City Urban Legend, or fact?

Back when I used to do videos I made a script to do crazy moves like those. While Arcana is talking about nice things to move the camera around, there's this bit of script that I used to make sure the camera kept pointing to the same place while moving like crazy:

	$pi = 3.14159265359;

          $diffx = $camx - $lookatx;
          $diffz = $camz - $lookatz;
          $diffy = $camy - $lookaty;

          if (($diffx == 0) and ($diffy == 0)) {
            if ($diffz > 0) {
              $pitch = $pi / 2;
            } else {
              $pitch = 0 - ($pi / 2);
            }
          } else {
            $pitch = atan($diffz / sqrt(($diffx * $diffx) + ($diffy * $diffy)));
          }

          if ($diffx == 0) {
            if ($diffy > 0) {
              $yaw = 0;
            } else {
              $yaw = $pi;
            }
          } else {
            if ($diffx > 0) {
              $yaw = $pi / 2 - atan($diffy / $diffx);
            } else {
              $yaw = (0 - $pi) / 2 - atan($diffy / $diffx);
            }

          if ($lookatcam == 0) {
            $yaw = $yaw + $pi;
            if ($yaw > $pi) { $yaw = $yaw - ($pi * 2); }
          }

          }

Nowhere near as powerful as any of this, but I did write a program to alter the camera angle on a demo so it could be set to anywhere centered on the player. It remained at a constant distance and angle just like with the standard demo (assuming you never moved the camera when recording) but you could zoom out and see an overview of the fight or change it so you were looking back on your character or whatever.

I got into the room, this is very cool. My GF Was very impressed with the room. We both agree it needs to be made useful some how.

I did think it was funny, when I clicked on the doors in the room that little window that pops up and usually says "You Can't enter" came up with

"can't find spawn target: Arena_LobbyW_04"

I never seen a message like that pop up in a window in this game, I find it amusing for some reason.

Anyway, thanx for the locations and pics guys. This room should have an uber exploration badge or something.

It makes me wonder, would all arenas have a room like this under it that people could find if they could get under the map.

Ohh and here is a suggestion. People who log out in this room should get a "Lord of The Underworld" Dayjob badge or something.

Holy crap this place is awesome! I'm in it right now and the oroportal does work you just need to put it at the corner where the wall and floor meet each other.

The thing I'm wondering is why exactly did they make it? What was the point of adding lighting and effects to a place no one would ever see? Or was it part of some early version of the Arena that they never went through with?

As an historic side note, back when Monster Island was first added to Grandville, you could go to that exact same location in Grandville, do the exact same trick, and your villlain would end up outside the walls closing Monster Island from Peregrine Island; there wasn't much to do there as all the contacts and NPCs were removed, but it was very amusing for my villain to be running around Peregrine Island. The hole was patched in the Monster Island map (if you try it now, you fall into a puddle of water under the door) but not in the real Peregrine Island map.

THIS room should be the danger room.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Mike Apolis needs to clean his room! And quit singing Moon River!!!

I was actually shown how to get there another, more complicated way which involved flying to the corner of the map. On a side note, once you went "off the map" in the corner, you are able to fly to the edge of the world and if you looked around the horizon you could see a group of buildings. If you flew to them, they were just a group of buildings, some just floating in the air.....like some sort of ghost town.