New 6-or-24-hour CTF competition?

[HortonsWho]

After the CTC map-pack is done and the 10n1 DM- would anybody be up for another 6hr or 24 hour competition? Nothing fancy, no themes other than CTF, no rules, just make what you can from scratch in the alloted time.

???

[Dorkorama]

Could there be multiple gametypes? Obviously we'd need a minimum of three entrants per g-t.

[Warmachine1209]

i haven't entered one before but i will if its on a weekend. Although what do i do to sign up for it?

[King Mango]

Just out of curiosity, what if I built a map that I've already built before but never finished as long as I start it from scratch for the contest?
think CTF-Abandoned :D

[JohnnySix]

Sounds like a great idea Hort. :)

Dorkorama - I'd go with a single gametype, and sticking with CTF would offer up a slew of new map-list potential for S1 / S4 :)

Mango - nice! Big air with the lift jumps again ?

[Lord_Simeon]

<blows dust from Ued 2.0.

24 hours would be better, remember the 6 was a riot, the 12 was pretty tight, but the 24 hour comp was nice and relaxing, not a huge amount of pressure.

[Creeper]

.. and from a player's standpoint, the 24h maps have stuck around longer. ;)

[radio667]

This Sounds Like a Great Idea :D Horty !!!

[HortonsWho]

.. and from a player's standpoint, the 24h maps have stuck around longer. ;)
Agreed- And since you volunteered, you can set up the judging... I'll be mapping. :)

[Flying_Killer]

Most certainly in. The only thing is, I have exams starting somewhere around 4 december, and they take 2 weeks. So if it's then, I'll be out.

[Lord_Simeon]

Agreed- And since you volunteered, you can set up the judging... I'll be mapping.

Good onya Creeper :evil:

[evil_blue_dude]

I am all for it.

[/ebd]

[Sinnical]

yo. how's everyone doing? i haven't made much of non-spam posts in the last couple months :p but i wanna get back into mapping again. the internet at my college sucks :blah: and as a result im doing transfer apps to (hopefully) more fragging friendly schools. i think i can find time for a nice short comp. like this though :)

gl to all!

[Creeper]

Me and my big mouth. I'll co-judge general gameplay, if someone else will take up art and/or technical merit. I'll also put the finalists UP on S1 for real play testing.

[radio667]

Sinnical:D Welcome Back to UNREAL LAND - WOOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL- Creeper Been Drafted ;) GJ Horty !!!

[Lord_Simeon]

Gday Sinnical, havent seen you for an age......
Good to have you in the comp, it'll be like the old UT comps....wheres Blito and Ghandi? :D

[HortonsWho]

w00t! Sinn- good to see you. Maybe Freakish or Blitz would have time to judge?

[fragnbrag]

Just out of curiosity, what if I built a map that I've already built before but never finished as long as I start it from scratch for the contest?
think CTF-Abandoned :D

it would be cool if you found the time to finish that map, anyways, Mango --
it was a nicely done, roomy CTF... :) as far as resurrecting unfinished maps -- that would be cool too, except whenever I've made such requests it's usually a resounding "NO" :/ (in keeping with teh "from scratch" stipulation) (cough **elephant** cough :D

from scratch, 24, CTF -- i'm in there...

cheers

[tarnationsauce2]

Sounds like fun.
I might be UP for this.
If it hasn't already happened. I havn't seen any announcements of signUPs or starting date.

[L.J.Paranoid]

Ha, I member the last 6h one. . .I sort of just stumbled upon UP, lurked in the contest thread, became insanely (and quite bizarrely) attached to everyone. I know, kinda scary I am. And you've been stuck with me ever since :p Ahh, those were the days, when interest in old UT was still strong. Eek, I 'm getting sentimental! Anyway, yeh count me in and as uber frenetically fun 6h was. . .I'd also probably lean to a 24h one. Anyhoo, better go. I uh have something in my eye :o

[JohnnySix]

Ha, I member the last 6h one. . .I sort of just stumbled upon UP, lurked in the contest thread, became insanely (and quite bizarrely) attached to everyone. I know, kinda scary I am. And you've been stuck with me ever since :p Ahh, those were the days, when interest in old UT was still strong. Eek, I 'm getting sentimental! Anyway, yeh count me in and as uber frenetically fun 6h was. . .I'd also probably lean to a 24h one. Anyhoo, better go. I uh have something in my eye :o

Awww, you'll start us all off man. http://blogs.tigtag.com/smiley/y_crying.gif

[King Mango]

heheh LJP

get teh 2k4 maps pumping ya slacker. Just put on a Garbage play list. That's what I've been doing for the last seven months lol. Works like a charm. Time flies and stuff just pops into my head unbidden.

