Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Vilham on Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:01 pm

back ups on USB 4gb stick
back ups on 1tb HD
back ups on 220gb HD

pretty sure that is one of the best ways to do it.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby dissonance on Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:55 pm

How do I back up 1.25tb... on a budget?
i had fun once, and it was awful.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby BillyDa59 on Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:33 am

I shoot my maps between home and school constantly via Email. I also used to use this method for some assignments. As for saving 1.5tb on a budget. Get that zip program that breaks a zip into multiple files and gmail it. I managed to get Macromedia's Fireworks via email, although.... Fireworks isn't quite 1.5 terabytes.... no not at all I suppose, but it's worth a try.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby punky on Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:49 pm

more WIP shots of my project, it's starting to get a better Christmas feeling ;)
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby jenkins_08 on Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:14 am

BillyDa59 wrote:I shoot my maps between home and school constantly via Email. I also used to use this method for some assignments. As for saving 1.5tb on a budget. Get that zip program that breaks a zip into multiple files and gmail it. I managed to get Macromedia's Fireworks via email, although.... Fireworks isn't quite 1.5 terabytes.... no not at all I suppose, but it's worth a try.



:lol: Hahhahhaha, oh wait your serious :?:

Even trying to send a file even 40mb in size with gmail... doesn't quite like it very much....
(I Zipped 40 images into a 39mb ZIp file and after 45 retries and 2 and half hours of waiting it just would not send)
Your talking 1250GB or 1,250,000MB... so no sorry, i don't think splitting them with Winzip and emailing them to yourself is an option, plus what if his upload speed is 30kbps or slower, according to my calculations that's roughly;

1,310,720,000 Kilobytes, @ roughly 30kB/ps
=
  • 43690666 seconds to upload
  • which is 728177 minutes
  • which is 12136 hours
  • which is 505 days straight of constantly uploading at 30kBps.

So no i don't think gmailing One Point Five Terabytes, not Gigabytes remember, Terabytes meaning thousands of gigabytes, i don't think gmailing them would be an option would you?

Don't get a zip program, get lots (and lots) of Dual Layer DVD's and burn your ass off.
Ever since DVD's starting being cheaper than water i've been backing up nearly all of my 1.75TB to disc over time, i wish Disc manufacturers would hurry up and release their super size discs on the market, they have already reached at least 500GB on a DVD so far, god knows what the future holds for discs.
If your interested in some reading, the Microholas project are doing interesting things with discs...

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... discs.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06 ... gular_dvd/
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 ... aring.html
http://www.physik.tu-berlin.de/microholas

BTW i have 1256kbps+ upload speed and gmail still doesn't let me send stuff over 25mb. Even if it did, Hotmail or Yahoo or whatever email provider would of rejected it on the other end.

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punky: where's the christmassy things :?
I see a light blue/aqua colored light and an orange one...
Awesome geom though :D... is your lightmap scale 1 lol?

And my entry will be ready within the next 2 days :)

Merry Christmas all!

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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby punky on Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:56 am

You probably didn't notice but the last shot shows of the "Christmas spirit" my idea is to not make a traditional living room with a Christmas tree in it, with a cozy fireplace and presents all over the place, I want to show that there are people that can't celebrate Christmas in such a luxury.
It's not finished yet, but in the last screenshot you can see some people sitting on the ground, or around the fire, I'm still have to make the idea more obvious though...
And In the first shot my lightmap scale is 2, in the other shots it's 1.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby source-maps on Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:36 am

pff... I think im out, I have no insipiration latley...
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Meotwister on Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:12 am

I'm actually making a playable version of mine to have a bit of holiday fun. Hopefully, it'll be done by the end of the map battle ready to download.
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http://meotwister.com - Finally up! I also blog there, too!

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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Generalvivi on Mon Dec 29, 2008 1:00 pm

Yeah , I was over at meo's checking it out and we just got a rush of ideas. I planned out a bunch of scripted events for it and surprisingly it sounds quite doable in 5 or so days. So i guess you guys will have to check it out when its finished!
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Dark soul on Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:31 am

Here are my finals:
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Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Major Banter on Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:37 am

grub tree ftw
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby dissonance on Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:39 am

hahahahaha, that's awesome!
i had fun once, and it was awful.
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby jenkins_08 on Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:51 am

Dark soul wrote:Here are my finals:

Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.


Awesome ideas there :o

Very well done man :-)
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby punky on Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:29 am

The idea of making an antlion-grub Christmas is awesome, and you executed it very well! looks great :)
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Re: Map Battle 30 - Christmas! (And other winter festivities!)

Postby Dark soul on Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:00 pm

Thanks you guys, glad you like it.

The Idea came to me after thinking about how the rebels spent their Christmas time. Obviously they couldn't go into the wilderness to gab a Christmas tree, that would be to risky.So, they got the next best thing, a utility poll.
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