November 2012 News Batch

[Vengeancekael]

November 2012 News Batch

Vengeancekael &

I3lackDeath &

-Grendel &

Magtheridon96 &

Kwaliti (Resource Moderators)​

Notice: All scripts that use ObjectMerger and Lua for Object Generation are currently unacceptable because of a Microsoft patch and/or Warcraft III patch that broke Lua. This is only a temporary measure.

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

Maps

Models

Icons

Spells

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	Cruiser Command Type: Miscellanous / Other Category: Space / Aliens Author: Callex & TKF (Director's Cut)
	A Pile of Ugly Type: Cinematic Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: CMarket (Highly Recommended)
	Crystal Ruins Type: Melee Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: z.ky (Recommended)
	Allods Type: AlteredMelee Category: Miscellanous / Other Author: FatalBlade (Recommended)
	Chaos Arena Type: AoS / Arena Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: sonofjay (Recommended)
	Warcraft Legends: Part I Type: Campaign Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: Jake Kessler (Recommended)
	The Harvest Type: Got greedy and selected 4 types Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: mckill2009 (Recommended)
	Arena of the Fame Type: Arena Category: Medieval / Warcraft Author: ic3_water (Recommended)
	Pokemon TD Team Red Type: Tower Category: Miscellanous / Other Author: vuongkkk (Recommended)
	Icecrown Citadel - LK Type: Strategy / Risk Category: Miscellanous / Other Author: odd17 (Recommended)

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	Shame Type: Unit, Hero Category: Undead, etc. Author(s): HappyCockroach (Highly Recommended)
	Centaur Flamecaller Type: Hero Category: Creep Author: Deolrin (Highly Recommended)
	Werewolf Type: Unit, Hero Category: Creep Author: WhiteDeath (Highly Recommended)
	Seth - God of Chaos Type: Hero Category: WoW, Creep, etc. Author: PROXY (Recommended)
	Armadilo Canon Version Type: Unit Category: Mechanical Author: Uncle Fester (Not Rated)

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	Holy Maul zbc
	Orc Huntress Sin'dorei300
	Emblem of Dragon Slayer Apheraz Lucent
	Orcish Rousing Welcome JollyD
	Dire Demon Marcos DAB

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	Network Type: System Category: vJass Author: Nestharus (Director's Cut)
	File I/O Type: System Category: vJass Author: Nestharus (Director's Cut)
	Arcane Judgement Type: No Target Category: GUI / Triggers Author: Tank-Commander (Recommended)
	Spike Eruption Type: No Target Category: vJass Author: Tirlititi (Useful)
	GetUnitCollisionSize Type: System Category: GUI / Triggers Author: Radamantus (Not Rated)

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	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) <<We didn't want to change the classic 5v5 map structure. There are three lanes (top, middle, bottom), where minions spawn every 45 seconds: 3 melee, 2 ranged and 1 siege minion in every 4th wave. However, each lane has individual models and names for their minions: the map is a war between fractions and alliances, not between two empires. The bases are also made to represent this, giving a unique feeling of a big allied basis...>> [Update Post] Type: AoS
	Vampire's Realm (by sonofjay) <<Vampire's Realm is the first part of my 3 part project series for Warcraft 3, Realm. The first part is about a Vampire Lord and his minion slaughtering a whole village. The King of Altervan sent 4 heroes to terminate this threat.>> Type: Offensive

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Hive Winter Event 2012: Santa's Workshop Now that the Mad King's Realm Halloween Event is over, Santa has arrived and a new series of contests are about to start! Contest Rewind - Solo Mini-Mapping Contest #7 (Boss) Only contestants that have joined the original Solo Mini-Mapping Contest #7 can participate in this contest. Be warned that your entry must have been judged normally, in order for you to be an acceptable participant. For more info, please visit the Memoirs of an Old Era. Contest Rewind - Memoirs of an Old Era Apart from the Solo Mapping contest, another contest can still be rewinded. So go and suggest one! 2D Art Mini-Contests: A Cursor's ®obe Design your very own cursor! Warning: 9 days left! Terraining Mini-Contests: Beyond the Pixels You are given a layer image of a man holding a knife. Visualize where this man stands and what he is facing/confronting. Create a terrain from his perspective and use any program, such as Photoshop or GIMP to add the image on top of your terrain!