[fragnbrag]

heheh LJP

get teh 2k4 maps pumping ya slacker. Just put on a Garbage play list. That's what I've been doing for the last seven months lol. Works like a charm. Time flies and stuff just pops into my head unbidden.

LMAO @ Mango's new avatar =P

(...competing with a certain snoopish dude?

"match begins in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..."

cheers

[BeWilderBeest]

Ha! I creamed you all in the 6H, and I'm gonna do it again in the 24H. Or words to that effect.

Blarg... I've been away from the editor too long... I've got a serious mapping itch to be scratched.


When I sleeping in my bed
All I dream of is the Ed
When I'm on the dunny crappin',
All I think about is mappin'
When I'm scoffin' down my tea,
I see lights and BSP
Vertices and intersects
This really is teh secks
Although nothing could be finer,
Than having a vagina
Oh wait, did I really say that?
Don't rewind and replay that
It'd be just as incriminatin',
As when they caught me mastur...
Oh wait this poem has gone bad
UnrealED is so rad!!

[DagnyTaggart]

from scratch, 24, CTF -- i'm in there...

Heya Frag'n'Brag. Love your John Carter of Mars avatar. I read all of Edgar Rice Burroughs's (the guy who invented Tarzan) Mars books when I was a kid. Haven't seen that picture nor thought about it much for years. I think that drawing is for the hardcover of "A Fighting Man of Mars", which I thought was one of the better ones.

Ironically, now that I have much of the know-how needed to participate in one of these contests, I don't have much desire. It's hard to map for UT '99 these days now that the player counts have dropped dramatically and when populated no-BS mods regular weapons CTF servers are hard to find. Maybe I'd do it if it were on one of my days off, but it's hard to get excited about building maps when there are so few people still playing UT.

[King Mango]

Ha! I creamed you all in the 6H, and I'm gonna do it again in the 24H. Or words to that effect.

Blarg... I've been away from the editor too long... I've got a serious mapping itch to be scratched.


When I sleeping in my bed
All I dream of is the Ed
When I'm on the dunny crappin',
All I think about is mappin'
When I'm scoffin' down my tea,
I see lights and BSP
Vertices and intersects
This really is teh secks
Although nothing could be finer,
Than having a vagina
Oh wait, did I really say that?
Don't rewind and replay that
It'd be just as incriminatin',
As when they caught me mastur...
Oh wait this poem has gone bad
UnrealED is so rad!!

yeah YEAH YEAH!
rotflmaountilnextweektyvm

[King Mango]

it's hard to get excited about building maps when there are so few people still playing UT.
man it's hard for me because of UED3! :D
You can do sooooooo much more in 2k4 it's very difficult to go back even though I have five maps nearly done for UT.

[Flying_Killer]

man it's hard for me because of UED3! :D
You can do sooooooo much more in 2k4 it's very difficult to go back even though I have five maps nearly done for UT.

I actually thing it's kinda crappy, the UT2k4 mapping.
There are very few people making their own meshes and stuff.
UT Mapping is much more fun, because it's not like "Substract-add light-add meshes-done".

[JohnnySix]

...but it's hard to get excited about building maps when there are so few people still playing UT.

After the bewildering poem, I'm definitely excited, almost like I get this sense that myPackage is going to be unzipped round the world very soon! :rockon:

[JohnnySix]

I actually thing it's kinda crappy, the UT2k4 mapping.
There are very few people making their own meshes and stuff.
UT Mapping is much more fun, because it's not like "Substract-add light-add meshes-done".

If anything I've found going back to UT mapping faster.. for one, since I don't have to worry about Static Meshes, I can concentrate on everything else. With UT2004, for me, if I can't get meshes lining up straight, or something I've modelled doesn'y import quite right, I'll quickly loose interest, as the whole process (at least with predominantly original work) is that the whole process seems a huge uphill slog to get things looking somewhere even close to the quality of the stanard maps (reused meshes notwithstanding).

Compared to UT2004 mapping, UT is a breeze, but at the same time, if you do have a couple of months to invest in creating something in the new engine, the extra levels of detail and realim all make that slog worth it. :D

[BeWilderBeest]

Aye... I've tried to get into it, but I really can't invest the time and effort to make a map for UT2K4... whereas UT, I can knock up a semi-decent one in 6 or 24 hours.

[King Mango]

no point in entering if Beest is playing. :/

Well guys gotta get to work. cu :D

I haven't gotten the HL2 flu yet lolz

[fragnbrag]

hey, lets not turn this thread into one of "those" threads ut vs ut2k4 -- they are just technologies from different generations, 2k4 obviously much much newer and taking advantage of hardware etc that the old ut can't.

