Reno, I talked at great length about what I would like to see this contest be about. Handicaps are good training, but I would much prefer to see a contest based upon how we as mappers perform at our full abilities.

I think it's perfectly natural for me to want a contest that I want to participate in to be based around something I do well.

I have the brighton pavilion right down the road from me, if i could find some textures which are indian,chinese and have some chinoisoire effects that would be pretty good to make

That would be hard... Living in a city theres not much mappable stuff here (you have to see the city to understand, the whole central area was made into a 1km long shopping street thats hugely open in 6 directions, and the rest is large roads).

But I agree with Cassius. We should use our abilities, not hinder thier progress.

I get enough frickin' architecture on my architecture degree lol!

The type I do is too complex for HL1 engine though, and probably too hard to construct in HL2... DAMN CURVES AND WIRES!

We don't have to, thats where the power of the pencil and rotring pen comes into play

For my last building I didn't even try to do it in Autocad, curves in all 3 axis just aint fun to constuct

if i want to handicap myself, i dont need a competition to do it. They dont have events in the olympics where they handicap the 100m sprinters by tying their left leg to their right arm do they?

-BB