One more for today - my incorporation of the NGE assets, including the heightmap. I am using my own textures and coloring, and have altered it slightly in places. (the exclusion is there, by the way, on that visible entrance, it's just outside the high detail render radius)
http://i.imgur.com/K0qKYSq.jpg
okay - one more....
http://i.imgur.com/CraG5Pq.jpg
and also - it seems the Echo Base thing is an issue of players desyncing when they go in... but they just resync when they emerge. If that gives anyone any ideas or notions to help get me pointed in the right direction... I know it's got to be something about the object type, or some bit on the server, like in a screenplay (I've been examining DWB, Warren, Corvette screenplays)... I have converted all the 0008s to 0007s of course on the client side... anyway. Still gonna be fun!
--further note on this, can't spawn an NPC inside it (don't know why I hadn't tried yet)... it just spawns on the world. Soooo... going to try forcing this with a screenplay.