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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 3rd at 5:30am 2005

Jon, I've been trying to view your pics for the past hour. Not working. Could you host them on your pit instead or link to the here?
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Posted by mazemaster on Thu Mar 3rd at 6:10am 2005

How exactly are we supposed to access the pics? The first link doesn't work, and I tried doing "show all" but it did absolutely nothing... [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Thu Mar 3rd at 6:39am 2005

Welcome to the dam tour. I'm going to be your dam guide. We'll see some dam equipment and some dam buildings. Afterwards, you'll be able to buy stuff at the dam gift shop. Before we get started, are there any dam questions?





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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 3rd at 11:34am 2005

? quoting Cash Car Star
Welcome to the dam tour. I'm going to be your dam guide. We'll see some dam equipment and some dam buildings. Afterwards, you'll be able to buy stuff at the dam gift shop. Before we get started, are there any dam questions?

"yeah, where do we get the dam bait?"

you know what people, i asked ages ago if anyone wanted to see the Hoover pics, when i went to the grand canyon. no one said a thing

i would have had them at the pit already for that reason. i was saving bandwidth.

*mumbles*

"stupid briefcase"

[edit] all my hoover pictures that are notworthy add up to 28 megs. a bit much for the pit, anyone have any ideas how to post..??

perhaps another online image source.. BRB.

/me goes and googles.

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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 3rd at 1:42pm 2005

WARNING:OBSCENELY HUGE SCREENS, CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN PERIL.

Firstly, read all this text before you reply, it will save time in the end . Secondly, some of these shots look the same.. they could be, I kept losing my place as i uploaded them. Another thing however is, as I walked across the dam I kept noticing other bits and bobs of architecture and was not sure that I got it in the other shots so I took another just in case. Since I had 400+ total capacity, I could afford to splurge a bit. At first one is captivated by the shear scale of this site, I was later to learn what scale really means when I visited the canyon itself.

I would also like to mention that Image shake generates 3 different lines of code when uploading.. use the middle one to get these fine thumbnails for snarkpit use in posting.

I suggest you sit back and take the time to look at all these screens. Some contain some excellent mapping potential.

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Posted by Wild Card on Thu Mar 3rd at 3:24pm 2005

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CONTINUE TO THE NEXT PAGE, THE LINKS ON THIS PAGE BORKED

Gotta love Jon.... Your link still points to your briefcase

[EDIT] Jon, how is a deer in the wood "mapping potential"?

On another note, thanks very much for the pics. I was working on the map all last night, from midnight to 2 in the morning.
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 3rd at 3:34pm 2005

? quoting Wild Card

[EDIT] Jon, how is a deer in the wood "mapping potential"?

no one in the world would pass up a chance to post a screen of a deer like that..

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Posted by Quaver on Thu Mar 3rd at 3:38pm 2005

I just realised after seeing the pics that i went there a few years back, didnt stop though, just drove over it.
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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 3rd at 3:50pm 2005

? quoting Quaver
I just realised after seeing the pics that i went there a few years back, didnt stop though, just drove over it.

someone comes to America from England, drives over the dam without stopping.. that is simply amazing. i have never heard of that level of will power.

/me bows

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Posted by Bewbies on Thu Mar 3rd at 5:08pm 2005

when i was there, i would spit off the edge and watch it fly up.. hehe

and yea, great mapping potential!





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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 4th at 3:31pm 2005

Anyone know what the dam's guts looks like? I've seen pictures of the Generators on each of the sides, but the inside of the damn itself. As well, d'you think HL2 would be able to handle such a huge scale map?
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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Mar 4th at 4:04pm 2005

yeah, I made a mape that was 100% open air and it was almost 2 miles long 1 mile wide. somthing like 10500*5000, if you make most of it out of displacment and fade your models and even add a fog with a clipping distance then you could make something like this.
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Posted by habboi on Fri Mar 4th at 4:09pm 2005

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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Mar 4th at 4:48pm 2005

I didn't relese it, but it was huge and ran better than most small maps
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Posted by Wild Card on Fri Mar 4th at 5:25pm 2005

Doc, please do fill me in on fog and all this. I guess it would make some nice effects and of course, add to playability. I'll also have to improvise on a few things. Im just wondering right now. I have the base of the dam done, but not the actual dam part itself. I dont know if I should allow players to go on the top portion of the dam, as this might make the map too big for the engine to handle. Although it would make some sweet sniping senarios.

Right now Im planning it as a bomb/defuse map for Counter-Strike:Source with, if possible, the Terrorists starting at the top of the dam, near a car blockade, and the CT's possibly starting at the dam's "security center" Somewhere within the facility.

The bottom part of the dam stretches very long though, so right now I made it smaller than actual, mainly because of engine performance, but if I can fool the engine with fog and such, I will make the full length, and just clip off the ends so that it wont become a mile marathon for the players, as it already is very long.

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Posted by G.Ballblue on Fri Mar 4th at 5:26pm 2005

? quoting Juim
? quoting Andrei
A dam map would be cool, but the idea itself is pretty unoriginal.

In fact, it has already been done, and except for it's performance, it does'nt look half bad actually.

http://www.hotdeathdiner.com/images/hl2dam1.jpg

I fiddled around with making "Arkangel Dam" remake from Goldeney64, and if you make the map up to scale, then you can expect to eat up your entire horizontal area with just "dam". No joke: A 10,000 back clipping plane couldn't show me the entire map

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