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

[@Vontyak]

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

[@FranknKitty]

it would fit

[@Hackerman177]

It was raided several times by the police. Definitely could see a ready or not level like that.

[@Anths_art]

That's what i was thinking when he mentioned a police raid

[@yuurichito1439]

Looks like a project zomboid base with a ton of loot....

[@theoutsideguy8]

Yo fr

[@spookyboilanny8842]

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.

[@Etidorhpa]

100% that place was a church, and that's a baptismal pool for sure. I would even go as far as to say it was a mormon church. Been in a lot of them, and the walls, the stairs, the floors, and the font, just rings the mormon bells.

[@av7ry]

it was a church, it’s a church converted by a guy who did eBay reselling for a living with his family that was posted as a real estate listing. it’s the crustiest place I’ve ever seen

[@spookyboilanny8842]

@@av7ry Honestly I would still love to live there after cleaning it out. All that space for whatever you want? Yes please.

[@Tygron]

​@@spookyboilanny8842 That's exactly what i've been thinking. Plenty of space for VR and a music studio and honestly have too much space left over lol

[@25thVictor]

@@Tygron would only take like, if you dedicate your time maybe like a month of cleaning

[@Kiwi-fl8te]

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.

[@ksdtsubfil6840]

Ooh, that made me so mad. It made me even angrier when I found out that was an early AI-generated image.

[@BOBBROMIX]

@@ksdtsubfil6840 Why did it make you mad?

[@xBloodBoundx]

Got a link to this image? I'm curious (Edit: I think I found it. Still link the one you're referring to if you like though.)

[@milquetoaste7144]

​@@ksdtsubfil6840 why did either make you mad lol, it's cool as fuck

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

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

[@kptlt.phillipthomsen5973]

Someone mod this in the game right now, I'll pay you

[@TheLibrarianYT]

THIS HAS TO HAPPEN

[@uhlane1]

IM FROM KENTUCKY AND IM NOT FAR FROM LOUISVILLE I HAVE TO GO!

[@shikoome]

​@@uhlane1it's a cool place!

[@uhlane1]

@@shikoome you been there?

[@nonzila]

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.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

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.

[@rainqd1889]

i realized it was a church when he found the bathroom, they definitely had that space open at some point because the bath looks exactly like the place at my baptist church where they baptize you lmao

[@NotOnLand]

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.

[@NathanDavisVideos]

You are actually correct. It was originally a church (according to a website or a couple, it was originally called the "Bonaventure Boulevard Church of Christ.") 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.

[@LURKTec]

You can literally open street view from august 2012 and it literally still has the sign that says BONAVENTURE CHURST OF CHRIST.

[@raymondmurdock8603]

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

[@CapnMoza]

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

[@Perchant]

I saw this video somewhere, maybe it was Penguinz0 but that was the story anyway. Thought it was common knowledge, don't know why ppl are on the church mindset.

[@casualsatire5739]

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

[@the-letter_s]

love places like that. so much more soul and personality to buildings like those.

[@mythsqueuemusic]

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.

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

God I live an hour away Why does this bother me

[@commodore7331]

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

[@magnus88mm49]

I think it's a a home that also counts as a store of some kind because of all the books and CDs

[@TheKnives777]

I think the former owner was fencing stolen goods and reselling them as a drop seller, and that’s why the entire place looks like a stockroom too

[@commodore7331]

@@TheKnives777 it was definitely some kind of pirating or bootleg operation, but before that i think it was some kind of community building because of all the exit signs, pushbar doors, etc. you can even see in the narrow hallway basement area there are two bathrooms right next to each other, each with multiple toilets and one with a urinal suggesting a seperate men and womens toilet situation. i also think that at some point it was "professionally" retrofitted into a house by the people who joined the two buildings together. thats why the toilet is like that, when you can go into noclip you can see where the other staircase is leading up to there's another little closet room as if it was a hallway once.

[@juicy.oranges]

Ok guys in the reply’s, according to an article about talking to the owner, it was a church before, the bathtub is a baptism room, he ran a family owned eBay buissiness and he bought from a seller who said they bought everything but they actually stole it.

[@Techhunter_Talon]

Adorable loaf of cat just relaxing in the sun coming from the window.

[@ebonhawken574]

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.

[@westernmorris7075]

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

[@creditsunknown7974]

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.

[@commanderboom2626]

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

[@thefoxontheroof]

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.

[@vicooficial]

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.

[@Gigaflare8822]

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.

[@Cyfrik]

(The stroke backstory for that one image was made up. It was just an early AI-generated image, before they became mainstream.)

