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I'm sad... glad to see so many entries. Good luck everyone and no GUI will probably get down points for being, GUI? Just kiddin, it,s the BJs and stuff it contains that probably ruins the score if you didnt know that.
Have a nice day gentlemen. May the best comedy win.
nice spell. even though this really looks like web ability with tree effect though. and.. when you cast it to air unit, u forgot to remove the flying classification from that unit, so, even though it's already lying on the ground, a unit that can only attack ground unit can't attack it. and you should turn off the loop if the TSL_targetgroup is empty and turn it on again if u cast it when the TSL_targetgroup is empty for efficiency. btw, u can change this one on tree sight limitation loop
Animation - Change (Last created unit) flying height to 0.00 at 100000000.00
to this
Animation - Change (Last created unit) flying height to 0.00 at 0.00
the second will instantly change the flying height while the first still need time, very little time, but not instantly
and this
Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
is too low. warcraft can only do a timer loop every 0.03 second or so even though you put every 0.01 sec. change it to about 0.03-0.05 sec.
btw, about the limitation that doesn't allow you to cast it twice on same unit... that's stupid... you can always make it either stack-able(cast it again to increase the effect) or just refresh the duration...
.. Submitting a spell in GUI shouldn't cause the deduction of contest points since it's impossible to write a spell in GUI and have no BJs at all! (It depends on the spell cuz sometimes, by coincidence, the actions you use in a GUI trigger are all natives )
Comedy The Spells & Systems Contest is more of a fun code learning environment than a contest, due to its low requirements, its short time limit, and its small prize. Each spell must adhere to the theme listed below, and to win, it should be executed well and take the main judging points into consideration.
1. All work should be done by the contestant and original to this contest, started after the contest started.
2. Each contestant is only allowed one submission.
3. The spell map must be unprotected.
4. Please post the triggers in
tags (JASS in [code=jass] tags)
5. Imported material, beyond a dummy model, is strictly forbidden.
6. Spells should support multiple levels, preferably an indefinite amount.
7. The testmap should provide an adequate testing environment for the spell.
8. GUI, JASS, vJass and Zinc are allowed.
9. Third-party tools are supported, but the spell must be playable on Battle.net and editable in World Editor (GUI) or Jass NewGen Pack (vJass).
10. vJass users, you may use other libraries to complement your code, some useful examples:
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[*]TimerUtils
[*]UnitIndexer
[*]DamageEvent
[*]Table
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If you break the rules, you may be disqualified from the contest, but minor offences (Such as an imported model/icon) will generally be punished simply by the ignoring of them (as if it didn't exist) in the scoring, and a penalty in the related category.
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[*] [B][U]VOTING RULES[/U][/B]:
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1. Each user can only vote once in the poll.
2. You cannot vote for yourself. If a voter has the same IP as the author then the vote will not be counted and it may result in the disqualification of the entry.
3. You cannot create multiple accounts to vote for an entry in the poll. If a voter has been found to be using multiple accounts none of the voters votes will count in the final result.
4. You cannot bribe users for votes. Contestants who break this rule will be disqualified and lose reputation points.
[r][URL="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/members/MistAssass/"]MistAssass[/URL][c][URL="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/1879220-post96.html"]Up You Go![/URL]
1. [COLOR=silver]Idea (5 points)[/COLOR] - Originality and execution of the idea.
2. [COLOR=silver]Triggering (5 points)[/COLOR] - Make efficient, leakless, simple triggers..
3. [COLOR=silver]Overall Aspect (5 points)[/COLOR] - Making sure your spell is easy to read (tooltip, comments, logical variable names), as well as having a practical use in-game.
4. [COLOR=silver]Visual effects (7 points)[/COLOR] - A nice-looking, non-laggy effect. Again, don't use custom models, achieve the effect with native WarCraft III models.
Inviting your friends to vote for you, bribing random members with rep and otherwise cheating with the VB poll system will get you DISQUALIFIED, BANNED from future contests, -REPPED, and possibly INFRACTED. So don't do it!
This includes, but is not limited to, sending PMs out to various users, getting other people to send those PMs, advertising this contest on other sites with the intention to gain more votes (whether it is explicitly stated or not), and so on. If you are suspected of cheating, the staff will notify you and interrogate you (hopefully) over PMs.
Judgement still lasts. Seems like spells was big OR judgement is hard OR there was not much description and it makes judgement harder OR Bribe have more important things to do (busy with real life). Cant wait for the results! Even if I know they may be disapointing!