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HotS Release Date & Global Play Heart of the Swarm - 12.03.2013 Release Date Global Play coming soon

Starcraft II's first expansion, Heart of the Swarm, will be released on the 13th March 2013!
The expansion will feature the zerg campaign, new units for each race, a revamped Battle.net UI and new Editor features!
You can already pre-purchase the game. [View Article]

Global Play, the feature that Diablo III already has, will be coming to Starcraft II in the coming months! The feature will allow you to play on other servers (North America, Europe, etc.) by simply changing your server and not having to reinstall/buy the game again for that specific region. You will however be forced to make a new profile and start from scratch. (Multiplayer match history, etc.) [View Article]

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Patch 1.0.6 Patch 1.0.6 released

Patch 1.0.6 is now released as a stable patch, featuring 2 bug fixes. Check out the exact fixes in the official article.

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5.1 & Terrace of Endless Spring Raid & 8th Anniversary Patch 5.1 now fully released The normal difficulty raid Terrace of Endless Spring Raid available now Blizzard celebrates WoW's 8th Anniversary

Patch 5.1 for WoW is now available as a stable patch on the normal servers. With the patch the Pandaren Campaign begins, along with additions to pet battles, etc. [Official Article]

The raid dungeon (Normal difficulty only) Terrace of Endless Spring (MoP) is now available to play. [View Article]

And finally, Blizzard Entertainment is celebrating World of Warcraft's 8th Anniversary! Check out the full article with Blizzard's wishes for the future here and a small video below.

WoW 8 Year Anniversary

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Questions

Answered

Rules

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2D Art:

• Does GIMP have a "Color" layer option? If so, what does it do?

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Coding-related:

• [Easy] How much space does a hashtable have? (In terms of slots)
• [Easy] What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?
• [Moderate] If Delphi and LUA have a daughter, and that daughter got married and had kids with C, who would that new child be?

2D Art:

• Who is the creator of this icon?
• What is the shortcut for inverting the current selection in Photoshop?
• What filetype is for animated images?
• What is the largest resolution possible for avatars on Hive?
  What usergroup may use it?
• For which contest did Kwaliti create his Icecrown UI?
• What tool lets you create shadows and highlights easily in Photoshop?

Editor-Related:

• What is the path of a custom map preview image. (+What filetype does the image have?)
• How can you view a raw object's name?

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• 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, I3lackDeath is allowed to participate.

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Staff:

• Orcnet joins the Staff as a Resource Moderator, mainly moderating the maps section.
• 6 users have been chosen by the community to receive the honorary award Merit Badge. Check out this article detailing the next voting phase.
  Congratulations to Ralle, Magtheridon96, Pharaoh_, Dr Super Good, Vengeancekael and Pyramidhe@d.
• Ralle is currently making his own 3D Model Viewer. Check out 3 previews below:

Site:

Kam's Project Compendium has grown quite large over time. Be sure to check it out!

 

[Statharas]

You said i'd be in this one.

 

[Almia]

LOL,even though there are tons of Recommended Spells Rated,mine was included.

Edit

The title Vengie

 

[Lordkoon]

You forgot to mention the winner of the mini-mapping contest #8.

 

[Luorax]

I can't believe we made it to the "News Batch" once again

I like how you pointed out the latest update post, I just edited it so that it contains a link to the previous one, that's about a few feature updates.

I could have given you the map preview picture though, but honestly, it doesn't matter that much

 

[Landmine]

I didn't realize Heart of the Swarm was already released. I thought it would come out in 2013, not 2012.
Glad to see the news (minus the above typo). I'm loosing track of this forum.

 

[sonofjay]

Wow, nice to see my project on the project spotlight. Thankies.

Starcraft II's first expansion, Heart of the Swarm, will be released on the 13th March 2012!

Hey Kael, the release date is March 13, 2013.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Lies, Kael is capable of time travel.
Looking forward to seeing some preview pics.

 

[Orcnet]

because VengeanceKael is "Ka-el"

 

[Vengeancekael]

What?! Nonsense, I've been playing it for months.
Fixed.

 

[Almia]

quiz?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Soon, enough questions have not been found yet.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Notice: All scripts that use ObjectMerger and Lua for Object Generation are currently unacceptable because of a Microsoft patch that broke Lua.

Could this please be explained a little further. How specificly did a Microsoft patch break it?

 

[Vengeancekael]

Hive Quiz out now.

 

[Luorax]

[easy] how much space does a hashtable have? (in terms of slots)

2^31-1?

how can you view a raw object's name?

ctrl+d.

What is the path of a custom map preview image. (+What filetype does the image have?)

"war3mapPreview.tga", and obviously TGA.

What is the shortcut for inverting the current selection in Photoshop

Ctrl+Shift+I

What filetype is for animated images?

Gif.

 

[Luorax]

For which contest did Kwaliti create his Icecrown UI?

Texturing Contest #18.

