Nice and Istanbul

[twiz]

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

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.

[Squirrelly]

That water is so blueeeee.

[Dodger]

make that city a MAP

[twiz]

make that city a MAP

Seriously considering it

more pictures!

Welcome to Istanbul:

(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

[e-freak]

please - for the sake of whatever you sake - please downsize this pictures. they are nice but they would be even nicer then.

[BlackPanther]

The textures one could make with these shots would be friggin awesome.

As far as making a map out of it... theres a ton of vertical action going on. with very little room to maneouver.

The city is like on the side of a very steep hill, so youd have to make the player criss-cross left and right so he can barely see downwards amongts all of the houses.

Reminds me a lot of LOST COAST actually... with a mix of AVANTI from TFC.

[twiz]

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?

[Minos]

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/1281 ... 107oa4.jpg

UFOS ???

Yeah resize them down to 800x600

[Rick_D]

I love how their buildings all mash into each other, so you get this kind of melting of different styles all blending to make one stretched out kind of sculpture

[TeddyBear]

I feel the urge to play Driv3r. Awesome Istanbul map.