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* Real World Overlay - Puerto Princesa
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Posted by: Motarius1
Well hello Shirley....


With a bit of google foo and a lunch break it would appear the map you guys have been working on is a map of Puerto Princesa in the Philippines. See this map Looks pretty familiar right?

Here's the full write up where I grabbed the image from....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Princesa


INTRODUCTION
It's been a long time since I've posted anything near this big. I'm a little tense and afraid of it due to its sheer immensity, but I'm gonna give it a good go.

But first, a quick note about "Destiny". It's the name of their next game. Just to clear up any confusion some folk may have about the name of the thread. It hasn't been officially announced by Bungie as of yet, but multiple sources on the Internets would also tell you the same.

I'm sure none of you are strangers to the Bnet's fancy background. In all of its dazzling mystique and curious appearance. Are those galaxies? Star-charts? Constellations? Feathers? Bacon?

Well, there's a Destiny blog out there that I believe a lot of the Universe-forum regulars may be familiar with; Waiting For Destiny.

They've been doing a fantastic job over the past few months. Making fantastic progress at compiling information, providing theories and posing queries. A lot of fantastic work.

THE STAR CARTOGRAPHER
What I'm specifically interested in is what the author, Daniel Duncan, has compiled on Page 3.

A composite image of the entire set of images that have been found so far.

In it you can see a lot of very curious things. Two things, in particular, being two very noticeable and out of place pure white circles. These both seemed rather too odd to be a natural part of the environment that we've been used to. I had initially considered that they might be bowls in the ground, but, and Daniel has drawn the same conclusion, that these tie in with Dead Orbit somehow. My first reasoning for this is that in previous images of these areas of the map, they aren't there at all. This makes me believe they are mobile of some sort.

Additionally, looking at the - what we assume to be - Dead Orbit graphic shirt, it seems there's a link between it and the "two random dots" found on this card. At least, I think there must be. They seem pretty important (well, they're not exactly pretty to look at, and certainly don't fit in with the rest of the image, so it's curious that they exist). You can also see one here.

I really like the composite image he made, but I wasn't convinced with the mini-map color example he made.

So I've decided to analyse the image and make my own, complete with a Key.

THE MAP OF DESTINY
* Step 1: Initial Underpainting - COMPLETE
Involved isolating the painting strokes from the black background and miscellaneous images in the original composite image, and deciding what sort of ground is located where in the image. Also came to a conclusion about the various graphics found in the map and constructed a key to help you understand the map clearer.
* Step 1.1 - Made some minor edits to the map (mostly the central mountain).
* Step 2: Topography Redux - COMPLETE
Involved repainting the composite image to make the entire image cleaner.
* Step 3: Refined Painting - In Progress
Will essentially involve adding extra layers of light/dark values to the underpainting to provide a sense of lighting. I plan on concentrating on the centre of the image.
Step 3.1 [video] - Tested my painting in 3D to see how it looked. Pretty good so far.Step 3.2 [video] - Updated the model with a much crisper mountain shape, and volcanoes!Step 3.3 [image] - Did some work on water-depths.
* Step 4: Texturing & Highlights - Pending
Will give the entire image a lot of rugged texture and bring a large degree more of realism to the image (with rocks for the mountains, trees and cityscapes).
* Step 5: Polishing - Pending
By this point, all that will essentially be left will be cleaning up the known areas of the map to make them look really good. Some brightness/contrast shifting, colour correction (if need be) and maybe some wallpapers.
* Step 6: Expansion - Pending
After I complete Step 5, it should really be a case of expanding out further, perhaps with any new map piece findings, or.
* Step 7: Waiting For Destiny - Pending
Waiting to find out whether my vision is correct, or not.

BONUS - 3D MODEL* Clean 3D Model of Map
* Overlay 3D Model of Map


EXTENSIONS - FINDING MORE PIECES* 0.1
Original Topography Composite Image
* 0.2
Resolved position of the upper and lower site nebulas.
* 0.3 [Clean ver.]
ncsuDuncan picked us up on where that extraneous area should actually go. Resolved that. Also cleaned up the image fantastically and made it purdy.
* 0.4
[Overlay] | [Clean] | [Highlighted]
* 0.4.5
[Overlay] | [Clean] | [Highlighted]
* 0.5
[Overlay] | [Clean] | [Highlighted]


So there we go. If you have anything to add about the map I've made, if I'm behind on information, or if you have your own version of what you think the map is, then definitely post it here! I've been mulling over this whole map in the back of my mind for months now, and I'm happy to say that I am very confident that I've cracked the topography. There are some elements I'm unsure of, but that's based mostly on the sheer lack of map-elements that are still missing that would help me make a much more coherent image.

OTHER ARTICLES YOU MAY LIKECortana 5's Bungie Formula: Durandal, Cortana, Joyeuse? thread.
Cortana 5's Ver 2.0 thread.
Cortana 5's Seven Seraphs, Osiris, New Monarchy, Dead Orbit thread.
SonicJohn's Bungie Servers - Connecting Multiple Platforms Online thread.*
SonicJohn's Predicting Destiny thread.
(*Ignore the Aerospace perspective.)
x Foman123 x's Destinypedia - External Wiki for all things Destinyrisay_117's Destiny Information ShortlistncsuDuncan's Waiting For Destiny blog.
ncsuDuncan's Scraps of Destiny blog.


[Edited on 09.17.2012 2:31 PM PDT]

  • 12.04.2011 11:22 PM PDT
Subject: My God, It's Full of Stars - The Destiny Map

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This thread makes me happy. I wonder if we'll be cracking any codes before something official comes out.

