Nice and Istanbul

Some random pictures of last year's trip to Nice, France and Istanbul.

They were taken with a digital elph, so if you're expecting professional quality photos, move on

Then again, it is downright difficult to take a bad picture in Nice or Istanbul.

My parents often make cameos, but they don't tend to block anything interesting so please forgive them

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Well, thats all for now. I have 531 pictures in total, so there will be more. Just whenever I get around to uploading them. Lots of them are of ornate plates and tiles and stuff like that, I'll try to stick with scenery and archetecture stuff since thats probably more interesting to you guys.

Quote from Dodger

make that city a MAP

Seriously considering it

more pictures!

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Welcome to Istanbul:

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(in the last pic, the 3 foremost people in the picture are my mom, aunt, and uncle... Mom is closest(silver striped jacket), then aunt in front of her, and uncle leading the pack)

More to come as I stop being lazy

Yep, thats half of the charm of Nice too, its a city built where mountains meet the sea... very hilly, narrow windy cobblestone streets and footpaths.. If you try to rework it to play well as a typical counterstrike/multiplayer map, you'd end up with cs_italy.. Windy, narrow, vertical multi maps don't work too well. If I were to make this into a map, I'd do it just for the hell of it. I'd just do it for the sake of creating it, not to make it anything playable. I'd just stick one spawn in there and go run around.

Basically just a practice exercise.

It'd probably be pretty interesting for a single player map, something like an assassination scenario, I think that'd work well. Sneaking through the narrow streets, avoiding bodyguards, to your target. Maybe I'll make it a single HL2 level, you have to destroy something or rendezvous with someone somewhere.

For some reason the idea of combine soldiers in Nice just seems wrong though

As for making them smaller, I'll try to use imageshacks resize thing. How big should I make them? 800x600?