Terrain Editing – Operation Flashpoint Category

Introduction

Since the release of Visitor2, Island creating has become very popular among the community. Dozens of Island have been released since 2002 even a few pushing OFP to its limits with 512x512 sized Islands.

The new Island tool by BIS is simply named Visitor3 which can generate nice enviroments in combination with Linda. Not much is known about this at this point.

Basic Information

Before you start on Island you must know there are limits to Island editing

- Size should be kept below 512x512 due OFP being poor at handling such sizes, however for OFP:E special terrain streaming has been developed to support better performance and larger Islands like Sahrani.

- Max amount of ground textures is around 512.

- Should you use textures higher than 512x512 than keep an eye on amount of transition as it can take a lot of space.

- Islands can't be 512x256 in size only same sizes as textures.

- Islands cannot have smaller cells than 50m altough a workaround has been released but is unplayable really.

Basicly Island editing is quite easy but takes a lot of time. You can choose between 2 tools to create an island, called: Visitor2 or WRPtool.