The fun I had while testing my spell and the idea I found was woth it!
Oow... I was looking through Bribe's GUI tutorial and discovered some new things. Some of the code could be simplifyed (Like: Create unit for (Owner of (Triggering Unit)); It could be just: Create unit for (Triggering Player) ). Well, this is new for me...
-pointz because of this for sure ^^ (and this is not the only thing)
Entries were all worth a lot of credit, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality and time put into a lot of these. The average score was really quite high.
The winner is...
Chicken Burst, with a score of 30/30.
Perfect execution with a lot of mainstream quality. Coding was nicely done with not a lot of room for improvement. Extremely good job!
Second-place:
Suicide Squad, with a score of 29/30.
Very wonderful execution which also has a lot of mainstream quality! Excellent work.
Loljuvenation
Pros- Really creative visual effects - both peaceful and deadly at the same time. I like that flying units create flying critters. The colors are cool! Coding is well-done.
Cons- Tooltip still says Rejuvenation, the flowers look a little out-of-place just sitting on the ground (maybe make them a little more active)
Rating
Idea - 4.5/5
Triggering - 5/5
Overall Aspect - 4.5/5
Visual Effects - 6/7
Lulz - 4/8
Total - 24/30
Honey Shower
Pros- Incredible script! Lots of time was spent, every object has a struct, the code is well-organized, it is a work of art. Bonus points! The spell works very smoothly without any lag, even with multiple casts, surprising for the amount of effects.
Cons- Adding a funny sound effect when the bear comes out really would help. The honey visual effect is a bit overpowered, maybe half that amount would have been fine. The bear's backswing point is not in-sync with its damage point.
Rating
Idea - 3/5
Triggering - 7/5
Overall Aspect - 4/5
Visual Effects - 5/7
Lulz - 4/8
Total - 23/30
Bunny Run
Pros- Great lulz value! The sound effects work really well and the effects are neat. Very good ability. Overall the triggering looks nice!
Cons- Lag on the first cast (none of the effects are preloaded). Triggering, BR_Integer[0] and BR_Integer[2] should be split into two regular variables for efficiency. The hovering transition is not very smooth.
Rating
Idea - 4/5
Triggering - 2/5
Overall Aspect - 4/5
Visual Effects - 6/7
Lulz - 7/8
Total - 23/30
Contagious Cold
Pros- Very good visual effects. Sick units turning blue was a nice touch & the spell is overall a cool idea. Use of texttags is nice, there is a good sound in Sound Editor which has a sneeze (I think it's Malfurion) which could have helped the lulz value. The AOE spreads nicely.
Cons- Lots of lag when half a dozen or so units are knocked back at once. There are a lot of memory leak issues in the knockback loop (many variables not being cleaned). Custom value of units are used, which is bad for modularity, so it would have to see this updated before going public.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 2/5
Overall Aspect - 5/5
Visual Effects - 7/7
Lulz - 7/8
Total - 26/30
Rupture
Pros- Some sadists might think this is funny (sorry not a sadist today). The blood and effects are nice.
Cons- I felt there needed to be some way to remember the original size of the unit. Also would have been nice to target a group of enemies instead of just one. The 0.01 second stun doesn't really fit.
Rating
Idea - 4/5
Triggering - 3/5
Overall Aspect - 3/5
Visual Effects - 5/7
Lulz - 2/8
Total - 16/30
Up You Go
Pros- I got a laugh from reading the tooltip. There was no lag that I could see, and visually it does what the tooltip says it does.
Cons- There's an explosion right at the beginning of the spell which doesn't seem to fit. A unit isn't launched if it dies from the spell. The unit should maybe be launched higher for a spell that emphasizes the word "up". Also, the test map does not give a lot of variety for testing.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 3/5
Overall Aspect - 3/5
Visual Effects - 3/7
Lulz - 5/8
Total - 19/30
Miracle Shot
Pros- Great tooltip on this that made me laugh. The peasant falling over is a nice touch.
Cons- Cooldown on the spell is HUGE, making it quite hard to test the ability. The effect was weak, not a lot happening, possibly could have been supplemented with a moving text tag. Not a lot going on with the triggers.
Rating
Idea - 2/5
Triggering - 4/5
Overall Aspect - 3/5
Visual Effects - 1/7
Lulz - 6/8
Total - 16/30
Tree Sight Limitation
Pros- Test map was... extreme. I like that it drags air units down and adds trees to units.
