@Austin
Ron is an OG who was happy to see map to be refreshed, contacted him on his youtube channel.
Back in the days there were more modders, and less watchmen who bug people with the same questions.

Did you ask Ron for permission to do this?

@Grotsky How about to load only this map if you want to play on this map and dont load all maps together...?

Is there any solution for the problem of this map breaking the lighting of all CUP maps?

hey this is a great map and i get it that its very difficult to make a big map without bugs but you see in camp spencer there are some rock things on the floor and whenever i go above them with a vehicle they move like vertically, any way to fix it?

If anyone else gets a glitch where a white rectangle gets in your way when looking downwards on this map, I found that reducing your render distance (especially object distance) to 3700m or less stops that glitch.

Fantastic map, sad it breaks the sun/lighting on the rest of the CUP Maps :(

I really like this map. But together with "3CB Factions" mod, I always have this popping dialog message saying "No entry: bin/config.bin/CfgWorlds/Chernarus_Winter.description" everytime I file-open or file-save menu operation. I simply close this popping dialog, and can continue to play fine. Just fyi, in case it can be fixed to avoid the nagging pop-up dialog.

3 gb

how big is the map?

Is "Dayzs On Esseker" working fine in this map?

"tanaKa
It's looking like this terrain is overwriting CUP terrain lighting configs. Running cup terrains with new esseker removes the sun/lighting from the cup terrain itself."

Just confirmed this doing a command line parameter folder isolation. It does overwrite the CUP lighting config. Leaves all other CUP terrains without sun, sunlight or shadows.

The map seems to run smoother than the first time I tried it, but with the lighting config issue, I'll roll back to "Esseker Fixed"

Awesome, ty

@elpedrochicoraulalfonsotejada
It's not bad but it's not perfect I know. Nerfing grass density is the only thing I can think of.
I'll see if I get time to work on it, shall be a quick fix.

The map is very performance intensive, is there some way to improve this?

It's looking like this terrain is overwriting CUP terrain lighting configs. Running cup terrains with new esseker removes the sun/lighting from the cup terrain itself.

Art.

but does it have a pbo file for exile with zombies?

woot woot! I'll update my DRO to match your revisions ;-)

Hey Malcain, so appreciate all your efforts with this, luv Esseker, opened an Esseker server yesterday and was so pleased to see New Esseker updated today, timing !! :), just added it and its working great, many thanks for your wonderful work :)

@ JediSith1981

Currently too busy with my other mod & work. Will do an update as soon as I get some free time

Nice, though would <3 to see some updates! Made a DRO for it ;-)

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2744619919

I hope that one day this map or a new esseker version will use livonia assets so it won't weight that much

@Cpt Schmitz
Old version requires cup, this does not (yet).
Same goes for cherno and other maps you mention.

FPS is fine on a moderate PC. It's comparable to other maps using livonia assets. You cannot expect graphics upgrade without any perfomance impact.

Ty for uploading this again. Few things tho. While old version runs smooth, this one is very FPS demanding. At some areas it can go down to 20FPS. Maybe it's just me and my shitty PC idk. Also how come you manage to get it up to almost 10GB? Like old version is cca 3GB even Cherno Redux is about 4GB and its like super crazy FPS demanding map.. I'm not map specialist but sure there must be some optimization to be worked on.. Other than that nice work. And yes replacing old ugly buildings with new ones wold be very nice to see in future updates..

Hey, do you plan on retexturing the buildings?

@Mallekip
No its not. AiA was made before cup. But if cup fixes the errors without adding new ones I may add it as dependancy, will check on that.

Was there AI path testing done?

Thank you for the personal answer mate!

Your answer does not deal with my question, which is: is AiA an external dependency, and if yes, where can I find it?

However, I found the answer to my problems: this terrain (pack) has a dependency on CUP Terrains (core): https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=583496184

I call this a pack, because if you have only this mod loaded, Eden editor lets you open up Bukovina and Bystrica maps (with lots of errors, and without titles). Again, the black skybox, most of the missing object errors, these were all fixed by also loading the CUP terrains (core) workshop item.

So now that I have demonstrated the dependency, would you mind changing the workshop description, so that future users don't have to do the same trial and error I did?

(Again, I must thank you for many hours it took to make this, and the extra time you make to help users. I beg your pardon if I sound demanding and rude)

TAKE MY SHOP POINTS!

@Mallekip
It was port of A2 files with a few maps into Arma 3.
And it's the only port I know of which can be used in other maps that need backwards compatibility if you can't rely on cup.

Hi. So what is the AiA Terrain Pack? I cannot find it on the workshop, and there is no link to it in this workshop entry, or on your Discord channel.

I ask because I'm getting a large amount of "missing object" errors, incorrect skybox/lighting, and missing titles on maps loading, and I am pretty sure they're related to missing content and configs.

(Thank you for making this!)

@RushOnPC™
Only slight adjustements & fixes from that point.

@A Jawa
Maybe. Hard to tell now, but considering some events on other maps at least.

are you trying to just make slight adjustments to areas or want to make like a 2.0 of esseker like cup did with chernarus that is based on the dayz version ?

such a classic, i never expected anyone to pick this dusty map up again

@malcain

Is this coming to be another MP server that hopefully you don't need Apex DLC for like on Days Gone Tanoa?

This comes just in time. I am planning a special in the SCP universe and i was using the old version of this.

ill give it a try

@yoda gaming
Nope not coming to dayz. RonHill has made a great version for dayz.

Besides, we have a great better-than-dayz(I am biased;) ) mod in Arma 3 with a playable undead class and working faction system.
Check it out if you're interested:)
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2706460405

could this be ported onto dayz? i just started playing dayz and i've already seen original esseker there, now that i see this, i get even more exicted so just wondering, could there be dayz version in the future?

@ Me_Paul
CUP changed licence for their pack so it can't be edited and used in other mods to build upon it, AiA can be used.

Didn't Cup Terrian core replace AiA Terrian Pack?
just asking

LOVE IT!

@Jihad Al-Noori
you're wrong. Those are config errors I explained yet to be resolved later. Map itself has no issues with addons, but config errors throw errors.

CAMisc3 is just a placeholder of Arma2 addon and has nothing to do with cup, cup doesn't own arma2

Btw is cst\cst_industrial\objects\heap\dirtmount.p3d an additional mod we have to add or is it internal map bug

It says AiA requires CAMisc3 so I guess you actually need CUP, unless I'm doing something wrong.

YOOO best map thank you for reworking

hell yea one of my favorite maps getting updated again