Solo Mapping Competition #3

[Catch_ya]

hm i could also show 1 W.I.P screenshot. Look at the brazers normaly their are light in them but its bugged somehow oO
and i will place more doodas in the future

I don't hope a labyrinth in sewers >D

nono their wont be any seweres in mine i just dont know why i didnt think of a labyrinth some before xD

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

labyrint

In colloquial English labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze, but many contemporary scholars observe a distinction between the two: maze refers to a complex branching puzzle with choices of path and direction; while a single-path (unicursal) labyrinth has only a single, non-branching path, which leads to the center. A labyrinth in this sense has an unambiguous route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

Actually your thing is far from a Labyrinth Amiguirumi (I too thought labyrinth just meant really complicated maze sort of thing) but I looked it up and a Labyrinth really only has one really complicated main route.


Nice UI OMG

-I asked this earlier but no one head it - is there a way to hide the UI on the bottum of the screen and have the actual game take up more of the screen?


Hope you can find a good cam system Catch Ya

 

[X-OMG-X]

I asked this earlier but no one head it - is there a way to hide the UI on the bottum of the screen and have the actual game take up more of the screen

Thanks.

But. I didnt know what exactly you meant but i can answer your question now.
No, theres no way to remove the whole UI. You might be able to make it transperant, but it still wont remove the whole UI.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

But. I didnt know what exactly you meant but i can answer your question now.
No, theres no way to remove the whole UI. You might be able to make it transperant, but it still wont remove the whole UI.

Dang, would've been nice If I could remove that - I don't really need all that UI so its pretty much just taking up space on mine

 

[Kingz]

@Catch_ya

Since you are using SetDayNightModels("","") you destroyed all lightning.

Only several things will now show properly, some models won't show at all.

Some of the fire effects will be gone for good also.

But hell that is the price for that gloomy effect

EDIT:

I hate the fact I suck @ terraining, i hope the little details will mask that

 

[Catch_ya]

@Catch_ya

Since you are using SetDayNightModels("","") you destroyed all lightning.

Only several things will now show properly, some models won't show at all.

Some of the fire effects will be gone for good also.

But hell that is the price for that gloomy effect

EDIT:

I hate the fact I suck @ terraining, i hope the little details will mask that

im not that good at terraining either.. but im practising really much. But i think that the dissapearing fire is the SetDayNightModels("","") native worth ^^

Hope you can find a good cam system Catch Ya

thanks you too if you dont have one
i still cant decide if it should be 3rd or normal with a little customization. But maybe to my labyrinth ill do a 1st person camera so u cant see the other ways..


@All: come with some screenshots i like W.I.P screenies ill take some myself but i havent done that much terraining yet :/
btw a little screenshot of all the terrain i have done yet -.- (still incomplete)

 

[Kingz]

Here is a screenshot of the first inner chamber. Obviously it is a big library

And it isn't finished, i didn't have time and i am going to start adding more nice stuff tomorrow

EDIT:

Clearly this isn't the camera i am going to use

 

[Amigurumi]

are you going to do something with the ground? without, it looks abit boring.
otherwise, it looks great!

 

[real138]

yeah i agree the grond looks really boring.

 

[Kingz]

I love to add the doodads since i am not good @ terrain, but i am gonna use custom tiles, since there will be angles and i want a nice look

Also it is far from finished, i need to make a round room, that is a challenge now

 

[Amigurumi]

I love to add the doodads since i am not good @ terrain, but i am gonna use custom tiles, since there will be angles and i want a nice look

Also it is far from finished, i need to make a round room, that is a challenge now

then good luck with it

 

[YourNameHere]

@Hiding the UI: You can only hide what I've done + the Clock

 

[Kwah]

@Hiding the UI: You can only hide what I've done + the Clock

You can have all black portraits & mini-map image though.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

You can have all black portraits & mini-map image though.

