It's already 7th of september. I think it's time to think the topic for
this month. :smile: And perhaps make the final date 7th or 8th of october,
since this one slipped a bit.

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Dystopia - Empires

I was thinking that a month was too long for the competition. People tend to lose focus and enthusiasm quicker than 30 days. I was thinking perhaps a 2 week timeframe for the next competition. Starting September 16 and ending September 30th (14 days).

How does that sound?

sounds good, as long as it's nothing complicated i guess.

good job on the models guys :rockon:

2 weeks sounds good. Any ideas for the next briefing? Light fixtures was a great project.

Things that came to my mind:

vegetation (difficult?)
handrails
urban physics props (deadly or fun gravity gun ammunition you'd find in your average city environment)
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(btw. I couldn't find any info for "installing" the pack. Maybe something should be written in the readme next time to avoid confusion.)

Ah jeez, my mistake.

There will be an install readme next time.

Hmm well now is the time to get brainstorming. Good ideas reaper_47, anyone have any other ideas?

We could open it up a little and make it household objects.

Or alternatively, we can make the next challenge a custom texture creation one.

I'll try and contribute to this next one... I was a supporter of the last one but when it came to making something I disappeared :razz:

An idea, maybe not for this kind of pack, but something I think HL2 mapping would benefit from as a whole, would be a HL1-esque pack with models and textures in the style of HL1 labs and Xen.

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Maybe we should start a new, unstickied thread to search for a new CCC idea. The "sticky" effect, you know.

Ah true, the "sticky" effect means no one sees the thread :smile: I'll unsticky this one and create a new thread (unstickied for now) for the next one.

Checked out the models now, and they look quite good actually. Only problem I had was with the ones from reaper47 and Stadric though, their textures didn't show up (the dreaded black'n'pink squares...). Anyone had the same problem?

Another note: the readme could contain some install instructions, even though most modders will be familiar with the process, it's just a little polishing that can't harm anyone. :smile:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

Hmmm... I thought it's just me but the paths in the zip file didn't look right to me. It seems to have a "materials" folder inside the "models" folder instead of the mod directory?

I also wondered: Is it possible to add textures to the model files? Like you can add textures to bsp files? I would have done that to make things easier but didn't find a way. :sad:

I thought I put the materials and models into seperate directories. However, I'll take the download down for now, until it's fixed and the install readme is added. My apologies.