How's it going?

[M.I.A.]

Though I'm new to the forum, I didn't get around to introducing myself for a while, so here it is:

My nickname is M.I.A., this was given to me by my paintball friends because I'm never around when they need me, even if I was trying my hardest to be there.

I am a fairly new mapper, I haven't made any full maps yet, but I've done some experimenting. I spent a good deal of time making a click wars map, as I knew that would be the fastest way to learn triggers, after that flopped, I went on to trying to make a modern warfare squad tactics map, it took me months to get the terrain looking good before I found a few small problems with the base mechanic, so I scrapped that project.
I've now moved on to make a map based entirely off of a board game known as "Decent". This is commonly called a dungeon crawler, and has 2 main thing that I haven't seen before:
-A hero only finds a weapon useful, if that weapon fits their combat method. so an archer finds nothing more useless then a short sword, or a mage couldn't care less about elven arrows.
-A "GM" who works against the hero's, as hard as he can.
I plan on setting up a thread in the projects section when I'm at late alpha.

I joined the forum because I've been downloading maps a reading tutorials for a while now, felt I might as well join the hive.

and now that I'm here... how are all these people getting those nifty progress bars on their maps in their sig?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Welcome around Hive.

The progress bars or just texts and vB tags.

 

[Kwaliti]

Welcome to the Hive!

 

[Wolverabid]

Welcome to The Hive Workshop!

How's it going M.I.A.? Just copy and paste this into your signature file to make your own "progress bar."

[box=Table Title][COLOR=lime]|||||[/COLOR][COLOR=red]|||||[/COLOR]
[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Progress Text[/COLOR][/box]

The Hive includes many talented Warcraft III modders of all skill levels among its users. New members (especially friendly ones) are always welcome. Take a look around and enjoy your stay, may it be long and productive!

Some good places to start include:

• The Important Site Rules
• Your User Control Panel
• Your Information Page
• Warcraft III Tutorials
• Cool Avatars
• THW's Chatroom
• Search The Hive
• Community Members
• The Hive Workshop Staff
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Searching the site using the above link always helps, you can learn a lot that way: just reading and learning is usually the best place to start, especially if one feels overwhelmed.

Likewise, the tutorials can really teach ALL of us a thing or two.

The chat room is cool: lots of people can answer questions there.

• A few other tips that might help too:
  • Always search first! Did I already mention THAT?
  • When creating a new thread, make the title VERY specific: so the site's search engine (and we users) can easily understand just what the thread contains.
  • Post your new threads in the proper forum: read the descriptions of each one so that you know what to post there.
  • If all else fails, just send me a private message! I'll try to do whatever I can to help.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Wellcome to the hive!!!