Hill Valley 1955 Source Files

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What a coincidence...A Back to the Future file, and it just happens to be from the only part of the movie I've seen.

This map is a reconstruction of Hill Valley. Well, not the entire town, just the courthouse and several surrounding buildings. The author has stated that they have lost interest and it would seem they don't mind someone taking over and finishing it up. That being the case, I'll be a little more technical, so that if someone takes this on, they have a good place to start:

The textures are repetitive in many places. It would be better to have much higher resolution textures on everything, that way the repeats aren't as obvious and things won't be as fuzzy.

The trim should be added to the courthouse roof. It would look much more like the building from the movie.

The roadway that ran beside the courthouse was way too short, it needs to be much longer. If I remember right, what's-his-face drove a car down that road to reach 55 MPh. Well, there's not [i]quite[/i] enough room for that here.

I'll mention the bushes as well. The bushes are simply rectangles with a leaf texture on them. I think it needs some real bushes there, even if they're just sprites.

Last, the skybox extends beyond the map. I was able to walk off the edge, and when I landed on the skybox below, I crouched and walked under the map. I find stuff like that very amusing.

This does need a lot of work, but it's a start. There are plenty of things I didn't mention, mainly because any mapper can see them and know what to do about it. I can't really think of a way to close out the review, so... ''That's all, folks!''

~Dretzel