Knuston Farm Extended for Farming Simulator 2015

Introduction

Knuston farm is a map more or less based on real life, its an area of chosen land from right out of my back door and some where I know like the back of my hand. The main farm in real life is actually called Knuston High Farm and is an old farming business that has been going for a long long time, there business is pretty much arable farming and even though they have there own land they also do a lot of contracting around large parts of Northamptonshire. I have kept the map layout as real as possible with all fields being in the correct position by making a map tattoo from a scale 2km by 2km print screen of that area, I have also used a modified version of the DEM for this map. Keeping with real life the map is mostly geared up for arable farming which is obvious from the layout though there is some grass to be cut as well. New to the extended version is the railway line, as I have only added in the goods line the fields the other side are made up though kept the similar pattern and theme and have some what kept the layout realistic.

How have I done my map and why

After starting various other map projects and failing to complete them for various reasons I decided to ask myself questions over map making, I worked out what I wanted in a map and for what the map would be used for. I did not buy a forestry game so I have not added anything for forestry, even though I have been very careful when making my map in terms of performance and trying to make everything as tidy as possible I still prefer detail and I like my maps to look very pretty. I cant stress enough this map is quite intensive on most computers including my own, I wont change this and its just my style and maybe its a shame Giants didn't make better gaming engines that would allow such detail.

Need to know

This map and as always has been aimed at creating luscious scenery full of greenery just like in life, so the use of trees, bushes and hedges is very high and in fact there is near on or about 4500 trees in this map, so please understand that a decent computer medium to high spec will be needed to play on higher settings. Now with addition of now land those tree figures are likely to be another third higher.

Features

Multi terrain and hire mod tutorial implemented

Few natural sounds added

All foliage is altered in shape and size as well as textures changed

Cows, sheep and chickens implemented

Chopped straw mod added, original swathes have also been altered to look more tidy and fuller

Yard cluttered with tools, objects and decals

All gates open and shut manually

Buyable fields with custom buy signs

Extended features

Many many fixes that where mentioned from the previous version

Railway line added in place of real life midland mainline railway (goods line)

Vastly extended the land the other side of the railway line

Added a large smart BGA facility within the new land

Added small farm yard within new land (very small only couple of features, more a stop gap)

Made new PDA map that is very different to anything else I have seen (easy to read, clean and smart)

New foliage layers added across the map to brighten everything up (Wild flowers and bushes)

Animated horses added to replace the static ones at edge of map

Animated balloon with sound, fire and lights up on very long spline (so it don't appear all the time)

Working Class 222 meridian in East Midlands Trains livery as a seven car consist, Speeding past at 93mph with real sounds taken from Train simulator 2015, working horn which comes on for 3 seconds every 50 seconds, at 2100 hours the train automatically lights up (windows, cab and red/yellow lights)

This map has been made soil mod ready for the enthusiast :P

Cut grass changed for realism

Major extended features

Extended area of land with new backing houses

Railway made into a twin track with duplication of train, electric overheads added

New bridges added or adjusted with new foot bridge

Various texture changes of ground and foliage

New shop building added

New shed and area added to main farm

Seed stacks at main farm moved indoors

Small castle added to scenery

Water tower with water trigger added

New gate opening sound and new large metal door opening sounds added

Needed mods

Marshall trailer - http://fs-uk.com/mods/view/36553/scale-marshall-qm1600

Animation map trigger - http://vertexdezign.net/downloads/animationmaptrigger

Chopped straw mod - http://www.modhoster.de/mods/choppedstraw--2

JCB DLC - http://www.farming-simulator.com/dlc-detail-fs15-jcb.php?lang=en

Soil mod information

You can use this map with or without soil mod, if you want to play soil mod then you need to add the mod that is linked below. If you want to play the map like any other map or default map then make sure you dont have or move the soil mod from your mods folder. Easy! :)

Soil mod

http://fs-uk.com/mods/view/36108/soilmod-soil-management-growth-control-v2-0-x

Will my pc run this map

This map will run the best it can, it is fully optimized to how I want to see this map. This map is very detailed with long draw distances, being a scale large arable map it needs the longer draw distances otherwise you would end up with a very blank looking map. Even for myself I don't get great FPS though I have managed to live with it and it turns out AMD cards are just not as good as Nvidia cards when it comes to FS. For low end PC's I would imagine that it will be playable on low to medium settings, For medium spec PC's like mine then medium to high settings will be playable. I have seen on two other PC's people playing my map with around 100 - 150 FPS with ease on full settings, these were high end Intel systems.
All in all I do expect some people to have trouble playing my map, but you have to remember I make this map for myself to how I want the map to be and that I merely share it because I believe its the right thing to do to keep the game going.

Please don't re upload this map without my permission, edits are likely to be rejected by myself depending on the severity of change.

Ultimately enjoy the map as I do... Peter.

Knuston Farm main Erweitert

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