Mapping
Silent Cartographer
with
FrogBlast
The Gray
square is the "ground" level.
The green
octagon is the water level.
The white
square is inside the invisible barrier.
The
pictures below show the mapping process... look VERY carefully for the
green arrow...
One
players stands under the hog. The other player grabs some plasma grenades, the
other hog, and heads for the water...
The
player needs to push himself through the invisible barrier.
To
do this, he must make a little space between the hog and the invisible wall.
Then he should toss a plasma grenade on the back of the hog and use the
explosion to push the hog. The hog will push the player through the
wall.
Measurement
of the distance from the invisible barrier corner to the beach.
Distance:
795.7m
Measuring
the amt. of time it takes to get from the invisible barrier to the edge of the
water... from the barrier corner. Looking up helps with the frame rate.
Time:
7min 30 seconds
The
barrier corner seems to be in line with the water corner.
Wider-than-90degree
water corner
sun
shows up even without water...
backing
up... in line with the corner and the island...
Time:
2 min 45 seconds
This
corner also seems to be in line, but more of a 90 degree angle.
Distance to
outer corner from beach: 004Km
Distance from
water corner to beach: 003Km
The
water crosses over the outer border!
Walking
along.... looking back...
A water corner beyond
the outer border.
What
follows is walking along the edge of the outer border... look at the second
player screen to gain some perspective and try to spot the green arrow.
Remember the player's camera distorts lines near its edges.
Looking
in the direction of where I began.
Measuring
the approx. distance from beach to beach on the island. I think that says
453.2m...
Now-
counting the number of corners in the invisible barrier.
One.
Two
Three.
Four.
So
there you have it. I count four invisible barrier corners, four outer
barrier corners, and eight water corners. All of the corners appear to be in
line with each other. My approximate guess for the size of the map, from outer
corner to outer corner is 8 to 9Km.
-FrogBlast
General
"thanks" to xbill (specifically for this trick discussion) and the
HBO forum for info on the barrier shape.