Hive Olympics 2008 - Race Expansion

[Anachron]

I can be terariner or scripter

 

[Gausslander]

@Kyribi0: I work usually 12 hours on weekdays, as well. I won't be on until 7:30 or 8:00 PM.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Ill wait till saturday night. If Zypher doesnt show up ill talk it over with Dustin and find a new coder..

 

[Kyrbi0]

(@Scyth-Master):
You work 12 hrs a day!? Wow, that's no fun. (Although I guess, if you have a full-time job, and/or are an adult, then that's not so unique...)

And when I read my name phonetically the way you mispelled it, it reminds me of the Caribbean. Which is near Jamaica. Whose accent the Jungle Trolls have. Whom I love. Way to work that in there.

~~~

And oh yeah, I "windows messenger" 'd you and Xat, saying we had a problem with the summons... Don't worry about, I believe I have it under control now (at least, for the Undead's new hero we been working on.)

 

[AirHead]

so I'm confused. the coder does everything in the map except terraining? the modeler simply models. the terrainer terrains. so i guess the coder does the rest?

 

[Pyritie]

I'm guessing anyone can do the balancing... whoever finishes their third first, I guess.

 

[Kyrbi0]

I would submit that every member can (and should) balance; that just requires a few matches to be played. 1v1, or FFA with the 3 of them (if they can manage).

But the coder (as far as I'm concerned) has to actually create all the custom stuff in the Object and Trigger editor; because then you just Import it all into the Terrainer's map, and Import the Modeller's models in + assign 'em.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Coder most likely does object data, since he needs to make dummy units and abilities/buffs/upgrades and such.

The terrainers map would be used as the base since units/triggers/abilities are much easier to import instead of the terrain

 

[Kyrbi0]

Coder most likely does object data, since he needs to make dummy units and abilities/buffs/upgrades and such.

The terrainers map would be used as the base since units/triggers/abilities are much easier to import instead of the terrain

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But the coder (as far as I'm concerned) has to actually create all the custom stuff in the Object and Trigger editor; because then you just Import it all into the Terrainer's map, and Import the Modeller's models in + assign 'em.

 

[frostwhisper]

The team can help with the object editor. The coder's one-man-only responsibility is coding.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Yeah they "can", but it doesn't make sense. You can only "Mass-Import" one set of Object/Trigger data, and besides, it'd take some crazy-hard cooperation to not work on the same parts accidentally. Since the coder (as stated above) has to make dummy units and the spells/triggers associated with them (and the units/heroes/buildings who use them), it logically follows that he will be doing all the work. In fact, it's probably more work in coordination if it's split up.

But I don't mind. I like writing tooltips.

 

[Gausslander]

@Kyrbi0: My new terrain's a real looker, takes place in and underground archaeological site.

 

[Ebrik Elitel]

What lazy fag came up with the idea that we should all limit the maps to two races? seriously, in the Olympics a runner is not asked to run half of the course, no, he is asked to run it several times. and all athletes that compete, put forth all of their energy and time to train and prepare for a few fleeting seconds of competition and even less glory. Buck up people (a term referring to a buck, a male deer as a strong and willful beast of grace and majesty), we need to make this competition fierce. Is it not so, that when these competitions are truly difficult that Warcraft will be filled to bursting with great races and even greater maps? let us make this a competition worthy of our efforts!

 

[Just_Spectating]

/facepalm

 

[Anachron]

Who wanna be in my team?

 

[NearbyHermit]

Who wanna be in my team?

I'm a terrainer and coder,but I terrain way better,so?

 

[Martin Barbov]

I give up trying to form my own team. Modelers are to rare. So if someone's interested I'm a gui coder for hire.

 

[Anachron]

I am GUI and basic jass coder, terrainer and can make icons.
I just can't make models.

 

[Eccho]

What lazy fag came up with the idea that we should all limit the maps to two races? seriously, in the Olympics a runner is not asked to run half of the course, no, he is asked to run it several times. and all athletes that compete, put forth all of their energy and time to train and prepare for a few fleeting seconds of competition and even less glory. Buck up people (a term referring to a buck, a male deer as a strong and willful beast of grace and majesty), we need to make this competition fierce. Is it not so, that when these competitions are truly difficult that Warcraft will be filled to bursting with great races and even greater maps? let us make this a competition worthy of our efforts!

A runner in a Olympics however, is not required to do all the races. He could say no if he like. If this Olympics Contest would have chosen to modify all these races, the time theoretically would be 6 weeks * 2. Do you want a 3 months long competition, and then wait additional up to ~1 month for the judging? It would conquer with the everyday life, for those, who would have special occasions in school or events such as vacations. No one forced you to join this one. If you want to wait for a greater one, go ahead. And respect the rules, dont call someone a fag.

