Actually now that I think about it, a flight sim map could also work too if not better

The problem then would be texturing and quality. Maybe if you'd use google map data or something similar you could use a program to extract the models. I think you can do that for google Earth or google maps I forgot which one, but the models look terrible

I suppose if you had A LOT of free time on your hands you could recreate the buildings from the satellite photo into basic 3d shapes and render it with the corrected lighting. Or mirror the textures.

I can't do anything about it. The only way I could think of was to mirror the textures...

Shadows are pointing the opposite direction lol

I've even heard that they used the very old New York City satellite map for the texture.

The reason they hadn't done this is likely because of time, as seen in old beta maps for concept art, the New York City Night texture is pretty darn old, and considering they had other things after the Leak occurred, they had to rebuild some of the maps under crunch time, alongside other things such as burning funds and or other internal issues.
TL;DR. Internal, External issues and the leak.

Don't know why valve didn't do this in the first place lol

evala brat

could you make Warsaw, Poland version

Finally the view feels right

bubba fix the shadows

"tf going in bulgaria bro"

shadows on the texture are facing exactly the wrong direction so they're pointing towards the sun instead of away, great mod but I feel like this would make it so much better

It's not why you would WANT to be in bulgaria, it's about preserving the truth; You're IN bulgaria. You can't escape. there's no point in pretending

who would not want to be in the prussia of the balkans?

Cool I guess, but why would I ever want to be in Bulgaria

Bulgaria Representation

A normal day in Sofia

BULGARIA NUMBER ONE

wow this is cool and makes so much more sense. nicer to have way better textures for it too

I did not know that Bulgaria was that desolate

why not kazakhstan???( its good though

We finally got a game that popularizes my country. Despite our state, i'm still somewhat proud.

Great addon we needed it for years)

Half Life if it was a good game

better than the city with lights, cause how tf are you allowed to use power when a dictating alien race is controlling you?

oh

perfect

@cool dude, this mod will only replace the citymap textures.

thank god, the old one was actually ass

WIll this replace thie building

good

Great mod! I think it would be better if you could somehow add smoke and explosions or smth, other than that, good job!

Fun Fact: Sofia, Bulgaria was one of the locations that inspired the look of the Earth in WALL-E.

The d3_citadel skybox if Valve could actually make a good skyline skybox

Was wondering when someone would do this. Amazing work. Using the Half-Life: Alyx map, we managed to pinpoint most of the locations, including the Citadel, where it would be within Sofia.

https://earth.google.com/web/@42.68423053,23.32279063,555.49209876a,8677.33941742d,35y,359.99969811h,0t,0r/data=CgRCAggBMigKJgokCiAxdi1ZNW8zdmhHNGZBNjI0ZWtteFZXUEFEWmJqbnVTOCACOgMKATBCAggASggIz5q2gwIQAQ

A lot better than the vanilla texture

This mod is good because now the texture actually matches the time of day

As a bulgarian who was raised in belgium, this is Banica approved

no way accurate city 17

SICK!!!

I love this!

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS !!!!!!!!