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Sweet! Thanks. That would be awesome if you made it out.

To sum it up, Texas is... Hot! That's all you need to know.

My bro on the creek:

One time I was staring at concrete at night and from the shadows of a street light I made out many "dog character faces" looking in the same direction...

Right now i'm looking for land to build a house in or around Columbus TX. My dad owns land on the Cummins Creek just north of the town with a small cabin and my mom's family owns 100 acres on another stretch of the creek. I may get an acre on which to build if we are able to divide up the land hopefully this year.Well my plan is to build a house on it, possibly a barndominium. Maybe something like this.Once construction is completed I think it would be epic to host a TWHL lan party there. And being on the Cummins creek, if anyone's interested we could kayak, fish and enjoy the nature. I'd personally fillet the fish and fry it up for everyone.

As i'm not sure how long it will take to divide the land, build a house, all that, the date of the event would be a pretty long time away and hard to tell when. But I hope to have it some time in/ around 2017-2018. I know it's a long way away to begin planning but hey why not?

We could play half life, counterstrike, csgo, tf2 and really anything along with meet each other in person :glad:. This is all open to discussion.

Think about it, all it will cost you is a round flight and some vaca. time whereas for me it will cost an entire house build.

I also think it would be cool to make some maps for the lan party. It would be cool to have a lan party map competition. I think the lan party alone would be plenty of motivation to crank out some maps.

Let me know what you think and if any of you are willing to possibly venture into something like this down the road.

Some homes I've designed in hammer. I've designed many more in other programs but these are a few I've considered building that I've mapped.

Barndominium:Dome House:Town House:Cylinder house with work shop:Cheap House with two porches:All and everyone is more than welcome!!!

Thanks dude! I have now, wow they are pretty sweet! I love the stair ways, they look good when they're off centered a little to create an opening down the middle.

Yes i'm really fascinated with placing homes atop a single column. It just seems right.

Gah, either I place the house on my dad's property or I find land to buy myself. Everything's either way over priced or has a happy little deed restriction so that you can build a regular pos house on it.

Edit:
When I purchase my land/lot i'm totally posting it here so people can make suggestions as to what I should build. I'm looking at a few tomorrow.

That's not too far.

I'm going to probably build a 24' geodesic dome house atop a ~15-20' 5' wide Steel pipe containing a spiral stair case that will over look a beautiful creek on my dad's property in Columbus, TX this year.

It looks something like John Lautner's house in LA.Anyone willing to fly down? I could pick peoples up and hoard them over to mi casa lolz.

I'd post renderings but prefer to keep the design on the dl. I'd be willing to email them though, or pm although I'm too lazy to clear out my inbox right now.

Sweet you got a smart phone! Now I can send you nude pictures

I was pretty sad that I missed this myself. I was out fishing a lake.

Maybe we could plan another brief server host and have a time period to make a map for it. It could be half life death match, and it could even be a competition.

Awesome, can't wait! Will try to reinstall my cs 1.6 as it is pretty messed up.

Does it rain in thunder for others? It's supposed to but doesn't for me.

Also, in another map I threw a grenade and it crashed cs lol.

I'm a draftsman. All you need is to be proficient with autocad, good at geometry. Some math helps, just used the Pythagorean theorem today to find a length. 3D modeling helps a bunch too. And I do all of our graphics with the Adobe suite especially photoshop and illustrator.

I use what I honestly learned in highschool, 2D drafting and some of what I learned in college although I did not get my degree.

Drafting is a really fun and decent paying field.

Oh cool, I was looking at November.

I nominate de_dust_thunder. Although, Wed. and Thur.? I will be working.

How does competition work? Is it ratio of kills and deaths or just kills/points?

I won't be able to finish mine this year.

My next mapping endeavor will probably be a multi player map for next time someone hosts a server. So I probably won't be participating.

Maybe keep the next mini competition extremely simple, like map a prefab for a bounce pad or something.

You should extend this!

When I map un orthogonal architecture in hammer it looks like a kitteh threw up in a shoe box. Can I make a 3d model in Rhinoceros 5.0 with renderings? Maybe then I can make a map from it. I'll post a ugly wip. laterz. Just had thrown something together during some free time at work.I give up trying to map this as i'm getting all kinds of errors on such simple geometry. I could circumvent it if I wanted to but don't have the time.

I wonder if I could make a model of an entire map, import it into hammer and clip the brush work. I'm sure this is how modern levels are made.

Cool maybe i'll make a little haunted house if I can find the time.

There's also comic con... Excuse to wear a costume day? Follows up by reference to God lol.

Halloween is just basically a tradition to celebrate remembering the dead.

Thanks captain. Yea I was highly considering making my robe! But for only 16 bucks and a lack of time I couldn't pass up on it. I'm thinking of getting red or white contacts.

That's a great idea Archie I think tet was that two years ago or last year.

Maybe I could 3d print an HEV suit!

Find me on Facebook if you want to at least view the party I'm throwing -Myles Chumchal

Post your costumes, etc. I'm throwing a Halloween party at our cabin as I almost always do. I'm being the grim reaper this year.Got a scythe from an antique show.

Also got white body paint to paint my hands and wrists and black nail polish. May also paint my face white and black around the eyes. And I will wear black socks with my black toms. Got the robe at party city for under 20 bucks.

