Contest Rules

Ok then Lep, about time you made a decision I think :smile:

Gwil said:

scary_jeff said:
Ah, ok.

However, he does worship the stats page like a temple of Snark goodness :biggrin:

I think we shoul start a fundraiser for Orph to seek professional help

being on the stats page, for a couple odd reasons, is hardly worship material gwil

consider, a vast majority of snarkpit, is either my suggestion, or a coincidental suggestion i made that got incorporated, but either way, i check most every page once per day to see if i can find any bugs or errors..

many times, what worked yesterday, doesn't today cause of some update or another.

if i appear to be prowling the site, its not in search of my own name, all those can be removed for all i care, its only in search of the illusive bugs..

you might be surprized to know, how many i have found since i have been here :smile:

besides glares at jeff if it were all important to me which poll had the most votes, wouldn't i wait till mine did it

i think the polls speak for themselves, so maybe its time we started our themed maps :smile:

-BB

Theme maps it is then, Do to the fact of my busy schedule.. Im really not to sure I can enter this contest anymore :/... But I might give it a wirl.

If it was made to last 10 weeks or so, then everybody would be able to fit something in wouldn't they? I know a lot of people will be having exams in the next couple of months, but if there is still 2 or 3 weeks left after that, these people should still be able to enter.

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this is where its messing up lep..

his sig isnt to big, but i remember you disabled images in the sig window.. maybe thats all it is..

I think crackerjack has tried some fancy assed layout for his sig using all kinds of illegal tags :razz: I think anyway... its a bloody mess whatever

http://www.gamesupply.co.uk/kingnic/screens/flat20000.jpg

Ignore wpoly - no func_walls were used there. Made it in 5 minutes flat, and compiled.

/me likes KingNic

what are you using for light? you have your own lights rad specifically for this map?

That looks great Nic, might be nice to have top a little darker though for contrast.

have i mentioned that this page, makes my browser hurt.. lets please fill it up so we can begin anew on the next page :heee:

Very nice Nic, got a good atmosphere to it. I'd suggest breaking up that floor a little though, its a bit too repetitive compared to the rest of the scene...but if you are going for a really clean environment, then it could work in your favour to be honest.

Looks neat Nic, could use alot more detail do to the fact.. there arent any textures and u can scale textures to 10099999 if u wanted to. (joking)

I would like to see some more work out of this.

**Return of the evil sig ------->

**EDIT** I fixed it :wink:

Positive_Resistance

and no, not a single texture is set in stone :biggrin:

Ouch - you need to pick more complimentary colours - black red and green just aren't doing it for me! Makes me think very much of no_patience...any reason why orph? :smile:

ReNo said:
Makes me think very much of no_patience...any reason why orph? :smile:

wouldn't know Duncan

*whistles tuneless melody

actually, those 3 colors may not make a nice map, but they very much compliment each other in real settings..

notice next time, how many red/black cars or re/green ones you see :smile:

Well yes in real life they certainly work (red and green being a favourite christmas time combo), but I feel they are providing too much of an eclectic mixture here - they are too contrasting perhaps. I think if going for three colours, its wise to pick two quite different ones (such as cass's blue and white, or adam's black and white), and then pick one in the middle. Three entirely different colours looks too busy, or something.

Christmastime in No_Patience?

On a more serious note however, I think its nigh on impossible to get good results out of retexturing an existing map to be flatshaded. Flatshading is quite a different process to creating normal maps, as you need to rely entirely on brushwork to guide the player and provide detail. I think to be a success, a flatshaded map needs to be flatshaded from the off.

i think the challenge worthy.. you would be surprised at the actual brushwork level in N_P..

yeah, i used custom textures the first go around, but i build each brush unique, i didn't rely on the texture to bring out the image i wanted to make..

anywho's the textures don't appeal to me as much as they did when i conceived those 3 colors.. tis why i mentioned "not set in stone"

but seriously, i don't want a black and white copy of other maps along this theme..

perhapes several shades of grey..

[edit] i think i will keep the new name though, it is two words more/less opposite of the originals..

No_Patience, Positive_Resistance :smile:

sighs..

well i like it :/

It is quite a cool name actually, however I do think you would be better of starting a new map with flatshading in mind, rather than reskinning N_P. Your call however, good luck if its the path you decide to take :smile:

No Patience is a pretty badass name.

So are the entries going to be ran in RAD or just full bright. (I didn't see anything about it when I skimed the other posts).

This flat shade idea seems pretty interesting, I'm almost considring trying it out, even though nothing HL related exists on my pc at the molment (on back up CD's).

I never did finish the Forest (comp) map, my old mother board and ram was mostly to blame.

I run my map in RAD although achieve a fullbright effect by using Adam's suggestion of giving every texture a texture light value.

Anyway, in case you didn't notice, there are official contest rules on the news page and in the thread in the sticky section at the top of this forum. Your forest map would probably fit in as its a themed contest :smile:

Ok, cool. Maybe I will. It doesn't need much work, I still remember everything left to tighty up.

This is a HL competition, right? <lol, i guess so> :rolleyes:

MadMan said:
This is a HL competition, right? <lol, i guess so> :rolleyes:

duke3d

digging those map ideas for the first page.

glad to see im not the only one to think up ideas like this.

grovvey stuff.

tried downloading that mario one the other day but...yuck too much to do to put it in and im lazy. hahahahahha

quess i will later.

but those maps on the front page are very very innovative.

my own map black will be themed based.

black and white main room and than grayscale followed by colored textures in the rest.

please let us know when they are done

Sounds like it could be tricky to get a good transition from black and white, to greyscale, to colour, but its a novel idea nonethless so good luck with it :smile:

Hmmm I've been thinking a lot about your flatshading ways Reno... I'm gunna try making a map on friday (after my exam) but I'm not sure if its counted as flatshading really... it's a bit of a parculiar idea that got triggered by Hornpipes strange map.

Bah, doesn't need to be flatshaded anyway - I'm sure its gonna be plenty original enough to be entered :smile: