Hill Valley City Map
Due to the fact how BTTF:TG is designed players are not allowed to roam around Hill Valley and its sourroundings.
Actually I have to say that I like what TTG have brought to us with this game. Very much indeed.
The only thing I missed till now is, that you can not explore that much in the game. The scenes where you are able to walk around are very limited. What I liked at the movie too, was how a place you know changed from era to era. Of course it has mostly to do with the courthouse square but I wonder how other parts of Hill Valley look(ed) like.
In BTTF:TG it was nice to see the place where Edna Strickland lived in 1986 and meet that location again as it was in 1931 where Arthur McFly lived in this house. But such "comparisons" I would like to see more frequently. I found it a pity that there wasn't more of HV to explore in 1986. To see how things get changed during the years. Maybe in the upcoming episodes there are wider environments. I would appreciate that.
This leads me directly to the question: Is there any source how the city layout of Hill Valley looked like in the movies? Mostly it takes place at Courthouse Square but what about the other parts of the city? Lyon Estates is 2 Miles away from the city center and what is there between? Where is Doc's garage? Where is Maple Street or JFK-Drive located? How far away is Hilldale? Where is Lone Pine Mall?
Actually I have to say that I like what TTG have brought to us with this game. Very much indeed.
The only thing I missed till now is, that you can not explore that much in the game. The scenes where you are able to walk around are very limited. What I liked at the movie too, was how a place you know changed from era to era. Of course it has mostly to do with the courthouse square but I wonder how other parts of Hill Valley look(ed) like.
In BTTF:TG it was nice to see the place where Edna Strickland lived in 1986 and meet that location again as it was in 1931 where Arthur McFly lived in this house. But such "comparisons" I would like to see more frequently. I found it a pity that there wasn't more of HV to explore in 1986. To see how things get changed during the years. Maybe in the upcoming episodes there are wider environments. I would appreciate that.
This leads me directly to the question: Is there any source how the city layout of Hill Valley looked like in the movies? Mostly it takes place at Courthouse Square but what about the other parts of the city? Lyon Estates is 2 Miles away from the city center and what is there between? Where is Doc's garage? Where is Maple Street or JFK-Drive located? How far away is Hilldale? Where is Lone Pine Mall?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSiaNJC9T6w
I watched your video.
The distances are all referred to courthouse square.
The Lyon Estates are confirmed to be 2 miles away from the city center, as can be seen in BTTF I when marty leaves the Delorean behind the billboard in 1955 and walks into the city.
Lone Pine Mall is further away than Lyon Estates because Marty arrives in 1955 at Peabody's farm and when he drove off he reaches Lyon Estates just a few moments later. Then he continues on foot to Hill Valley.
Lone Pine Mall/Peabody's farm should be close to Lyon Estates because when Marty returns to 1985 he reaches Courthouse Square at 1:24am and after the Delorean's engine broke he manages to follow the lybians on foot and is able to arrive at Lone Pine Mall at 1:33am. If the average running speed of a man is about 13 miles per hour (20km/h) Marty would be able to run 2,08 miles or 3,3 kilometers in 9 minutes.
Because Marty is asked to pick up the video camera from Doc's garage when heading to Twin Pines Mall it seems that Doc's garage is somewhere between Lyon Estates and the mall.
The Bluebird Motel sign at Main Street should be about a quarter mile or 400m away from Courthouse Square. This is because the Delorean accelerates in 11 seconds from 0-60mp/h or manages at least 100mp/h in 17 seconds. So accelerating to 88mp/h equals more or less the distance of 400m which is about 1/4 mile.
maybe also some of the bttfhillvalley-mod team can approve this cause they are recreating Hill Valley but not only in one era.
my favorite
No I said "kinda" come on for a woman her age she looks great.
Some points are wrong, like Riverside/JFK Drive and Twin Pines Mall, but everything seems to be in place.
I assume that the layout of the streets and rivers is invented as there's no evidence for that. But sticking to the clues the movies are giving plus the fact that Hill Valley is inspired by a typical small town in the hillside to the east of San Francisco this should be a very good base for your mod.
As the Courthouse Square itself is quite a challenge to model, what about the entire town! I wonder how many artists at bttfhillvalley are working on the city alone!
That's the advantage of Telltale Games: They "just" need to create certain locations relevant to the plot they are providing but it is not meant to roam around freely in the whole environment.
We have some generic houses and some early locations, but we're focusing on the Square for the next release. The progress can be seen at our gallery.
guess that's the map carlos meant.
So with some studying of nearby real towns it should be possible to recreate a very accurate map of Hill Valley throughout the different eras.
I find in bttf.com
It's one
and some make this to this
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1203/hillvalleymap.png
but there have so many mistakes
so i am making a new version of this
I just show you a small version
because i did not finish it
I will post it on bttf.com when i finish
P.S Sorry of my bad English
And yep, the map LuigiHann posted is 99.9% accurate (everything's in place, except for the tracks that go beyond the ravine). That map is a backup prop for III, not actually screen-used. The screen-used map may have been burned down with the rest of the town in the -poetic fate- lightning fire.
And Carlos85G I think you saw this.
http://www.bttfhillvalley.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=2253
Yes... I think I've gone to that forum before
This photo show the direction.
That mean train track passed east-west through Hill Valley in this photo.
But in bttf 3 and the train map show us the train track should be north-south.
Edit: DOH My bad, I reconize it from the movie now.. seeing Marty... I thought at 1st it was based off a city.