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scary_jeff said:
Depends if I'm allowed the castle in the comp :wink:

castle maps are themed, thus.. allowed

Great, now we have to get Gwil so the three least productive mappers all have at least one map each. :smile:

whos the others?

me not so sure if hogwarts would be allowed in as it is quite high spec [ r_speeds 1200 in some areas]. although it will be released for HL2.

I'm sure it would be allowed under the theme of harry potter. R_speeds aren't a huge issue, they just have to be reasonable.

Alien_Sniper said:
I'm sure it would be allowed under the theme of harry potter. R_speeds aren't a huge issue, they just have to be reasonable.

Well, i have been trying really hard to keep them down so hopefully they will stay low :smile:

For the competition what would the acceptable limit for r's? Should I break 1200 for the sake of some extra prettiness?

Alien_Sniper said:
For the competition what would the acceptable limit for r's? Should I break 1200 for the sake of some extra prettiness?

i would say no, but i would first say, hows the FPS?

duncan has pushed 1200 with good results.. others have not done well with only 1000.

ultimately tis your call.. you know that we will be fair minded about it :smile:

It doesn't make a dent in the framerate but mine is capped at 85. How
high could I get away with do you think considering only about four
people should be playing it?

Alien_Sniper said:
It doesn't make a dent in the framerate but mine is capped at 85. How high could I get away with do you think considering only about four people should be playing it?

dunno dave, the only certainty is, it won't get less, as the player count goes up..

HL is almost dead.. go for the gold..

So eh, would only be using the default HL textures be considered a decent theme, or crap as really there's not a twist to it at all? :/

As I told you before - if just using the default HL textures is your theme, then it's essentially just a regular HLDM map. Think more creatively! :smile:

Pah, that's why I asked here, second opinion! I can't come up with a creative theme, coming up with creative architecture's hard enough as is. :smile:

You need no second opinion! My opinion is absolute! My opinion is LAW! :smile:

Hugh Lloyd, you are going to come up with a creative theme and like it!

Hugh said:
I can't come up with a creative theme, coming up with creative architecture's hard enough as is. :smile:

Bah! just think of your favourite movie/book and pick an area from there, i did and i'm creating the best map i've ever made! :biggrin:

I was just wondering, is 900-1000 rspeeds fine for this map? I want to do some things that will make my map have better atmosphere all around but I'd like to do it properly.

Ferret said:
I was just wondering, is 900-1000 rspeeds fine for this map? I want to do some things that will make my map have better atmosphere all around but I'd like to do it properly.

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HL is almost dead.. go for the gold..

:smile:

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HL is almost dead.. go for the gold..

:smile:

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>.... It will be a very dark day when I look back at my gaming years and say "Oh yea, HL... man, that's an old one."

Yippiy Ki Yay!

update :smile:

Oh f**k. It's a bad sign when the wireframe looks that good. gives up on contest entry

Do you have a textured version of that map?

$loth said:
Do you have a textured version of that map?

nah, he is so good, he can randomly place lines of color across the 3d panel of hammer and win

Orpheus said:

$loth said:
Do you have a textured version of that map?

nah, he is so good, he can randomly place lines of color across the 3d panel of hammer and win

wow, i wish i was that good :rolleyes:

I have decided (scince this is our last contest) to enter my map Thieves' Hideout. The theme is Zelda. Soooo, i guess i should post some pics of the map huh?

Looking very good Ferret.

(and I'm happy to see another Trillian user. gj !)

*Chimes in with support for trillian

:biggrin:

boo's and hisses

trillian sucks, every time i needed to send a file, or a voice chat, or a web cam, the other party had it and couldn't accept..

for an all-in-one program, it isn't very one compatible :sad:

It does have bugs, but it's better than running 4 or 5 chat programs at once.

scary_jeff said:
It does have bugs, but it's better than running 4 or 5 chat programs at once.

i know, i just had to be on the other side.. its an ok proggy bud :smile:

just not compatible for what i wanted is all :sad:

I agree ... the first version was horrible ... every time I tried to send a file, the thing crashed. Now it's OK for file sending, but I do miss a webcam/voicechat function. There are plug-ins for it, but they only work with Trillian, not cross-platform.

Still, the skins, and the control over connections really buy me over :smile:

Is the deadline set yet for this comp?

the deadline will be set for Sunday 1^st August

does anyone have screenshots?

sighs you've gotten it out of me,i will of course update them when i can.[which will be today, as i was working on it yesturday]
http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=971

w00t!!! No more school!

