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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jun 5th at 10:50pm 2004

i realize, it is prolly a combination of all the choices, but there has to be one shining star you feel made the biggest impression. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sat Jun 5th at 10:58pm 2004

I voted for 'another map'. If I remember correctly, I had been making JRFs for a bunch of maps. Maps by people like Gustavo inspired me to try and create something similar. Not that I suceeded of course



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sat Jun 5th at 11:34pm 2004

If anything, it was being able to work on the mod DarkTruths. While I was only a playtester, and the mod never actually went anywhere, I find it had the biggest impact on my own talent. Working with great mappers like Mr.Ben and CampaignJunkie for months on end really helped me develop my own skills. I guess the only bad thing that came from this is that I now seemed to have developed hat Mr.Ben suffered from all that time -- chronic perfectionism. I never do as well as I think I can, and thus my maps are never released or completed because I either lose all interest in them, or start them over again. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jun 5th at 11:49pm 2004

early in my career, it was mentor, Jeff Meyer was, and still is my mentor, he helped me develop my attitude toward sharing info, and assisting others, but i would have to say the biggest impact would have to be quality feedback, and a willingness to accept both positive and negative forms of it. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sun Jun 6th at 12:08am 2004

Definitely feedback. When I decided to show a map to the world and gain some expert advice, my skills advanced tremendously in a very short period of time. I also think that ReNo's architecture Tut's have had a big impact. [addsig]



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Posted by xconspirisist on Sun Jun 6th at 12:13am 2004

I felt the undieing need to create a map of my school... After that failed, I played with making lucrously long scripted sequences ( spelling? ). Few killboxes, thats the end of my hl mapping carear.

I picked up on quake 3. I prefur the quake 3 engine over half life, and still mod for it to this day.

ReNo and KFS have been my insperation for many quake 3 maps. I love ReNo's origianl architecture, and the ambiance on KFS's maps is fantastic. ns_eclipse is proberbly my faveourite map across all hl mods. Shame the marrine spawn got butcherd in a later patch.



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Posted by KingNic on Sun Jun 6th at 2:48am 2004

ReNo and KFS are both fantastic mappers who I've always looked up to. They've provided inspiration for pretty much all of my work, and ReNo's always provided extremely valuable feedback

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Jun 6th at 3:25am 2004

I picked mentor hero or peer, but it was a combination of a few people and the attitutide towards mapping at the snarkpit in general which brought me to the level where I'm at. Feedback would come in at a close second.




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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Sun Jun 6th at 3:34am 2004

I couldn't really pick one of these, because what REALLY inspired me was my friends playing my maps at our LAN parties. Oh the memories - such a horrid first map I created, and what fun we had on it. Well, and the reason I stuck with it was because one of my friends got pretty hooked on mapping at the same time I did - we swapped all sorts of hilarious entity stories, planned ridiculous new map chains, and utterly failed at any sort of brush work.

He would love GMDM2 if I could ever get him to play it. Rather stubborn bastard. [addsig]



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Posted by wil5on on Sun Jun 6th at 6:50am 2004

I voted "Feedback". If not for feedback, I'd be mapping, but my maps would be... ugleh.

I love you guys...

[addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Sun Jun 6th at 7:01am 2004

I vote for No. 1, if my friend Jon hadn't helped me all those times when i kept geting problems in VHE, then I would of never been able to build anything apart from killbox's.
But also Feedback helped me a-lot aswell, if it wasn't for the sort of feedback i get at the snarkpit, then my maps would be *bluegh*.

[addsig]



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Posted by mazemaster on Sun Jun 6th at 8:17am 2004

I would vote for feedback but the poll is broke on my firefox : And I just reformatted my HD so it is a fresh install.




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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Jun 6th at 8:40am 2004

Feedback / some good tutorials.



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 6th at 12:06pm 2004

one thing i have noticed so far.. no one has even mentioned prefabs.. i realize many don't actually use them, but there is some extremely valuable info to be had in them..

true, none made a major impact in my getting to where i am today, BUT they could have, if i had taken entities more seriously.. i think i could have eventually learned the MM had i just looked for the best prefab with one..

anyways, the poll is what made the most impact.. not what was the sum total parts

keep voting guys.. this is one of the few truly valuable polls we have had in weeks

[addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Sun Jun 6th at 12:15pm 2004

No.1

I remember I tried to map for Quake2 and HL, but it never worked (I didn't know how to set up WC ) Then one of my friends made a HL map, it was ugly and full of leaks, but it was a very special feeling to run around in it and kill some enemies...

[addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sun Jun 6th at 12:18pm 2004

Most definitely feedback. Nothing can substitute for proper feedback from people with experience.



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Posted by scary_jeff on Sun Jun 6th at 12:44pm 2004

Poll works fine with firefox for me...



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Posted by Kain on Sun Jun 6th at 2:49pm 2004

Peter Manson's maps were extremely motivational (does that word exist?) for me; but of course I had to read all the tutorials I could find to learn how to use WC.



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Jun 6th at 2:54pm 2004

Tutorials probably should have gotten an option of it's own.

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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jun 6th at 2:58pm 2004

? posted by Alien_Sniper
Tutorials probably should have gotten an option of it's own.


i considered it, but they always left me wanting.. very few were 100% onto themselves.. but "other" can hold tuts.

i always ended up asking someones advice on how to do what the tut said anyways.. but seriously.. how many here can say tuts made the biggest impact?

[addsig]




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