Special Battle: The Hidden Source

[tr0mb0ne]

it's not over yet! and why are you asking? you don't even join the battles

Lol I've never joined one because I joined Lopers at the beginning of the generator, and I had just gotten the Source SDK, and I had to learn how it all worked

I'm really not up for Hidden mapping, I just want to do a classic one to see what they're like.

Besides, I'm too busy with dys_warhead to make another fully playable map

P.S. I thought it was over today

[Deckaux]

P.S. I thought it was over today

- You have 2 months to complete your map, that means that the battle end on the 15th of December at 24:00 GMT.

Thank god you're wrong.

Thanks for your concessions, Barrakid - I'll see if I need them. I think it will be very difficult to judge the gameplay when stumbling through the map at 20 fps...

edit: IT'S THE GOD DAMNED CABLES!

edit: No, it's not.

[5eyes]

ignore me if I say anything stupid, I havn't really been following the posts in the last 2 months, been so busy with schoolwork and other crap...

but anyways I'm going to assume that the great hall is the pic you posted (http://static.justgamers.de/1/1861/members/deckaux/lodestone/lodestone_screen.jpg)
looking at it, maybe you just have way to much stuff being rendered in the same spot. Looks like 4 or 5 floors there and alot of eyecandy (btw its magnificent). Although it kind of feels like cutting any of that would be a terrible thing to do, but minus well see if you can cut the thing in half and take a look around and see if it still slows down alot. Most maps I've played have been had much shorter height than yours. I hope thats not what it is and you can find a real solution cause I'd kill to play that map...

again if I said anything stupid just ignore it, been out of the loop for a while and I'm not exactly a mapper

[Deckaux]

I think I solved the main problem, although it's still somewhat laggy. Here are new screenshots with +showbudget. Imagine that the bars behind 'dynamic lights rendering' and 'unaccounted' used to be at full length...

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I'm also having problems when I want to play it with bots in the Hidden-mod. The game crashes and it gives the error message "ED_Alloc: no free edicts". Does anybody know what could cause the crash? And when exactly is the contest over? At 24:00 GMT or GMT +1 or what? I really need to know that...

[BaRRaKID]

it's at 24:00 gmt. But the date as changed it's on the 17th now (check the site news, and the first post on this thread)

[Deckaux]

That's the best news for today!
THANK GOD!:smt035
(I have to finish an application today, too)

[showNOmercy]

Deckaux, once you you can optimize as well as you make eyecandy you will be a serious mapper. Those screen shots are excellent. I would dust off my HL2 for a chance to play one of your maps!

Good luck to everyone in the contest.

[wiggle987]

and if no entries are met by the deadline, I can rest my wallet.

[BaRRaKID]

about time you show up

[wiggle987]

I lurk but rarely post anymore

[compy905]

OMG its the Wiggles.

Nice to see you again.

[Jman]

1 More day! Even though I havn't even made one!

[BaRRaKID]

And It's over, Thanks everyone who participated, and we will post the results soon.
Espect new battles soon.