Skies of Arcadia in Half-Life 2

A loyal Skies of Arcadia fan has created Crescent Isle from inside to out in map form for Half-Life 2!

[LINKS HAVE BEEN UPDATED]

Sometime around 2005, a user of the forums at http://soaworld.silvite.com took it upon himself to make a 3D model of the HMS Delpinus from Skies of Arcadia. This led him to discover and develop effective software that helped him accomplish what he has today. After much use of his limited free time, painstaking model and texture ripping, Kryslin made a HL2 map of Crescent Isle. It's in the beta stage, has a few bugs and still needs some face work, but it's now available in a single file at

http://kryslin.silvite.com/delphinus.html

To play on delphinus_beta, extract the .bsp to C:/program files/steam/steamapps/(your steam name)/half-life 2 episode two/ep2/maps/delphinus_beta.bsp

Start up Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and enable the console through the advanced keyboard settings in the OPTIONS. Enter the console by hitting "~". Enter "map delphinus_beta" into the field and hit enter. If you did everything right, you should be walking around the docking bay of Crescent Isle!

To discuss the progress of this map, go to http://soaworld.silvite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=201&sid=6c2f58ff86501fe...

To discuss anything else related to Skies of Arcadia, go to http://soaworld.rpgplanet.gamespy.com/forum/index.php

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• video
• game
• eternal
• arcadia
• vyse
• aika
• fina
• delphinus
• hms
• crescent
• isle
• island
• airship
• half
• life
• half-life
• episode
• mod

[swrutra]

Where did you find the pictures for the tea room? Did you do screen capture from the original game? It's amazing not only how you recreated the space, but the textures well, they're equal to the original Delphinus.

[mrfamous333]

@swrutra the textures wete ripped straight from SoA

[ArcaneArteest]

Wow...we need another remake of Skies with modern gen graphics!

[AlishaShatogi]

Nostalgia!

This is amazing.

Seriously. The Delphinus is just... wow.

Makes me want to bust out the Dreamcast and play again.

[23652356]

One of the best games i have played on my life, REMAKEE PLZZ!!

[Spartan043]

I just orgasmed.

[ArcNine9Angel]

This video is helping me recreate my own Delphinus right now, albeit a 2D version for Terraria xD My outline is done now I'm trying to shape up the interior rooms, that staircase is proving different between every version of the ship, so confusing.

[loopymatt2]

That was strait up awesome! :D

[StationSquareW]

Amazing!

It's a shame the island outside have the simple format from the first time you stand your base there, but it''s still faithful to the game. And damn this delphinus is sexy, same complimet goes for the underground air base.

I loved it.

[V3nD3ttAOn3]

this must have taken so long, but its amazing :]

[GeNome5152]

wow thats good, especially the delphinus. makes me want to play again

[skiesju]

So awesome.

[JallenMeodia]

Wow amazing. I love SoA and HL2 so this is just...I'm overwhelmed with emotion.

Don't remember the room at 2:10 though.

[Tlhea]

@swrutra As has been mentioned, the textures are ripped from the game.

Here's how: You'll need an uncompressed (non-Echelon) image of the game, SharpDevelop, and a PVR to PNG convertor. Using sharpdevelop, write a program that searches for PVRT in a file, and writes that block to your disk as a .PVR file. repeat until all PVRT's are found. Feed those to the Image Converter. Repeat until you've extracted all the textures. Spend 4-5 months organizing the 4GB of images that result. :) Done!