Gotcha. Just wanted to be clear.
Actually, come to think of it, perhaps showing my idea early would be more of a defense against others lifting it; should a conflict arise, any comments or screenshots would act as a sort of paper trail...sans paper, of course.
Not that I'm worried about anyone stealing the priceless gems I come up with so often.
Not that I'm worried about anyone stealing the priceless gems I come up with so often.
My thoughts exactly. It is my experience that damed few actually steal anything in the map editing area around here. In fact, most avoid any similarities whenever possible to forestall any accusations.
Besides, even if 2 people set out to create the same map, its doubtful they would succeed without working with each other on doing so.
I can almost guarantee that if you were to post the best idea ever, damned few would make maps so similar that stealing would be the excuse.
No offence, but I think this contest hasn't been thought through thoughrougly (tongue twister there). There arn't many custom textures for HL2 yet, and surreal stuff needs alot more textures etc, which is gunna make the map build time much greater, and there may not be as many contestants.
/me pets Cassius for his good work.
Okay, so now that I've got answers to my procedure related questions, I have to ask about this particular idea's relevance to the contest.
Would a street that's bent backward over itself (in a sort of S shape) be considered "unreal"? Yes, it's just a normal city street, with normal looking buildings, but folded up. Some of the buildings collided, sticking into one another, and in order to move around the map, you hop to and fro between right side up and upside down structures, climbing on whatever presents itself as a handy platform.
Too normal? I'm sure I can come up with another idea if need be, but this was the first that struck me.
I guess that the material system lets you tweak a fair bit of shader properties from hammer though, even if not the shaders themselves.
are you sure you couldnt tweak an existing shader with the appropriate parameters and values ? there are 60 existing shaders afaik, so i would guess at least one of them could do the job you want it to do.
however, as frustrating as i encountered it to be, tweaking shaders is a time-consuming trial & error thing. it'll be about balancing what would take the least amount of time i guess. gl anyway " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">