[@zakethekid1333]

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

[@smittywerbenjagermanjenson1095]

Yea the building was a church and then a school. Then purchased by someone who was an Amazon reseller. Which explains all the stuff being in boxes and things being heavily lablled. Only they were arrested eventually for selling stolen goods or something

[@DarkGod86]

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.

[@Visslebabyy]

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

[@arbitrary2868]

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

[@smolbrendan5978]

it really does look a lot smaller from the outside

[@TechNinjaSigma]

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

[@chu-do]

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

[@spammyrammy]

tried this and couldn’t agree more

[@kmaximusconnor3665]

Oh my god that actually works

[@Bkuuzin]

Photogrammetry is amazing!

[@mugrilhos]

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

[@ForgetfulHatter]

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.

[@meridiasbeacon7669]

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

[@chacecampbell2697]

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

[@V0ID_X5]

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

[@kdkdkdkdkdkdkdkdkdkdkd]

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.

[@kaiyotee2475]

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

[@yamnoodleyt708]

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

[@stoplight2554]

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

[@thekosmickollector7748]

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

[@dondraper3804]

I was literally thinking how the first area downstairs is big enough for a huge table to play DnD on, lol.

[@benditogames]

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

[@colorsafebleach5381]

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

[@SixArmedSweater]

Kitty! 💕

[@quillclock]

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

[@quillclock]

17:15 you say you "hope this place was preserved at least in some way" my man you walking around in a virtual copy of it, in VR. like that boggles my mind a little if I think back 20 years.

[@ringer1324]

This is insanely cool

[@Fearagen]

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

[@CaptianChaosMan]

Always exited for a new video from Librarian

[@Error_4x5]

They like shitting Roman style

[@Official_Arion]

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)

[@Daimaza]

this looks like a fever dream

[@storytimewiththecrimsondm1318]

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

[@Aeduo]

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.

[@Hackerman177]

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.

[@GibusGang]

Converted church turned into a scalper mega site.

[@TimSlee1]

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.

[@MBJspace01]

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.

[@spadethevelociraptor4869]

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

[@aitorleal4676]

This feels like a Daggerfall dungeon LMAO

[@Rabix_LOL]

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.

[@bw000m]

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

[@destrojer124]

Imagine this map, with the LIDAR mod.

[@Wbfuhn]

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.

[@NikkiRoesslerBFDIFan64]

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

[@Groovelicious.]

Yes let's go I saw a KZbinr 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!

[@NoName-st5so]

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

[@IkesDaddelbox]

I'm shocked. This place feels like a very accurate representation of my mind. The architecture makes no sense, it feels like you go from room to room and make no real progress. It's utter chaos, yet strangely organized. But most importantly, It feels like a place that I can't escape from, so I make it a place where I feel as comfortable as possible.

[@KylarTyphlosion]

Walking around in vr in a map using this technique would make me vom. Props to you for being able to play this in vr

[@coda56]

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

[@evanjames9626]

There’s something so beautiful about this the organized mess of everything it just feels messy but also feels like it is meant to be this way

[@feliciasj]

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

[@kaykepop4084]

The bathtub was the pool used for baptisms. The person would walk into the pool from one side and out from the other after being baptized.

[@zoeyuroboros5739]

this feels like its own self-contained dimension, with its own rules for geometry and the folds of spacetime this place is straight up non-euclidean

[@Extramrdo]

If I remember the lore, The Bathtub originally had some Adult DVD lying around, in addition to a secluded back aisle in one of the DVD sales rooms, which was an entire half-aisle behind a curtain of adult content. First they blurred the bathtub DVD, then they removed the link to the adult corner, then the house entirely. It was a challenge to find anything in here specifically because the nature of the site means you jumped from floating i to floating i, getting a 360 of each. Good photogrammetry uses hundreds or thousands of 360 photos to piece together a scene. This had like, 48 for the entire house, and with so many identical aisles, esp 8:36 , so you'd never truly know if you've been to a spot before and you wouldn't have the reference of walking from one i to another to judge distance or relative location.

[@stash.]

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

[@kolrabi]

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.

[@angelrosas3724]

there's something appealing about it. it looks like real life but retains some of that ps1 aesthetic. it would be cool to play ttt in this map.

[@jo4sh0w76]

Takes: “walk-in bath-room” to a whole new level

[@LuigiCotocea]

Great video! This GMOD VR series is truly unique and fascinating. I appreciate the effort and creativity that The Librarian puts into exploring different maps in GMOD. It's amazing to see how photogrammetry can be utilized in GMOD to create such realistic environments. I also love how The Librarian takes the time to explore every nook and cranny of the maps and shares interesting facts and history behind them. I don't think I've seen any other GMOD series quite like this where people explore the maps in such detail. Overall, this is a great series for those who are interested in virtual exploration and learning about the history and architecture of different places. Keep up the great work, The Librarian!

