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Who are Zoe and Emily?

LOL Just some friends lol.

Argh I can't be bothered / don't know what to do with my map! I've remade it to essentially the same level I'd reached before (albeit looking a little better, in my opinion) and once again, I'm uninspired and bored of working on it. Oh well, at least there is another week to finish it off.

What map ReNo? Flatshaded?

Shoot me a link if possible ReNo and I'll try and come up with some ideas. God knows you helped me enough. :smile:

I'm not gonna upload the current version just yet, but I'll do it with my next compile. My last one was kinda...crap :biggrin:

Just a lil update; I've added some start music for when the player joins, and been fixing up some lighting and adding a bit more detail. I'm off to compile now, so don't expect to hear from me for about another hour and 30 mins.

But I will expect to hear some applause [ even if it is for me not being here :biggrin: ]

i'm pondering about putting alice in wonderland music in. Probably wont though.

Hey guys, i've put up a thread for my comp map, comments on here plz :biggrin:

Well, while were still on the topic of prizes etc, i'll host the top 3 maps from the comp for a year.

Host as in on a server, or just the files? If its just the files I've a feeling it will be somewhat pointless, as Lep will no doubt host them here at the snarkpit.

In other news, Lep still hasn't posted the results for the 2003 Snarkpit Competition. But I guess they're not too neccesary?...

http://www.snarkpit.com/features.php?page=articles&id=6

I'm sure Finger would say otherwise! While I'm sure all of us here know who won, I think it would be nice to put the results up for completions sake, and for outside visitors.

I will be disconnecting my computer from the internet from now on until
my map is finished. I'm sick and neglecting it and I'm putting aside
other maps that I need to finish. This is getting ridiculous, natural
selection is too damned addicting. So without further ado, ciao.

Well, I could try and set up a hldm server, but that wouldn't be until I get a new pc, which im not of when, otherwise im stuck with a intel celeron 500mhz lol. And my upload speed is only 128 until I upgrade.

Planethalflife is showing screenshots from Alien_Sniper/Cassius' map, one of mine and Ferret's :smile:

Hi.

I've just registered :smile:

I saw your competition anounced on planethalflife yesterday, and so I started making a map using flat shades only :biggrin:

My question is: What are acceptable r_speeds? The max i've got, right now, is 1470 wpoly, 0 epoly.

Average is around 800...

Is that ok?

I sent in news to snarkpit to try to draw more people into snarkpit's community. :X my bad! /me scampers off his mother's work computer

1470 is a bit on the high side. i think general opinion around here is that wpoly should stay below 1000, if at all possible. if your polys only peak that high i one area, then it might not be too bad. but really, you should be attempting to bring them down to 1200 max, and even that's a bit high.

good luck getting it finished by sunday. :biggrin:

Ouch =/

not much room, i guess...

But I'll do my best :smile:

Great site, btw.

Good luck for all you guys too [[]]

Depends on what you are aiming for mate - if you are making something to be visually stunning that is gonna suck for multiplayer regardless of polycounts (eg. my flatshaded map) then 1400 sounds ok, but if you want something to be playable on most people's computers then keep them below 1000 odd. Good luck in the contest :smile:

Adam Hawkins said:
Planethalflife is showing screenshots from Alien_Sniper/Cassius' map, one of mine and Ferret's :smile:

...and one of the comments says you already won. yay for PHL.

CrazyBomber said:
Ouch =/

not much room, i guess...

But I'll do my best :smile:

Great site, btw.

Good luck for all you guys too [[]]

First of all, welcome to the snarkpit, and also good luck with your map in the comp!

hope you stick around!

$loth said:

CrazyBomber said:
Ouch =/

not much room, i guess...

But I'll do my best :smile:

Great site, btw.

Good luck for all you guys too [[]]

First of all, welcome to the snarkpit, and also good luck with your map in the comp!

hope you stick around!

Thx :biggrin:

I've been away from mapping for a while. But I always come back somehow :smile:

Worldcraft (now hammer... :sad: ) sure is the best editor around, IMO :biggrin:

If this will be the last HL mapping competition, then HL2 will be the next stage, right? That would be great. I'd love to map for HL2, HL's engine is getting a bit old... :dorky:

HL2 will most likely the game this site centres around, but we are
TRYING to make it more generic and accomodate other games. As the site
owner (Leperous) seems to be drawn toward Doom 3 mapping, we will no
doubt see decent site support for that too.

there must be lots of people around, probably like myself, who think they are decent enough mappers that can jump into the new hl2 or doom3 mapping scene. i think a few of us may be disappointed, and find our level of ability limits us to older, less complicated games, like half-life, or caesar3 even. i know valve have tried to keep a lot of editing stuff similar to what we're used to, but i doubt that it's more than some of the basics.

you can tell that i'm all worked up for this, can't you?

