fred Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 www.gta4.net/map We've added streetview to our interactive map. You can now drag the streetview icon () to any highlighted road to see a panorama of that location. All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren't very interesting. There's around 3,000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80,000 in-game screenshots, and the final set of tiles consists of over a million images. It is best viewed in a browser which supports HTML5, such as Firefox 4 or Google Chrome. These browsers are able to compensate for distortion in the projection which is most noticeable when you're looking up or down. But don't worry, it should still look reasonable in older browsers too. Any problems just shout. Big thanks to aru & HazardX for the scripthooks, PatrickW for helping sort out the co-ordinates, Suction Testicle Man for uploading the images and of course Tank for hosting the thing. Sigthedwevil and Hover_Mode 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miro Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Good work, guys! I always got sick of searching on the internet for maps, but thanks to you now, I have it all in one! Great job, you guys are awesome. Dead (Retired) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold fusion 33 Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Incredible! How long did this take to make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimd41 Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Woah, thats totally awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Rob_ Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Haha, brilliant, hmnn now to scour the map for easter eggs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyGanteks Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Didn't notice this topic, so i commented about it on GTAF awesomeness topic, got linked to the map from somewhere else! Anyways, great work and thanks to everyone who made this possible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valensim Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Great, nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexGTAGamer Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 That is so cool, time for me to look for funny thing on that street view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minatoku Posted May 7, 2011 Share Posted May 7, 2011 Wow !!! Really good work. It is not as fluid as the real Google street view but it is still an impressive job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Very nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FF_sniper Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 very well done but i would take that google logo off before you get a letter saying google street view is copyrighted and you get sued just a fyi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic_Al Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 This is an amazing thing of beauty. Why Vanilla instead of EFLC though? FF_sniper: it's using Google Maps API, I think the logo is required to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargr Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 very well done but i would take that google logo off before you get a letter saying google street view is copyrighted and you get sued just a fyi. If you take a closer look it says 'Powered by Google". Everything is fine as is, no legal issues. Anyways, Great Job! Very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 How long did it take yous do to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FF_sniper Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 very well done but i would take that google logo off before you get a letter saying google street view is copyrighted and you get sued just a fyi. If you take a closer look it says 'Powered by Google". Everything is fine as is, no legal issues. Anyways, Great Job! Very useful. ahh nice find i see annother nice job on that also i like to point out he even made it so it wont spoil the story very cool idea (see pic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbatron Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Damn how did you even begin to do this? Must have taken for ever. Very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted May 8, 2011 Author Share Posted May 8, 2011 How long did this take to make? Far too long considering how pointless it is. To do it again, capturing and processing images alone would take a solid 140 hours if everything worked first time. That's the easy part though - just set it up and leave it running. Deciding which locations to capture, getting the capture script to work (especially when you know nothing about modding) and finding/configuring software to stitch the individual screenshots together took all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidamelo Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 This is so interesting!!! I always wanted a Street View for LC, but I thought no one was going to do it Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCollusions Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Very Cool! It's a nice feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkpile Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 amazing job! thanx for sharing this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverTheBelow Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheat Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 What the f*ck? Is this awesome or what? So damn cool, great work and thanks for sharing! Damn, I've been dreamin' about this! It's crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR2007 Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Fantastic job, it's crazy how realistic it makes Liberty City look - all the traffic, pedestrians and things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minatoku Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Liberty city is the most realistic city I saw in a video game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cash High Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Great job and thanks for the hard work you put into this! Very helpful map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptomex Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 That's incredible. Great job. Amazing work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokrie Dela Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Holy mother of cow, That's awesome! haha Nice one The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Click here to view my Poetry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle F Posted May 8, 2011 Share Posted May 8, 2011 Now that's fancy! Very nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZombLee Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 Awesome, I was looking for a gta 4 street view. I thought you guys stopped working on this map. this is a perfect reference when not on gta 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldsmobile_85 Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 That's great! Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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