Anarchyville is an exterior city block that uses loading-door-map-transitions to connect the exterior "open world" with completely separate maps that act as the interiors of the buildings.
A concept similar to the buildings in GTA Online, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, & many other games. (Nearly identical to what you're used to in GTA Online.)
- Completely separate maps that act as building interiors.
- Each building's interior is a different map made by a different person.
- Should have windows & doors at locations similar to what exterior shows.
- Loading-door-map-transitions are used for entering/exiting.
- Not limited to only 1 loading door.
Each completely separate interior map is created by a different individual developer. Just like in GTA Online - the interiors are reminiscent of what the building looks like on the exterior, but do not actually need to match perfectly.
The loading-door-map-transitions mean that the city block is un-loaded when you enter a building. And it means that interior maps need to have loading doors of their own for exiting back out into the city.
The city block that has all of the different building exteriors is like an open world and must be kept very optimized, so Anarchyville has a low-poly & low-detailed art style.
The CITY PLANNER is in charge of building the exterior and composing the buildings into a somewhat-coherent city. All of the streets connecting things, the sidewalks, the street lamps - the CITY PLANNER is in charge of all of this. (It is all inside hub_anarchyville.vmf.)
However, the exteriors of each building is actually a Hammer++ VMF instance that different individual developer creates for their building.
This is how we build together in the same map!
Each individual creates a the outside of their building in a special VMF with their name on it, in addition to creating the inside as a completely separate map.
Exteriors should be somehwhat optimized & follow Anarchyville's art style, while on the interiors you can go as crazy as you like w/o worrying about lagging down the city at all.
Inside of the refs folder will be a VMF with your name on it. If you don't have a VMF with your name on it, contact me (SM Sith Lord) on the Discord.
You should only modify/build in the VMF with your name on it. This VMF is only the exterior of your building. By default, it will have at least the basic shape of your building & some suggestions on where to put doors.
Anything you build in this VMF gets instanced into the city block.
You'll often want to see how your building looks inside of the city or even do a test compile. Open hub_anarchyville.vmf in Hammer++ to do this. No changes need to be made - it should automatically show your building exterior in the city.
There is a limited amount of space per-city block. This city block has 1 building still unclaimed - contact me in the Discord if you'd like to participate & claim it.
Additional blocks will be created when this block fills up. (Each block is itself separated with a loading-door-map-transition, so there's no limit to how many blocks we make.)
| Creator | Exterior | Interior |
|---|---|---|
| SM Sith Lord (CITY PLANNER) |  |
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| ZombieW33d |  |
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| Xaphian |  |
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| FunkyPixie |  |
TBD |
| MexC |  |
TBD |
| OkeDoke |  |
TBD |
| Pux |  |
TBD |
| Dralloc |  |
TBD |
| Eko |  |
TBD |
The GitHub repo to download the project files is at https://github.com/smsithlord/hub_anarchyville
If you click the big CODE button, there is a Download ZIP link that appears. You want the contents of the ZIP to live at aarcade_user/mapsrc/hub_anarchyville.
To be clear - this means that the VMF itself would be at the following location if unzipped correctly: aarcade_user/mapsrc/hub_anarchyville/hub_anarchyville.vmf
When you've made changes to your VMF, you can either send me (SM Sith Lord) your VMF, or do a pull request on the GitHub repo.
If you need any help or have any questions, you can hit me up on the Discord or on my Twitch stream.