GMOD VR: Exploring 8800 Blue Lick Road (Photogrammetry in GMOD?) 

This building in the dark would be the wildest Ready or Not level

8:55 That looks a lot like a baptismal pool that has been converted into an actual bath, which supports the theory that this used to be a church of some kind.

The effect of the "photogrammetry" version really is like that one painting of a pile of objects that you can't identify once you actually start to focus on them.

This place is in Louisville Kentucky apparently. It would be sick to find this in Project Zomboid

From what information I gathered back when this place was first entering the limelight, the property was once a church of some denomination, and the buildings on the property were conjoined/added-to and sold as a residence. Someone bought it, and used the place as an online distribution center for shady/illegally acquired products. This is why things are "organized", and why there are "office" spaces and communal areas. After getting caught and presumably arrested, the place was listed for sale once again, which is where the virtual tour listing comes in. The place gained popuparity for its strange layout and cluttered spaces, and people would elect friends to complete "challenges" as an excuse to explore the place (the most famous being "find the bathtub", but there were others like "find the cat" or "find the collection of Xbox 360's"). The listing was removed and relisted a few times, before eventually being taken down for apparently the final time.

This map looks like you are in dream and trying to look at casual things. This things looks familiar, almost normal, but your brain can understand, that something is not right about it. A rooms is strange, a lot of low poly mess, soo interesting vibe.

Hurray! I recommended this in the comments like a year ago, I'm glad you finally found a unique way to do it I believe it was originally a church and connected parishioner's house that changed hands several times until it was owned by someone running an ebay business. I think a lot of the "stock" turned out to be bootlegs (the computers were for ripping and burning discs), but the guy running it was arrested for something different and the state foreclosed on his home with everything in it. The "bathtub" is a baptismal font, here in the south it's either that or a river.

Too anyone who doesn't know, this wasn't some kind of hoarder situation, instead the family that was living here was running a type of bootleg Amazon out of their house Which explains the boxes upon boxes of organizing clutter

I feel like this is what the backrooms would actually be like just this forever

this is extra disturbing because of the combination of extreme photo realism being actual photos and the distortion it's so uncanny valley

I knew the outside looked familiar, and also the road name sounded familiar. This is in Louisville, KY that's where I grew up with my dad, we've driven by this house and road manyyyyy many times. It's kind of by where our old house used to be. So wild that there is a map of it on GMod lol, small world. Never would have guessed that insanity was in that building.

Used to work security at an old office building that was built in the 20s. It was mostly filled with lawyers and insurance people, but at one time it was a cathouse and a half dozen other things. Most of the floors were totally normal and pretty aesthetically cool, reasonably 'modern' with tons of cool wood styling everywhere, but open the wrong office door and you'd suddenly find yourself in a totally wrecked abandoned room with furniture that literally looked 80 yrs old. Plenty of weird spaces from all the renovations too, and small areas you couldn't access anymore between the new walls. One back hallway had this weird room that had like half of the wall removed, so I guess it worked as a ticket counter at some point, but there was zero natural light in that hallway, so you'd just round the corner on patrol on third shift, suddenly find yourself in pitch black, glance over towards that counter and be gazing into an even darker empty void. I'd also been listening to this guy's videos so that didn't help. Thanks a lot Librarian! lol

i believe the building used to be a church and was turned into a house, that's why it has exit signs and urinals and is just generally massive and confusing also 19:49 you missed the cat

The bathtub looks very obviously like a baptism pool, they just added walls to seal it off, I'd be interested to know what the other side of the wall is, and whether a vestibule or auditorium type area could have been there

The fact that you can actually walk around this 3D environment made up of real photos. This is something I only dreamed about as a kid! GMOD is such an amazing piece of software.

You've not studied your religion enough Librarian; It's a baptismal... but very claustrophobicly walled off. Definitely a former church. Community churches often just buy very large tub fixtures to baptize people in.

One of the weirdest things about the house is just how weirdly normal is looks on the outside, sure if you look at it for a while you may be confused on wherever or not it's residential or not, but compared to it's insides, it just looks like a normal, everyday house.

that form of 3d is very interesting, alas I was in a vrchat world just like that. photos used to create a world and I felt increasingly anxious the longer i spent in the world. I seen like a coffee cup merged with a table because of how the photo was taken. had to remove my headset after that. felt farr too strange.

Now imagine if it was this house that we were stuck inside of in Anatomy.

13:34 I think that might be a magnetic bug screen Also the rooms of shelves kind of remind me of the library scene in the first ghostbusters movie

It starts off looking like a fairly normal split foyer house, if a bit weird on layout and strangely some "EXIT" signs, then you get to 6:05 and see that the place just... keeps going.

it really does look a lot smaller from the outside

Looking at some of the textures reminds me of that image that has been attributed to replicating what a person experiences when having a stroke, looking at everyday objects. You know, that one where you can see remnants of objects, but it's merely a confusing amalgam of disparate things.

In fact, when I took off my glasses while watching the video, the visual became strikingly realistic.

