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[BaRRaKID]

ive got an idea for a challenge. hvae two banks of a river with concrete footings, and you have to make a bridge that spans it. not on garrysmod, and not out of physboxes, just a bridge that looks good. bring out the architects here

i like that idea. Might do something with it later

[YokaI]

Dimension.

thank you... + 1 to your post count

[Meotwister]

and really isn't that all that matters?

[BaRRaKID]

ha.. NO!

[showNOmercy]

The reason why gmod, or bloom mod, or any other mod, wont be used, is so that we dont have a unfair competition with mappers that do not know about those mods. So in order to keep it fair we must set rules that give the same possibilities of wining to veryone.

This answer is much worse than I was expecting!

Not to be an asshole but that is the most laughable reason as to why we can't use GMOD! If someone can use hammer then they can most definately use GMOD. Unbelievable! While your at it why don't you make a rule that custom models are not allowed because not everyone can make them.

This is for fun right?

One final note, I never recieved an answer to my question regarding why we were not told about this in the first battle. I even said I was using GMOD. I made a big deal out of getting the custom models to work with it.

Consistency is nice, this is far from it.

All this BS has left a foul taste in my mouth, time to take a break. Seeya around.

[Spartan]

You can create a simple bloom effect using env_lightglows. It is very easy to do.

[BaRRaKID]

okay then lets make this clear:

first thing the reason why who didnt said anything about using other mods in the first batle, was just it.. it was the first batle, and we gave some freedom to everyone, since we didnt expected so many submitions. And as far as I know the only person that used it(or said that did) was reeke, and his map was still good no matter wath he used. As for this second batle, i'm telling everyone that you cant use so that you know, we may close our eyes a bit for this one, and let some submitions pass throw, but theres no excuse for the next one.

showNOmercy, i think that your a smart guy, and you can clearlly see wath a big of a advantage using gmod is. It takes much work away from the mapper, and it isnt a good habit, if your trying to knwo something. And thats wath the batles are all about, to make people try new techniques, and learn to become better mappers, and so far i think its working. I consider using gmod to create something, the same has cheating while playing.

To make everyone happy, we might consider do a batle in wich you can only use gmod, but there are better and more chalenging batles to be done.

here is wath i'll do for now, i'll make a poll and ask everyones opinion, wathever you decide is wath we will do.

and i'm sorry that your leaving us just for that.. but those are the rules, and i'm sure you would still be able to make good submitions without using any other mod.. but you made your choice.. see you arounf then :\

[YokaI]

Meh, we shouldnt even have to discuss this, its Mapping, not Enting.. (Enting as in the mods for HL1 and such...)

I mean, we come here to use hammer, thats why there is hammer tutorials...

BTW: could one (im not talking about myself, im busy mappin another map at the moment) use GTKRadiant for source mapping (if its even possible)

Just wonderin! i have experience with both...

[Bosco88]

I have a suggestion. You could show everyone 3 screen shots of what a map looks like in the past and then we will have to map what it looks like in the future. I though about this when I was coming up with ideas for a mod, that I know I wont be able to make anytime soon. If not the idea to show 3 screen shots to everyone, why not make them map what someplace looks like in the past AND the future themselves. I like the idea what about anyone else?

And on another note, Yoka whats GTKRadiant?

[IZaNaGI]

GTKRadiant is the primary mapping tool for Quake2/3 based games and recently Doom3 http://www.qeradiant.com/ As far as i know they dont support HL2 and dont have any plans on. Although its worth knowing that Q3 based .map files can be loaded in Hammer, except patch meshes wont convert.

[KILLA-COW]

How about you give us a dead body and some blood and we have to make a murder scene around it that might turn out wome pretty funny results just an idea mind, i was going to make a murder scene on this map battle 4 but im not going to now, but i think a murder scene map would be funny!!!

EDIT: I'm not a psychopath i meant some of the ideas people come up with would be damn funny! and it would be cool because you can expand on it in lots of different ways (the imagination can run wild!!!)

[BaRRaKID]

thats a great idea tbh

[KILLA-COW]

thats a great idea tbh

do i detect a distinct hint of sarcasm maybe??

[zombie@computer]

how bout another voting system? like where one could not just vote for guy x, or guy y, but say vote 3 points to x, then 2 to y and 1 to z. THis makes competition a LOT fairer

(i know the forum dont support it but it would be possible to make with a plugin)
not even a lot of work either

[KILLA-COW]

Barrakid r u gonna use my idea or maybe something along those lines because i'm sure it would be really cool mate