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

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  • 01.06.2012 12:45 PM PDT

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Quite the compilation. I'm surprised how much has been able to be pulled out of a couple of screenshots of t-shirts and "See You Starside" photos/backgrounds.

  • 01.06.2012 12:58 PM PDT

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Quite the compilation. I'm surprised how much has been able to be pulled out of a couple of screenshots of t-shirts and "See You Starside" photos/backgrounds.

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  • 01.11.2012 8:19 PM PDT

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  • 01.11.2012 8:28 PM PDT

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  • 01.12.2012 4:37 AM PDT

Depends on if by stone, you mean .jpg files and blog posts

  • 01.13.2012 12:18 PM PDT

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Step 3.2 [video] - Updated the model with a much crisper mountain shape, and volcanoes! Lemme know if you think this is more accurate than the giant nipples. I also think I left the Warthog in. Whoops :D

I think I'd like to dot in some of the landmarks from the Happy Holidays card next. Could be interesting to see them in 3D.

  • 01.15.2012 6:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: SonicJohn
I think I'd like to dot in some of the landmarks from the Happy Holidays card next. Could be interesting to see them in 3D.
I agree. One step closer to finishing it!

  • 01.15.2012 7:52 PM PDT

I REALLY LIKE THE DESTINY MAP. IT'S KINDA LIKE ALLADIN. OR SOMETHING. MY FAVORITE GAME IS CRIMSON PIRATE SHIP

  • 01.16.2012 4:25 PM PDT

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I noticed you saying the 40000 scale thing was meters (well, because you couldn't think of what else the scale could be). Couldn't it possibly be the 'Bungie' unit that they used for their Halo games (2.54 meters)?

I'm basing it on the H2 Vista documentation, where a unit was listed as 100 3ds max inch-units. It stayed the same in h3 and Reach (8.333 feet, move a box 1 unit up in forge in either, and it will have moved just above spartan height).

[Edited on 01.22.2012 12:35 PM PST]

  • 01.17.2012 5:13 PM PDT
Subject: My God, It's Full of Stars - The Destiny Map
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I am liking what you are doing here. Keep it up!

  • 01.17.2012 5:17 PM PDT

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Good work. Wonder if Bungie would comment on any of this stuff to give us hints like their prior games :)

  • 01.18.2012 4:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: SonicJohn
Step 3.2 [video] - Updated the model with a much crisper mountain shape, and volcanoes! Lemme know if you think this is more accurate than the giant nipples. I also think I left the Warthog in. Whoops :D

Well, that definitely looks better than the nipples the mountains previously had. Is there any ETA for the next step?

  • 01.20.2012 10:41 AM PDT

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The nipples will not be missed. I'm going to go stare at some volcanoes, though. The flat image is up to interpretation, so there may be room to mess with the topography more to make it look like a more natural volcano.
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Posted by: SonicJohn
Step 3.2 [video] - Updated the model with a much crisper mountain shape, and volcanoes! Lemme know if you think this is more accurate than the giant nipples. I also think I left the Warthog in. Whoops :D

Well, that definitely looks better than the nipples the mountains previously had. Is there any ETA for the next step?

  • 01.25.2012 9:30 AM PDT
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Marty posted this picture on Twitter:
http://lockerz.com/s/178377740

I'm guessing that's a picture of one of the monitors in the studio displaying the scores for the Pentathlon. Anyway take a look at the background and undoubtedly you'll notice the familiar look of the Destiny Map - but what else do you see? I see a little white plus symbol. To me it looks like it is a part of the Map, not a part of the Pentathlon scoreboard.

So what does it mean? Is it a marker for a health station? Go forth and do what you guys do best with tiny tidbits of new/potentially useless information!

  • 01.27.2012 6:21 PM PDT

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Looks like the cursor.

See in this and this, the plus is over the main screen, and in the second one it's missing because it's at the top along the windowbar.

I can see the map underneath, but it's too distorted to see anything, sadly. Good eye though :)
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Marty posted this picture on Twitter:
http://lockerz.com/s/178377740

I'm guessing that's a picture of one of the monitors in the studio displaying the scores for the Pentathlon. Anyway take a look at the background and undoubtedly you'll notice the familiar look of the Destiny Map - but what else do you see? I see a little white plus symbol. To me it looks like it is a part of the Map, not a part of the Pentathlon scoreboard.

So what does it mean? Is it a marker for a health station? Go forth and do what you guys do best with tiny tidbits of new/potentially useless information!