For the sort of creepy horror type thing that works fine - though for me thats not much different then having a UI - really I just wanted it to take up less space on the screen and free up more game cam room.

 

[Pyritie]

And you can get rid of the health bar by making the health really big.

Like... 9999999/9999999 kind of big. Maybe bigger!

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/packs-542/indoor-walls-misha-67chrome-154752/

To all doing a sort of dungeon thing, you might want to check this resource out - looks pretty sweet

 

[Asomath]

Anybody know of a good wall model for an abandoned temple (craked White Marble sort of thing)? XD

~Asomath

 

[De.Facto]

What about soundtracks? May i take something, and credit it then?

 

[RED BARON]

What about soundtracks? May i take something, and credit it then?

Its already mentioned - If you give the credits and have permission (or use something thats legal to use)

 

[lightning brigade]

The funny thing is, that dalaren walls work quite well for my map, how do I change the wall types of my map?

 

[De.Facto]

Its already mentioned - If you give the credits and have permission (or use something thats legal to use)

Ok great. Thanks. (;

The funny thing is, that dalaren walls work quite well for my map, how do I change the wall types of my map?

I guess you just have to change/add the cliff type with Tile-Extension of the NewGen WE.

 

[RED BARON]

Ok great. Thanks. (;

No problem - Thats the general contest rule.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

What about soundtracks? May i take something, and credit it then?

Well you could make the music yourself, thats what I'm doing

 

[lightning brigade]

IMO warcraft is too limited with size to use music, otherwise I would use a lot of custom music. Although I may add some boss fight music. One of my fave sites is Khinsider, it allows free downloads of video game music, which belongs to the public and is relatively small, allowing for downloads of the musical stuff that was made just for games like warcraft iii. Anyways, go here for some insane video game music.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

IMO warcraft is too limited with size to use music, otherwise I would use a lot of custom music. Although I may add some boss fight music. One of my fave sites is Khinsider, it allows free downloads of video game music, which belongs to the public and is relatively small, allowing for downloads of the musical stuff that was made just for games like warcraft iii. Anyways, go here for some insane video game music.

Being single player, and using some sound compression, you can fit a lot of sound and music into a game

 

[De.Facto]

IMO warcraft is too limited with size to use music, [..]

You may remaster a track of 5 mb (3-4 minutes) to a bunch of kilobytes without any great loss of quality.

Furthermore we have a 15 MB-limit. This should be enough for some tracks. (;

 

[FunkyDude44]

Entry: Definition of a madman
Name: Funkydude44
I hope to get this one finished

 

[RED BARON]

IMO warcraft is too limited with size to use music, otherwise.

Thanks for the link. Could come in handy - But if your in single player only the sky is the limit for your musical fun (though its 15mb in this contest and thats the total)

 

[Wintermute]

I can still start participating now, right?

A question. How does one mask the UI?
What path should I set the UI's to?

 

[X-OMG-X]

I can still start participating now, right?

A question. How does one mask the UI?
What path should I set the UI's to?

He just made it black. I guess its been done by importing black ui.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Since i was running out of ideas for my map i quitted on it, i started a fresh new one!!!

 

[Wintermute]

I'm pretty sure there's a way of changing it without imports. I'll go fiddle around. Thanks for the reply though, and WIP's soon.
So I played around with imported alpha+non-alpha textures, and this is what I got.
I want to be able to see the potrait and let the minimap have its borders, but I don't want to block everything. What should I do now?

Image

 

[X-OMG-X]

First of all. Put the screenshot into a hidden tag.
Then, use wc3 viewer to export the ui textures. Then make almost everything black and only keep the borders and other things you want to stay. Then import it to your map.

 

[Wintermute]

Trying to keep filesize down. It's a grand total of 8kb for all the UI atm.
If it really doesn't work I'll just do whatever you suggested.

 

[X-OMG-X]

Trying to keep filesize down. It's a grand total of 8kb for all the UI atm.
If it really doesn't work I'll just do whatever you suggested.

