@Azimuth
I second @vodot in that it looks really great! Would love to see pictures of the final printed map as well.
Posts made by Tjoek
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RE: Custom map for AA50
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RE: JJ's Axis & Allies Global (detailed) custom map file (for large scale printing) + GIMP brushes
That looks like a lot of love and hard work. Well done! Great to see a new version of the map.
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RE: Map of AAZ
@Chacmool @Randy_Randelman1234
Thank you for your interest. I’ve finished the 1914 map, but haven’t had much time to work on the AAZ map. I’ve managed to retouch about 20% of the folds I guess, but don’t know when I have more time at hand to finish the work. -
RE: General 6 Stars 1941 WW2 Game
@SS-GEN said in SS GEN's 1941 Global War Game:
Want to give a shout out to Tjoek for his country token list I came across redoing my map. Totally doing a rehab to map. New colors define borders. Resource tokens. LL placements
Cleaning up and better lookingThanks @SS-GEN! let me know if you need others, I might be able to get you a few more. Looking forward to see your final result.
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RE: Axis & Allies Community Map Files
@cmmiles said in Axis & Allies Community Map Files:
@Young-Grasshopper @Tjoek @Intrepid @ambilzi are these maps still available for download? Looks like the MediaFire links are no longer any good. Thanks!
My file can still be downloaded from my original thread
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando
Thanks for showing the results! This looks amazing.I’ve had issues getting the colours right on my local printshop so I’m actually reworking on the color correction. Glad it worked out for you. Do you know if your printshop edited the files before printing? If so do you by any chance know what they did? This might help me.
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
My file went to a local printshop and they expect the map to be ready in slightly more then a week. I will post pictures in comparison with the real board when I’ve received it.
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@Chacmool @The-Plastic-Commando
One more update to the files:- Colors are slightly warmer
- Reduced dark contrast between some territories and new artwork for the Sahara in Libya, Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando said in Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 7th):
Thanks for the great work Tjoek. I plan to download and get a map printed. I’ll post it and discuss on my YouTube channel soon.
Just found your channel and subscribed!
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@Chacmool @The-Plastic-Commando
I just noticed the download links where wrong. So please re download the files if you already did so.
Not a big issue, but both links had harbour icons and I cleaned up a very small border defect in Russia. You most likely won’t have noticed it anyways ;-) -
RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
The map file is released!
One version without and one version with the harbours. I opted to not include the submarine icons on the map by default, but I’ve added the dark transparent silhouette as well as the Mobilization Zone as separate files you can simply overlay yourself.
Enjoy and please share pictures of your map if you happen to print one of this files.
If you have any questions or need support feel free to send me a PM or post it here.
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
Just for your info, the sub icon as just tried is a silhouette of the actual sub miniature from the game itself. First I thought about a semi transparent icon in white, but a dark icon looks nice as well :
Not too busy or bold, just a slight reminder of the rule and the sea zones affected. The more I look at them, the more I prefer the dark icon as if there is a sub submerged :-)
Any comments are appreciated!
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
Just another question to you guys:
The Germans have the ability to declare “Unrestricted Submarine Warfare” which means that their subs in sea zones 2, 7, 8 have the ability to raid US and UK convoys. I could mark those sea zones on the map with a semi transparent icon of a sub as a reminder that these 3 sea zones are affected.What are your thoughts on this?
Update on the map
Besides I have spotted a few minor mistakes and small things I want to revisit on the map. Nothing big, but some text not being as white as it could be, some better centering of territory names and fix some text deformation that happened during stitching of individual scans: For examples the M in Mesopotamia had a small kind of wiggle in it.Expect an updated map somewhere this week.
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@Imperious-Leader said in Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file:
I like what i see, but i still like my file better because all the artwork is VECTOR BASED and not an image or scan of an image. Don’t like the OOB sea color or lines either but that’s subjective
Thanks IL, everyone their own preferences. Vector images do have the advantage of scaling indefinitely and still be crisp and clear but they often lack the depth of texture and dynamic colors that I personally find far more pleasing to the eye. And in my experience you don’t need that scalability when you print your maps for decent gaming tables. Unless off-course you want a wall-size carpet hanging in your gaming room ;-)
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando said in Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file:
@Tjoek Well now that you mention it, Holland looks a bit different with the crest in the roundel. I’m not noticing a second roundel different lol
1.) Holland has a different crest I took from the official royal standard from that time. The blue shield in the middle of it is actually the same as in the original artwork.
2.) Persia has a slightly different roundel as well. The red is less strong and the lion is smaller. According to the internet (wikipedia) this is the right flag from that era. The one HBG has for sale has a larger lion and stronger red, but that flag is from a few decades earlier.
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando said in Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file:
For some reason my zoom of the map the further I go in somewhat distorts the names on the board, but as long as they are clear and crisp when printing out
If you zoom in to the level you can tell the individual pixels apart it will look a bit distorted. But you will not see this when you print the map as this will nowhere near this level of zoom. Unless you print a map over 86x86 inch or something. And who will ever do that?
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando
You should be fine with a 48 inch print, but don’t print this file yet. There is still a mistake near Rome. The city marker is partly overlapping the Italian roundel, but this overlapping bit of the city marker is still in the old colors before I enhanced them. I forgot to include that layer when I enhanced the colors…Did you notice the two roundels that are different then the original board design? :-)
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
As far as I’m aware the map is finished! Finally!
Please review the full size map at this
linkand give any feedback. I will go over it once more myself in a couple of days before releasing the map as final. -
RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando said in Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file:
@Tjoek The brighter map sure does stand out. I suppose too bright could cause glare of overhead lights. I think a Matt finish would tone down some of the brightness.
Brightness of color might also lose details in light areas. As in Spain for example, where the image is over exposed.
The glare has nothing to do with it as this is mostly the result of the material finish. Like you said a Matt finish would prevent this but would not help regaining lost details due to over exposure / to bright image.
I will be doing a few setting tweaks over the next couple of days to settle for the most pleasing one.
I’ve replaced the roundels with the more in center ones and the ones with the coat of arms. So really the only thing left is color correcting and trying a slightly better rendering of the Sahara. So I’m guessing it’s a matter of 1 or 2 weeks max before I can release the finished map file!
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RE: Tjoek's A&A 1914 OOB Map file (Updated February 9th 2020)
@The-Plastic-Commando Thanks for your views. These were the exact same things that got me in doubt. Hence the request for some feedback. I will switch back to the original ones. As I’m from the Netherlands I personally don’t like the flag they use for Holland, but it might otherwise be mistaken for the France flag. Especially with the separate roundels that can be in any orientation.
Besides the roundels I’ve started enhancing the dull scan colors. Just as a first start I took the exact same steps as for my Anniversary map. But because the colors are different to begin with the result is not as pleasing as expected. Just a bit on the bright side. Any suggestions?