2012 News Batch

Vengeancekael · Feb 17, 2013

Yearly News Batch: 2012
Contributions by:
^{I3lackDeath & Magtheridon96 (Resource Moderators)}

Note: This was made back in early January, it has been delayed up till now because of the Models spotlight missing.

Index

Top+

Projects Spotlight

The Hive's Arena

Hive Quiz

Last Page

(Click the tabs below to switch between different Resource Spotlights)

Maps

Models

Icons

Spells

Skins

Top 5 Maps of 2012

	^{Gems of Unification} Type: Role Playing Game / RPG Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: drol ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Dualism Type: Role Playing Game / RPG Category: Miscellanous / Other Author: Sverkerman ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Blades 'n Gore II} Type: Miscellanous / Other Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: Kitabatake ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Paranoia Type: Shooting / FPS Category: Modern Warfare Author: Grievous1 ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Seth's Reign} Type: Role Playing Game / RPG Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: APproject ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}

Top 10 Models of 2012

	^{Diablo III: King Leoric} Type: Unit, Hero Category: Undead, Diablo Author(s): HappyCockroach, AnemicRoyalty, Tarrasque ^{^{(Director's Cut)}}
	^{Medieval Building} Type: Doodad Category: Structures Author: paradise.engineeri ^{^{(Director's Cut)}}
	^{Raptor Staff} Type: Item, Attachment Category: Orc, NE, etc. Author: Epimetheus ^{^{(Director's Cut)}}
	^Beholder Type: Unit Category: Miscellanous/Other Author: SuPa- ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Shame Type: Unit, Hero Category: Undead, Nerubian, etc. Author: HappyCockroach ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Centaur Flamecaller} Type: Hero Category: Creep Author: Deolrin ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Man-o-War Type: Hero Category: Demon Author: -Grendel ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Werewolf Type: Unit, Hero Category: Demon Author: WhiteDeath ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^Ocula Type: Unit Category: Creep, Demon Author: -Grendel ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Seth - God of Chaos} Type: Hero Category: WoW, Creep, etc. Author: PROXY ^{^{(Recommended)}}

Top 10 Icons of 2012

	BTNCloakofshadows by PeeKay
	BTNinfernoFruit by PeeKay
	BTNStompMurloc by Marcos DAB
	BTNInsatiableHunger by Marcos DAB
	BTNPlateArmor02 by NFWar
	BTNForbiddenMagicDemasqued by JollyD
	BTNHammerCrush by zbc
	BTNBurningDagger by zbc
	BTNMaskOfChaos by D.ee
	BTNDragonmawRider by Sin'dorei300

Top 10 Spells of 2012

	^{Codeless Save/Load} Type: System Category: vJass, GUI Author: Nestharus ^{^{(Director's Cut)}}
	^{File I/O} Type: System Category: vJass Author: Nestharus ^{^{(Director's Cut)}}
	^{Helios Collision} Type: Target Ground Category: GUI / Triggers Author: Tank-Commander ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Impale System} Type: System Category: vJass Author: Adiktuz ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Custom Resources Harvest} Type: System Category: GUI / Triggers Author: rulerofiron99 ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^{Dark Portal} Type: Target Ground Category: GUI / Triggers Author: Almia ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^{Meat Mash} Type: Target Ground Category: vJass Author: Magtheridon96 ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^{LeBlanc the Deceiver Pack} Type: Pack Category: vJass Author: Lambdadelta ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^{Amethyster Pack} Type: Pack Category: GUI / Triggers Author: KnnO ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^{Stringed Shuriken} Type: Target Object Category: GUI / Triggers Author: defskull ^{^{(Recommended)}}

Top 5 Skins of 2012

	^{Chaos Sorcerer} Type: Hero Category: Alien, Space, Demon Author: darkdeathknight ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Dwarf Warrior} Type: Unit Category: Dwarf, Demon Author: darkdeathknight ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Undead UI} Type: User Interface Category: Undead Author: Kwaliti ^{^{(Highly Recommended)}}
	^{Highborne Priestess} Type: Unit, Hero Category: NE, High Elf, WoW Author: Cakedog345 ^{^{(Recommended)}}
	^Revenant Type: Unit Category: WoW, Creep Author: chr2 ^{^{(Not Rated)}}

