Combine citadel skyscraper

[jimbones]

I just noticed this while watching the HDR-sauce vid:

I always thought the citadel would be reach into the clouds. Apparantly I doesn't.

Whaddayathink?

:dork:

 

[Burn]

I think its a big black thing sticking up from the floor.. Not very interesting, thats why I think.

 

[SMT]

Looks tall to me.

 

[scribblehead]

Is there a reason why you had to start an all new thread about this?

 

[Urbanebula]

It is a combine harvester. Excuse the pun. It moves through the city consuming all it ploughs over. I probably gets taller.

 

[SMT]

I probably gets taller.

Yes, you probably does.

 

[Urbanebula]

Crap! *"It" probably gets taller.

Thanx SMT

 

[DeltaBlast]

You know, the clouds are at the top of the map. They can't stick anything through it, or the model will go outside the map (wich fails the lighting while compiling). It's just not techincally possible to make it reach into the clouds

 

[Maxi]

I liked the sauce vid, some very fine recipies for sauce there.

 

[Eejit]

Clouds can be at different heights you know.

 

[CombineHarvester]

Oi! You've nicked my name!

Urbanebula wrote:-
>It is a combine harvester. Excuse the pun. It moves through the city >consuming all it ploughs over. I probably gets taller.

Ah, fame at last!

 

[DeltaBlast]

Clouds can be at different heights you know.

Afaik they're part of the skybox, so no they can not.

 

[Urbanebula]

Urbanebula wrote:-
>It is a combine harvester. Excuse the pun. It moves through the city >consuming all it ploughs over. I probably gets taller.

Ah, fame at last!

lol

and about the skybox. HL2 has fog you know? See the striders video. Otherwise i'm sure it's all possible with a few sprites.

 

[Rupertvdb]

You know, the clouds are at the top of the map. They can't stick anything through it, or the model will go outside the map (wich fails the lighting while compiling). It's just not techincally possible to make it reach into the clouds

Could be made a part of the sky box.

 

[Edcrab]

*sings*

Oh I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key! Come on now let's get together and pester Ba-arnnn-ey! I've got fifteen rockets... you got forty three! But I've got a brand new combine harvester and it belongs to me!

What were we talking about?

 

[NeLi]

I don't want to know.

 

[Eejit]

Afaik they're part of the skybox, so no they can not.

Er, I was talking about those white fluffy things you see outside in the sky, not fake clouds... nm

 

[Ch1cKeN]

the "sky" is just a painting. there are no actual "REAL" skies. The truth is that the ENTRIE environment is a giant space floating dome just like cesars palace in vegas.

 

[Eejit]

Thats wierd... how do space shuttles not crash into the skybox?!

 

[Moejoe]

they have noclip on, duhhh

 

[Asknoone]

Its pretty obvious that the main tower acts as a giant piston

 

[Xenon]

I would say that it gets taller by everym inch it chews off the city.
When this Black Citadel consumes a part of the city, lets say a part of a regular 2 story house, the house is full of building materials, and when the citadel takes a big bite of the house and its materials, it converts it to this black matter stuff that is used to build the citadel.

So for every inch it bites, it gets an inch taller.

 

[Asknoone]

No i dont think ts getting taller at all, i think thats to silly. The main tower acts as a piston, they big wall things are clearly destroying the buildings, and behind the jaw like bits theres a black wall, i think that the jaws destroy the buildings and the wall pushes them away. i think personally theyres something special about city 17 and Breen is making room for some enw construction......

 

[NeLi]

a huuuge robo monkey.

 

[sk1llfatal]

3dskybox you know...

 

[JohnnyBeverage]

I would have to believe that Valve would have and env_sprite to simulate the cloud cover that would be lower than the top of the skybox allowing the combine tower to "go into the clouds".

 

[RoguePsi]

Yeah, I think the Citadel tower does get larger through the game. Given that this wasn't part of the game (it being a DX9 demo), it may not even be part of the citadel, but just a random map build done to show off the draw distance and the like.

And yes, this has been discussed before, but the Citadel tower does go into the clouds. They probably use fogging or summink but it works a treat anyhoo.

 

[Asknoone]

how does it go into the clouds? it doesnt....and i am positive the tower doesnt get bigger

but each to his own

 

[dæmon]

I thought the parts moving up and down the Combine were pistons too, building up power to force the Wall to expand. It might be a structure unique to City-17 which is why Breen is there.

I wonder whether it is expanding to gradually build itself up, or maybe it is a defence mechanism to keep enemies further from the tower.

 

[Farmaren]

http://www.halflife.nu/images/hlnu_nyheter//half-life_2/secret/innercity_1

There is a little better pic on the skyscrap

 

[PunisherUSA]

I don't even think that first picture IS the citadel. Sure, its big, but there's a big hole in it with a ladder and there's a guy standing on top. Judging by the picture farmaren posted, the citadel seems to curve towayds a point at the top, and is much larger.

The first pic is maybe 20 stories and completely rectangular. I think it's just a guard tower.

 

[Rupertvdb]

I think it isn't getting taller but it is getting wider. The main citadel stays really tall but inside there shall be loads going on. You just know Gordon is going to have to go inside... i will be very upset if this is the case it looks awful.