Since competitions rarely come around at twhl I think we should start hosting mini competitions regularly.. Ive tryed proposing one before but got no outcome because I was said to not have authority to choose the theme so I came up with a way we can all decide it. Each person that is interested proposes three of their best ideas for the competition. Say seven people propose their three ideas. Thats 21 ideas. Than each person gives each idea a number from 1-21. based on how much they like the idea compared to the others. The highest number given "in this case 21" is the idea you like the best and the ammount of entrees. After this the numbers will be tallied up and the idea with the most numbers becomes the theme to our mini compo. Than we set a desired date as a deadline and begin. The winner will than be determined the same way the theme was determined or by simply voting on a entree(and you can't vote on your own.) With this there could be a first place winner, second,third,fourth all the way to the end. Any one interested? I think it would be a fun way to allow everyone to put their part in choosing the best theme.

1) make a trebuchet
2) make a 5 minute mini-movie - Scientist mistake #2!!
3) map your computer! (All the inside parts and stuff)

1) Map a tree fort.

2) Map a small library.

3) Map a house from any cartoon or videogame.

Which engine?

Goldsource.. Source just takes too long to compile in my opinion and some people's comp. cant handle it. Well I guess if you wanted you could start a thread for a source one.

1- map your house (although some peoples houses look better than others, making that hard to judge)
2- make a vehicle (limits needed???)
3- a something funny (judging by funniness?)

sorry, but im not that imaginative, so you can ignore this post if someone come up with better ideas when you hit a deadline.

1) map an Xen planet (and i dont meen you flying around space stuff)
2) create anything with a very complex entity setup (like very complex)
3) make a small action movie

Cool ideas so far.. Hopefully you guys are actually planning on entering once the theme is chosen..

map the inside of a computer? now i dont want to sound blunt, but that sounds a tad.. boring

Yea i guess you could make it huge enough to fit inside it like rats or something...Why don't you come up with three good ideas?

MAP YOUR DREAM HOME

MAP YOUR DREAM AIRCRAFT

MAP YOUR DREAM CAR

Try to keep the ideas kinda small, it is a "mini" compo.. And your ideas won't be included in the voting unless you plan on entering.

1) Non-Xen alien planet
2) "Lost"
3) Water themed

4) map your house, but in a demolished way
5) make a drink machine wich atcually gives you drinks wich can then be picked up via "use"
6) Map your school/workplace?

You can only propose three of your best ideas so choose them. And think about it, mapping your entire school or work place wouldn't be that easy or that much of a "mini" compo. Theres a tutorial on this website "I think" on how to make the coke machine... The demolished house idea would be really cool to do. Just come up with only "three" of your best ideas.. Rimrook your ideas are really abstract and broad but the water one has been done before. It would be cool to make a map with a distant feeling to go with the theme "lost" and a weird alien planet that wasn't like xen would be unique. Think along the lines of smaller stuff like an alien "not xen like" base or a bridge or a crane. I guess you could make a small area of the planet. Well anyways you can change your theme ideas before we vote on them.. Ill make a list of everyone's three before we do.

I like the "map your house" or the "map your dream house" ideas and the "build a ship" idea mentioned from the rooms thread would be the pwn. (i got dibs on ww2 amarican destroyer!)

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ok ok. forget what i said before then. ill do 3 of my best ideas now then.

1) Make a small action movie in hammer.

2) Map your own house... but it has to be demolished in any kind of way; i.e. a ww style destroyed / alien style destroyed, zombie style destroyed or anything like that.

3) Map / Make a sculpture in hammer of your own face.

1) Map a dream house.

2) Map a lair fit for an evil genius.

3) Create a cutscene (comedy / action / horror / any other theme you can think of)

Wish I could enter but its GoldSource so FU and your NVidia cards.

Alright now those are some good ideas skals! And the evil genius lair would be awesome.

Urban your card fails buy a newone (i don't care how good it runs the new games if you cannot goldsource mod it is fail. (i'm noticing fancy brushwork is not nearly as fun in source without hlfix to help))

LOL@Rim's new aviator! = )

I vote for Map a Ship. I want to try my hand at designing a space transport or similar.

I used to love designing and sketching space ships when I was younger (side on / top down floorplan view) but I never considered mapping one...

I think I just had a brain wave.

haha lol kirban freeman. Well if making a ship is the most liked idea than ittl get the most votes (and by ship, I was thinking of the one tet was workin on).. Well once enough ideas are submitted we can count and list them and vote on them with the number system.

How about... Map your own teeth!

Although I don't think that it would really be a good idea, so my real suggestions are:-

1) Map Shawshank Prison,

2) Map a vehicle from real life or a movie, or

3) Map a memorable area from a game.

