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I also would like to suggest look at the hight maps of the terrains used in Steel Beasts. Using the same terrain for helicopter and tank sim even in separate games makes me, for the lack of better word .... humping . With soon to arrive better editable Steel Beasts 2 that could be in the long run, who knows, something really yummy.

BTW Steel Beasts has best mission editor and map 3D painter editor. Period. Worth looking if anything could be "interchanged".

I guess we are talking the same thing. PRO is for Profiler a feature in ME to find the ridges .

Polak,

I have an update for you: the NTC campaign does not load a new map during the campaign, you start and finish on the same map (unlike the AZR that uses a E, center, W map set). The NTC map is the same 50x50km area as the active map in the Azer campaign that is loaded at any one time. You may have already known this, I had to go play through it to refresh my memory. It would be useful to understand what "triggers" the loading of a new map set in the Azer campaign, that opens up a much better technique than being limited to flying on a single map. Any ideas yet on how they manage that?

Update: Here's the only reference I can find, in the WRAPPER.INI file:

[AZR1]
Prefix=AZR
L=0
B=0
R=6
T=6

[AZR2]
Prefix=AZR
L=6
B=0
R=12
T=6

[AZR3]
Prefix=AZR
L=3
B=0
R=9
T=6

[NTC]
Prefix=NTC
L=0
B=0
R=6
T=6

[NAZER]
NavMapFilename=azer
LeftNavMap=azerw
MiddleNavMap=azerm
RightNavMap=azere

It appears that L,B,R,T are Left, Bottom, Right, Top offsets used to define the area of the map data loaded to memory. There are NavMaps that match with the loaded data set. Agree?
It also appears that you could "scroll" a map vertically, which would be useful for something like a Korean campaign, if we could figure out how they send the "trigger" event from the .exe.

Three maps for AZR campaign are AZR 1 and AZR2 are side by side. With phase lines (longitude)


AZR1 0-6
AZR2 6-12

AZR 3 3-9 sits in the middle and overlaps both other maps 50% each. Each map has 6 phase lines but the total is 12 because of that overlap.

Front of campaign shifts Right to Left ot rather East to West depending on success in play. Maps are selected accordingly and the score is recorded depending on the phase lines your forces occupy.

Bottom and top never changes.