[DAI3] Hecatombe - Expedition - POV

Hey! Welcome to Craterville. My name is Dave, and I will guide you around here. As you can see, we're a small town. Technology isn't very popular here (though I managed to get a camera), since we're far away from the rest of the world. Well, nothing very important, since life is simple and beautiful here. Let's see the town, shall we?
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We are located inside a crater. But not one of those ugly craters out there. Here, nature made a great job. All kinds of vegetation grows here, making this place a paradise.
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As you can see, our buildings are not your typical buildings. We made them with things from our environment: wood, stone... Nothing too complicated. They look like big tree houses (well, except they aren't located on top of a tree. Pretty place, isn't it? No, I don't think so. At least since those militars came here and started buildings their high tech base. Of course, we tried to stop them, but we couldn't. They said this place was perfect for their experiments. Obviusly, our small town can't fight them. They would blown us out of the crater in seconds. ?????Anyway, I managed to get some shots of their base:
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It totally ruins our natural environment. It's not only the visual damage, but also the noise... But we're not going to cry. We will go on, living our lifes, and hoping they'll disappear some day.
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A overview. I don't really understand what it is. So different than our buildings. BTW, I wonder what kind of experiments they're doing. Hope to find it out, although probably, I won't understand anything...
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Well, one last picture. At least they can't ruin our beautiful sunrise.?????
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That's all for the moment, will show you more very soon. Have a nice time!
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Oh, few things:
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- This is for the Desing an Invert 3 competition.
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- This may look a bit unfinished at the end, since I just joined the competion last week. However, I'm trying my best to finish things before the deadline.
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- I am in the final stages. POV should be up next wednesday, since I'll be out of the city the rest of the week.?????
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- Things to do: detailing, working a bit more in foliage and rockwork, improve lighting, and detailing more.
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- Thanks to Toofpikk for letting me join the competition this late. Working with such a tight deadline is very funny. It's really a challenge.
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- Hope you like it and please comment

[TheArchitect]

Looks amazing, shame its not NL2

Whoa, RCT3 looks really good
makes me miss that game...
ahhh the mods..

Looks nice, makes me consider going back!

Helo9797 wrote:

Looks nice, makes me consider going back!

... if my laptop hard drive works right!

Hey, welcome back! There has been some strange things since the last time we met. Or, at least, I think so... Let's take a look:



Can you see anything wrong there? I bet you can't... (BTW, that's my family's house in the front on the picture, as well as one of the militar headquarter's entries/exits)



What about here? Same happens...



Take a look here. You can see our water sytem as well as our windmills. They don't produce a lot of energy, but we don't need more.



Ok, I'll tell you the weird thing: the rain. I know, I know, rain isn't weird. But here, we have sun almost everyday. But it's been raining since those militars came here. Of course, this could be a chance result, but I don't think so.



Oh, I almost forgot this one! It's from the last sunny day we had. A scientist was delivering those weird crystals. I haven't seen anything like them in my life...

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TheArchitect wrote:

Looks amazing, shame its not NL2

Thanks! I'm starting a ride in NL2, but will take a lot of time since I work slowly on it.

Helo9797 wrote:

Whoa, RCT3 looks really good
makes me miss that game...
ahhh the mods..

Looks nice, makes me consider going back!

Thank you very much!

lol240 wrote:

Helo9797 wrote:

Looks nice, makes me consider going back!

... if my laptop hard drive works right!

Yeah, my last hard drive broke, and I lost all of my work. Not funny.

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Ok, so next update will be tomorrow, and POV will be released on thursday. Thanks for watching, and please, comment!

[mkingy]

I really like the angle you've got on the high-up wingover in the second to last picture - reminds me of Nemesis a lot. Was that part of your inspiration?

[TTD03]

Wow looking great!

I think I was right. It was weird. And now it's worse. We have a very big problem...



I was taking some night pictures to show to you...



... when this happened! It only lasted a minute or so, and things came back to normal. The next day, everything was fine, even the rain stopped a little. But at night, things got... well, different:



That weird fog is everywhere...



And the crystals I saw the other day too. There are a lot of them.



My poor house... At least the fog can't reach the interior.



All over the town. Heck, it even looks pretty. But the problem is, it's eating our plants and our food, as well as polluting our water. We have our emergency reserves, but we can't survive a lot of time with them. So, some people and I are prepared to enter in that building that brought our ruin and try to find what that mist is and how to eliminate it.



Please, join us tomorrow. It is our last hope!

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mkingy wrote:

I really like the angle you've got on the high-up wingover in the second to last picture - reminds me of Nemesis a lot. Was that part of your inspiration?

Thanks! Yes, Nemesis and Black Mamba were both part of my inspiration. I love those coasters.

TTD03 wrote:

Wow looking great!

Thanks!

[TTD03]

Great Backstory!

Here we are, ready to save our town. Thanks for coming!



We are going to use this small path that starts in my house.



It's perfect, the guards won't see us coming!



Here we come, hidden between the rocks. I must recognise I'm a bit scared...



But very excited at the same time... Not everybody has the chance to save his town everyday!



Where is everybody? It looks so empty... Weird...



So... there is anyone here. Why has everybody dissappeared? Wait, did you hear that? Ok, don't move, don't... Hey, what are you doing? Came here, don't try to escape you coward, you are going to awake that thing! Oh no, there it goes... RUN!, RUN FOR YOUR LIFES!*

- Roaaaaaaaaaar**



* There should be a train in the station, which would be the thing they're talking about. Unfortunately, I didn't get it in the picture and can't fix it now.

** Imagine it's the typical B&M roar.

- The video isn't very good, but it was my first time using the flying camera editor and editing a video. Will try to make a new one next week.

- Thanks for watching, and good luck to the rest of competitors:)

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TTD03 wrote:

Great Backstory!

Thank you!

[Oscar]

Great visuals!

[mkingy]

Seriously good effort Dapalm! Hope you do well in the competition. The back story was really well thought through and the ride was really good too! I can't comment on how good it is technically but I really enjoyed the journey through your ride!

Even though I watched it a few hours ago, you're video is apparently not available in the states. either that or my house suddenly jumped boarders

[mkingy]

CKidd wrote:

Even though I watched it a few hours ago, you're video is apparently not available in the states. either that or my house suddenly jumped boarders

You're part of Russia now.

[Mr. Freeze]

CKidd wrote:

Even though I watched it a few hours ago, you're video is apparently not available in the states. either that or my house suddenly jumped boarders

I'm getting the same problem in the state's as well. It says that this video is not available in your country.

mkingy wrote:

CKidd wrote:

Even though I watched it a few hours ago, you're video is apparently not available in the states. either that or my house suddenly jumped boarders

You're part of Russia now.

Same here, but I think I landed somewhere in Canada

Damn! I don't know what happens. The video is public. Any idea?

Did you have copyrighted music? Some videos block certain countries based on copyright

Hmmmm it could be. Saddly I don't think I will be able to change it until monday. Any good server where I could upload it until then without copyright issues? Thanks!

No clue, I only use Youtube. Google Drive maybe? And then just change settings to "share to anyone with link" and post that link here. That might work

I've uploaded the video to Vimeo, so I hope now everybody can see it. I don't have time to answer to your replies now, will do it later

https://vimeo.com/114432211

[TTD03]

Really great stuff!

[Mr. Freeze]

That one works.

I have to say that i really enjoyed this coaster and the POV of it was amazing too.