Cons- The effect should also have been extreme as it was really simple. The triggers are packed with memory leaks, 0.01 seconds is way too fast for a timer like that. You can use 0 for the second fly-height value. The spell also did not seem to do anything to sight-limitation as I was always being attacked by units. It would be better as an AOE spell.
Rating
Idea - 2/5
Triggering - 1/5
Overall Aspect - 1.5/5
Visual Effects - 1.5/7
Lulz - 1/8
Total - 7/30
Chicken Burst
Pros- VERY smooth casting, the effects really fit. I think anyone would find this quite amusing . I can see this becoming a very popular spell. The fact that it doesn't lag even with multiple casts is also a great plus. The sound effects are great.
Cons- Some static-ifs for constant booleans would be great. It would be more efficient with a loop instead of a group-enumeration.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 5/5
Overall Aspect - 5/5
Visual Effects - 7/7
Lulz - 8/8
Total - 30/30
Lame Joke
Pros- The effects and sound effects were a nice fit. I like the introduction "Want to hear a joke?" Nice idea! "I'm on a different plane of existence! Get it, plane?" - That really deserves to be the Level 4 bad joke, definitely an abomination!
Cons- The thing was giving me tomatoes a LOT more than 15%, more like 85% of the time I didn't hear the shadow hunter's sound even though I had the spell at level 3.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 2.5/5
Overall Aspect - 3.5/5
Visual Effects - 3/7
Lulz - 6/8
Total - 21/30
Super Frost Joke
Pros- Nice coding, configurables are good. I enjoyed finding out how many jokes were available.
Cons- Some sound effects would've been nice, the text displayed could have been floating text for more realism. Some static-if's could be used for constant booleans. It could use TimerUtils instead of Timer32 because the only need for the timer is the activity at the end.
Rating
Idea - 2/5
Triggering - 5/5
Overall Aspect - 3/5
Visual Effects - 2/7
Lulz - 5/8
Total - 17/30
Moonwalk
Pros- I like that it encourages micro and was really strong in visual effects. It was entertaining to test this out. Coding was nicely done. Test map was fantastic! I loved the intro at the beginning!
Cons- Some sound effects would have fit nicely to boost the lulz value. Some static-ifs for constant booleans.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 5/5
Overall Aspect - 5/5
Visual Effects - 7/7
Lulz - 5/8
Total - 27/30
Suicide Squad
Pros- Great countdown timers on Goblin Sappers! Combined with well-timed sound effects and good AI, this is a really neat spell. Perfect example why Blizzard didn't allow sappers to be placed in Zeppelins Test map was just beautiful. Nice use of libraries.
Cons- The individual explosions could have been better, even the standard goblin sapper explosion would have been a better choice. There was a little bit of choppy movement at some points.
Rating
Idea - 5/5
Triggering - 5/5
Overall Aspect - 5/5
Visual Effects - 6/7
Lulz - 8/8
Total - 29/30
Happiness Overload
Pros- Really fascinating to see it work. Very skilled. The coding is pretty rad and done in a way I've never seen before (several libraries to compile one system). I like it, it is really well-organized!
Cons- If the dryad shot other random objects like sheep, this would have been even better. Maybe a voice-effect or two would help. The code is not the most efficient in some areas (a lot of GetFilterUnit() calls) but still great. There is a lot of lag during the explosion process.
Congrats to the winners,,,nice work with your spells,
I really enjoyed this contest, jeje a bit tricky on time management to finish it (I'm currently in exams). I learn many many things and I will learn much more to make spells at the high standards of THE HIVE.
NOW I will post my spell at the trigger forum and improve it. I need to learn how to use Hash Tables to replace my custume values, and also how to efficently clean memory leaks.
PS: now that the contest is over any help from you guys to improve my spell would be nice..
Well, everyone has its own likes, I preferred the explosion effect it used there more than the standard goblin sapper explosion effect, well it's easy changeable to any effect.
um... If only I've find a way to use that MoonWellTarget effect correctly, I won't spam many effect like that. But this one can be changed easily though...
Great reviewing and a fantastic amount of submissions. I see potential in the minicontests again, since the zephyr ones haven't been working out that well in the later contests.
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glad to see so many entries. Good luck everyone and no GUI will probably get down points for being, GUI? Just kiddin, it,s the BJs and stuff it contains that probably ruins the score if you didnt know that.
Animation - Change (Last created unit) flying height to 0.00 at 100000000.00
Time - Every 0.01 seconds of game time
tags (JASS in [code=jass] tags)