A UT map is UT map, 2k* map is 2k* -- imo, not really measurable against each other... Some things easy in UT99 are stupidly hard in 2k4, and some 2k4 features are simply impossible in UT99...

Making the "old" ut stuff look "contemporary" is a challenge, and sometimes seems pointless doing details with bsp because the engine just dies trying to render it... oh well, best to just make ut maps for those that still want them, and 2k* maps for everyone else and beyond...

btw, my 10 year old can now make ut2k4 maps! i help him a bit with the actors, but he does all the rest... bsp, texturing, lighting, mesh placement, actors and pathing -- get this, he made an ONS map that actually works, LOL! it's a simple map but it's more than i've done with ONS up to now!!!
So how can he do this??? I read him Mortal Plagues tutorial, and he learned and practiced everything in it (except lighting, i had to explain that a few times) GJ, mp - my wife (the kids mother) will never forgive you =P

mango, somehow u have to finish those maps dude!!!!

cheers

[King Mango]

dude it is so hard. They are all so close to done too. The SE version of apocalypse is there but for details and so is abandoned... Screenie of apoc hehe :evil:
http://www.unrealplayground.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=13289&stc=1

[BeWilderBeest]

Oh, I'm not trying to say that mapping for UT is better, only that I don't have the time nor the patience to complete a 2K4 map to it's full potential.

[JohnnySix]

:):):):):) 24h comp then?

Chrimbo themed ?

[JohnnySix]

dude it is so hard. They are all so close to done too. The SE version of apocalypse is there but for details and so is abandoned... Screenie of apoc hehe :evil:
http://www.unrealplayground.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=13289&stc=1

Nice work Jim, hope this sees the light of day sometime soon! :rockon:

[Professor]

:):):):):) 24h comp then?

Chrimbo themed ?
I knew there was a reason I didn't join in the fun here.........what the &*#$% is "Chrimbo"!?????!???!??!???!!! :dunno:

Cheerz

[fragnbrag]

I knew there was a reason I didn't join in the fun here.........what the &*#$% is "Chrimbo"!?????!???!??!???!!! :dunno:

Cheerz

"Chrimbo" has something to do with "chestnuts being roasted on an open fire"
and a dude named "jack frost" ... :)

cheers

[Professor]

"Chrimbo" has something to do with "chestnuts being roasted on an open fire"
and a dude named "jack frost" ... :)

cheers
Ah yes and nipping at your nose! Still never heard the term Chrimbo before till now! LOL Who sang that song just out of curiosity? I can't remember the dude's name but I'm pretty sure he's dead. Was it Bing Crosby?

Cheerz

[JohnnySix]

Or a nightmare before christmas theme. "Kidnap the Sandy Claws (http://lair2000.net/night3/wav/kidnap.zip)" :

[Dorkorama]

Pretty sad that even Wikipedia had no definiiton. Take this definition with a grain of salt, like anything from Urban Dictionary:
chrimbo (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chrimbo&r=f)

[HortonsWho]

Yes- 24H- Looks like we'll need to wait until January...the CTC map pack is delayed until Christmas...

[fragnbrag]

Yes- 24H- Looks like we'll need to wait until January...the CTC map pack is delayed until Christmas...

Maybe u should have it anyways? The CTC could drag on -- 24h is a one day contest - looks like there's a few mappers left finishing up for CTC anyways but i bet there's more than enough who might like to get a contest in before christmas without further delay...

UT seems to be fading out fast - we gotta hurry up !!!!!

Just a thought ...
cheers

ps - i like the christmas theme idea...

[HortonsWho]

I'm fine with whenever if enough people are interested...


As faras a theme: in past contests, themes sometimes chase people away... but Christmas is OK by me if it's not too strict... for example: you could still build a "big kitchen/mini-me" map and put a few cards on the table or lights out the window, etc...

Who all would be in for this... a show of hands.

Me- for starters... but the dates could only be the 4th-5th (this coming weekend!), 11th-12th or maybe the 23rd or 26th...

[fragnbrag]

I'm fine with whenever if enough people are interested...


As faras a theme: in past contests, themes sometimes chase people away... but Christmas is OK by me if it's not too strict... for example: you could still build a "big kitchen/mini-me" map and put a few cards on the table or lights out the window, etc...

Who all would be in for this... a show of hands.

