I Present you the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria! (a halo 3 recreation) by JohnieLightning I have entered this map into the 7 wonders contest and is in the ancient wonders category. This map is for aesthetic purposes only. The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria also goes by the name Pharos. Alexander had founded the city which hosted this great monument but never saw it's completion or construction. It was constructed in Alexandria, Egypt. Instead it was Ptolemy Soter that gave the order to build The lighthouse (or pharos) but he never saw its completion. His son Ptolemy Soter II was the ruler at the time of completion (it took 20 years) The man who designed it was named Sostrates of Knidos and he wanted his name carved into the foundation, Ptolemy II disaproved and instead made Soter write his name in the foundation, enraged Soter dug a hole carved his name in it, covered it with plaster and then wrote Ptolemy's name. The plaster wore down over time revealing Soter's name. The Lighthouse was destroyed by tremors later on. Download Link Front View Entrance View Inside Spawn View from the ship On top of the lighthouse was a statue of Poseidon. Please download and tell me what you think.
First off, Poseidon Statue: Pure Winsauce. Second, the lighthouse looks really detailed. I like those little rectangles on the front, but I can't quite tell what they are. The use of columns in the corners was a nice touch. It's missing a light, though, unless of course you merged that into the base of the top segment. I think it would look better if you could see the orb at the top of the tower. However, when I look at the first picture, it almost looks to me like the whole thing is crooked. Is it so?
Yes i agree the orb should be seen. Although i do not see it crooked at all.?. Other than that really good job. I dont know what the original looked like but it does look rather nice. And yes the Poseidon statue CHECK PLUS!
The reason I merged the light into the lighthouse is because when you view the map from a distance it doesn't give off much light, its just a plain red circle sitting on the tower. It looked kind of awkward, and plus you can only really view the map from a distance...I forgot to add a pic of the ground level *facepalm* but you can definatley see the light from there.
Don't worry, it only looks crooked because it's tall. For example, check out this pic of one of my maps ( I hope this doesn't count as spam). : ( This Space Tether on the right looks really crooked. However, it's perfectly staight, otherwise it would fall over. Tall objects just look crooked like that because it's more realistic. If you look at a tall building from below, it looks really crooked. Anyway, map looks great, i'm DLing, but can we see a photo of the ship as well?