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New Competition! TWHL Synthesis!

monster_urby • 11 hours ago2025-03-23 02:11:57 UTC • 0 comments

That's right. We have a new competition on our hands. Go check it out and get to planning.

TWHL Synthesis

A blast from the past

For this, the 44th competition here on TWHL, we are asking you to look back at our long and varied history of mapping competitions. With a wide selection of challenges spanning over two decades, there's no shortage of themes to chose from. That is what we are asking of you. To create an entry to one of our previous competitions!

Well... it's not quite as simple as that.

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Enter our newest competition, TWHL Synthesis!
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Competition 44: TWHL Synthesis

monster_urby • 11 hours ago2025-03-23 02:06:53 UTC • 0 replies

Here's the place to discuss, ask questions, or show off your work-in-progress screenshots for the TWHL Synthesis competition!

Best of luck, I can't wait to see what you come up with!

maximum track duration/file size limit for .mp3 files?

Le_Glaconus • 13 hours ago2025-03-23 00:27:05 UTC • 3 replies

The issue with this tutorial is that it says to export the file as a .wav, which will kill the quality of the music

My hud ui not showing

Cartoonduck • 21 hours ago2025-03-22 16:49:23 UTC • 24 replies

Thanks, I will try that

.qc file troubles. [help needed]

Erty • 1 day ago2025-03-22 09:12:34 UTC • 13 replies

Great to hear, congrats! 🥳

For scaling the model, you don't even need to do that in the editor, just adding a $scale x command in the QC where x is the scale factor and recompiling is enough. A...