Geographic Map of Black Messa....

[Ballsopt]

yeah, beyond the canals. ravenholm, highway 17 all the way to nova prospekt.

[ripa]

Can you post the source file? Please?

Sorry, Valve’s copyright.

Great, now do City 17!

Nah. Surface areas are the most annoying and boring part to map.

About that WIP Black Mesa Map: What do you make it with?

I did it just for fun. I had the idea years ago but never followed through with it. Freeman’s Mind inspired me to revisit the idea and thanks to Crafty’s exporting capabilities and Blender it was pretty simple to do. I thought you guys might find the map interesting (google found this thread when I was checking if anyone else had made such a map).

Also, I won’t be doing the color route thingy, because Blender can’t render one-sided polygons. Without lighting it’d look dull.

Mod idea: Isometric Half-Life :freeman:

[awsgames]

Too bad it’s only Office Complex and We’ve Got Hostiles.

[Eric_Fong]

Half-life: The sims :awesome:

[bobandquizo]

@NotToBeFound

Back when I was in middle school and highschool I wrote my own sequel to Half-Life (99-2001ish), I called it Half-Life 2: Earth Annihilation.

It was on a couple big fanfic sites (particularly Half-Life.net’s writer’s block). I managed to write 50+ pages of it but got kind of board and ran out of steam… I have since attempted to re-write and “mature-ize” my writing, as some of it was my style of writing at an immature and lower level… I never finished that either… but anyhow, my version of Half-Life 2 is way different than Valve’s obviously…

Anyhow, in my story, Black Mesa was huge… miles upon miles in the desert. I think I had wrote that it was 20 miles in diameter or something, really big.

Anyone ever heard of the Savannah River Site? Former cold-war nuclear materials facility situated near the border of Georgia and South Carolina? I live right down the street from there.

The huge green blob, is the Site. It had 5 reactors at one time. Somewhat trippy. I was thinking similar to that but much larcher and more barren as the desert is obviously.

Is your story still on the Internet? It sounds cool, I’d love to be able to read it.:freeman:

[_amp_955_dam]

So many repeat textures. 8)

[Assassin]

@ripa

Finally done with all the 78 map pieces. Since Nem’s Crafty (the tool I couldn’t have done this without) doesn’t export lightmaps, there is no proper lighting. Also no antialiasing, because Blender’s real renderer screws up all the textures and renders polygons inside-out for some reason :freeman:

I thought about coloring the route from start to finish with a single color with an increasing saturation or brightness so that the route could be easier to follow.

PS. the deepest part is of course the box-smashing room.

lol great job this is one of rear times when i say i would have done so…
GJ again… happy to be inspirator of something nice

i have a one question the rocket you launch after railways isnt the rocket you see when rideing the train?

[danielsangeo]

@ripa

Also no antialiasing, because Blender’s real renderer screws up all the textures and renders polygons inside-out for some reason.

Just a quick thought from a Blender newbie:

Have you checked the polygons’ normals? I know you’ve probably already thought about this but sometimes the simplest things are the most-overlooked. Just a guess.