NEW,NEW,NEW,NEW....Hoover Dam shots

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wow that looks really nice.

Its funny, us mappers take much diffrent pictures then normal people.

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<DIV class=quotetext>wow that looks really nice.

Its funny, us mappers take much diffrent pictures then normal people.
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you gotta admit though, some of those would inspire some cool maps.

Those are really awesome pics Orph. Just how do you get your pics to look so damn good?

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<DIV class=quotetext>Those are really awesome pics Orph. Just how do you get your pics to look so damn good? </DIV></DIV>

those pics are my cameras lowest resolution. at 1.5 MP

my camera goes up to 5 MP
they do look sweet though, but do not do justice to actually being there.

Hoover Dam
if the link fails go here then "show all" then look in the hoover dam folder.

there are some fine architecture shots in there.. for some wouldbe maps.

Are you expecting your first link to fail? :razz:

Me and a friend wanted to make a mpa for the Valve contest based on the Hoover Dam. But we didnt get very far...

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Are you expecting your first link to fail? :razz:

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my briefcase is a fickle thing, as you well know. the links change on their own sometimes and go dead, but the case url itself never does so i post it as well.

Can't get it to work :sad: Doesn't do a thing when I click show all or next 10.

A dam map would be cool, but the idea itself is pretty unoriginal.

You know Orph I'd actually rounded up a number of pics of the the
Hoover dam from online with the intention of recreating it, or at least
using it as inspiration for my competition map. Obviously though the
size and time contraints restricted me from doing so.

By the way, I couldn't access the images either.

keep checking back. you know that host thing lep has to deal with.. so do i only from another source.. my briefcase always goes down :sad:

just keep checking back.

i let other people borrow it, and they forget to log out sometimes and it borks.

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<DIV class=quotetext>A dam map would be cool, but the idea itself is pretty unoriginal.
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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

Nice shots. :smile:

Would be cool to see all that for real.

Juim, thats A damn, but not THE damn. Maybe I'll try and finishing the map me and my friend started.

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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

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slaps juim on the hand

i expect oldtimers to know better.. 380k ??
shame on you.

Juim said:
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

slaps juim on the hand

i expect oldtimers to know better.. 380k ??

shame on you.

You really are the screenshot whore lol first resolutions have to be a
certain size or lest, know JPEG file sizes. Next thing you know BSPs
will have to comply to Orph's rule of 1024kb and less :razz: lol

Andrei said:
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

You know what that pic reminds me of? The dam in "surface tension"
(c2a5.bsp to be more exact :wink: ). Anyways, the lighting
looks...erm...radless, and that rockwall could have been better. The
dam itself is nice though :smile: .

Ok, Im determined to get the map done.... Who's with me! looks around

Everyone's wistling looking around.

Some point to other guys

Some pretend to not have heard

Jon's saying "Sorry I got to do a run"

:biggrin:

So, when did you go to Hoover Dam? And it is true, those pictures don't do it justice. I've been there, and it is huge.

[EDIT] Sorry random double post. [EDIT]

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?

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...

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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<DIV class=quotetext>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?</DIV></DIV>

"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 :razz:

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.

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

Firstly, read all this text before you reply, it will save time in the end :razz: . 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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Gotta love Jon.... Your link still points to your briefcase :razz:

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

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

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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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<DIV class=quotetext>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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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

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

and yea, great mapping potential!

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?

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.

Where are the links?

I didn't relese it, but it was huge and ran better than most small maps

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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<DIV class=quotetext>A dam map would be cool, but the idea itself is pretty unoriginal.
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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

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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 :biggrin: