Terrain Contest #4 Brain Storming

[FamousPker49]

So, here it is. I've heard a few ideas thrown around for the next terrain compo, and come up with a few of my own. So discuss.

-No Imports
-Constructions
-Elemental (Fire, Water, Ice, etc...)
-Battle Scene
-Landmarks (recreate a monument in real life but more WC3ish)
-Color
-Suggestions are suggested.

 

[Gilles]

Construction perhaps? Or a color.

 

[Hawkwing]

[joke] I will come to your house and shoot you if you do elemental. [/joke]

It's been done so much recently.

Landscapes or construction would work.

 

[Gausslander]

Maybe we could (please Allah) do it without the Ultimate Terraining Map?

 

[Ghost765]

how would u make a battle scene? make the units have the required anim field?
or is it like the aftermath when everyone's dead and theyre all laying there?

 

[FamousPker49]

Maybe we could (please Allah) do it without the Ultimate Terraining Map?

That's the no imports choice.

 

[Gausslander]

Indeed. Either that or construction, construction is cool.

 

[FamousPker49]

Alright, that is what I was leaning towards. Once we see some more opinions I'll add a poll. Or get Hawkwing to.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

why not like... Once upon a time theme... like we reproduce a place of the legend that we Loved so mutch when we were kids..

 

[Hawkwing]

There was a submission for a Construction Competition, that's why I brought it up in the last contest.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

-no Imports

-no Imports

-no Imports

-no Imports

Yes Yes Yes!

 

[2-P]

"No Imports" is a rule, not a theme...

 

[Oziris]

I dont get this,what do u mean by colour?

 

[Steel_Stallion]

-No imports + -Construction

Now THERES an interesting competition. Lets see how creative you biatches really are.

 

[Masiah]

I aprove the following:
- No imports.
- Constructions.

A good theme would be construct a fictive landmark/building/shrine/temple/wtfbbq within WC3 or any other world... or just invent one. Add a story for it too, of course if it's invented.

 

[Restor]

I like more abstract themes like "Core of my soul" or "End of Infinity" :-D


from others the best is Landmarks

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Why did I never participate in these?

Oh yes, I have absloutly no experience with Ultimate terraining map and I dont really know my way around the doodads

If its no Imports, I guarentee you ill be something in the top 3.

 

[LightBloOD]

am totally against imports and things like ulty terraing map; its a challenge where people do their best to show their skills and creativity. If you're creativ enough you dont need imports at all.
/import as many things as you want in your project, but not in your entry/
thats my motto :\

 

[AirHead]

i say color no imports. color would be cool, if you have seen the movie hero you will know why. it would be cool to do without UTM and no other import except only one that i think we need. a cloud, my only problem is that i can't find the model D:.

 

[Pyritie]

Contruction + no imports sounds interesting.

 

[FamousPker49]

I think it will be no imports construction then.

 

[Oziris]

Yea that sounds fun!

 

[PurplePoot]

Added the poll as requested. If you need any changes, tell Hawkwing to tell me, or bug me via PMs.

 

[Hawkwing]

PurplePoot has started the poll. Commence voting!

 

[Just_Spectating]

shit, i wanted to vote for Monument not battle scene.

 

[PurplePoot]

Removed your vote, vote again if you so desire.

 

[Just_Spectating]

what? my vote isnt there poot. u didnt fix lmao

 

[PurplePoot]

I know, I can't move votes (Well, I can, but it doesn't save who voted), so I just removed it.

 

[Just_Spectating]

still says i have already voted on this poll.

 

[PurplePoot]

Ah, sounds like vBulletin pretty much fails then.

I just added an anonymous vote for Landmark, then.

 

[Sabertooth]

No-fucking-imports construction. I mean if I chose anything else, I'd just lose, right?

 

[~Void~]

I had an idea, which I thought might be interesting. You have one doodad (that's right, one) which is a tan-tinted square block. You can do whatever you want with this one kind of doodad, rotate it, tint it, scale it, whatever. The objective is to make the best building or anything out of these blocks.

Thoughts? Because I really don't like any of these themes. Too vague/unoriginal.

 

[Pyritie]

Having it be one color would be a bit tedious. Now if you could tint them to whatever color you want... that could be interesting. Maybe being able to stretch it too... it'd be just like lego!

 

[Steel_Stallion]

OR we could stick to the plan

No imports construction!

KLASJDLAKJSDALKSDJ

 

[Just_Spectating]

construction,

is that theme like just any sort of building sites terrain sort of thing?

 

[Mr.Goblin]

well the ''lego'' idea is not really good.. cause it will bring ALOT OF LAG for people

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Construction is basicly constructing something I guess, like a monument or building using simple doodads (For example making a temple made of Arch ways and pillars.)

Right?

 

[AirHead]

i like the blocks thing very original and would make for some very interesting terrains.

 

[Hawkwing]

Construction is basicly constructing something I guess, like a monument or building using simple doodads (For example making a temple made of Arch ways and pillars.)

Right?

Yes.

 

[Byaku]

I vote for Constructions

 

[~Void~]

well the ''lego'' idea is not really good.. cause it will bring ALOT OF LAG for people

Lol, the blocks won't be THAT small. And fuck the lag, it's just a screenshot anyways...

 

[Mr.Goblin]

well than if its with the block.. i wont participate.. cause i have a sucky computer.. and it already happend to a laggy map that i got ..X Fatal error ><

 

[~Void~]

Lag doesn't really happen with a bunch of static doodads. It's only caused by animations. Sure if you have like 80000 blocks it will lag, but that won't happen.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

I say it shouldnt just be judged by screenshots..

It should be evaluated in editor/game by a judge.

 

[Eleandor]

Lol, the blocks won't be THAT small. And fuck the lag, it's just a screenshot anyways...

the scale of it doesn't really matter. Say a "block" has 6 faces, that's 12 triangles. The newest games, such as crysis, render around say 150k triangles per frame, averaging at several millions per second. Let's say you have a good graphics card, you would still have trouble rendering 10 000 of those blocks (and you'd be surprised how fast you've used 10k blocks). And I know out of experience that adding a finishing touch to your terrain, let alone making some serious changes, going at 1 frame per second is nearly impossible.

IIRC, animations don't have that much influence on the framerate. Sure, everything influences everything, but only to a certain extent...

 

[Hawkwing]

Now, tell me in a post. Would you like No Imports Construction? Or UTM Construction?

 

[Mr.Goblin]

No Imports!

 

[LightBloOD]

No Imports!

imports-no imports
0-2

 

[FamousPker49]

I believe this was said by 2-P and is totally correct. No imports is a rule and that construction is a theme, so the poll was kind of set up a little off.

No Imports -Construction. Make it happen Sir.

 

[Hawkwing]

So we've decided on a theme; No imports Construction.

Official Contest Start Date: 10/01/08

• After the conclusion of the Texturing Competition.