Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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While exploring the Mayan Head/Crashed Jeep section of Jungle Road, a little ways off, I found some vertices that seemed much smaller than the others in the initial area:
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I decided to do what you see in the picture and it results in an odd little alcove similar to the area you see the Mayan face in the screenshot. However, it's too far away from the initial voice over that seems out of place saying "You saw what happened right?" That's over by the Hunter skeleton. This one's closer to the "Orchids" VA in the Beta (the Orchids VA is in a different spot of JR in the retail. In the beta it's by the crashed jeep. In the final, it's right on top of the hill leading to the Brach at the end of Jungle Road.)

What this makes me wonder is if the Mayan face and crashed jeep were moved some in production. Or maybe there was something else that was supposed to go in this spot. It doesn't seem right that these Vertices would be smaller than the other nearby ones unless it was meant for some kind of terrain detailing of sorts.

So, what do you guys think?
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Re: Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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Some building went in there...
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Re: Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road and building relate

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Quite possibly. hmmm.... Maybe the Plantation House was to be put there originally after PH level was canned. Then again, it may also just be some building we don't know about. I'd have to look at the 1997 walkthrough again. Off subject but related to buildings but, what's this building?
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I originally thought it was the Geothermal Plant interior but it's clearly not. Also doesn't look like the warehouses of the Docks. Also appears in the original promotional video that uses all that pre-rendering. You see the player climbing the stairs.
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Re: Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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This is the same building discussed here I believe.
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Kind of inconclusive it seems. :(
Not sure if any images will load, I am get virus warnings from the upload site, blocking all images. Think it should be same building mentioned though.

Definitely some sort of storage though either vehicles or goods or both.
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Re: Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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That's known as the "View" building. It's originally from PV.

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Re: Odd Terrain Vertices for Jungle Road

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I figured it was probably from PV. I think Slash Master made a custom one in Primal Chaos actually. It's where he put his Triceratops at.

Anyway, now that that's out of the way, what building would have gone in that spot of Jungle Road? Any idea Tatu?
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