will you go with the plain original map? Will there maybe be more than 2 Layer Versions?

I’m working with the plain original map, because I like a clean map as a map only and have all the other stuff like battle boards, cost charts, income tracker apart from the board.
But with this ‘clean’ map as a basis, it shouldn’t be a big challenge to blend back in the naval and air bases or any of the other features from the full Ambilzi/YG map.

When I’m done working on this map, I’m more then happy to create you a blend. If you are kind enough to share me some pictures of your printed map / table :-)

[Dralnu]

@Tjoek:

When I’m done working on this map, I’m more then happy to create you a blend. If you are kind enough to share me some pictures of your printed map / table :-)

That sounds like a fair deal!  :-D

[Tjoek]

A quick update. Africa and the Middle East have been fixed. Especially the neutrals in the Middle East proved to be challenging. Now rolling into the USSR.

[Imperious Leader]

Your right about the font, i now remember that the Franklin font looked better so i went with that.

[Tjoek]

@Imperious:

Your right about the font, i now remember that the Franklin font looked better so i went with that.

That’s not a problem. Do you happen to know what the original font was called?

[Imperious Leader]

I stopped looking because that Franklin font is better and sorta similar to OOB

[Tjoek]

Yes!! Finally managed to finish the European Theater of the map. Just for you all to get a feeling of how big this rework is to fix all the dust particles, scratches, fold creases and scan line - I’ve added a picture that shows all the changes to the original map.

The results are very satisfying and I cannot wait to finish the Pacific theather and get this clean map printed.

[Young Grasshopper]

WOW, you can really see where the boards were stitched together.

[Tjoek]

Quick update to you all. 6 months have passed, but not without progress on the map! I’ve fixed all lands / islands except for America on the pacific board. This work took forever to complete, but I’ve learned a lot on this journey and will retouch some of the things on the european side as well. Especially better contrast on country names.

I’m currently battleing my way through the pacific to minimize the visible lines of where the scans have been stitched together. See this image as a reference of what I’m talking about.

Please note I’ve also:

• aligned sea borders better and in straight angles

• moved Honolulu to where it should be

• flipped Iwo Jima to it’s right orientation (inspired by Intrepred’s great work)

• it’s still WIP as you can see from the dark line running north of Wake Island and through Hawaii

Let me know what you think!

[Tjoek]

Just a quick update to let you all know this project is not dead. After some months out of the running I’m regaining energy and started working on this map again. Still some work to do, but I hope to be able to get you posted on a more regular basis.

See my separate thread for my OOB map of Axis & Allies Anniversary Edition. This is what I’ve been working on the last week after contacting Young Grasshopper when I saw the problems with the warped boards on his Youtube channel.

[Leatherneckinlv]

Awesome….can’t wait to see the final product

[siredblood]

Nice! Looks like we both are back to maps at the same time!…. think we began around the same time as well.

[Tjoek]

@siredblood:

Nice! Looks like we both are back to maps at the same time!…. think we began around the same time as well.

Yes I think you’re right. It’s some serious map time for the community  :wink: