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Unfinished Project - World Trade Center

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Remember how Draco used to always joke about me building the World Trade Center in Tres...

Well... here's how far I managed to get before I got bored with it. There's no physics so you'll have to use "fly" to move around the complex, or just walk around it at street level and admire the view from below I guess.

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Download level here (5MB): http://www.mediafire.com/download/l8fui ... cplaza.zip

This is currently the largest building in Trespasser - though horribly unfinished. The exterior detail is all there though, for those of you who just love the tower's gothic arches and curves. It has LOD meshes that don't look that great, admittedly, in order to keep the framerate at least bareable. A good portion of the work is done on the surrounding buildings. I had originally intended to build part of the mall and PATH station at some point, hence why the ground is hollowed out below the complex (keep that in mind so you don't fall in). It's still a pretty good test of doing urban settings in Trespasser.

And you start out at Liberty Plaza Park, which would later become Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street hung out. It's pretty much right next door to the WTC. All I had done is a flat concrete pad though.
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Holy crap, hppav. That's just astonishing to see something so spectacular in game. Were you going to build the entire interior of all WTC buildings?
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I'm not sure Tres could handle the detail that would have to go into so many floors, :lol: I did consider at one point making a couple of floors and the upper floors, but didn't get that far. But I had intended to finish the lobbies and do the western half of the mall up to the Path entrance by WTC 5, and then work down to the Path terminal in the basement. I had also considered doing the lobby of WTC 7 at one point.
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hppav wrote:I'm not sure Tres could handle the detail that would have to go into so many floors, :lol: I did consider at one point making a couple of floors and the upper floors, but didn't get that far. But I had intended to finish the lobbies and do the western half of the mall up to the Path entrance by WTC 5, and then work down to the Path terminal in the basement. I had also considered doing the lobby of WTC 7 at one point.
Nice. :D How were you able to go into the details, especially on the interior, considering the old WTC is gone now? It's really interesting for someone who never got to visit the WTC to be able to play around in this little level.
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A lot of it was going through hundreds of photographs (110MB worth) and a dozen videos posted in various places on the internet. I did manage to find a couple of photos people took looking out the windows of the towers on 9/11, showing debris and smoke flying past the windows. The creepiest one is this one:

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That's how thick the smoke was down some 20-30 stories from where the plane hit the North Tower.

Alot of the best pictures are in this two threads on Skyscraper City:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... 6d&t=56090 (Mega WTC thread)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=659642 (WTC on 9/11)

Another useful resource was the conspiracy theorists who managed to get copies of the architectural and electrical plans of the North Tower.

http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidenc ... rints.html

They have an earlier version called the "Master Plan" which shows what the original design Minoru Yamasaki had for the buildings.
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Very nice work here! It is nice to see urban materials created for Trespasser. One of its undiscovered countries, if you will. ;) I'm thinking that one day, a fully functioning urban level will be one of the finer attainments of Trespasser. Perhaps consider completing this one, one day, at least as a fully explorable, populated level.
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Now that we have the source, it would be nice if someone did some human NPC AI coding or something. Granted, the Source is a wreak so it's very unlikely that will happen.
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