Wednesday, 26 March 2014
TASK FOR TODAY1. Researches about the Project area_ posted information by using Facebook as a communication tool for the group collaboration
Important information that has been collected over the internet to consider when modelling the heightmap for cryengine.
Highlighted and italic text are the area that is needed to be modelled along the terrain level i CryENGINE.
In the 1870s mining for coal began in adjoining Jamieson Valley. In 1878 John Britty North initiated exploratory adits in the coal seam below the Orphan Rock in the Jamison Valley.
Without machinery and with only a few men, he hauled a 4-cwt (203 kg)a block of coal 1100 ft (335 m) up the slopes to exhibit it in Sydney where it then secured for a government contract.
He utilised a natural tunnel in the edge of the escarpment, which he enlarged to provide a route for a steam driven dual incline haulage way to provide access to the coal seam
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (who was famous for developing the refrigerated export of beef to the UK) bought a large parcel of land to the west of the Narrow Neck Plateau to develop an outcrop of Kerosene Shale that had been discovered there.
Although Mr Mort confirmed the logical outcropping of the same seam on the Jamison Valley side of the Narrow neck, he only drove exploratory tunnels on the Megalong side in 1871.
For some time coal lying above and below the shale was extracted but by 1897 it proved unprofitable and the mine was closed; all the machinery had been removed by 1903.
In 1880 John North located a seam of the reddish purple kerosene shale at the Ruined Castle in the Jamieson Valley and in 1882 sent his manager to prospect it. North and his son John took up 1392 acres (563 ha) as mineral conditional purchases.
The outcrops on the Western side had been discovered by Campbell Mitchell 9 years before. Garbutt cut a track directly across the valley 2 and 1/8 miles to the site of the proposed mine below a group of rock pillars known as the Ruined Castle. In 1884-85 an aerial ropeway had been built at nearby Gladstone Colliery to bring coal to the railway line at Wentworth Falls.
This venture quickly failed because of poor coal quality and shonky dealings. This same equipment was used to construct the ropeway that was used to bring the shale mined at the Ruined Castle shale mine to the head of the Katoomba Incline. The shale in the buckets was then tipped into tramway skips and it continued its 5 kilometre journey to the rail siding at Katoomba.
This aerial ropeway was also doomed to failure. The very steep gradient up and over the cliff top at the northern end caused many buckets to come loose from the haulage rope and roll back down to crash into the bucket coming behind. metres below the cliff top.
It took some years to raise the necessary capital and install the equipment needed but by 1883 the mine was in full production.
A double incline had been constructed up from the base of a small self-acting incline which brought the coal down about 40 metres from the mouth of the adit to the base of the main incline. At the top of the main incline a dual tramway was constructed covering the 3 kilometres to a railway siding on the main western line.
By 1888 there were 23 men employed underground and 60 men on the surface, the total output for the six months June to December being 65,680 tons of coal.
Erected 1885 and 1905 a village for the workers of the Glen Shale Mine existed on the site behind this plaque.
It is understood that the village consisted of an hotel with 13 rooms, a public hall, butchers shop and a bakery. population was about 40 families.
With the closing of the mines in 1904 many of the better buildings were demolished and the materials used in Katoomba.
The only obvious remains are some foundation stones just through the fence.
referenece:
http://www.megalongcc.com.au/Megalong%20History%20&%20Heritage/Mining%20%20History%20%20In%20the%20Megalong.htm
DINGOGAP
While we haven't visited the site our group has done some research about the site to have an idea of how we are going to model the environment in cryengine, We all have done a research and this website link.
This is the most useful link we have based it on so far for this weeks studio. It has some information that we could use for the project.
These reference images from Jamison Valley that I found from the link above is going to be used as our guide to give the viewers the exact look of environment surrounding of the aerial ropeway area to CryENGINE.
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| Framework from the top of a Support Tower |
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| Made by bleichert |
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| Support Tower timber and equipment. |
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| cable-through-tree |
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| Cables crossing Federal Pass near Malaita Point. |
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| Components left in a heap, just where they fell. |
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| Fittings still connected to the remains of a Support Tower. |
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| Support Tower timber and equipment 2. |
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| A groove, worn in the rock by the cable. |
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| A large coil of cable near the site of a Support Tower. |
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| Bucket Transport Components showing cable guides and drive wheel. |
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| Bucket and snapped-cable |
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| Cable-splice |
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| Fallen support tower post |
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| Remains of a Support Tower post. |
INDEPENDENT STUDY
1. Targeted Knowledge
My targeted knowledge towards this assignment is by using CryENGINE game developer sofware to fully detail the environment. Bringing the history together for turist attraction is a good idea to use for either a mobile up or showing a realistic view or environment that could also involve the oculus rift for people to experience the surroundinga view without going to the place.
My TASK for the assignment that i could be improve is by either modelling in 3ds max or Modelling the environment in CryENGINE.
2. Skills Acquisition
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