Monte Carlo of Monaco

[stevenhorton]

I have been busy the last few weeks with my new map, the Monte Carlo Grand Prix. What is in the level so far is under 36,000 polys.
Figuring out the elevations and different buildings can be maddening, the city is different ever year

It's finished. http://www.fileplanet.com/files/200000/204543.shtml

 

[[VaLkyR]Assassin]

This is looking good - nice work!

 

[Kantham]

Hope it runs great and good luck.

 

[stevenhorton]

I haven't had a great deal of time this week, I also spent alot of time fine tuning the road elevations and scale. I am up to around 38,000 polys.

 

[N1ghtmare]

Looks very nice!

 

[NeoNautica]

Have fun texturing all of that

Looking good!

 

[Malibu Barbie]

Way cool, Steve!

As an avid F1 fan, I'm looking forwards to "driving" in Monte Carlo!

And as a side note, I never yelled at my TV as much as I did during the last race at Interlagos. And since I'm Brazilian, you can probably tell who I was rooting for. And yes, I did cuss several generations of Timo Glock's ancestors. My apologies to the Glock family.

 

[Malibu Barbie]

Hehehe. I see I was not alone. I was reading the report of the race, and it mentions: "Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo was reportedly so angry with the result, however, that he destroyed the television he was viewing the race on."

 

[stevenhorton]

Hello Malibu Barbie I don't get to watch many races, but I did attend 3 in the last two years

I have spent several days figuring out the Casino complex; poly count is now 45,000.

 

[stevenhorton]

I had to adjust the heights of the meshes again to get everything to come out correctly. The basic road is correctly laid out, so modeling should go faster now. I am just over 60,000 polys.

 

[stevenhorton]

I am now over 85,000 polys.

 

[NeoNautica]

Higher! need at least another 100k

 

[ProjectX]

Uhhh. anybody notice are website has disappeared?

 

[stevenhorton]

After BeyondUnreal did their site work last week, almost every link takes me to the front page

This week's update; just under 94,000 polys.

 

[ProjectX]

That looks mightily impressive! I haven't been to monaco myself, the closest I've come is Gran Turismo 4, but from what I saw in that your version is pretty much exact to the real one.

 

[stevenhorton]

I haven't been there either, but I am sure I could find my way around after spending three months working from photos

I worked on the Casino area this week, just over 100,000 polys now.

 

[stevenhorton]

This week was spent on closing gaps in the ground, and on details on the north east corner. Poly count is 113,000.

 

[ProjectX]

That is starting to look truly magnificent, awesome stuff!

 

[stevenhorton]

Thanks ProjectX How is University going?


This weeks update.

 

[ProjectX]

Boring, sadly. Just started a module on Artificial Intelligence, which sounds like it ought to be awesome, but is being taught by the world's most boring lecturer. The other modules have great lecturers, but boring material.

Couple that with the fact I got a shoddy 9% for my compiler I wrote (after no less than 50 hours of solid work) and things aren't too great at the moment.

Ah well, it'll all be useful hopefully, and I think my boring lecturer gets replaced with a good one soon.

P.S> I'm making a point for every program I hand in for A.I. to call each one "Skynet.java"