Top Projects of 2012

	Project Y4: A Total Conversion ^{(by Rao Dao Zao)} Project Y4 is a single-player science-fiction total conversion map. <<The remote industro-military development and manufacturing facility EY23 has gone dark. Communications ceased, and a team was dispatched to secure the area. They found the facility on over-drive, churning out drone mechs that had killed anyone caught in the open -- and they shredded the small team that tried to enter the facility.>> [Download] Type: SPRPG
	God's Word: The True Way ^{(by PUVer)} <<Welcome to Farrield - the world where gods play with destinies of mortals, where Lady Magic unofficially rules and abandoned caves and dark dungeons keep mighty arthefacts, where always is the power that decides to break the balance and to tip the scales to their advantage!>> Type: SPRPG
	Invasion in Duskwood ^{(by Luorax)} <<Invasion in Duskwood was originally started to create an unique AoS map for us that's fun to play. It has a lot of never in WC3 seen features and should show you what the WarCraft 3 engine is capable of. The development is going pretty well so far, however there're a few places to be filled by an experienced modder.>> Type: AoS

The developers of these active and promising projects have all been rewarded 12 rep.

Icon Contest #11: A Hero's Skillset

Pick a hero from an older Hero Contest and create their ability icons (sub-abilities not included) [Deadline: 17th of February]

2D Art Mini-Contests: A Cursor's ®obe

The reviews have been published and first place has gone to Sin'dorei300!

Questions

Rules

Coding:

[Easy] What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)
[Moderate] What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
[Moderate] ~~Why are conditions faster than actions in-game?~~
[Moderate] What data structure is used when allocating arrays?
[Hard] What is the analysis of taking a string and tokenizing it into usable data called
that is commonly used by compilers?

Site:

[Easy] ~~Why was the poll for User of the Year 2012 remade?~~
[Easy] ~~Which moderator is the easiest to contact in the spells section?~~
[Easy] ~~What was Cweener's Staff position?~~

Blizzard Entertainment:

[Easy ~~How many cinematic trailers were released in 2012 & 2013 together? Link the YouTube videos.~~
[Moderate] ~~What was the most recent&important news about Diablo III?~~

The objective is to answer as many questions as possible and get the most answers right to earn reputation points!
You are not allowed to edit your post with new answers, just double post if you have to.
Everyone except for Magtheridon96 is allowed to participate.

Site:

The community has voted for the User of the Year and the winner is Vengeancekael.

Garfield1337 · Feb 17, 2013

-What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)
Hashing?

-What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
Uhh...SyncSelection?

-Why are conditions faster than actions in-game?
They don't start a new thread.

-What data structure is used when allocating arrays?
None, arrays just hold the pointer of initial variable and are a structure themselves.

-What was Cweener's Staff position?
Map moderator.

kari0003 · Feb 17, 2013

-How many cinematic trailers were released in 2012 & 2013 together? Link the YouTube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbeoSPqRs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64
This two, not counting TV commericals

Almia · Feb 17, 2013

-Which moderator is the easiest to contact in the spells section
Magtheridon96

-What was the most recent&important news about Diablo III
finally out of beta testing and now released to the public.
The update introduces the first form of PvP to the game, namely "Brawling".
-What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)
Compression
-What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
native SelectUnit takes unit whichUnit, boolean flag returns nothing ?
-Why are conditions faster than actions in-game?
I think conditions where read first before actions.
If conditions have been read,actions will be executed
-Why was the poll for User of the Year 2012 remade?
Because so many people where unhappy that the users they nominated was not included in the list,until Ralle updated it
-What is the analysis of taking a string and tokenizing it into usable data called
that is commonly used by compilers?
Preloader i guess
-What was Cweener's Staff position?
He was a map mod back then

edit:
Why not Void Sphere Mag?