Maybe it's my stupid nerd brain but I can't stop thinking of how cool of an arcade/game collection set up you could put together with all this space :P

15:23 there actually is a cat in this map but it’s in the bedroom that looks like a crime scene Edit: also liminal hotel got an update (dont use noclip)

Oh thank you so much to take my suggestion! This is a very interesting map concept and when i saw for the first time immediately thought in send it to you to play on it.

no WAY dude i was just talking about this house with my friends yesterday

How are GMOD devs supposed to compete with this level of proper object scaling 😩

YES! This is by far my favorite liminal space, glad you gave it a tour! My favorite part about Blue Lick Road is the amount of detail in the space. While most liminal spaces try to disorient you with confusing floorplans, Blue Lick Road allows you to get so wrapped up in the richness of the environment and clutter that you lose yourself amongst the mess in a self inflicted tunnel vision.

A bit of backstory for those who are interested: This was a questionable legitimate family owned business. It’s been raided by the police several times for things such as tax evasion, and buying stolen goods. They bought stuff from flea markets and resold them, hence the clutter and assortment of random items. It was originally a Christian church, and the bathroom was meant for baptisms and such.

13:45 Imagine this place in Ready or Not, that'd be terrifying

Knew this one would be on this channel soon, I love this map

Imagine this as a backrooms dimension. Endless corridors and cramped hallways of racks and shelves full of labeled cardboard boxes, yoga DVDs, self-help books, weird 90s CDs and plastic toy guns. All connected through nonsensical stairwells that only go up half or three quarters of the normal floor height. There are windows looking onto a residential street but with hallways behind them and every once in a while you stumble upon a small and empty, moldy pool or even a living room area with armchairs huddled around an old television and a dusty gamecube.

I actually just saw a video on YT of a realistic looking Gmod map and I guess this is the one! This is something I never thought I'd see- what a truly bizarre experience... And as someone who was baptized years ago, I'm pretty sure that tub was a baptizing pool

weird how it looks so realistic yet irrealistic at the same time

Dunkey's video about the place, "Where eBay Games Come From" (which you referenced in one of your Urbex videos) is my favorite exploration of it, it's so goddamn funny

I think one of the V/H/S movies did something similar to what you said in 17:45 (if you haven't seen or heard of them before, they're gruesome movies, but still relatively good)

Always exited for a new video from Librarian

That "bathtub" is used for physical therapy for morbidly obese people, people with bad arthritis, osteoporosis, etc.

a different kind of horror movie would be more of just the house breaking the rules of physics like rooms that are bigger than the whole house and doors that lead to different rooms depending on which way you go through them , feeling like a neverending maze of just rooms you would probably see a couple of times in your life but not something that you would never see

19:48 you looked right at the cat, and missed it 😂

It's like an office building turned into a rental for a hoarder. Or like if a hoarder found a way to move into the literal backrooms.

this is amazing ive explored this place many time and got a sence for the space. never in VR tho. It's an old church owned by a hoarder, I'm pretty sure. that tub is a baptismal room. all the bathrooms are public bathrooms, its so weird. Neilogical the youtuber sent me by the way he wants to play beamNG with you ;D

This is pretty impressive for seeing it was done with the source engine.

With your comment about anemoiapolis or however it's spelled. I did find it almost too clean in a lot of ways, especially in the mall/theater/retail spaces. A lot of the spookiness with those spaces is the unkemptness. Dimly lit from poorly maintained lighting and a layer of discoloration and filth. Lots of little broken openings in the walls and ceilings and random bits of this and that strewn around, lots of stuff missing, making it unclear what a lot of stuff used to be. That's much more engaging to me than the more almost clinically clean look, but that also has its own vibe, like a world created artificially to house people made by aliens or someone who don't really understand the purpose.

hi

This is insanely cool

love you from bulgaria ❤

Fun fact about the bathtub, it's what's called a font, and that's usually what's used to baptize someone, so this maybe at one point, Was indeed a church.

Probably one of those ebay stores selling absolutely everything, ya know the ones. Buying surplus stuff, trying to sell it on ebay. Works well for a while, need more storage space, buy old church place. But in the end not selling enough to pay for expenses, then selling the storage space including inventory in hopes to cut losses. Those same-y boxes contain shipping envelopes, by the way.

Damn, I would pay any amount of money to someone to make a “polished” and full blown Gmod map of the place, inside, outside and everything. I’d do it myself, but my Windows is outdated, my PC sucks and the only building experience I got is with Legos.

I've watched this very map on other video. The only thing I wanna to comment is; there's so many DVDs and CDs all over the place. I don't know any history about this place (some say it's disturbing, it's creepy, etc.), but I wonder if this place was used as a storage house because the amount of stocks they have. Just look at all those labels on the box.

4:45 I can't help but notice the two toilets...right next to each other in that bathroom.

This feels like a Daggerfall dungeon LMAO

Oh yeah, dude was totally crimeing in there. It was a fencing operation big enough to net organized crime charges after a _four-year_ investigation. I'm not claustrophobic, but those close-together overstacked shelves did not in fact inspire comfy feelings.

Next video: Librarian appear in irl library with cam on head and start saying: hello everyone, welcome back to garry's mod xD

It's not photo geometry, is my crib, and i feel personally attacked and disrespected.