No offense...

 

[Kyrbi0]

@Scyth-Master: Very nice. Is it kinda like a dwarven mining expedition, which takes place "half" aboveground and "half" below? That'd be kinda neat.

BTW, when I find time, I'm working on the Undead unit submission. I know we've only talked about it a bit, but I think if I can sufficiently "wow" Xatoga, he'll agree and model it...

 

[frostwhisper]

I had an idea similar to Scyth's, but I figured it would look fugly so I moved on...

 

[AirHead]

ok, considering ebriks (my teams modeler) post i think we might end up with new stuff for all four races even if its not required and i know it wont give us any extra points in judging but well he is too stubern. but anyway our team is decided we have, 'Hero Lief' (terrainer), 'Airhead' (coder), and 'Ebrik Elitel' (modeler) with the team name The Icemark.

 

[Kyrbi0]

...i think we might end up with new stuff for all four races even if its not required and i know it wont give us any extra points in judging but well he is too stubern.

Well, then, I hope your modeller likes being disqualified; I already asked Frostwhisper about making more stuff and he said "no".

...

(Show-off. )

 

[AirHead]

yeah, i fugured. voters arent judges and will vote for something just because it has extra stuff.

 

[Ebrik Elitel]

Sorry if I offended anyone with my talk of fags and stags, but I was half joking, hence the epic battle cry, but I was just thinking of the great levels that could be if every level was done with such passion as Blizzard had when they made Warcraft to begin with. But I will follow the rules and in doing so toss out a few unit, hero, and building ideas. If anyone would like to recycle them just message me or Airhead (he knows more about them then Hero_Lief does, because he was my co-brainstormer.) I think we have decided to make a Night Elf and Undead expansion, but I was wondering (and I will make them either way and leave them out of our map if not) if we would be allowed to make a tavern hero and a mercenary camp unit. Good luck to you all, may everyone be happy cartographers!

 

[Volvox]

Saying that we have less passion then blizzard when creating our maps is quite a personal point of view(euphemism) and rules are quite simple, just like deleting the extra stuff.

 

[Gausslander]

Are we allowed to use custom critters? There models would be in-game, but they would be altered units that are not trainable.

 

[frostwhisper]

As that falls to the unit editing category, no.

 

[D a w n]

Team Rainbow Monkeys need a new coder because our current 1 does not respond to our mails :/

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Zypher seems to have dropped out.

Looking for coder, guys we are already established, a quarter of the terrain is done and like one model is finished. Come onnnn

 

[frostwhisper]

Bloody coders :/

 

[NearbyHermit]

Come on modeler,we need you!

 

[Argus]

I have a question: would the contestants be allowed to re-import ingame textures under a new file name? That way you could change cliff tiles, mixing and matching diffrent tilesets. For example, you could use Ashenvale Grass cliffs and and Sunken Ruins in your map.

 

[frostwhisper]

Ek, no.

 

[Kwah]

Team Rainbow Monkeys need a new coder because our current 1 does not respond to our mails :/

I could! MSG me about your plans. I would prefer not to have to do the balancing, just tell me the code you need and I'll try my best.

 

[Eleandor]

Even though I've never registered a team, I'm out.
- Can't find any modeller, pretty problematic issue
- Together with this issue: I don't like being put into 1 role. Team-contests, ok, but I hate being dependant on one guy to do everything on one area. I can see how other teams will probably face this problem too.

 

[Gausslander]

I don't believe I have time for this contest, sorry to let the team down.

If I however have a miraculous, spontaneous event that allows me to have the time to do this, I will finish a map and post it here before the contest concludes.

 

[Steel_Stallion]

Rainbow monkies has recruited hawk900.

Update our team.

 

[Hawkwing]

Rainbow monkies has recruited hawk900.

Update our team.

Done.

 

[modler2]

this is going to get very interesting...

 

[Hawkwing]

How are everyone's submissions coming? I haven't seen much more than a couple of terrain WIP's and a model or two from Donut.

 

[skrab]

this is going to get very interesting...

yes...

our Human building WIP
its a Wizard tower...
the human unit will be the wizard himself but hes still on paper...

 

[Just_Spectating]

looks neat

 

[D a w n]

How are everyone's submissions coming? I haven't seen much more than a couple of terrain WIP's and a model or two from Donut.

I´ll post some W.I.P. of our Undead unit soon

 

[Hawkwing]

Sounds awesome. Anyone else?

 

[Kwah]

Proud to declare myself on a team with Dun Dustin and Steel_Stallion.

Since, I'm coding no wip, but I might have some screenies after the spell is finished.

 

[frostwhisper]

My team is going to post some WIPs next week I believe.

hawk, lemme just place you on the chart then.

 

[Martin Barbov]

So I guess team cheese is out of the game.

 

[Kwah]

And remove Team Cheese as its fallen apart.

[DOUBLE POST]

 

[Anachron]

Looks cool, I wish I would have a team