[@MacaqueStinx]

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

[@realpunkfruit]

i like the church idea, the "bathtub" could be a baptismal font

[@HeartGrinder7]

I am nearly positive this used to be a church. The weird bath is a baptismal fount. I was fairly certain before the no clip, but once you no clipped out and I saw where everything was oriented to that bath, I knew it had to be. It would’ve been in the very front of the sanctuary. They have walled it off to make it private. So this was probably just an old church that closed its doors in the middle of a neighborhood. Perfect for such an underground sales business as this appeared to be, but also a place that never could’ve been zoned for such a business.

[@phillipbirt]

it's an architectural fever-dream and I'm all for it

[@MGs551]

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

[@devinsullivan6160]

You might want to sit down; This is a composite map of a real building in Kentucky

[@Slipperyslab]

@@devinsullivan6160 I’ve never seen a kfc that looks like this

[@MGs551]

@@devinsullivan6160 I know, but there is also a lot of creativity in taking that 3d scan and then turning it into a functional garry's mod map.

[@MasterNation00]

I love this Channel

[@the-bman]

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

[@OkamiLyra]

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

[@Josephemer]

It's not ironic, it's just coincidental!

[@fruitsalad5036]

yeah Card holders great

[@Ackira]

It’s cool and everything but when you said « kitty » it was just so damn adorable

[@kkbbxx]

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

[@rondeelauralnaman5397]

Yess im so glad you finally explored this one, its no unique

[@LocDat]

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

[@PuppySugar]

If you look on street view it was definitely a church at some point. Funny thing about the “baptismal bath” room, it’s where they stored all the Girls Gone Wild dvds.

[@BleezyBandit]

Definetly a church. Bathtub looks like the place where baptisms happen.

[@rider0915]

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

[@corvidaegudmund1186]

I think the reason that this place feels so weird layout wise is that it was renovated into more rooms either illegally or before building codes were active in the area (I think illegally, since the place doesn’t look quite that old). You can see this written small in some old houses that have been added to over the years: really choppy layouts, like several rooms were just stuck on one after the other at random, or what used to be a bigger space cut up into rooms by people who wanted more rooms with little care for physical space. For instance, the “bath tub” (as others have pointed out) was a former baptismal pool. It would have been narrow like that, but would have opened into a larger chapel area kind of like a balcony, probably with a dressing room near it. The chapel, at least, must have been cut up into hallways and rooms since you can’t even tell it was there anymore. It might even explain the weird levels, if a tall chapel was cut up into two “floors” that weren’t even with the rest of the structure.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

I was wondering if you’d toured this house before. Right up your alley. To be honest, if this were near me, and I could have afforded it, I would have bought it for sure. It needs a lot of work to be certain, but most of what you see is the current owner’s junk, which would be going with them (I believe they were planning on moving their online resale business into a proper warehouse as it had outgrown this space). With the junk gone, it really wouldn’t take too much to make the house-like part even more house-like. Merge the two restrooms on the ground floor into a single large bathroom (with a tub rather than a baptismal font). Replace the accordion divider upstairs with a stud wall, and add a master bathroom to the bedroom there. Keep the kitchen/living/dining area open, just with new cabinets, appliances, etc. Then it would just be an oddly configured 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with a huge rec room, attached office, and a tunnel to what could be a very nice workshop once the shelves of junk are removed. I would keep all my tools, racks of scrap wood, etc. in there. I like to fix up old homes and this would be not only a great one to fix up, but a base from which to fix up other ones.

[@angrybirdhatguy1406]

Hide and Seek would be elite in this house

[@The_Koolaid_Control]

That place looks like you are walking through a painting. The blurs are like the sumdging dullness of brush strokes.

[@trackballs]

It is funny that this entire house alone got its own subreddit

[@NathanDavisVideos]

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.

[@MatthewPherigo]

If anyone likes the weird distortion of photogrammetry, you should check out a first person detective game called The Signifier. It uses it to great effect, sometimes using it so aggressively that it's like standing inside the 3D equivalent of an over compressed JPEG.

[@dsouth7754]

Interesting little fact: that storage area before the bathtub apparently had tons of skin flicks in it. Might be the reason the area was removed in the tour, but bathtub speedruns inadvertently dos'ing the site sounds more likely.

[@Broadshore]

You are correct though, the property was one a Church that got turned into a House/Retail Store.

[@RAHHHWRRR]

I was hoping you'd do this one, awesome

[@liivo1337]

love you from bulgaria ❤

[@bs_blackscout]

Thanks for making me be able to calm down after whatever my day was, you're appreciated!