I could use my retainer as a blueprint...

nicee your third idea iss kewwwwwlll!!! Wow there has already been seven people submitting ideas. Thats 21 themes to vote from so far. Just a few more good ideas to go through and we should vote on em. I have tons of ideas, ill just submit em next comp.. I really like the "map your own face idea too", I woulda never thought of it. It would really take some nice brushwork and vertex manipulation. And it would be cool to include a pic of your face along side it-ill prolly be voting a high number for this idea... I have so many good ideas, just think of stuff that would be creative and you wouldn't normally map that would make you better and be fun..

2) "Lost"

Yeah, map a Dharma hatch.

"Lost" as in the player is off the map somewhere, either in a ghost-town or in a strange uncharted land. Shipwrecked, teleportation accident, car-trouble, train-wreck, abducted, etc could be possible causes.

Not the show Lost.

Yes, my Avatar is Korbin Freeman.

2) "Lost"

Map a Jackface?

I'd participate in THAT competition!

no.

although when you do start voting for the ideas, make sure you list all of the ideas so people dont just read the more recent ones and ignore the earlier posts.

you probably already knew that.

make the most exciting cube ever imagined. But you can only use one texture...

why not just make up a realistic house interior?

Yea Darkie, Im going to list all of the submitted ideas from the beginning of the forum to the end and number them. Say if there end up being 30 ideas, everyone will copy the list and paiste it again in the forum. Than they will put a "30" to the right side of their favorite option, a "29" next to their next favorite and so on. After everyone has done this I will take everyone's submitted lists and tally up the conclusion. The idea with the most tallies is the theme.

Ex. of what it will look like. If there were 5 theme ideas submitted.

1)map a skull.

2)map a movie.

3)make a xen planet.

4)map a turd.

5)map a banana.

Than we will each copy and paste the list and add numbers determining our favorite theme.

1)map a skull. (5)

2)map a movie. (3)

3)make a xen planet. (4)

4)map a turd. (1)

5)map a banana. (2)

I chose the skull as my favorite option and the turd as my worst option...

im confused. anyone else confused?

Think about it. I take everyone's ideas "3 from each person" and put them into a list. Say theres 20 themes in the list. Each person puts a 20 by their fav.theme, 19 by their second fav., 18 by their 3rd fav. all the way down to a 1 by their least fav theme. To do so they just copy the list of themes that I post when there all in and repaste it into the forum so that they can number them. Everyone will do this. Than the theme with moth numbers is the theme for the comp.

you created this, zeeba-G,

if you really want this to go ahead, put your cards on the table and stop piss farting around

...the hell?

yeah i had to edit it a few times because it wasnt saying what i meant.

If you want to do this comp so badly just PICK a theme/topic/whatever dont keep procrastinating about it

zeeb-G. wont it be easier if we voted top 3 instead of top 20000000000000000000000000000000000?

That may be a better way of doing it skals, ill think about it. And ninetine I was just wating to see if any more proposals would come. If they don't within a few hours ill make the list.

20000000000000000000000000000000000?

2x10^34 rar-filed.

My top 3 faves so far.

1) Map a Ship
2) Map an Evil Genius Lair
3) Map a Xen location

Suggestion: map an art style or form. Choose a single theme (mondrian, escher, abstract, renaissance, pixel art, vector art, origami, etc.) and create a small map that gets that theme across as strong as possible. Basically, the first thing someone should think about your mondrian-themed map should be 'mondrian'. The maps name should not contain any hints. Most creative use of the most obviously clear theme wins.

Might be a bit too texture-heavy though.

EDIT: Evil genius lairs with evil genius traps and evil genius superweapons and evil genius don't-push-me red buttons are cool.

Art style? I choose... cubism.

Nice captain p. I'd do an "abstract black and white" theme with hints of colors in the architecture. Ninetine are you going to submit three ideas? And what about you captain terror? This is yalls last chance, the list will be made in only a few hours. I like your fav.s too rim, maybe the first one will win. Well get ready to vote guys cuz ita bea comin. Any suggestions for deadline? I was thinking exactly two weeks.

art style seems too hard to do in hammer. next please

I'm liking the evil lair one.

but... only the vanilla hl1 textures!!!

make it easy.

VOTE!

EDIT: sorry, couldn't have more than 20, and map a ship isn't on there. >;(

rimmy, how about you split all the ideas in half, with a total of 2 pools and then vote on both of them, then the final two go against eachother in a final showdown?

Rimrook! You didn't include map your own teeth! Although my choices are:
1) Trebuchet
2) Shawshank
3) Face (I've always wanted to do that after seeing the rather polygonal head on Dr Kawashima's brain training)