I'd make the wood textures follow the direction of the timbers in the rafters.

Don't feel bad, this one was pretty hard to figure something out for. I had to rack my brain and the only reason I had an idea is because I design tree houses all the time.

I'd hit it. With a crowbar. Joins the mean bandwagon, well it is a spam bot anyways.

Wow figured there'd be a small turn out but not zero. Well, guess it wasn't as good of an idea as I thought. It was probably due to the influx of mini competitions we had in a row as well.

No problem Captain. Well at least I get to keep the moneh!

Till the end of the day.

Since I'm living at home I could afford it. But now that I'm moving out it seems like a lot, but it's worth it if it motivates people.

Hurry up guys it's almost over, you could easily crank something out for this in a day.

Ten days left, ending the 25'th. Get something in, I will personally mail the winner 50.00 USD via money order, paypal or steam games.

If I win, I suppose I keep the money. Mine isn't too fancy.

How'd it get up there?

Is anyone working on the tree mini compo?

Looks cool. Post pics. of your new place when you get it set up.

I'm moving out to my first place away from home next month hopefully!

Edit:Thanks. This tree house is similar to many I've designed in the past.

@ Captain: Wow great work so far, That would be fun to add sub structure to it afterwards. I'd recommend using custom wood textures though. I like the multiple levels you've included.

I had to shift some of the leaves upward to get them out of the way.

I originally made it night time and added Christmas lights to mine but it didn't look very good.

Sweet Bruce, you could have probably ported the tree to source though.

What I've got so far.

May do something like this.

Very nice Dimbark. Congrats on the first in hammer wip posted.

I've said before that the main fous is the tree itself and what you put in it but don't want to force limitations.

That's a cool idea Captain Terror, let me dig up the original inspiration for this competition and take a screen of it or two. (A really old map I made and still have the bsp. fsr.

Feel free to use the textures Rolling Barrel.

I'll try to get a wip in this weekend although i'll be pretty occupied.

Edit:
Here's the old images of the map that inspired this competition.

So does anyone else have interest in this mini competition?

Feel free to extend out the clip if any of you like. I don't know about adding extended scenery though. I guess you can if you're up to it but the primary focus is the tree itself.

Looks really good. Maybe some Japanese lanterns and make it darker?

Glad to hear. And I agree in Gold source's fluidity. I model a lot in numerous programs and every time I blow off the dust on Gold source it doesn't let me down.

What I like to do is take a few 8.5x11's and cut them in half. Then fold them and staple at the edge to make a little booklet. Next, use your mind to imagine the beginning middle and end/ and other ideas. And jut begin writing them in the booklet, also jot down some sketches of ideas you come up with along the way.

The first booklet will be full of lots of writing, bad sketches, chicken scratch etc. Then read through the first one and think about it some more and, repeat. Make a new booklet and start over, write a part of the plot per page, add drawings etc.

This is how I made Somewhere in Time, I did this all while at work lol.

Hope this helps.

I would say let's go with two weeks but don't want to drown out mc2. So maybe three would be perfect. In about three weeks from today, so around i'd say the 25'th of September. That Monday, so that we have the final weekend to work on our entries.

We'll play it by ear though and it may get cut off in two weeks which would be on the 18'th, again so we have that final weekend.

@Rolling Barrel, i'm glad you might participate. I will post in your thread about getting ideas rolling to give you my two cents.

@Dim, I made it for goldsource because of the simplicity of the engine. It was a personal prefereance for a mini competition. Feel free to port for source and make an entry.

@Captain, i'll have to check out what you are talking about. Feel free to tweak the water to make it look better along with anything in the base map. You can even change the skybox if you like for example if you want a night map or something.

@Disco, the size of the tree was randomly created although I've worked on tree houses in about three dfferent trees, a pretty large tree, a gargantuan tree over a creek and a gargantuan pine tree. So I have some sense of scale when it comes to trees for tree houses. I'd say this tree is a good medium sized tree for a medium sized tree house.

Of the many tree houses I've designed, one I've actually built.

We'll decide a deadline soon, it's open ended for now. How long would y'all like?

I don't think you should be disqualified, you only knew like a day in advanced. But people can take that into consideration when casting their votes.

Thanks Captain and I'm sorry for jumping the gun on this one, I just had a good idea and thought I should share. Don't feel like you can't post one as well.

I'd appreciate that Kachito, I was thinking the prize should be through steam games form.

For this competition I think you should use the given tree, I admit it's not the best but it's simple enough to get the message of space across and it is the fundamental basis of the competition. So I feel that it should be concise throughout each other's entries. Remember you can add and or remove three limbs.

The tree house is a great idea actually, it's not like there is only one method of design that could be implemented in a tree house. There are infinite designs that could be implemented.

Mini competition 3 is here!Task: Map something in the tree. It can be anything. Eh, yea and uh, have fun.

A few rules are listed in the included readme.

Voting will be a poll based system, whoever enters can vote on someone's other than their own. Just pm me your vote. This is so that I and anyone can enter.

Thanks to Rimrook for helping fix my masked textures and play testing.

You can cut off/ add three limbs to make new space.

You can tweak basically everything including lighting and you may delete the rain if you like.
Download

It'll be fun and easy, trust me.

I'm making a base map for another mini competition. I will try to have it posted tomorrow so people can work on it this break.

Lol.