 

[LeP]

How much space does a hashtable have? (In terms of slots)

There are 2³² integer and since hashtables are two dimensional,
one hashtable can save up to (2³²)² things, which is a damn lot.

18446744073709551616

 

[Chaosy]

2D Art:
What filetype is for animated images? gif
What usergroup may use it? mods

Editor-Related:
What is the path of a custom map preview image. (+What filetype does the image have?) tga
How can you view a raw object's name? ctr + D inside the object editor

wow I suck lol

 

[I3lackDeath]

What usergroup may use it? mods

Unfortunately wrong. Also, that one is part of a question, meaning you have to answer the whole question.

 

[Chaosy]

Unfortunately wrong. Also, that one is part of a question, meaning you have to answer the whole question.

heh, was not sure

 

[Deolrin]

What filetype is for animated images?

GIF.

What usergroup may use it?

Anyone?

 

[Almia]

How much space does a hashtable have? (In terms of slots)

255

What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?

Text Macro

What is the path of a custom map preview image. (+What filetype does the image have?)

war3mapPreview.tga

TGA

How can you view a raw object's name?

Ctrl + D or View > check view object's raw data.

If Delphi and LUA have a daughter, and that daughter got married and had kids with C, who would that new child be?

Go

What filetype is for animated images?

GIF

What is the largest resolution possible for avatars on Hive?

100 x 100

For which contest did Kwaliti create his Icecrown UI?

Texturing Contest # 18 - UI

Who is the creator of this icon?

Jack_Sparrow93

What usergroup may use it?

Any.

edit
Just get rid of that quotes bb code.

 

[sonofjay]

What is the largest resolution possible for avatars on Hive?

200 x 100

What usergroup may use it?

Administrators

 

[Magtheridon96]

There are 2³² integer and since hashtables are two dimensional,
one hashtable can save up to (2³²)² things, which is a damn lot.

18446744073709551616

Correct. (+1)

If Delphi and LUA have a daughter, and that daughter got married and had kids with C, who would that new child be?

Go

How much space does a hashtable have? (In terms of slots)

255

What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?

Text Macro

No.

 

[LeP]

If noone else wants to…

What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?

//! import "file.j"

 

[Luorax]

What function lets you create shadows and highlights easily in Photoshop?

Blending Options lets you create shadows really easily.

What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?

You can read/write files easily using lua, so you can convert a simple text file to (v)JASS script with ease, maybe that's what you're talking about.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Ctrl+Shift+I
Gif.
Texturing Contest #18.

Correct.
+ 3 reputation (already dealt out).

Blending Options lets you create shadows really easily.

This is not correct (regarding the question).

Jack_Sparrow93

Correct.
+2 reputation (already dealt out).

200 x 100
Administrators

Correct.
+2 reputation (already dealt out).

 

[Nestharus]

[Easy] What vJASS feature comes in handy when wanting to develop scripts using regular text files in a folder?

//! import

[Moderate] If Delphi and LUA have a daughter, and that daughter got married and had kids with C, who would that new child be?

cjass

cjass modified the lua files in jassnewgen pack and worked with vexorian's vjass, written in delphi

cjass also has c syntax : )

 

[Magtheridon96]

Nestharus and LeP are right.

(+1) to LeP for the [Easy] question.
(+2) to Nestharus for the [Moderate] question.

 

[Arhowk]

Which photoshop function allows you to create shadows and highlights easily?
--> Drop and Inner Shadows

 

[Luorax]

Which photoshop function allows you to create shadows and highlights easily?
--> Drop and Inner Shadows

Which is in the "Blending Options" menu, which I3lackDeath said was wrong.

 

[Statharas]

[Moderate] If Delphi and LUA have a daughter, and that daughter got married and had kids with C, who would that new child be?

LuaOS?

What function lets you create shadows and highlights easily in Photoshop?

Adjustments -> Shadows/Highlights, lol.

Okay, since I3lackdeath hinted that it's wrong, I'll go ahead and say Dodge & burn or Eye Dropper/Color picker tools.

 

[Vladadamm]

• What tool lets you create shadows and highlights easily in Photoshop?
• Does GIMP have a "Color" layer option? If so, what does it do?

First one :
I dunno what is it in english, but in french it's "Style de calques". This little window :

(Ombre->Shadow and Lueur->Highlight)

Second one :
If you mean the options you have when you right click on the layer, then yes, there are 2 color layers options, one to add alpha canal/channel the other one to remove the alpha canal/channel.

 

[I3lackDeath]

Okay, since I3lackdeath hinted that it's wrong, I'll go ahead and say Dodge & burn or Eye Dropper/Color picker tools.

That is correct. +1 reputation.