I'm terrified I won't be able to meet the rising standards of the level
design industry, but at the same time I'm eager to get the opportunity
to realise some of the ideas I had that did not fit the engine I'm
currently working in.

EDIT: Actually, I watched the CS:Source video again today, and can
safely say if the engine can make an extremely basic map like that
version of Aztec look pretty tasty, it will be easy enough to pull out
satisfactory visuals.

i just want to be able to build a huge dirt track level for the buggy, with lots of nice terrain generator generated mountains/tunnels. and maybe fill the roads with lots of little alien things that can get splatted. i'll be happy with that. :biggrin:

Fishy has the right idea. This is the first time we'll be able to play
with proper physics and vehicles. I'll certainly be making maps where
you can drive stuff off huge buildings and try to land on a crowd of
people.

Will there be a map-pack of all the entries like the last competition?

I have another question, btw...

To submit a map, all it needs is the .bsp file? Or u want some readme.txt and/or source map?

:smile:

You don't need to release the source but a readme.txt is generally a standard inclusion, so that people who download your map know who made it. Also, if you use any non-standard wads, either wadinclude them or be sure to provide the wads with the bsp. Same goes for sound files and models :smile:

If you want to release your source too, that's ok, people could learn from it. But it's not necessary for the compo, no.

You wouldn't know of any readme generators/templates, would u? :smile:

It would help me a lot :biggrin:

Map's not finished, probably won't even be tested, cuz I'll only be back tomorrow and won't be here on sunday. Hope to make it, though... I'll submit it anyway, just to take part in this competition :smile:

Cheers (should be beer, not popcorn :biggrin: )

Thanks for the pimpage, surprised actually that PHL posted anything about this site :biggrin:

Okay, for all the people who don't want to wait for 5 minutes before the planethalflife.com site opens:

(don't know why it took so long, but I don't want to happen it to anyone else ! :smile: )



voil? ! Congratz SP ! :smile:

(somebody posted a comment that Adam Hawkin's gonna win ... we'll see :smile: ... well, count me out, anyway. :razz: )

Woot! Now there's a prize! A copy of HL2! ogogogogog!

Lep offers a prize and Myrk's piggybank mysteriously goes missing. What a strange coincidence....

What? Theres a copy of HL2 up for grabs!

Now, just wondering ... if Thanto should win the compo ... who gets the HL2 copy ? Cassius or Alien_Sniper ? :biggrin:

uhoh, a loophole the size of a truck. I'm going to vote Thanto just so Lep has to buy two games instead of one.

As for my competition map, I'm tempted to cut about 2/3rds of it and restart or just throw it all away outright, but I'd never finish a map by tomorrow. I probably won't finish this crappy map as it is... how sad :sad:

I've all but given up on my two entries also :sad:

argh, not HL2. what use is a computer game to an old man with arthritic fingers.

:rolleyes:

Hey, whoever wins could be waiting a while for their copy depending on when the games actually released.

uhoh, a loophole the size of a truck. I'm going to vote Thanto just so Lep has to buy two games instead of one.

As for my competition map, I'm tempted to cut about 2/3rds of it and
restart or just throw it all away outright, but I'd never finish a map
by tomorrow. I probably won't finish this crappy map as it is... how
sad :sad:

Just send in what you have, then ... is it that bad ?

Err, when are maps due, by the way? Timezones make all the difference!
I think entry should be closed on Monday, noon, so I can spend all
night on my competition map and to give everyone in all the timezones a
fair chance! :smile:

Forceflow said:

uhoh, a loophole the size of a truck. I'm going to vote Thanto just so Lep has to buy two games instead of one.

As for my competition map, I'm tempted to cut about 2/3rds of it and restart or just throw it all away outright, but I'd never finish a map by tomorrow. I probably won't finish this crappy map as it is... how sad :sad:

Just send in what you have, then ... is it that bad ?

well, as usual, I made the final area of the map and it turned out that it looks better and probably plays better than all the rest of it. Bah. When's HL2 coming out so I can release substandard maps early and garner all the praise?!

Campaignjunkie said:
Err, when are maps due, by the way? Timezones make all the difference! I think entry should be closed on Monday, noon, so I can spend all night on my competition map and to give everyone in all the timezones a fair chance! :smile:

give all the timezones a fair chance? get a grip CJ, the competition date was posted more than 3 months ago. and was even extended by a week.

Well, CJ has a point, fishy. He's mapped for months and would rather not like to see that pissed away since the deadline just says Sunday... but Sunday where!? Antarctica!? Greenland!? Tibet!?

Why don't you just use 00:00 GMT?