Map Battle 45 - Panorama

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Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby 904 on Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:55 pm

It's the 1st of the month (well almost), so let's try to get these battles back on schedule.

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First some notes.
- The end of last year and the start of this year were a bit rocky for me, which resulted in me screwing up the schedule and dumping the responsibility for the map battles on Major Banter. That was not how it was supposed to be, so I apologize to all of you and especially to Major.

- I'm going back to the schedule I maintained for the most part of 2009, which means battles will start on the 1st of the month, will last for about three to three and a half weeks, followed by roughly a week of voting. So make a note in your calendar: 1st of the month -> check for new a map battle.

- To get back on track I started a theme poll, my goal is to do this on a regular basis, but not necessarily before every battle.

- Also: resurrection of the scoring system, Jest@ used to maintain some intricate Excel sheet, after which I tried to mimic that, but that was too cumbersome to do and became stale. I'm now preparing a DB with a little php frontend so it'll be easier for me to keep scores.

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And now on to the theme.

The poll thread generated some interesting discussion with regard to the City Streets and Panorama themes. Based on that discussion, the theme will be:

Panorama


If you had your mind set on city street, go ahead, make it a city/street, but create a panorama. If you had your mind set on something historical (or alternative), be my guest, there's plenty to think of. For those that are into the film noir side of things: if you do it, it' better be good. In any case it has to conform to the theme Panorama.

Goal
Make a map in an official Valve Source engine game that fits the given theme, make it as visually pleasing as you can, it does not have to be playable.

Deadline
The deadline for this battle is set on Sunday July 25th. The battle will be closed at 22:00 GMT that day. For a conversion of the the closing time to your own location, check this.

Basic Rules
  • Three final screenshots max
  • Since the theme is panorama, it's allowed to combine 3 screenshots into one panorama. It is not a requirement to do so.
  • You should use an official Valve Source engine game
  • Custom content is more than welcome

Full rules
You can find the full rules here. If you've got any questions about the theme, the rules or the battles in general, either post in this thread or PM me (904).

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Good luck!
About three weeks time to come up with some creative stuff, so good luck and get mapping!
Please post W.I.P. shots and don't forget to mark your final screenshots.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Megadude on Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:05 pm

904 wrote:...The deadline for this battle is set on Sunday June 25th...


Hurray! We are getting almost a year to do this battle :-D
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby 904 on Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:12 pm

Crap.. I have to get into this again.. thanks for pointing it out. Although I would expect some amazing panorama's if you had close to a year to create it.
Anyway, fixed the date, it's july 25th (obviously)
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Hollow on Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:47 pm

Ok well, I think I'll enter this. Heheheheheehehe
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby no00dylan on Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:56 pm

:|

Seriously?
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Dr. Delta on Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:58 pm

le fuck, the winner didnt win

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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Hollow on Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:58 pm

yah. I'm going to attempt something pretty epic.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby MáØ on Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:22 am

Well, I'm out, I would have done anything but panorama... just doesn't fit any of my ideas =\
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby source-maps on Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:54 am

MáØ wrote:Well, I'm out, I would have done anything but panorama... just doesn't fit any of my ideas =\


this theme lets you do pretty much anything you want
just make a panorama screenshot out of it
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby MáØ on Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:24 am

Yes source I understand that, most of my ideas were either narrow scenes or would look horrible in a panorama, I'm not 100% not entering, but its unlikely.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby NBRXXN on Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:51 am

Finnaly motivatid to start mapping again so I will proboly *ahem* attempt this battle.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby no00dylan on Thu Jul 01, 2010 3:13 am

I'm wit Mao on this one. :( I would have had something for city streets, sorry to say this but this theme just seems.... stupid, boring, the kind of theme I thought we were trying to gravitate away from.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Ark11 on Thu Jul 01, 2010 5:25 am

Firstly, this is a hard theme that will yearn boring results.
Secondly, why is Panorama the theme anyway? City Streets won by like 5 votes.
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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby Hollow on Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:05 am

pfftt, you guys aren't using your imaginations enough. I'm actually pretty excited for this..as I feel my idea will be challenging to complete.

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Re: Map Battle 45 - Panorama

Postby vcool on Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:08 am

The Hollow Night wrote:pfftt, you guys aren't using your imaginations enough. I'm actually pretty excited for this..as I feel my idea will be challenging to complete.

SupermegaWIP comin up:
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About an hour or so of work, maybe not even that. If you can guess where this (and none of you guys from lopers chat can answer :P) You will be a Respected Sir/Madam


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