JamesArndt
Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2017
- Location
- Ormond Beach FL
Hi everyone. I'm very new here and I wanted to have access to historians, reenactors and people with an interest in the Civil War so I joined up. I've been working on an interactive project (video game) specifically about the battle in and around Gettysburg. I am working on a smaller 10 minute experience that puts you on the ground in first person fighting through the the streets of the city. This would be in the first day of the battle. Here is a short video showing where I am at currently with developing it. This is a very small scene showing how it renders and a few sample objects.
Now this next video is showing what I will most likely need help with and it's very specific. I am drawing out an 1863 map of the core city area. I'm focusing on this area for now as the first demo I want to publish will be an experience during the first day of battle. I'm referencing a contemporary map of 1863 Gettysburg drawn by the Civil War Trust folks who seem to have a lot of resources and information. So as you can see in this video I'm drawing out shapes for the building footprints. This will tell me generally where they spatially existed in relation to one another. However I'm missing a lot of "on-the-ground" details in regard to typical fencing in the area around buildings, typical things that might be sitting outside around buildings (i.e. barrels, crates, etc) I was hoping some individuals here could help me discern what the typical street-side looked like back in 1863 Gettysburg. Questions like: Were there hitch posts for horses, watering troughs, barrels or crates, did they have "lawns" with grass and trees or did the city do landscaping? I'm trying to get a visual picture of the typical street view in Gettysburg in 1863.
I also have an online repository where I'm storing historical photos of structures and streets from the early to mid 1800's, so I do have access some nice photography. It's not all necessarily Gettysburg, I do believe some of these photos are from other areas or Maryland.
Link to photos: https://goo.gl/7fGWTz
Now this next video is showing what I will most likely need help with and it's very specific. I am drawing out an 1863 map of the core city area. I'm focusing on this area for now as the first demo I want to publish will be an experience during the first day of battle. I'm referencing a contemporary map of 1863 Gettysburg drawn by the Civil War Trust folks who seem to have a lot of resources and information. So as you can see in this video I'm drawing out shapes for the building footprints. This will tell me generally where they spatially existed in relation to one another. However I'm missing a lot of "on-the-ground" details in regard to typical fencing in the area around buildings, typical things that might be sitting outside around buildings (i.e. barrels, crates, etc) I was hoping some individuals here could help me discern what the typical street-side looked like back in 1863 Gettysburg. Questions like: Were there hitch posts for horses, watering troughs, barrels or crates, did they have "lawns" with grass and trees or did the city do landscaping? I'm trying to get a visual picture of the typical street view in Gettysburg in 1863.
I also have an online repository where I'm storing historical photos of structures and streets from the early to mid 1800's, so I do have access some nice photography. It's not all necessarily Gettysburg, I do believe some of these photos are from other areas or Maryland.
Link to photos: https://goo.gl/7fGWTz