Question to lambda supply elevator

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#21

Since we took over the thread, not much…

#22

Couple of screencaps from that scene in Akira i mentioned earlier, had to add some brightness though, they were pretty dark.

#23

We’re talking about REAL freight elevators, as in, do they exist outside of media?

The answer turned out to be yes, although they are rare.

#24

There is a difference though. I can understand why the original poster had a problem with the screen shot that he posted. It does look like fencing, or welded wire fabric in that particular shot. It doesn’t look like the heavy duty 2 or 3 inch thick grating in the bridge shot that you posted, the way it should look.

Mind, I’m not complaining. I don’t particularly care. Black Mesa is made of SCIENCE and things like this are possible. But I can understand why someone new to the project wouldn’t get that, and would need some explaining as to how this is all possible :wink:

#25

It’s still not an anti-mass spectrometer :what:

#26

It’s hard to tell from that shot but knowing about this sort of thing, you can kind of deduce that it’s the heavy-duty 2- or 3-inch thick grating and not a thin wire-fence.

:brow: I hope you’re joking. If not…

#27

No, I want to see an actual factual real-world anti-mass spectrometer :expressionless:

#28

Yeah, I’d also like to see a real life example of this whole teleportation thing as I find it just a tad too unrealistic to be plausible, even for a video game.

#29

I teleported once. I was sitting in my room playing videogames when the next thing you know, I was standing in the middle of the kitchen. One could argue that being sleep deprived from having not slept in over 60 hours could have simply caused me to forget I walked over there, but I think teleportation is the more plausible theory.

#30

So, has the lambda supply elevator answered his question yet? Or are we going to keep rambling on about what’s real?

ucwhatididthar?

#31

These are the BMS forums… so yes, we are gonna keep rambling about it :stuck_out_tongue:

#32

RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE HUGEBOATLIFTWITHABUNCHOFPHOTOSOFIT RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE

EDIT: Also knowing that BMRF is a government contractor and how government contractors spend their cash I wouldn’t be surprised if they had like eight of those things to the facility just to keep spending high enough during the off years so the government doesn’t cut there budget.

#33

Oh, I also teleported once.

#34

well, judging by how it becomes slightly distorted like other mesh fences in source, it leads me to beleive its thin wire, if it was thicker than just a 2d and actually had depth to it’s mesh, it wouldn’t be distorted.

#35

as a 2D texture : 2 trys

as a 3d extruded mesh: bare minimum ~ 602 trys for just one of the grates. ~1204 for two and ~2237 if they don’t no draw the bottoms of the mesh.

#36

what you doing wasting time rendering tri’s then? Jump straight to pixles! :3

#37

I was scared to ride that thing.

#38

the little dry dock that could.

I’m pretty sure that the grate on the funicular is going to look that crap in-game. The BM team doesn’t seem like they’d let something like that slip (unless they had a super-duper good reason >:C).

#39

You don’t think the BM devs would let something looking good slip?

News:
It has to look crap or they won’t let it slip.

Haha, jk man, I know it’s a typo.

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