World Background Maps

[ExtremorPL]

Look and on Scandinavia and then on Spain... it's because I hate background maps!

[BenganJ]

@ExtremorPL

Is that inlay picture taken from within the game or directly
from dOOmERdaZe's mod? If from within the game, was it
set to locked at North?

[ExtremorPL]

It's directly from dOOmERdaZe's mod. dOOmERdaZe's background image is rounded (just take a look on grey lines aka circles of latitude).

[BenganJ]

Sure, I see that too, but ask him why it looks like that! I have no idea,
but I have a hard time getting that to work with those map settings in
game, e.g. what happens if I set my game to show the map as 'Flat'?

I know Wombat had problems with this backgrounds and had to set the
game to 'Flat', not to get the map tilted!

[ExtremorPL]

I think it look exactly the same, map was built on rounded background map (that one from editor, thanks to SCS).

[BenganJ]

Okay, might be so! I haven't got a clue about that. Can you make the same
comparison laying the original SCS background map on top of mine?

EDIT: In that case, if SCS have done that, those maps has been processed
with a map projection of sort, which I don't know, maybe Mercator, for what
I know!

[ExtremorPL]

[BenganJ]

Wow, that was a bit harder to see, but on Spain I can see a slight
tilting effect. This is an inlay of the plain DDS image released with
the game? Just for the record!

If that is correct, that the images used by SCS includes a map projection,
then my image can be harder to get working. Does Photoshop include such
an effect, map projection? Then it might be easier!

[ExtremorPL]

I don't use Photoshop, it's just free GIMP! :D

[BenganJ]

So am I, but dOOmERdaZe might know! :D