[Six Paths of Pain]

Hey guys this is a so called "continuation" of my former attempted "Real NYC mod" now that I learned from my mistakes, i doing something a tad easier and on a smaller scale..... London

I estimate the map will be in between GTA IV and San Andreas size... not a massive 21 square mile map like last time.... Instead of just building as I go, I plan on laying the map out with you guys help, i.e. buildings included, locations, etc... so if there any people from the UK i'd love your help

[Six Paths of Pain]

One Canada Square
Heron Tower
Crystal Palace Transmitter
8 Canada Square
25 Canada Square
Tower 42
30 St Mary Axe
BT Tower
Broadgate Tower
One Churchill Place
Strata
22 Marsh Wall East Tower
London Eye
Wembley Stadium
Battersea Power Station
St Paul's Cathedral
1 West India Quay
99 Bishopsgate
Shard London Bridge
Bishopsgate Tower
Riverside South
122 Leadenhall Street

I'll add some more

[ViceDiaz]

cool.just make sure you post at least one screenshot of your progress because if you don't the moderators are gonna want to lock your topic.

[Six Paths of Pain]

okay

[XTREME0235]

Good on you SPOP.
Good to know that one mistake didn't make you stop doing what you love, designing maps.

Little bit of advice; don't forget to back up your files to an external HDD or to your Data drive on your computer
I'm sure your aware of that now anyway.

Good luck

[Six Paths of Pain]

OHH yeah im aware now

[Six Paths of Pain]

Here is the first pic of the map, I placed the tallest building in the city (1017 ft.) on it to give a scale of perspective the map is about 7/6 ish square miles... a LOT smaller than the 18 sqaure miles of the NYC map though a good size larger than GTA IV becuase of the lack of islands, only major water is the river



This post has been edited by Six Paths of Pain on Friday, Jan 21 2011, 20:35

[Six Paths of Pain]

just calcualted the aera of the "red" part of the map its almost exactly 1 square mile, so that can be used as a refrence for map size

The offical map size is 5.3 square miles which is rouglhy the same GTA IV, but theres much more land in london

This post has been edited by Six Paths of Pain on Friday, Jan 21 2011, 22:03

[Bleem]

Hey let me ask you: How long you've been using Sketchup? Cuz the New York map was just amazing and I didn't even believe at first that it was made in Sketchup. Well, good luck on this project.

[Six Paths of Pain]

Like 3-4 years I become stupidly efficient!

I have also come up on how to realisticly but the stadiums in (as there file size could be the size of most of the other buildings put together which point doesn't help with modeling.... my solution would be to build the stadiums seperatly that could be intergrated with the rest of the mod.

This post has been edited by Six Paths of Pain on Saturday, Jan 22 2011, 16:48

[Scooby803]

Good luck cant wait for updates

[DannyBee]

Looks good, I am from the UK so i should be able to help if you want, I'm also quite competent at Sketchup, if you would want help with buildings and such. Will the M-25 motorway be in there?
Cheers, DannyBee

[Six Paths of Pain]

yep it will circle the map also might incorperate the white cliffs of dover in the lower right coner

This post has been edited by Six Paths of Pain on Monday, Jan 24 2011, 00:19

[Bleem]

You know, before starting you can make a list of buildings and landmarks (well maybe not all of them ) that will be in this mod before starting. Just for people to know what kind of buildings will include in this mod. I wonder if the London's Eye will be there... And will it spin and be enterable...

[DannyBee]

Sounds good, don't make it an island though like the rest of the GTA maps, put and invisible wall there or something. Quite like the idea of dover, providing that there will be little towns and villages on the way and quite a sizeable scale M-20. Oh and the Dartford Crossing as well. On a completely other subject, do we know how to make peds and traffic yet on custom maps? There will also need to be new cars (Not saying you should make them as well), a bit like the cars on The Getaway Black Monday, one of my favourite PS2 Games. Sorry to sound a little demanding there

[Bleem]

QUOTE (DannyBee @ Jan 24 2011, 16:10)

Sounds good, don't make it an island though like the rest of the GTA maps, put and invisible wall there or something. Quite like the idea of dover, providing that there will be little towns and villages on the way and quite a sizeable scale M-20. Oh and the Dartford Crossing as well. On a completely other subject, do we know how to make peds and traffic yet on custom maps? There will also need to be new cars (Not saying you should make them as well), a bit like the cars on The Getaway Black Monday, one of my favourite PS2 Games. Sorry to sound a little demanding there

Yeah, good idea. And the red two-floor London bus would be very good. It IS one of the symbols of UK, i think...

[Six Paths of Pain]

There is a "mini" list on the second or third post, but the map will still be an island lol, and of course the london eye will be in the mod lmao, thats like the Empire State building not being in GTA IV , yeah there will be two airports heathrow, and the now defunct london one, both in there approximate locations in real life,

I came up with the cliffs of dover mainly becuase there just epicness written all over them!

[Six Paths of Pain]

Size comparison between London and San Andreas


Canaray Warfe Distrit


Main finacial District


TB tower


Shard of Glass with the old power station


Not the best pic..........but a panorama of London


Another none shadowed panorama

[DS 17]

Is just looking amazing. But the map is smaller than I thought in comparison with SA. Will be left-hand-traffic in the city? Hope that it won't.

[Six Paths of Pain]

............Yes