  • 01.27.2012 6:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
I also maintain that Chrome is weaksauce, and IE9 is fast and works very well

Posted by: SonicJohn
Looks like the cursor.

See in this and this, the plus is over the main screen, and in the second one it's missing because it's at the top along the windowbar.

I can see the map underneath, but it's too distorted to see anything, sadly. Good eye though :)
Bahaha that was ruled out quickly! In Marty's pic it just looks like it's meant to be there.

Move along folks, nothing to see here.

EDIT: Oh I see, this tweet escaped me, or maybe it's because their link isn't working for me. Never mind!

[Edited on 01.27.2012 6:45 PM PST]

  • 01.27.2012 6:38 PM PDT
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Thanks for this! I knew there was something about that map!

  • 01.28.2012 6:04 AM PDT
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Wow. That's pretty incredible.

  • 01.28.2012 12:57 PM PDT

Awesome job creating that 3D model. I am so excited about this game, I hope Bungie don't keep us in the dark for much longer.

  • 01.28.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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Where does this "Scene Scape" fit into the overlay?

  • 01.28.2012 9:48 PM PDT

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Okay, so this is in relation to ncsuDuncan's annotated composite map.

As you can see he's highlighted several words and phrases that are hidden within the bits of the map that Bungie has release and, while they're next to illegible in some cases, I think they could be very useful in finding out stuff about Destiny's universe (early on).
The words within the map that have been identified so far are as follows:

"Puerto Drin" - This is a location that seems to be near water. And, considering the word "puerto" means "port" in Spanish (Puerto Rico meaning "Rich Port"). This hints to it being an ARG. Something set on Earth but in a separate Universe as the geography is unlike any geography of any Continent on Earth. This is perhaps one of the most important pieces of info we have about the storyline and universe of Destiny so far.

"Village Range" - This could hint to it being a pre-modern-era game. Or, perhaps a post-modern game in which society has reverted to a primitive, tribe based civilization.

"Most ..." - This section is near one of the perforations in the Map (where one segment meets another) and seems to be cut off. This is signified by him labeling it as "Most -". Because of this, not much can be gathered from this one for now.

"Triple Try Ridge" - While the name itself may not make so much sense out of context, it does seem to be a geographical anomaly that leads into one of the Volcanoes (depicted in SonicJohn's 3D Map)

"Fresh Water" - The significance of this being only that this area denotes a source of freshwater. Nothing special, really.

"Scale 40,000" - Perhaps a way to figure out the way that distance is measured either in this universe or just exclusively on this map? Not quite sure.



Now, the rest of these are not deciphered by Duncan, but I think I might have a go at them.

The first is located North-West of "Most..." and directly South of "Numbers in the Water". It's been circled by Duncan. After close inspection, I think I've been able to decipher the first and last words of the tri-word phrase, but not the one in the middle. "Astra [unintelligible] Man". As most of us know by know, Astra, in latin, means "stars". But, as most of us probably don't know (and I didn't until I looked it up) is that "Man" translates to Manna. I didn't know what this word meant, and so, obviously, I looked it up. It means "any sudden or unexpected help, advantage, or aid to success." or "divine or spiritual food.". So, as my last hypothesis as I seem to be beginning to hypothesize within hypotheses and my statements are becoming less and less reality based, perhaps for the people in the area, this is some sort of sea who's creatures provide much needed nourishment for them? Perhaps they get their food from fishing in this sea? I don't know.

The last one I'm going to look at is not nearly as interesting as the last. It's at the very top of the page and I'm only going to attempt to decipher what it says, as it seems to not mean anything in English, Spanish, or Latin. It seems to read "Gurnmura" or "Guramura". This could be the name of a town, an inlet, a dock, a coastline. I'm not sure.


So, feel free to discuss my findings and the map itself. Critique. Expand. What have you.

[Edited on 02.18.2012 11:25 AM PST]

  • 02.05.2012 12:23 PM PDT

Interesting

  • 02.05.2012 5:14 PM PDT
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I must say if anyone can clear up some areas where there are lettering with photoshop it would be a hell of a lot easier to figure out some names, also those words everywhere that you guys didn't point out, also this is a quadrant of the map because the lines if the "folding" of the Map continue up so we may have a small portion of a larger landscape but this is one of the greatest things I've ever seen and who ever put the parts of the map together is a genius and deserves a medal

  • 02.11.2012 8:11 PM PDT

Why hasn't Bungie commented on this yet? This is definitely a place for a witty urk remark, some congratulations from DeeJ on hard work or something like a refuting, smart remark from Achronos.

  • 02.11.2012 8:22 PM PDT