Map Battle 32 - Streetview

[Holy Socks]

http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&ge ... 4&t=h&z=19

I've started work on this, its in Florence and is pretty much the next street over from the place 904 posted.
I'm really liking the theme for this map battle though, partly because its given me an excuse to spend hours roaming around on google street view, but mainly because I've been meaning to have a go at mapping a real area for a while so this is just about perfect.

[904]

In response to no00Dylan: That's a very interesting idea Go for it!

Obviously you can manipulate your fov and crop top and bottom to get that extra wide feeling without making a true panoramic view. Because that would require extra image manipulating, which in turn is somewhat against the rules, but not, since we haven't thought of that, so I recon it's a permittable gray area because this battle actually is based on that technique. I'll stop rambling now.

[Sathor]

Holy Socks, we are really close. We even have a part of the same building. Here is my WIP.




Thank you for fixing my thumbnail link, 904

[904]

HA! nice choice, I didn't want to post obvious shot of the Ponte Vecchio. It looks promising so far

I fixed your thumbnail link btw.

[Holy Socks]

Sathor, it looks like we're going to be doing the same bridge but from different sides I've got this street as my main focus: http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&ge ... 4&t=h&z=19

And I'm planning a shot from across the river, showing the bridge from what I think is the opposite side from what you're doing: http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&ge ... iwloc=addr

For a third shot I was thinking of going on the bridge itself looking towards the arches: http://maps.google.it/maps?f=q&hl=it&ge ... iwloc=addr

I might be getting ahead of myself there though, I'm just concentrating on the first street and the opposing bank at the moment. Anyway it should be interesting to see the two takes on some of the same buildings.

[Phott]

Slow progress, lighting looks better IMO, gotta fix the skybox.

[jister]

Another update.


I'm just wondering though, I'm basing it of THIS, but I wish to add some green around it, like trees. It doesn't change the surroundings majorly, but the change is very much noticable. Is this allowed?

hey i recognize that place...!? is that the temple in kyoto?

[source-maps]

Slow progress, lighting looks better IMO, gotta fix the skybox.

Phott I like your architecture but the new lighting is way to yellow

Edit:

started working on the basic geometry of my map

decided to do this one:

http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s ... 06866&z=18

here is a very early wip:

[Phott]

hey i recognize that place...!? is that the temple in kyoto?

I have no idea.


Yes, lighting is very yellow, gotta play with the light_env a little.

@source_maps
Nice, the architecture allready looks interesting. ^^

[The Doctor]

Mine is coming along rather well. It's even to scale (mostly). I'm curious to know how people will do the roads, if they have to do them. Would it be better to do slanted and sloped roads with displacements or just carefully manipulate the brushes. I really have no idea how to make a road look realistic.

This is what I chose.

[Phott]

Mine is coming along rather well. It's even to scale (mostly). I'm curious to know how people will do the roads, if they have to do them. Would it be better to do slanted and sloped roads with displacements or just carefully manipulate the brushes. I really have no idea how to make a road look realistic.

This is what I chose.

I'd do carefully manipulated brushes.

[source-maps]

*this doent apply to your roads because they are straight, but its cool to make your concrete roads displacements and add some noise, then sew it with the displacements touching the road en you get a nice bumpy old road

[korge]

CS_Militia roads were done in displacement.

[CactusFantastico]

ill do this one.
:3
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?hl=ja&gl= ... jp-gns-svn

[joe_dirt976]

zomg theyre driving the qrong way!!!!1!! jk