Nestharus · Feb 17, 2013

[Hard] What is the analysis of taking a string and tokenizing it into usable data called
that is commonly used by compilers?

Lexical Analysis

Magtheridon96 · Feb 17, 2013

Nestharus said:
[Hard] What is the analysis of taking a string and tokenizing it into usable data called
that is commonly used by compilers?

Lexical Analysis

Correct.
(+3) Rep.

edit

Garfypie said:
- Why are conditions faster than actions in-game?
They don't start a new thread.

Correct.
(+2) Rep.

edit
Guys, I want to quickly point out something.

The Top 10 Spells Are In No Particular Order.
Thank You.

Almia · Feb 17, 2013

Damn you Nes.Damn you

Luorax · Feb 17, 2013

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?

TriggerEvaluate or ExecuteFunc. EDIT: uhm, these two prevent hitting the OP limit. My bad.

And actually Garfield is right. Arrays ARE data structures themselves. Unless you're talking about memory allocation of locals (where the total size of the array/variables [in bytes] is subtracted from the Stack Pointer register [ESP]), but that's some really low level bullshit.

So, if I really had to say something, I'd say: stack.

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Also: yay. I'd have never expected IID to be on the top 3 projects list. That's really an honour. It's a shame that I have such little time to work on the project

Almia · Feb 17, 2013

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent
SelectUnit
SetUnitX/Y
GetPlayerSlotState ?
GetUnitUserData ?

Aeroblyctos · Feb 17, 2013

Thanks a lot. These batches are awesome!

Hell_Master said:
Wow congratz.... for the Top 3 Project Spotlight. Wish mine will be there... I'll try to be more active on my project....

Good luck.

Magtheridon96 · Feb 17, 2013

@Luoraxpoo<3 and Garfypie<3:

Actually, we are talking about the very, very low level.
C's malloc low.

Chaosy · Feb 17, 2013

Site:
[Easy] Why was the poll for User of the Year 2012 remade? If I remember right they enabled multi-vote
[Easy] Which moderator is the easiest to contact in the spells section? magtheridon96
[Easy] What was Cweener's Staff position? map mod

Blizzard Entertainment:
[Easy How many cinematic trailers were released in 2012 & 2013 together? Link the YouTube videos.
3 I think
[Moderate] What was the most recent&important news about Diablo III?
Patch 1.0.7 is now out for beta.

Magtheridon96 · Feb 18, 2013

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
TriggerRegisterPlayerUnitEvent
SelectUnit
SetUnitX/Y
GetPlayerSlotState ?
GetUnitUserData ?

No.
I'll give you a hint.
They are three natives and they only work when called in /one/ environment.

Garfield1337 · Feb 18, 2013

Probably within a local player block.
I guess the two of them are TriggerSyncStart and TriggerSyncReady.
The last one is probably SelectUnit.

Magtheridon96 · Feb 18, 2013

Garfeles said:
Probably within a local player block.
I guess the two of them are TriggerSyncStart and TriggerSyncReady.
The last one is probably SelectUnit.

That's 2/3 (The first two)

(+2) Rep!

The question still counts as unsolved, so whoever can get figure out that last one gets the remain (+1) allocated to that question.

Vengeancekael · Mar 8, 2013

Hive Quiz updated.

Almia · Mar 18, 2013

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?
How about GetPlayerSlotState ?

Almia · Mar 26, 2013

What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)
How about Encrytor

HammerFist132 · Mar 26, 2013

My epic quest for 2013 is to my map gets in first 5

Almia · Mar 27, 2013

What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)

Catalog

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?

TriggerSleepAction

What data structure is used when allocating arrays?

Heap.

There Meg.

Magtheridon96 · Mar 27, 2013

Almia said:
What is used to replace a large value with a small value in save/load? (Give save/load terminology)

Catalog

What natives are used to prevent a desync from occuring due to heavy operations?

TriggerSleepAction

What data structure is used when allocating arrays?

Heap.

Correct.
Correct.
Correct.

Coding questions have all been answered.
Go home. Nothing to see here.

Almia · Mar 27, 2013

Update.Im going on a vacation