Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Further to Whiteguys suggestion of perhaps creating a map version of the Mt Washington Auto Road I contacted the guys who own/manage the road to see if they could provide more info/maps/even heightmap info etc for the road to make life easier..
Below is a copy of the emails I have sent and since received from Howie, the GM there.
Interesting reading and could perhaps become a worthy project, even commercial.
I'm keen to do a free/non commercial attempt at the map for is82 but maybe a version built on the unreal engine for some dollar could be cool too!
Great, thank you both for any help you can provide.
I belong to a small group of computer games designers with a particular passion for driving games/simulators. We make a wide range of 3D levels for driving games ranging from the bizarre and surreal (try jet powered cars capable of jumping 200ft canyons!) through to realistic natural environments like race circuits and simple country/city roads. Until now the projects have been fictional locations but a suggestion came through from one of the members that the Mt Washington Auto Road could be an interesting and relatively simple 'real world' location we could try to build a virtual copy of. (simple in comparison to building a race around Time Square for example.)
Since my initial email to you I have been able to see some very useful data on Google maps in terms of the elevation detail of the road and surrounding area. This will assist the project but if you happen to have or are aware of publicly available height/elevation information for the road, this would make the task of building an exact scale model more possible.
Photos of the route, landmarks along the way etc are things which can be googled but given that you will know this area better than anyone else I thought it was prudent to ask if you have any freely and easily available technical/graphical information on the road to assist building a 3D model.
I mentioned that we would be happy to provide you with some examples of the final project and regardless of any assistance you can provide we would send you over the work anyway as I'm sure it would interest you to see the final project from pure curiosity!
Important to point out that the project is completely non-commercial with all of our content being free to obtain/download but we would of course include yourselves in the credits for such work. It would be great to have you take a virtual drive along the road and tell us what you think!
To give a very basic example of what we are looking to build, it would be a 3D model like the image below/attached, but instead would look like the Mt Washington Auto Road / surrounding area, complete with buildings, grass, trees, rocks etc etc.. and be vastly more detailed to approx 5ft grid square size.
To sum up, the elevation detail, varying road width (approx) along the route, bumps, holes in the ground! etc will all add to the authenticity of the final product. I have no idea what may be available but you don't know until you ask!
I would not ask for you to provide any help outside of your existing (to hand) publicly available data as we have no means to pay and would not wish anyone to go out of their way on this!
All the best,
Ben
response..
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Howie Wemyss Date: Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 5:06 PM Subject: RE: Mt Washington Height/Elevation detail To: Ben Cc: Regina Ferreira Hi Ben,
This a fascinating project and oddly enough, an idea we’ve been kicking around for a couple of years without really doing anything about it except make some contacts. There is a company called Peace River Studios in Cambridge, MA who has done some gyro stabilized filming on the Auto Road which has yielded some very high quality top to bottom footage. You might contact them as well although they’re a commercial company so I’m not sure how far you would get on a fee free basis.
I’m curious how this all works when or if it gets taken to the next step of being a commercial venture. Many of the venues that you’ve mentioned are themselves in the public domain so to speak yet ours is a private road. If this was to become a commercial success in some way, who ends up with the rights to it? Or how are those rights shared?
Attached is a higher quality map similar to the one on our website. Contour lines are mostly 50’ intervals.. But just to keep things interesting, I’ve just noticed that what were random 25’ contour lines that occasionally showed up as dashed lines on the original work, have now been put in this image with the same look at the 50’ lines – so this may not be helpful at all.
Let me know how you’re doing with this, it’s a great idea.