It's looking increasingly like i'm not going to have time to make a map for this competition :sad: I might try and convert one of my unreleased FLF maps though as it seems FLF is a bit dead in the water at the moment, and especially with HL2 around the corner i'd like to give my maps at least half a chance before they're forgotton :wink:

ARGH! I just formatted my computer due to numerous problems, and while I backed up all my editing stuff, I forgot that all my recent maps (including my contest map) were saved in a folder on the desktop! Looks like its back to stage one for me :sad:

ReNo said:
ARGH! I just formatted my computer due to numerous problems, and while I backed up all my editing stuff, I forgot that all my recent maps (including my contest map) were saved in a folder on the desktop! Looks like its back to stage one for me :sad:

we have had endless threads on format retrieval, AND proper backing up of files duncan.. you sleeping through class again :biggrin:

You need a separate patition, one for windows/ your OS. and one for everything else you dont want to lose when you format.

I learnt this a few months back and boy has it helped me!

I backed up a whole lot of files, I just forgot I had the new map stuff saved on the desktop. I'm not hugely bothered to be honest, it should be easy enough to rebuild, and I'll probably do things a bit differently this time around (for better or wose). Good idea about having a seperate OS partition Sloth, I'll keep that in mind, but I must say its good to clean everything out once in a while.

Definatly, makes my pc feel more pwerfull [ though it prolly isnt lol] But its nice to have a clean out of all the sh*t once in a while.

Just got back to doing a bit of mapping last night and i'm going to see if I can squeeze a map out in time. Won't be anything spectacular or large as I tend to spend months on my maps. I might just try and make a couple of small 'fun' maps (read: not killboxes...ok maybe one :smile: ).

Adam Hawkins said:
(read: not killboxes...ok maybe one :smile: ).

never fear my friend, if its a killbox, we'll let you know :heee:

Ferret said:
I was just wondering, is 900-1000 rspeeds fine for this map? I want to do some things that will make my map have better atmosphere all around but I'd like to do it properly.

1000 shouldn't hurt , sounds fine :smile:

I sure hope you guys like r_speeds... inferno is topping an insane number like.......

2657... :biggrin:

That's a problem. Anything that high is a poor design. Work some of those fancypants vis-blockers in there and reduce that s**t.

I don't think the design is poor, but inferno is sporting some masively big rooms... It really only seems to happen in these "big rooms"... :razz:

I'm not slopilly mapping, I've taken great care to have no sawing brushes, or uneeded brushes (except for when I am absolutely forced to) :smile:

If you say so. Those must be frigging huge rooms then.

Here's a screenshot of my map:

Nice, -- what is the map's name? What's the theme/setting?

Suggestion: This might not be a good idea, but maybe you should beef up the light values on your texture light\s?

G.Ballblue said:
Nice, -- what is the map's name? What's the theme/setting?

Suggestion: This might not be a good idea, but maybe you should beef up the light values on your texture light\s?

Reclamation - human base on Xen being retaken by the aliens

and the lighting's not done obviously, the first order of business in that picture is to get a darker light_env

G.Ballblue said:
I don't think the design is poor, but inferno is sporting some masively big rooms... It really only seems to happen in these "big rooms"... :razz:

I'm not slopilly mapping, I've taken great care to have no sawing brushes, or uneeded brushes (except for when I am absolutely forced to) :smile:

when a mapper places these two sentences in the same phrase, its poor design.

you can map flawlessly, and still have no concept of design..

design takes ALL LIMITATIONS into account when constructing..

if it happens only in your big rooms, you designed it poorly cause the limits.... were exceeded.

sorry, but thats a sad fact..

(Am I the only one who got "page cannot be displayed" ???)

Ok. So it appears I jacked up my r_speeds by having rooms that have a little to much room in them... I would much rather though, try to finish a map that steps over... er, jumps over the boundaries of r_speeds rather than making a map that is nothing but corridors and small rooms all over.

G.Ballblue said:
I would much rather though, try to finish a map that steps over... er, jumps over the boundaries of r_speeds rather than making a map that is nothing but corridors and small rooms all over.

yak just posted an example of a large room/area.

i am betting, since i know yak VERY well, that that room falls well within the limits.

are you trying to tell me that your idea is better somehow?

low r_speeds,can mean small areas, but not necessarily so...

be careful how you view mapping, or else all you will do is join the VERY LONG LIST of successful failures.. we have at least one famous failure here, who never did learn proper r_speeds maintenance :sad: