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Weirdness on Spire
Posted By: General Vagueness <General.Vagueness@gmail.com>	Date: 7/9/11 8:13 p.m.
You know how on certain maps, most gametypes only use about half the map? I was forging Spire to make use of the other half (and only that half) when I noticed something, which led me to kind of re-explore the map. This seems kind of familiar but I don't particularly remember it. The lights in the BFG structure are like this-- all of them, and some on the spire, but the ones that look like these the most: the actual light source is in front of the fixture. While looking around outside the map trying to find a way to get inside one of the pillars (I could've sworn I did it before) I spotted this. Another black box like the ones I found on Tempest and Highlands. I couldn't get any closer because it's under standard geometry and of course the map is designed to keep people from getting in areas like that, which unfortunately includes blocking the camera, but it looks much bigger than the other ones I saw, except maybe the white box on Breakpoint. I think it's safe to say at least one of these is on every multiplayer map with custom animations, and possibly every map. (Interestingly, I was looking around Exodus and didn't find anything like these inside the corvettes.) I actually found that today while investigating the first weirdness more, yesterday I found something more substantial and interesting over here looking around in theater. Here's what I saw. For some reason, looking at this, or its three counterparts, shows you a reflection of Reach from space. It might not look much like it there, it doesn't have the same quality as what I saw on my TV for whatever reason, but I think these show it well enough. This would seem like a simple oversight in cubemaps, except Spire isn't set in space, and neither is Tip of the Spear where it appears in campaign-- it doesn't even have a cutscene showing an area outside of Reach. It could still be an oversight I guess but it seems pretty odd that it would even be included in the map file, so I'm going to lean towards it being indicative of... something. What, I don't know, but something. What's the other thing I keep alluding to that got me on this track? I'm going to investigate a little more before I post about it.

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Message Index

Weirdness on Spire	General Vagueness	7/9/11 8:13 p.m.
Whoa	ZackDark	7/9/11 8:58 p.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	INSANEdrive	7/9/11 9:17 p.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	katancik	7/9/11 9:39 p.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	ghost faction	7/10/11 12:20 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	sithhead	7/10/11 3:12 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/10/11 8:08 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	General Vagueness	7/10/11 11:20 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	General Vagueness	7/10/11 11:17 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	ArteenEsben	7/10/11 12:21 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/10/11 8:10 a.m.
Re: Weirdness on Spire	BlueNinja	7/10/11 4:48 a.m.