  • 12.04.2011 11:30 PM PDT

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  • 12.04.2011 11:32 PM PDT

Posted by: cortana 5
This thread makes me happy. I wonder if we'll be cracking any codes before something official comes out.
That would be frickin' awesome.

Epic finds.

  • 12.04.2011 11:38 PM PDT
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This time next year, on the Bungie.net front page:

EXCLUSIVE: BUNGIE REVEALS MAP OF DESTINY LANDSCAPE

Too bad guys, we figured it out a year ago :D

Really man, excellent job. Can't wait to see more.

  • 12.05.2011 12:21 AM PDT

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BONUS - 3D MODEL* Clean 3D Model of Map
* Overlay 3D Model of Map


Thanks for the support and feedback, guys! Glad to see other folk interested in this as much as I.

  • 12.05.2011 1:57 AM PDT

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Posted by: cortana 5
This thread makes me happy. I wonder if we'll be cracking any codes before something official comes out.
That would be frickin' awesome.

Epic finds.
Agreed.

Looking good SJ! Keep this -blam!- up!

  • 12.05.2011 2:52 AM PDT
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This is boss.

  • 12.05.2011 3:43 AM PDT
Subject: My God, It's Full of Stars - The Destiny Map - (Now in 3D!)

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* Step 2: Topography Redux - COMPLETE
Involved repainting the composite image to make the entire image cleaner.

I shall return with more updates to this project later :)

This is a lot of fun.

  • 12.05.2011 4:00 AM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?

Interesting stuff.

Thread saved.

  • 12.05.2011 6:25 AM PDT
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Interesting, I'm looking forward to seeing the final version of the map.

  • 12.05.2011 7:03 AM PDT

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The names on the maps shown in the "Waiting for Destiny" article could give you clues to what certain parts look like. For example, there is no names in the part you show as water, so that is obviously water and we can gather information from that. It says "Palm trees" in the top left, so that would suggest Forrest areas. "Village Range" in the bottom left hand corner to suggest urban areas, and "Range" to suggest mountains (Like you have shown).

Also, another thing I noticed about your 3D render is that it doesn't show the top third of the map. I don't know if that is because you didn't see it or chose not to do it because of the big black rectangle in the middle.

If this is a map for the actual game, I doubt we have it right, because the scale is 40,000 (Or so it seems) and that body of water seems way too large. But if it something just canon related I'm sure it would fit just right.

  • 12.05.2011 7:07 AM PDT

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This looks fantastic!
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  • 12.05.2011 7:14 AM PDT

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Awesome work! I cant wait to see if this comes to fruition, it looks very promising!

  • 12.05.2011 9:56 AM PDT

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Wow, great job. You put a lot of hard work into this. Keep it up.

  • 12.05.2011 10:25 AM PDT

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Excellent deductions. I had given thought that it might indeed show a landscape of sorts but now I believe. Can't wait to see your final build of this.

  • 12.05.2011 2:46 PM PDT
Subject: My God, It's Full of Stars - The Destiny Map

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Very cool John. So this is what you do in your spare time. xD

And cracking codes ftw!

  • 12.05.2011 3:00 PM PDT

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Awesome stuff, John. I can't wait for some enlightenment from Bungie now on this.

  • 12.05.2011 3:24 PM PDT

Beautiful. I thought they were just stars...

  • 12.05.2011 4:01 PM PDT
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Mind = blown.

  • 12.05.2011 4:52 PM PDT

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I did some of my own cross-comparisons, and discovered something rather odd.

Taking the site-background nebulas (both the upper and the lower) I decided to see if the map was missing any additional pieces.

Turns out, yes, there is. But that's not a good thing.

Here's the original composite image I'm working with.

Here it is with the upper nebula attached.

And, uhm, what's this? Here it is with the lower nebula attached.

Why is there that inconsistency? Here's an image of both showing their conflicting positions.

The two parts on the left of the site graphics are definitely connected. They match up perfectly when scaled correctly. But those little extra parts on the side are confusing.

I'm assuming that what may have happened is that whoever put the graphics together for the website wanted to focus on the mountain, but didn't want the same graphic to appear on the left, so mixed it up a little.

I got dis:
Isn't it funny when you figure something out in the middle of posting about it?

Figured out where it goes.

And Here's the refined piece to clean it all up.

  • 12.05.2011 5:43 PM PDT

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Good, because I thought that this may have been blown to crap with that inconsistency and we'd be starting over again.

*phew*

  • 12.05.2011 5:48 PM PDT

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  • 12.05.2011 5:55 PM PDT
Subject: My God, It's Full of Stars - The Destiny Map - (Now in 3D!)

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Posted by: SteroidKloud
The names on the maps shown in the "Waiting for Destiny" article could give you clues to what certain parts look like. For example, there is no names in the part you show as water, so that is obviously water and we can gather information from that. It says "Palm trees" in the top left, so that would suggest Forrest areas. "Village Range" in the bottom left hand corner to suggest urban areas, and "Range" to suggest mountains (Like you have shown).
I don't want to get into the finer details. I'm happy with speculation, but I'm not going to just build content that I don't know what should go where. Leaving that for much later :P

Also, another thing I noticed about your 3D render is that it doesn't show the top third of the map. I don't know if that is because you didn't see it or chose not to do it because of the big black rectangle in the middle.The latter.

If this is a map for the actual game, I doubt we have it right, because the scale is 40,000 (Or so it seems) and that body of water seems way too large. But if it something just canon related I'm sure it would fit just right.I think it's definitely accurate. The problem is that we don't have any specific points of reference to compare to, but I personally think that mountain range is gigantic. Look at it compared to the size of the city, or town, on the other side of the water.

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That better? :P

  • 12.05.2011 5:58 PM PDT