Zephyr Challenge #5

Zephyr Challenge #5

Contest Theme: Delayed Effect Each contestant must create a custom ability that's primary effect is delayed for some time. (Minor effects, such as DoTs, can occur before the primary effect of the ability) Examples: Parasite - If a unit dies under the effect of Parasite, a unit is spawned. The spawning of the unit would be considered the primary effect. Doom - Similar to parasite, but the effect does not expire.

Contest Rules And Conditions

1. No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
   
2. Your submitted spell must follow the theme description. If the judging moderator feels that your spell does not follow the selected theme, then it is his decision to disqualify you.
   
3. You may use any amount of imported resources in your spell as long as you give proper credit to the creator of the resource.
   
4. Either GUI or Jass may be used to create your spell; you will not be penalized if you use GUI over Jass.
   
5. Spells must be able to be cast by at least one unit per player at any one time. (Otherwise known as "MPI")
   
6. Third party editors may be used in the creation of your spell, but you must clearly state which editor you used to create the map. If a third party editor is necessary to use your spell, add a link, along with your spell submission, to download the editor.
   
   Examples of third party editors are:
   • World Editor Unlimited
   • JassNewGenPack (or Grimoire)
   • UMSWE
7. Each spell submission must be created during the contest and must be submitted before the contest deadline (noted at the end of this post).
   
8. You may use utilities that do small jobs for you, but you may not use large systems that do everything.

   Example of utilities

   • CSCache
   • Armor Detection System
   • Local Handle Vars
   • Vector System

   Example of large systems

   • Caster System
   • Particle/Object Engine
   • Knockback Functions
   • Jump System

9. An infraction of any of the rules stated above may result in a disqualification.
   
10. Judges may not participate in the contest as contestants.
    
11. Your submission must be created only by you : No team submissions.
    
12. Completed submissions must be physically attached to this thread in a post. Your last submission will be the considered the final submission, unless if you are previously disqualified from this contest.

Prizes And Winnings

First Place: 45 reputation points and an award icon Second Place: 25 reputation points Third Place: 15 reputation points

Contest Judging And Voting

• 50% of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge.
  
• 50% of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Judging Criteria

Concept (15 out of 50) How well does the spell fit in to Warcraft 3? Is the spell unique, or strikingly similar to an existing spell? How useful is the spell? Is it just a cinematic spell? Is the idea balanced, or is the spell too useless or too powerful? Etc. Coding (15 out of 50) Are there memory leaks? Reference leaks? Is the code well written and readable, or is the judging late because it gave me a headache? How well structured is the code? Are there a dozen triggers, or only one? Does the code support more or less than 3 levels? Can the spell be cast by more than one unit per player at a time? (Is the spell MUI?) Etc. Visuals (10 out of 50) Are there effects and visual cues as to what is going on? Are there far too many effects? Do the visuals actually look good? Etc. Polish (10 out of 50) Does the spell work? Does it work well? How many bugs are there? Is the tooltip well written, and the spell well presented? Does the spell work smoothly within Warcraft 3, or does it act eccentrically compared to the built-in spells? Etc.

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Contest Dates And Deadline

All submissions must be complete and submitted 4 weeks after the contest begins.
The contest shall begin on August 10th, 2008 and conclude on

September 6th 2008 0:00 AM, GMT

whooping 4 weeks :D
too bad my school starts like in the second week -.-

Illl joing and try

I will Join!!Glad I have half of my hoilday to work on it.

I was starting to asking myself when another zephyr challenge would take place.
Count me in!

OH YEAH! This time I've got the gold.

no wai -.-

aww i created 3 delay spells a while ago that would have been worth submiting, but meh now I need some fresh ideas.

Wow, I might join this contest and hopefully win :P.
But I have a question, how do you know whether a certain ability fits the criteria for delayed primary effect cos I can't tell how to tell... :P
EDIT: Never mind my previous question.
Hmmm, can a contestant submit more than 1 spell?

Originally Posted by Zack1996

Wow, I might join this contest and hopefully win :P.
But I have a question, how do you know whether a certain ability fits the criteria for delayed primary effect cos I can't tell how to tell... :P
EDIT: Never mind my previous question.
Hmmm, can a contestant submit more than 1 spell?

If you have any doubts about your idea fitting the theme, ask me about it. (You can PM me, catch me in the chat, etc.)

One submission per person. The last spell you submit will be the one judged / in the poll.

How about CS timer and group stacking. Are we allowed to use that as well?

Why you need a stack of timers or groups is beyond me.

However, think about the rules. Does it code your spell for you? No.

nah, I dont really need it... its just that I took notice of what vexorian said, that recycling timers or groups are better than destroying/creating them.

Edit: And what about the duration of the delayed effect... what is the least acceptable duration?

Just because you don't recycle them doesn't mean you have to create/destroy them either.

As for the duration... it shouldn't be too hard to guess.

Ask yourself: does it seem reasonable to you? .1 seconds, for example, would be obviously not.

ok...

No but let say 5 seconds... I was just comparing with the examples EF said. As for Doom the duration is unlimited, and for the Parasite its 30 seconds. But now when you say it, I guess is will be ok.

Originally Posted by Eccho

nah, I dont really need it... its just that I took notice of what vexorian said, that recycling timers or groups are better than destroying/creating them.

Edit: And what about the duration of the delayed effect... what is the least acceptable duration?

cmon....just make the spell. Its DELAYED EFFECT so just make something that can be noticed before you are damaged or affected etc..(i know there can be damage before main effect, but cmon....just make it)