Solo Mapping Competition #3

[Kingz]

1 question, do you think the lightning on this picture is ok?

 

[Catch_ya]

i like that its dark on the 2 sides.. it gives a creepy effect.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Lighting looks fine to me

btw, incorporating lighting into puzzles/traps would be a cool idea

 

[Catch_ya]

yea.. and for those who dont know how to make it so dark that u need to manualy place light doodas (which gives a great effect!). Just in a custom script that runs in the start of the map add this line:

call SetDayNightModels("","")

 

[Amigurumi]

well, then you need a custom light model.

 

[Kingz]

There is one in UTM, just attach it to your character and voila

 

[Amigurumi]

I saw a map, with some blue, white and red lights in it. I think it was made by hamham

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well I know a model pack that someone had made a while ago full of lighting and other stuff meant for the survival horror genre, it included a large variety of lights in it. All the attachments on the board it was on were deleted by accident so I can't provide you with a link to it, and I don't think he'd like me uploading it somewhere else. But if anyones heard of Windexglows modern Lighting and Objects pack, it would be pretty useful.

Also I know WEU can import light models but WEU is trash.

Ami, if that map was old it may have been a WEU map (it had a bunch of lights in it you could use)


-Edit: Now where can I find a spinning cog model? (The gears and stuff package are all unanimated)

 

[phoenixfire]

Another question: Does this have to fit all 4 of the theme parts?

 

[Catch_ya]

there is a blue and a normal (white) light in the UTM

btw: do i have to kill a sound when i have played it ??

 

[Slaydon]

play doesnt remove nor create

 

[Catch_ya]

its just strange.. i have coded 3 different sounds in a code and it gets a random number between 0 and the maxmum sounds and then it should play the picked sound. But it only play the sound if the number is 0

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Hey when using destructables like floor switches, when you kill them, their "corpses" remain until you either remove them or resurrect them right?

Catch ya why don't you post up the code so we can evaluate it for whats wrong (no ones gonna steal it, a simple code like that isn't really worth stealing anyways)

 

[Urgloshkin]

I think ima enter. i'll post some wip's later...

 

[Catch_ya]

well here it is:

function bear_carpet takes nothing returns nothing
local sound array s
local boolean b = false
local integer ri
    set s[0] = gg_snd_bear1
    set s[1] = gg_snd_bear2
    set s[2] = gg_snd_bear3
if b == false then
        set ri = GetRandomInt(0, 2)
        call StartSound( s[ri] )
        call BJDebugMsg("works and the integer number was: " + I2S(ri))
        set b = true
endif
    set ri = GetRandomInt(0, 2)
    call StartSound( s[ri] )
    call KillSoundWhenDone(s[ri])
endfunction

function InitTrig_Bear_Carpet_Step takes nothing returns nothing
    local trigger t = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterEnterRectSimple( t, gg_rct_Bear_carpet )
    call TriggerAddAction( t, function bear_carpet )
endfunction

i know that the boolean isn't needed because its need to be a global

 

[HailFireer]

Well, I don't know Jass, but in If b == false, you have 2 =, don't know if it does something wrong thou ^^

 

[Catch_ya]

it should be because its a condition comparasion. The problem isnt that i get any errors.. its just that it doesnt work if its number 1 or 2

 

[Kingz]

GetRandomInt() isn't random, it has a patern which generates numbers.
Same for GetRandomReal()

Example 1,3,6,7,1,2,5...
Etc, try testing a map which displays a random number between 1 and 5.
It will display the same number always when you restart the map

You need a library for the REAL randomness :3

 

[HailFireer]

Uuu, I'm good with randomness


Anyway, I can't think of a dungeon. I mean, cant get one terrained ><, can't think of anything.

 

[Catch_ya]

no try test it.. it the BJDebugMsg() displays a random number.. but you got any random number library oO? or know where i can find one ??

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

So its showing up the works and the integer was thing, just not playing the sound? Check and make sure the sounds aren't 3d sounds, that may be your problem.

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Started working on the first puzzle area (gonna need a spinning cog for some puzzles later)

Thanks to Skrab for the fountain model

 

[YourNameHere]

I saw a map, with some blue, white and red lights in it. I think it was made by hamham

Do want!

 

[Kingz]

Here you can find those libraries:
ChanceToProc
GetProc

I once tested GetRandomInt() with that, it constantly showed the exact same random patern

EDIT:

The boolean comparison is useless

 

[Slaydon]

Done with the place the train will "crash", inside you will get a quest to get out, i will not tell you guys any secrets :>

 

[Amigurumi]

Do want!

I wasn't able to find the link to the map. sorry

 

[Catch_ya]

I once tested GetRandomInt() with that, it constantly showed the exact same random patern

yes, because in the File -> preferances -> fixed random seed or something must be checked.. but thanks for the libraries

The boolean comparison is useless

i also said that xD because i was planning have some "SECRETS" in the if false comparison but i needed it to be a global because it should only happend once

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Check the sounds in the sound editer. If they are 3d sounds, they won't play unless you play them from a location

 

[Pyritie]

GetRandomInt() isn't random, it has a patern which generates numbers.
Same for GetRandomReal()

Example 1,3,6,7,1,2,5...
Etc, try testing a map which displays a random number between 1 and 5.
It will display the same number always when you restart the map

You need a library for the REAL randomness :3

You're using a fixed seed, that's why

 

[Catch_ya]

Check the sounds in the sound editer. If they are 3d sounds, they won't play unless you play them from a location

they arent i have unchecked that box

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's all about the traps, no?

I say rip off Demon's Souls/I wanna be the guy and make it brutally hard.

 

[Catch_ya]

brutally hard.. i guess mine will be that too. I want to make traps which could be hard to avoid but i dont want it to get too much like "are you a retard" like

offtopic: lol pyrities avatar xD

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

O Shiznit! More Dopplegangers

I have to say, Pyritie has to be the only person on THW that has to deal with tons of other people copying his avatar, or altering it.


Well its like Traps/Puzzles/Riddles. Pretty much everything that makes exploring an ancient pyramid hard

 

[Slaydon]

yayy im 2 mins of 60 gameplay ;D

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

yayy im 2 mins of 60 gameplay ;D

Just make everything Brutally hard like Will said, that could turn one single trap/puzzle/riddle into 20 minutes of gameplay lol

 

[Pyritie]

You can do that yeah but you won't get very many points

 

[Catch_ya]

Just make everything Brutally hard like Will said, that could turn one single trap/puzzle/riddle into 20 minutes of gameplay lol

true.. oO but i think it will be fun if there is abit more than 3 puzzles and end -.-

 

[YourNameHere]

Gonna enter too if I'm not going to be a judge
WIP of the start: Yes it's a fucking train which had to stop because of rocks.
You notice everyone is missing except you and your wife, you find yourself in a lost city and so on. Gonna be assum!
btw I think I'm going to use a 3rd person camera (coded by myself, look in the Spells section ) for this.

 

[Slaydon]

/me is feeling copied

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well I guess thats up to Syleona if thats copying, but Slaydon has started something a lot like that earlier.

You get in a train, it goes into a cave an crash, then you notice everything is missing and you are lost in a cave

Just replace the word cave with city

 

[YourNameHere]

/me is feeling copied

I didn't actually copied it. It's just the beginning which is similiar to eachother
Believe me I've already planned the story after the beginning. The train was just something to start with and has merely anything to do with the rest of the story. It could've also been an airplane, but I was more satisfied with the train models

Other than that, anything to say about the screenshot itself?

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well the boulders in the backround look a bit odd

 

[YourNameHere]

Couldn't find any better, I would've prefered some with real textures aswell. :/ (Since the textures of those look to stretched..)

 

[Slaydon]

it looks very modern :>, well my train is better anyway xD... It looks a bit scary but could be darker

 

[Urgloshkin]

Some WIP's
On the second one i plan to add a little more doodads, maybe some effects
You start out in a swamp and have to explore a bit to find ruins, not to mention evading some enemies

 

[YourNameHere]

I guess this is how you're looking ingame. Just removed the health bars and selection circle so it looks a bit better. Also removed 1 light and added new rock models

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Ooooh, whats with the floating blue/green orbs around the rocks - they look pretty cool

 

[YourNameHere]

That's the mystic force which created the rocks, but you're going to explore their origin whilst the story goes on. (;

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

More pics of mine

 

[Kingz]

Happy new year to all contestants!

 

[lightning brigade]

I have poor foresight, so I just make the terrain, triggers, and everything else at once. Here are some pics.

Pics uploaded, keep in mind that these are the screens of the outdoors part just before the temple. I will soon start on the temple and therefore have temple pics. Anyways, this is what I have for now (I'm working on the temple entrance cinematic right after the path of kings. Hopefully it will turn out good! 4 more hours!