I am creating a large vietnam pack, with varied terrain. I originally planned to make just the Ia Drang Valley, but now working with The Unsung Mod, there will be many parts of Vietnam recreated for Unscripted War gameplay.
This is the original official forums post
The screenshots below are all taken from the same area in the Chu Prong Massif.
It's not really an island like most levels, it is made to be a realistic recreation of the area around the ia drang valley. It will be many times bigger than the SEB ia drang valley, and have all new foliage and landscape textures. All landscape textures will be 1024x1024 because that DOESN'T hurt performance noticeably. Also, if you use very large weed/foliage objects, you can have what looks to be many more objects on an island when really only having the same number of objects as smaller islands have. The trick to making the island not lag is then just in making good LODs so that distant jungles have much lower quality textures and less polygons. The detailed terrain is exactly 20.6km by 25.6km in size, a 50% reduction from the real area.
I am uncertain how much vietnam stuff I'll continue to work on now, but I did give out much of the trees and foliage you see in the screenshots in a demo island:
Released early 2004 to various level makers:
The objects used are not very efficient and have been updated, but I have not released an updated demo, so let me know if you are planning on using them and I will send you updated objects when I can.
