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BRAVE Update - London 1

by Andy Hawkins · 04/09/2008 (9:06 am) · 4 comments

I made some good progress today. I've grabbed some medium rez sat map images from Google Maps and created an aerial photo of London. I grided it up to work out which areas to snap and after I had low rez tiles I zoomed in the google maps and was able to grab higher rez images, scale up the lores ones and paste over. This will provide an excellent reference in-game as I world build. I think I have to pay for the use of the satellite images if it goes commercial. So I'm going to look into the cost. Otherwise I'll have to do a paint over.

Then I've tested a bunch of shape replicators on a flat plane with the aerial map attached for some speed tests.

Here's some pics. I'll add a video to this tomorrow when I can grab a sequence using my faster computer, but right now the frame rate is very high.

www.drewfx.com/BRAVE/LondonAerial2.JPG

www.drewfx.com/BRAVE/LondonAerial1.JPG

#1
04/09/2008 (10:44 am)
Nice with some photowork and some effort should be really interesting to see your work, i hope the advice helped.
#2
04/09/2008 (12:27 pm)
Cool stuff Andy. BRAVE looks pretty sweet.
#3
04/09/2008 (2:55 pm)
This is great work. Looking forward to see where this is heading.
#4
04/10/2008 (2:11 am)
Nice work, interesting how you go with this, i want to create and endless cityscape like you have also.