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Welcome to the first edition of The Hive Workshop Times. This is a monthly update which I (Bob27) will be doing from now on forward. The purpose of the THW Times is to showcase different aspects of the site which the administration feel that the users of the site would be either interested in or benefit from reading.
If you feel something is missing in this or you have any suggestions for an article in next months edition then feel free to contact me at any given time.
Enjoy.
Contents Page
Cinematic Mini-Contest #2
The second Cinematic Mini-Contest has been launched. This time the theme is horror, a theme which is sure to bring in some interesting and blood packed submissions, so get your dead on and go zombify The Hive.
If you are interested in joining the competition or just feel like showing your support, then you can look up the thread here.
The contest runs untill january the 30th and has a 2 minute time limit to the entries as opposed to last competitions 1 minute, a much welcomed extension. The winner will receive 20 reputation points and a special award icon to brag about.
Good luck to all contestants.
Written By ragingspeedhorn
Special Effects Contest #1
The Hiveworkshops first Special Effect competition is nearing its end, so if you are a man of SFX then this is soon the last chance for you to get in on the action as it will conclude on january the 31st.
The theme is Winter Wonderland and so far the entries has been just that, a wonderland of creative entries. A wide variety of Hive's talented SFX creators, new as old, has competed in this and the results so far has been good which greatly increases the chances of a seconds SFX contest to be hosted.
If you are interested in joining the competition or just feel like showing your support, then you can look up the thread here.
The winner will receive 40 reputation points and a special award icon to brag about.
Good luck to all contestants.
Written By ragingspeedhorn
Paired Mapping Contest #2 Poll
A poll has been opened for the 2nd paired mapping contest. For this contest the contestants had to create a party map, in pairs. There are some interesting ideas in these entries, from a hive vs wc3campaigns map to a map where you have to try and kill Uther so that Grom Hellscream can use some of Uther's dialouge. Bellow is a list of the four entires that were submitted to the contest.
EntiresHell Scream's Party - By Taur & ragingspeedhorn
When Servers Collide - Deskalada & Pyritie
Trials Of Kalimdor - Maelstrom_ & The_Twinz
Mini-Games - Spammy & Joelimphi
Written By Bob27
Texturing Contest #6
The sixth battle of the texture creators was started january the 11th and came off at a great start having a wide variety of talented skinners entering showing off impresive works right from the start.
The theme is Northrend/Icecrown, a broad theme allowing for a great variety in what sorts of skins are entered. It will surely be enteresting to see what sorts of creative textures that the artists can come up with.
If you are interested in joining the competition or just feel like showing your support, then you can look up the thread here.
The contest runs untill february the 12th so there is still plenty of time to enter the fun if you have missed the creation of this contest.
The winner will receive 40 reputation points and a special award icon to brag about.
Good luck to all contestants.
Written By ragingspeedhorn
Interesting Topics
Here I will list several of the topics that have been attracting attention here on the hive, or that people would be interested in.
First of all, one of the best terrainers here at the hive workshop, MadseN, has released a cinematic called Warcraft III - An Art of Terraining, which is a showcase of all his terrains. You can view the cinematic Here, on YouTube, and comment on the cinematic Here.
The 2nd thread has been around for a while now, but has been very popular. It is a thread in the Starcraft II forum, talking about the Starcraft II Editor. The thread can be found Here.
An old time user, GreyArchon, has returned to the site. Along side his return is a creative idea for a map. It is called The End of Battle.net. Here is a description of the map:
GreyArchon said:
You can find the thread Here.
Written By Bob27
Hosted Projects
The Hive Workshop's newest hosted project, Apocalypse, is a new map being created by Craka_J. Here is a description of the project:
Craka_J said:
You can check out the forum Here.
One of our hosted projects, Against The Darkness, has just had a new version of it released. Against the Darkness 2.5 can be downloaded Here.
1)ark_NiTe said:
The first none-beta version of Pyritie's Adventure is nearing completion and should be ready to release within the next week. This release will be a major step forward from what content and what quality of content that is in the earlier beta versions of this excellent campaign project led by Pyritie.
So if you enjoy a good campaign then keep your ears open for this release. You can follow the development of the project at the forum.
Written By Bob27 & raginspeedhorn
Insider News
This is where I will be discussing things that the admins are currently working on, and planning to create for the users of THW.
I am at the moment, creating something for our Cinematics forum, called The Cinema. What the cinema will be is a huge collection of many of the famous cinematics in Warcraft III, captured and converted into video format, and then people will be able to view the cinematics without downloading them, and can simply just stream the videos.
Stay tunned for it, it should be coming out sometime in the near future.
Written By Bob27
Mod Recruitment: WoW Section
The HiveWorkshop administration team is looking for people specialized in Blizzard Entertainment's massive multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft (WoW).
This means that the people we’re looking for must have a knowledge about the game which is considered to be above average. These people will help us (the staff) maintain the site’s conduct rules specifically in the World of Warcraft section. Their knowledge about the game will be able to help others: by answering questions, make the section more fun & interesting for other users etc. (more detailed infomation regarding this issue will be givin to users who qualify themselves for the "job")
Required Qualifications
- Moderator experience in a forum web community
- High experience with WoW game play, updates, professions, player versus player combat (PvP), quests, raids & instance dungeons, guilds & classes
- Strong knowledge of the WoW lore
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- A passion for playing WoW
- Year(s) experience with WoW
- Highest level character(s)
- Extraordinary knowledge of WoW
"Documentation" is required (we want to see evidence in proof of your application).
Oh, and if you think our current WoW section is intended to be in it's current state forever: Well, think again:
New Models Database
The Hive Workshop recently got a new models database, which you can find Here. It features a greatly improved search system, and is a huge improvement over the old one. Here are some of the new features that the new models section has got:
Written By Bob27Ralle said:
