Solo Mapping Competition #3

[HailFireer]

My terraining sucks as well. Aldo, lucky its a dungeon, so using blizz cliffs "man made" ones, makes it look good, luckily. I'm going for sunken ruins temple, with loads of crystals and stuff like that.

I got starting point, and first trap too. Its a classic. Find a way threw a trap field. Simplest one for starters(aldo well see )).

I hope I will muster 60 minutes of game time.

 

[Amigurumi]

so, I thought I could share some more wips.
and yes, you can walk on those pipes

 

[HailFireer]

So,do you get to walk on thos pipes?

 

[Asomath]

and yes, you can walk on those pipes

Can you fall off? XD

~Asomath

 

[Amigurumi]

yes, I think so. they are not complete, and there will be some environmental stuff on
the pipes like skulls, corpses, etc...
I only make it for a small area, else it would cost to much time

@ Asomath: erhm... no XD, would be to hard

//Edit: another screenshot

 

[Pyritie]

Anyhow, i haebz new idea which might also involve working with big walkable models. I'm guessing it's okay if we don't control a humanoid character?

Well someone else is using a dragon as their character so yeah sure

 

[KhalanDuriant]

Okay here are some other pics:
On the first picture you can see an old building with a colapsed roof.
The other one is inside of this building.

 

[Kingz]

@Amigurumi

How are you gonna make them walkable? :O

Only thing that comes to my mind is triggering the pathing which i am gonna do in some sections of my map

 

[Archangel_Tidusx]

Sure I'll enter. Ive got a ruins riddle map.

 

[Pyritie]

@Amigurumi

How are you gonna make them walkable? :O

By using walkable destructibles? lol

 

[Kingz]

I meant, how is he gonna make the units walk on them

 

[Amigurumi]

I meant, how is he gonna make the units walk on them

if you are in the destructable layer, you can go under Bridges, and there are
walkable platforms, which you can raise with ctrl+pgUp/pgDown

 

[Boneknight]

and Pyritie said by placing invisiabe walkable destructibles above the pipes

 

[Kingz]

Never used platforms, thanks for the info

 

[Amigurumi]

Never used platforms, thanks for the info

glad to help ya

 

[Boneknight]

no problem at all i know i said this before but first 3 pices wip in about 30 mins

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Well someone else is using a dragon as their character so yeah sure

That would be me

Sure I'll enter. Ive got a ruins riddle map.

I guess it doesn't matter but I've already taken the sunken ruins/naga theme

@ Asomath: erhm... no XD, would be to hard

Add then remove the Storm Crow ability and remove the units collision - if it touches the ground (you could probably check the units Z position) it falls of the pipes and its collision is turned back on.

Okay here are some other pics:
On the first picture you can see an old building with a colapsed roof.
The other one is inside of this building.

Looks cool, though make sure that most of your map is indoors. You'll lose points if theres extensive parts outside (not that you can't go outside, though Syleona has made it clear that its meant to be an indoors map).

 

[Amigurumi]

Add then remove the Storm Crow ability and remove the units collision - if it touches the ground (you could probably check the units Z position) it falls of the pipes and its collision is turned back on.

I don't mean that it's to hard to make, it's to hard for the player. He only have to miss
a pipe with a mouse click, and you have to do the whole thing again.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I don't mean that it's to hard to make, it's to hard for the player. He only have to miss
a pipe with a mouse click, and you have to do the whole thing again.

Make bigger pipes perhapes?

 

[Boneknight]

or checkpoints?

 

[Amigurumi]

or checkpoints?

I already thought of including checkpoints, and preventing to save normally.
I must see how I will include it.

 

[X-OMG-X]

I already thought of including checkpoints, and preventing to save normally.
I must see how I will include it.

My map is stage based, so whenever you die you will revive in the beginning of the stage and everything is reset. Also, its life based, so when your survival points is zero you have lost and will have to restart the whole map.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Remove combat and you don't need any of that

 

[Amigurumi]

Remove combat and you don't need any of that

not true, there also should be traps

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

not true, there also should be traps

Not all traps have to be deadly


Hmmm, now I'm running into an odd problem. The camera will only turn smoothly if it turns in a certain direction with the Apply Camera function. It can't turn Right for some reason, instead of taking the nice smooth right over 1 second, it completely turns all the way around left over 1 second.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Edit: Actually its not just left, it just seems to have problems with certain turns

 

[Kingz]

I have decided to do something really great!

I am gonna make my map difrent based on the character you are playing with!

So all characters have difrent gameplay, and therefore it won't be the same map if you play with the 1st hero, or the 2nd, or the 3rd one!

Though they will have some touching points at the really big puzzles, depending on the hero you play it will be either 70% action / 30% puzzles, 70% puzzle / 30% action, or 50% action / 50% puzzle

I think you will like what i came up with

EDIT:
@WherewolfTherewolf

I think i had the same problem earlier
Solution: JASS codes

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

I think i had the same problem earlier
Solution: JASS codes

Could you please elaborate then? Would be most helpful

 

[Amigurumi]

@ Kingz: a very nice idea, indeed.
but it's also a lot of work, since you need min 60 mins for all characters.

