Personally I think the idea of only 5 textures is a pile of crap!
I think as many have agreed the best option would be to have a pre-made level or set size to map in. Something really small. Then inside this space you can make anything. Would be good to see what people want to construct for thier last ever level!
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It's all down to Lep in the end what the competition is. The site is a democracy under a dictator 
The democracy bit is there just so lep can look down on us and laugh like little kids do when they have ant colony glass box thingies...
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The site is a democracy under a dictator
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i foresee lep slapping you in the back of the head on his way to the shower again myrk 
LoL
I spoke to him last night about it
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Here's a idea.
Load up VHE and browse the following textures:
filter = oxy and take the plain blue texture
filter = fuel and take the plain red texture
filter = crete3 and take the three wall textures
filter = stripe and take the red and white one
That could be our texture set. Maybe a { texture for a floor grill too.
The maps would be for HL only, although you could choose DM or DOM. The maps would be relatively small, 4 to 6 player capacity. Maps can be made individually or in teams of 2. Individual mappers can have 2 entries, team mappers only 1.
With the limit in textures, judging would be done more towards layout and architecture and entity scripting. No code moddifications like GMDM2 (save our poor souls please)
The theme would be common. Some kind of Quake/Unreal/Elite Force theme perhaps?
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| ? posted by fraggard |
| /me dislikes the whole limited textures idea. It's a challenge and all but you're taking a lot out of the gameplay experience because of it. |
You dont take out gameplay. The physical layout is still the same, its just a different kind of eye candy. It would make a nice change from all the flashy textures and for some of us, a nice shift back to the old days
i could be convinced that limiting everyone to a wad would work, but limiting the amount of colors is preposterous.. damned few would go for that idea.
limit area.
limit time allowed
limit wads
limit r_speeds
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You dont take out gameplay. The physical layout is still the same, its just a different kind of eye candy. It would make a nice change from all the flashy textures and for some of us, a nice shift back to the old days |
Somehow, for me, seeing a bland map with repetitive texturing does take a lot out of the atmosphere. Sometimes gameplay is not about layout alone. And I don't really care too much for shifts back to The Old Days. If I did, I'd be designing levels for Pacman or Pong or something.
*Edit: Orph's idea is somewhat better though. If we select the right WADs for limiting the entries to, there could still be a lot of variety in the maps.
Well, was just a idea. So other than textures though, is there something we can agree on?
What game?
individual mappers or teams or both?
What gameplay? DM DOM CTF Team DM etc
Map size?
I dont really think there should be a r_speed limit since the limit should be playable. The second the map isnt, somethings wrong. I do want a texture restriction though.
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A restricted area in which to map
A restricted number of texures to use (though its up to the mapper what textures they choose)
Both individual or team mappers
DM gameplay
Flat-shaded would be nice too
wuv
[addsig]limited wads= 8 wads, no customs, original half life
limited area=bout 1/4 of the grid [whatever that is in units]
limited r-speeds=1000
thats my sugestion
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