[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

Black Mesa Archive The Cafeteria
#1041

Extremely useful if we ever need to access them directly. Nice work!

#1042

I tried but thereā€™s a pizza in apprehension in the vents just after the ice room. I looked everywhere for something of value.

Iā€™ve been thinking, do you guys really like harry potter? a philosopher stone reference? I was reading about it slighty and it mentioned something about radioactive decay, doesnā€™t that have to do with half-life? https://www.crystalinks.com/philosopherstone.html

4 founders and one blotched out with no office or w/e? kinda like slytherin house? is his office hidden somewhere in the girls lavatory dr. bottomly?

#1043

You can know for sure if pizza is in a map by using this command in the console:

r_drawmodelstatsoverlay 1

Then filter on pizza. Click on the found textures and it will give you the option to make it blink in game.

The Philosopherā€™s Stone is a mythical alchemy item that could turn normal metal into gold. The story has been around a lot longer than Harry Potter. In the context of the game, the scientists are researching nuclear alchemy. By adding or removing protons from an atom it can be changed to a completely different element, like gold.

And yah, radioactive decay and half life are closely related. heh

#1044

The funny part being that there is a womenā€™s bathroom/locker room that you canā€™t get into in the level. lol

#1045

Telephone

Facilities
ext. 132

for replacement

seen that ext. quite a bit and i donā€™t see it up there in the list of extensions, useful I hope?

#1046

Has anyone nocliped past all the doors in QE yet? I have the feeling there might be something around there.

Edit; I just had a idea. Someone needs to try bringing a pizza though the lambda core to the scientists and security guard who makes the ā€œpizza guyā€ comment.

#1047

confined space number 638

facility ext. 212

found more useless numbers entering QE

#1048

Have both been suggested many, many times before. Nothing was found, and nothing happened.

#1049

Yeah, I tried taking the pizza to Dr. Hornā€™s office pretty much the minute I heard about this. Nothing.

#1050

I tried to investigate the tau cannon incident looking at the map. It looks like the gibs belong to ā€œdr_hornā€. In the Laser Lab, before the overcharge, there are a scientist, a guard, and gibs floating in mid-air. Not sure of what it means, but anything ā€œDr. Hornā€ might be relevant.

#1051

This came up a few pages ago, but nothing came of it. All attempts to talk to scientist just resulted in normal scientist lines.

I donā€™t think anyone ever brought him a pizza though?

#1052

you wouldnā€™t be able to bring pizza through there.

#1053

I think someone with previous experience about ARGs mentioned a few pages back that it might be a smart idea to map out all the clues and their locations.

Does anyone have a, or know how to make a good looking overview map of QE for example?

This also helps new persons finding their way in the map and where we have already been lookingā€¦

#1054

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Level_Overviews#Make_the_raw_overview_image

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My try with 1st QE map:

Thereā€™s problem with some cellings - parts of map are not visible in both overview mode, and looking from top using noclipā€¦

#1055

That looks nice, didnā€™t know about that feature in the source engine!

Would be cool to do this with all the maps in the game and stitch them together into a huge 2D map of the entire game :slight_smile:

Edit: How did you get such a high resolution, did you take several overview images and stitched them together?

#1056

Yes, zoom set to 1 (or 2, donā€™t remember now), did couple of shots of all areas and joined them in gimp (+ removed green BG that is happening in some places). Ah, and hdr rendering disabled.
Instead of spectator, which was not working (using cvars/commands) for me, i just used noclip.
I think that it would look much better if we can somehow light whole map.
Anyway, If that what I got is enough, I can do rest of QE, even maybe in one file.

#1057

As long as no areas are missing completely I think it is fine (of course some rooms will be above others etc.)

I would suggest using a panorama software to set control points for all the images (even those from different maps) in order to stitch them together. I donā€™t think you have enough RAM to open all the maps in 4000x4000 resolution or such at the same time.

For example it is not difficult to create 100+ Mpixel images in a dedicated panorama software, but would be impossible to work in Photoshop with such a big image (including layers etc.)

#1058

Irfanview is opening 1200x2000 panoramic photo without problem on old c2d :] But maybe thereā€™s some googlemaps like web viewer to achieve that?

#1059 
sv_cheats 1; prop_physics_create props_canteen/pizza_box.mdl
#1060

thanks alotā€¦ hence me not knowing all the locatins of the eggsā€¦ I only marked one but I think if we do this with all maps we can cross out alot esier where we havenā€™t searched for stuff

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