 

[HailFireer]

Man, I got idea for awesome trap or somth, but noway I can trigger that

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Man, I got idea for awesome trap or somth, but noway I can trigger that

Well it seems you are at a stalemate - we could help you trigger it if you told us it, but you don't anyone to jack your idea (Which there's always the chance of. I wouldn't jack it but of course theres some people who would)

 

[Deaod]

        set a=ModuloReal((DESIRED_ANGLE - CURRENT_ANGLE), 2*bj_PI) // caluclate delta angle
        if a>bj_PI then // map the delta angle from 0..2*Pi to -Pi..Pi
            set a=-2*bj_PI+a
        endif
        // a contains the delta angle, meaning CURRENT_ANGLE+a=DESIRED_ANGLE

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Deaod, is that the function to move the camera in a way that isn't completely retarded (or at least find the angle to move it at)?

 

[Sephalo]

You guys are all making maps like you're doing a campaign level from wc3.
1 character and you got a 'mission'.

I'm more working on a map with player vs player action. Like footmen frenzy has 4 sides and dota has 2 sides. This makes the gameplay never ending because you can always face better opponents. If you make a game that's player(s) versus computer/dungeon style then someone will always be able to finish it and put the map aside. I don't want my maps to be put aside!!!

 

[real138]

you got one problem there teuncreemers... it has to be a single player map. unless your gonna do some advanced AI i dont think tha will work.

 

[Boneknight]

here they come at last 3 of around 20 sticked together like they will be ingame

 

[X-OMG-X]

You guys are all making maps like you're doing a campaign level from wc3.
1 character and you got a 'mission'.

I'm more working on a map with player vs player action. Like footmen frenzy has 4 sides and dota has 2 sides. This makes the gameplay never ending because you can always face better opponents. If you make a game that's player(s) versus computer/dungeon style then someone will always be able to finish it and put the map aside. I don't want my maps to be put aside!!!

Its a singleplayer contest.. Maps isnt more popular because they are multiplayer maps. They just dont show up on battle.net.

[EDIT]

@Boneknight: Thats awesome. I love all the details you made. I will look forward to se the result.

 

[HailFireer]

Thx for offer werewulf, buy I'll see what I can do by my self. Latter I will ask for hep on things that don't work.

 

[Amigurumi]

here they come at last 3 of around 20 sticked together like they will be ingame

looks awesome... polycount?

 

[Boneknight]

gotta check

 

[Kingz]

God if you actualy run a map with that model, i am grabbing a modeling program right away and starting to model stuff for meh

 

[YourNameHere]

You guys are all making maps like you're doing a campaign level from wc3.
1 character and you got a 'mission'.

You know that you are supposed to do some kinda map of that?

 

[Deaod]

Deaod, is that the function to move the camera in a way that isn't completely retarded (or at least find the angle to move it at)?

Yes. More or less, at least.

 

[Sephalo]

Great.. single player contest didn't know that.
I'm deffo out because I just don't like single player maps. No tention or anything in a single player map. Well then I can safely give away my idea for a map. Maybe I will even make this withoud a contest then.

Idea was:
Treasure Hunters

You play XvsX (dunno teams yet, something like 3v3 recommended I think) goblin versus dwarf. You start outside an old temple on opposite sides of eachother. In the temple are ~25 different materials. Every faction wants to build a big engine to defeat the other faction. To build an engine you need materials. Every player get's a mission to get 1 of the materials from inside and has to search for it. When he hands it in his team gains 1 resource point and with 9 resource points you win (because your siege engine has been built then). In the temple there are alot of foot switches that open a door but at the same time close an other door. Behind some doors are monsters, traps or other various good/bad things. Like this you can even lock up your opponents by pressing certain foot switches. So all in all a big puzzle game where players play against eachother to get their siege engine first.

Well that was my idea 2bad it's single player only.
But good luck to all contestants!

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Great.. single player contest didn't know that.
I'm deffo out because I just don't like single player maps. No tention or anything in a single player map.

You can have plenty of tension in a single player map. On top of that you don't have to worry about leavers or some deuch on the other team calling you every random insult he can think of instead of actually helping his team.

 

[Sephalo]

You can have plenty of tension in a single player map. On top of that you don't have to worry about leavers or some deuch on the other team calling you every random insult he can think of instead of actually helping his team.

Yeah well it's just my opinion.
Can give various reasons but I won't because I'm a bit disappointed now and might say bad stuff You see like everyone probably has, I really had the idea I could win this haha
And not to go to the offtopic I won't say anything about "my opinion" anymore

 

[Boneknight]

i was disapointed as well when i lost my whole terrain model and said i will quit but the next day i got back on the work

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

i was disapointed as well when i lost my whole terrain model and said i will quit but the next day i got back on the work

Ha, I told ya

 

[Boneknight]

yep but my poor mouse and keybord got crashed by my rage and thats why i am doing it this slow got f*cking bad replacements

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

yep but my poor mouse and keybord got crashed by my rage and thats why i am doing it this slow got f*cking bad replacements

I think you may want to find some pills for that

 

[real138]

lol roid rage? jk