Me- for starters... but the dates could only be the 4th-5th (this coming weekend!), 11th-12th or maybe the 23rd or 26th...

hey - i'm in anyways :) that's exactly what i was thinking! i haven't made a "mini me" map or a christmas map, yet, so that would be fun - what would be hard would be rounding up some good christmas type textures and deco - maybe, set the contest date, and ahead of that have someone assemble a christmas textures pack for use in the contest -- interested peeps could either scrounge up (or whip up) textures and maybe even some little meshes to use, like little ornaments, or star for the tree, etc. so when everythings ready we're off and mapping (and the maps could have christmas trees that look like christmas trees and not just a cone with starship textures on it, LOL!

Hey, Sabb, Simeon, ebd, tex, whadaya think? a few ornamnets, eh?

cheers

[Sinnical]

hand is up

january is good for me

[Smelnick]

wow. i never seen this before. this would be fun. when is it.

[JohnnySix]

I'm happy with whenever dates, mostly week-ends are good for me though. I won't be home much over December. Will try find the time to make an X-Mas Pudding health pick-up or something themed though. :D

[Zinia]

Christmas pudding? :eek:

[radio667]

Dont Forget the Roasting ChestNutz too ;) !!!

[HortonsWho]

It's UP to the majority but January is starting to look much better for me as of today.

[Creeper]

Hmm.. christmas maps are somewhat limited in when you'd want them on a server. Might seem like a good idea right now, but by January, maybe not so much.

What about... no 90-degree angles? :evil: Or a house of glass.. no solid textures? But christmas maps just aren't as much fun in July.

[HortonsWho]

So can we go back to January- CTF, good for 10-14 players?

[fragnbrag]

Hmm.. christmas maps are somewhat limited in when you'd want them on a server. Might seem like a good idea right now, but by January, maybe not so much.

What about... no 90-degree angles? :evil: Or a house of glass.. no solid textures? But christmas maps just aren't as much fun in July.

oh well - i can always make a christmas map anyways, or maybe not -- looks like not :scratch: how about newyears ???? if so - i got dibs on the exploding time square ball thingy =P

ok i'll stop now...
cheers

[radio667]

How about a movie theme map ... i would love to play in a Marx Brother's or an Incredibles' theme Map ;) !!!

[Lord_Simeon]

Anything is OK by me, X-mas, seuss, UP, dry dock:)
Anything goes:)

Time wise, well it's only 24 hours in the whole scheme of things, so anytime is OK by me too, i'll make time for it.

[BeWilderBeest]

Got time? Make time. It's 420.

[JohnnySix]

oh well - i can always make a christmas map anyways, or maybe not -- looks like not :scratch: how about newyears ???? if so - i got dibs on the exploding time square ball thingy =P

ok i'll stop now...
cheers

What is that exploding ball thing anyway, like a big firework or something? :dunno: We just tend to watch big clocks here in UK and shake hands in a manly way.

So can we go back to January- CTF, good for 10-14 players?

'sfunny - I've already got all my christmas work projects out the way last month and am now working on Valentines already, I keep wanting to skip to easter themed stuff. :D

Whatever's going to yeild the most maps.. Some themes might be too restricting for 24h, Creepers no-right angles idea or something along those lines, where, just like the Suess comp, mappers had to incorporate trick jumps/lift jumps etc would be cool though.

Something that doesn't inhibit creativity but helps to focus it - Like BME or the Architecture only comp.

[Flying_Killer]

So are we going through with this contest? I'd say between Christmas and New-year ?

[JohnnySix]

So are we going through with this contest? I'd say between Christmas and New-year ?

I think everyone has unoficially decided on Jan at the earliest. :)

[Flying_Killer]

I think everyone has unoficially decided on Jan at the earliest. :)

Uh? But that's so long :(

[Dorkorama]

Uh? But that's so long :(A week!?!
:hammer:

[JohnnySix]

A week!?!
:hammer:
+:spank:

[Creeper]

Ya, but it's a bold, captialized, large-font, underlined week, so it's almost like 3 weeks.

[JohnnySix]

Ya, but it's a bold, captialized, large-font, underlined week, so it's almost like 3 weeks.
It's... 12 days n stuff , which is like a Week "SE" with bonus bits..

[fragnbrag]

Ya, but it's a bold, captialized, large-font, underlined week, so it's almost like 3 weeks.

LMAO :) good one!

[fragnbrag]

It's... 12 days n stuff , which is like a Week "SE" with bonus bits..

it'll seem like yesterday after the flurry of chrimbo and newyrs :)

sabb, can u chrimo my avi ?? i tried, i suck!! everyone has a cheery avi 'cept for me :( maybe it's not seasonally adaptible... pretty please! i'll give u a cool spaceship ctf beta map for a present :D

cheers