Definitely a church with a baptismal pool. Also, anyone else noticed the 2017 Topless calendar at 21:23 lol

counterpoint to the 'this place but haunted' horror movie idea: that, but from the ghosts POV. being stuck here eternally

If this was Buffalo Bills house complete with basement well, well! viewership would be gangbusters of troll ratings

Photogrammetry is amazing!

epic

this looks like a fever dream

if i got lost while exploring this place irl, i would probably already be running into walls and trying to find almond water and the cat

I believe alot of the boxes on the wall of the main bedroom are dialysis bags. Whomever lived here couldve possible been on at home PD dialysis which would explain some of the disrepair. Many older dialysis patiets usually suffer from other health/mobility issues. I cared for my MIL for a little while before she got a tranplant and have other family that do PD as well. It's a sad reality I've come to notice.

*Yes* this place was once a church and *yes* the police had to raid the house once according to the owner Troy Curtis

Thank god for the Card Holder role. Also, ironic to see you doing this one! I just watched a video on it a few days ago :D

Why 2 toilets in one restroom' are we doing pooping buddies?

Did he find the cat? Edit: He didn't. I'm gonna be depressed until From The Fog #6 Edit II: was still upset, had to wait till From The Fog #7. I feel a little better now

It was a church at one point and then the people that lived there were like ebay resellers so thats why they have a shit ton of stuff

that is still one of the coolest bathtubs. just sit on the stairs and soak yourself in like 3 feet of hot water. but it honestly makes me think of an animal bath like in animal spas

am i the only who think's the librarian kinda sounds like the daily dose of internet guy ?

oh this place!

2:41 stop calling me out on my bedroom, Librarian.

I think it was somewhere that rhymed with “born”.

Converted church turned into a scalper mega site.

Imagine this map, with the LIDAR mod.

I really got into photogrammetry this past summer, it feels incredibly odd walking virtually around places from my past (i did scans of areas near my old high school). After seeing your gmod vr exploration videos i've been wanting to scan an urbex type location to make available for people but alas, my pc is nowhere near powerful enough to handle that lol. One of these days

its a church building, the tub is an area for baptism

wow i was playing this map the other day, and i thought it would be PERFECT for this channel and your great attention to small details

hide and seek tag in the dark would be sick in that building

Yes let's go I saw a RU-vidr do a video on this and I wanted to know the name so I could tell you about it but someone did it first, thank you to who ever did this!

Visiting the house in VR seems more interesting than actually visiting the house although there is indeed a virtual tour of the house itself on some website but yea

First?

I love this Channel

What a strange map. It's amazing how creative some people can get though with their maps.

This map could be cleaned up by taking the textures and applying similar textures with models and then porting a new map. We need places like this rebuilt. Imagine this level being remade with high resolution textures and pieced together with objects and models.

Hey can you do an VR showcase of rp_apocalypse? It's an old map but I feels very big, like gm_fork.

In real life, it pretty much just looks like a normal house, you can find it on google maps. It's basically two buildings connected by a single hallway.

Some history behind the house or property: It was originally a church (according to a website or a couple, it was originally called the "Bonaventure Boulevard Church of Christ") located in Louisville, Kentucky; and it turns out to been part of a police raid as well. A man by the name of Troy Curtis was arrested due to many stuff being stolen and also involvement in organized crime (sort of like I guess mob stuff or even selling stolen products). The house portion, where you start out in, I believe predates the church itself by a couple years.

Yup, I remember watching Jabroni Mike and Fred Knudsen do their streams about this goofy ass place a while back.

It looks like it was being used as a retail place that mostly sold games and movies, judging by the items on the shelves! Could've been used to copy and pirate them. As for the building itself, I have no clue what to think. The residential part of it doesn't seem fit for a family, even if the family itself worked there, though it doesn't appear to have children's stuff. I think maybe employees or just the owners of the place lived there. I'm not sure what the original purpose of the building is though. I have no clue.

After watching many of your videos I think you really think you would enjoy a game called "Broken Reality". It's a game about exploring an ancient and crumbling VR social media website. It's very surreal and the environments are varied in interesting ways. I don't know if it would make good content, but I think you would at least enjoy the game.

My guess is that's an old church transformed into a living/storage building. The owner was probably a private seller on Amazon or something and collected a bunch of items to sell. From what I saw, the building seems up to code, not sure what you were talking about there...

The place looks like it has very depressed people in it honestly, cleaning to normal standards doesn’t have much priority. Livable and that’s good enough.

This house is like you're developing dementia and can't remember what's what or where stuff goes.

I always did wonder just how much of a pain in the ass it would've been to actually live there. beyond the clutter, I'm imagining having to go basically the entire way across the building to get to the baptismal bathtub to take an extremely expensive bath what with all the water you'd need to fill that thing. It does beg the question, if the more home-like part of the house was originally the home of the priest, where exactly did that priest go to bathe?

if you do figure out how to use the 360 camera it would be amazing to see the abandoned urban areas that you explore but in VR.

I love this map so fucking much, and the baptism tub, and the room entirely dedicated to Girls Gone Wild dvds