8kb is nothing. Its the same size as a lowpoly model without animations.
The maximum filesize of your map is 15000kb.

 

[Crazed_seal2]

Um, 8 KB thats a huge size not! seriously the max limit size is 15 MB! thats 15000KB!

 

[Wintermute]

I know it's nothing.
And I know the max filesize. I've read through almost every page of this thread. By the way.
How do you remove the time-indicator? Or at least, what's the path for it, so I can try to edit it.

 

[Amigurumi]

I have two questions:
1. the rules say, that we must tell, what editor we are using (if it's not the normal one).
do we have to say it when we upload our submissions, or before the deadline?

2. can we upload the map to hive/other sites, if the contest is over?

 

[YourNameHere]

I know it's nothing.
And I know the max filesize. I've read through almost every page of this thread. By the way.
How do you remove the time-indicator? Or at least, what's the path for it, so I can try to edit it.

Time Indicator paths are:
UI\Console\Human\HumanUI-TimeIndicator.mdx
The time indicator model, replace it with an fully invisible (not corrupt!) one.
UI\Console\Human\HumanUITile-TimeIndicatorFrame.blp
The path for the tile around the clock.

You have to do that for all races, if you're able to choose all races in your map.

 

[Kingz]

It seems that for the music i want to use, i will have to contact blizzard and ask for their permision >.>

Since i can't even picture that hapening i am stuck with no music at all atm >.>

@Amigurumi

1. When you upload the submision you must state all the requirements for the map to work/be viewed in WE.

2.After the contest you can upload the map afaik.

 

[Amigurumi]

@Amigurumi

1. When you upload the submision you must state all the requirements for the map to work/be viewed in WE.

2.After the contest you can upload the map afaik.

ah, kay, thanks.

hm, if you can't find good music/don't ahve permission, search at newgrounds.com,
there is always good music, and if you give the author credits, you are allowed to use
the music.

 

[Asomath]

It seems that for the music i want to use, i will have to contact blizzard and ask for their permision >.>

Wait, so the Host said that if we want to use copywrited music in our map, we have to contact the creator?

~Asomath

 

[YourNameHere]

Ha, this is awesome!

 

[Amigurumi]

Ha, this is awesome!

give the villager a black portrait, and also the minimap, the you have
a fully black ui

 

[Kingz]

Wait, so the Host said that if we want to use copywrited music in our map, we have to contact the creator?

That is how i understood it.

Music is allowed if the owner of the track allows so, is a under a creative common license, or any other way you gain the rights to use it. It's a non commercial mod project, but even then, some tracks require consultation before they can be used anywhere. I have nothing against using custom music either, as long as it's legally sorted and the whole map does not exceed 15 mb of size.

 

[YourNameHere]

give the villager a black portrait, and also the minimap, the you have
a fully black ui

For the villager - no, I still want the name and portrait to be shown.
For the minimap - couldn't find the path's for the unit dot and that other thingy. :/

 

[Amigurumi]

For the minimap - couldn't find the path's for the unit dot and that other thingy. :/

you can go to object editor, and there is somewhere the option: Hide on minimap display: True/False
Just make there true, and your unit can't be seen on minimap

 

[Freyleyes]

Here are some of my WIP's

My map will be 2D, in a way. You will only be able to walk forward, backwards and jump.(See picture 1)

Pictures

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

You can use the arrow keys or the mouse to move.

 

[lightning brigade]

My map is on schedule for now, but I don't know if I will use so many customized doodads and such. For now blizzard doodads are working out okay since the game is set in that kind of period. Btw, how exactly are we going to upload maps in the case of them being >8 mb?(site rules limits maps attached to 8mb, trust me i checked). One more thing, does indoor terrain have to be raised?

 

[Amigurumi]

only multiplayer maps have a size limit of 8 mb. singleplayer maps have unlimited size.
but for this contest, the size limit is around 15 mb