Las vegas strip map

[AirplaneFood]

We've decided to do the Las Vegas Strip as the real city map, the first session starts Friday at 7:30 eastern U.S.  So far only me and Wormwood are doing it, but the more the merrier (and easier)!.

[Apollo]

I like the idea.
what about a small town? If its just a town ( about 8000 homes and 300 stores and shops ) we can add lots of detail ( hehe, riiiight ) =D   like roof access and rooms and stylish textures and all the works. ( and fancy stone work )


( jacob likes to use Round brackety things and doesnt know what hes talking about. take no offense )

[Spaceoff]

8000 detailed homes=the end of your processor as you know it.

[AirplaneFood]

Jake, maybe we could make just the downtown area of one of those cities.  Los Angeles doesn't even have real boundaries, it's just a bunch of neighborhoods.  I think it would be really cool to at least try to recreate the Las Vegas strip.  The same goes for Philadelphia, just the main, downtown area.

[AirplaneFood]

Those of you that want to participate, say when you can, and we can work out a time.

[Apollo]

Id participate =D, only problem is that I dont know what any of these places look like. I've never been there, I don't watch TV, I don't read magazines, and I've never had reason to look at pics of these cities on the net.

A good place to start would be to google a map and use it as a texture ( scale it right ) and get a layout of buildings down.

[AirplaneFood]

I have thought about it and I think that Las Vegas would be the easiest to learn about, and the most fun to build.  I'm only suggesting the strip (the place where the big casinos are), not the entire city.

[AirplaneFood]

Also Jake, I don't know much about LA or LV, but we could learn about the main casinos on the strip, or what some neighborhoods are like in LA, and not completely copy the city, but recreate it.

[Apollo]

We could get pictures and do what we see in those, and for what we cant see we can improvise and make it more original.

[Wormwood]

Giant neon cowboys, casinos, gay magic acts...its got it all.
Two inspirational photos...er...not the first one. I'm just hungry.

[Apollo]

LOL! Ill make the first on if ya want, And I could do the second too.

[AirplaneFood]

We need a schedule, which will be difficult because some of us live in different timezones.

[AirplaneFood]

I think it would be cool to have 2 casinos that are hubs for 2 rivaling mafias, and we could have Death matches there with that plot.

[Wormwood]

Doing a little eyeball research...I declare ordinary topical streetmaps look unusable for the task. Opinion: stick with the tourist maps.
Since there really is SO much packed into the Strip area, photo reference for each landmark/club/casino/hotel will need to be gathered and grouped individually. Luxor alone is going to be a virtual busload of referenceCasino floormaps will be handy too. As well as pix of slot machines, roulette tables, bla bla....
If we can (at the end) get some texscrolling going for a few things such as marquee lightbulbs, slots (one armed bandits!), and mega-jackpot counters, that would be...SA-wheeeat!
The listing below, corresponds with the fisrt pic attatched here. The individual landmarks, then, can be googled by whoever is working on that business, or at least marking out its mapspace.

Aladdin Hotel & Casino - 1 - J-7
Alexis Park Resort - 2 - K-12
Ambassador Strip Travelodge - 10 - M-12
Bally's Casino Resort - 3 - J-6
Barbary Coast Hotel & Casino - 4 - I-6
Bellagio - 43 - J-4
Best Western Mardi Gras Inn - 5 - F-11
Boardwalk Holiday Casino - 23 - K-6
Bourbon Street Hotel & Casino - 6 - I-8
Caesars Palace - 7 - I-4
Circus Circus Hotel & Casino - 8 - C-7
Comfort Inn - Flamingo - 9 - J-11
Courtyard by Marriott - 12 - E-10
Crowne Plaza Hotel - 13 - J-13
Excalibur Hotel & Casino - 15 - L-7
Fairfield Inn by Marriott - 16 - G-11
Flamingo Hilton - 17 - I-5
Frontier Hotel & Casino - 18 - E-6
Gold Coast Hotel & Casino - 19 - I-1
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino - 21 - K-13
Harrah's Las Vegas - 22 - H-5
Holiday Inn Las Vegas - 24 - J-12
Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino - 25 - H-5
Jockey Club - 26 - J-5
King 8 Hotel & Gambling Hall - 27 - K-3
La Quinta - Paradise - 28 - H-12
Las Vegas Hilton - 30 - D-11
Luxor Hotel & Casino - 31 - M-8
Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino - 20 - N-9
Maxim Hotel & Casino - 32 - I-9
MGM Grand & Theme Park - 33 - K-10
The Mirage - 34 - G-4
Monte Carlo Resort & Casino - 46 - K-6
Motel 6 - 35 - L-12
New York-New York Hotel Casino - 36 - I-7
O'Sheas Hilton Casino - 58 - H-5

[AirplaneFood]

Nice work, Worm, how do you do texscrolling?

[AirplaneFood]

By the way, for lighting, we should definitely do night time lighting, if that wasn't already obvious.

[Apollo]

figured.

creepy display pic.  =)

[Apollo]

oh. Ill write a quick tutorial about scrolling textures later. When I have time.

[AirplaneFood]

oh. Ill write a quick tutorial about scrolling textures later. When I have time.

It will be appreciated.

[AirplaneFood]

If you read this in time, I'm gathering photos of Luxor.

[AirplaneFood]

Okay, here are a lot of photos of Luxor, I couldn't find any shots of the rooms, but I got lots of shots of the interior and exterior, some of them at night, so we can figure out how to light it, and we can just look at pictures of the real sphynx for help on the mini one, except for the painting.  Good day.

[AirplaneFood]

By the way, Wormwood, what do you use for making textures?  This map is going to need a zillion, and I don't want to put the burden entirely on you.

[Wormwood]

Slash, and anyone joining us, before anything,  download this template below here. I'll explain later.

For clarification on this project: Obviously, we're only planning to model the extriors, entryways, and courtyards of the variuos landmarks. Interiors are not going to happen.
Any single one of these hotel/casinos, to scale, would make a more than fair size map on thier own.
Maybe some of them can be redone and opened-up on a future map....or a playable one like you last mentioned here.
This large one is not going to be playable in any conventional sense.
Regarding size:  This is going to be waaaay big. If we get to a point where our map is becoming LAG VEGAS, we need to either: 
A.) "Continue on next map"
or
B.) Abandon this idea for a more truncated version. 
Personally, i'm lagging just looking at a still photo of the Mirage hotel "volcano" fountain.

The posted street map (here below) is a special throwaway template texture for laying out /plotting the streets and properties. This needs to be loaded before any other custom textures upon getmapping. so we all see the same thing, the same way. Trust me. 
---W.

[AirplaneFood]

A) Worm, I was actually originally planning to just do the exteriors anyway.
-and-
B) On the map that you put up the coordinates for, you included some places not on the strip, but off it.  We could just do one road and apply fog and clip to make it fade out.
Cheers.

[AirplaneFood]

Project starting in four minutes!  Wooo!

[Wormwood]

Las Vegas...she a no a gonna happen!
MAMA MIA!
its just toooo freeeekin large.
I made an "actual" size land plot model from the mini-me version.
Only half of the strip makes it onto the largest size newmap.
and.....(sniff), without any detail whatSOever, i get 56 fps offline while looking at it.
I regret to inform you, that my contribution to this project may be at an end. I am tendering my lag. 
Anyone with any constructive suggestions please submit them.

[Apollo]

your saying that that one street is THAT BIG? wow...