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PranQster

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How is the skyboxeses going PranQster?

What I am doing works, but I have a few bugs to work out. Basically, I have 2 different areas where I want 2 different skyboxes. I am using triggers to move the info_portalsky along a door_sliding between 2 different positions, each inside a unique skybox. I have it working so that the triggers are sensitive to the direction the player faces. If you enter one area, when you look outside you get a certain skybox view. Turn around and enter another area and you get a different view.

It works pretty well, though it is possible to mess it up and get the wrong view if walking through the triggers in certain ways. Since the skyboxes are so different from each other, this completely breaks the immersion when it happens.

System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

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DeTeEff
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Just to make it clear that I'm still onto this...  

Sotha
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I think I've finally mastered the modular building concept fully. Here is a WIP shot along which I try to explain how to design and build modularily. Maybe some of my fellow contestants or new mappers

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Moddb Article:   http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/news/community-unusual-gameplay-contest   Based on the polls, I am proposing a 3 month "Unusual Gameplay Contest" starting on December 16th and

Obsttorte

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Instead of using triggers you could try to use the zone system. In addition, you can have multiple info_portalsky entities in your mission. If you trigger one of them it will become the currently used one.

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PranQster

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Instead of using triggers you could try to use the zone system. In addition, you can have multiple info_portalsky entities in your mission. If you trigger one of them it will become the currently used one.

Thank you! I never realized that. Much better than having a fast moving slider zooming the info_portalsky back/forth.

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DeTeEff

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About the deadline on thursday. Which time is the official dead line? I guess it's GMT +-0, in England and the whole day so it's ok if the mission hits the forums at about 06.00 pm BikerDude-time? :)

 

(Which means about 07.00 pm Fieldmedic time ;))

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Obsttorte

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Due to real life I haven't had time to finish my FM. But I am working on it. Anyways, I wont be able to hit the deadline. I hope people will enjoy the experience anyways ;)

 

Is there actually anyone else (except Fieldmedic, who is in the beta phase, btw. what a strange nick) who is going to release anything?

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OK. Didn' knew that. :smile:

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nbohr1more

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I guess Baddcog won't be in this one?

 

Still, we've got some blockbuster releases to pimp whether in the contest or not... It'll be a new write-up.

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Hrm, looks like I'll miss the deadline w/ my map too. At the pace I'm going, it'll probably be out at the end of August. Maybe I should submit it to one of the TTLG contests :-P.

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I'd be glad to have a few more participants with the extension of the contest. That said, it'll be a bit awkward to end the contest just before TDM 2.0 appears... (from my speculative

roadmap of it)... if we extend to October this might be a TDM 2.0 contest? I know that all 3 entries thus far are playable on TDM 2.0...

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My personal opinion: let contests rest a little. We are not such a large community to sustain an endless stream of them. Although it may motivate some, it appears to me there are also a lot of people who try to create a contest mission, fail a deadline and get discouraged.

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DeTeEff

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I don't think this should be connected to the release of 2.0 in any way. I bet there's going to be more gameplay goodies to tinker with and I haven't taken that into consideration beacuse I still work in 1.08.

 

A contest connected to 2.0 should be later when mappers have started to get the feel of the new stuff.

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Sotha

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Melan has a point, you know... Recent contest have had only a few FMs squeezed out before the deadline. It could be interpreted as a strong indicator that it is probably not useful to arrange these contests.

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Ok, let's set this for the end of September then we'll table further contest requests until we have more interested mappers.... Hopefully 2.0 standalone will improve the candidate population.

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Obsttorte

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I guess that the main *probelm* with contests is the amount of time given. Taken myself into consideration I had a lot of time when the contest started, but then real life stuff had grown and I wasn't able to work on it.

 

Another point is that long periods of time encourage ambitious projects. This is not bad per se, but increases the chance of fail-planning and therefore not completion.

 

For the next contest, I think it would be good to choose a short timeline (maybe four to six weeks or so) and a size limitation. This way mappers have to think in small dimensions, what may be constructive in regardence to the actual results accomplished.

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Obsttorte

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Just wondering if this contest was extended ...

Ok, let's set this for the end of September

and which missions (so far) are included?

Fieldmedics Not an ordanary guest

Sotha's Lich Queen's demise

Jesps The Builder Blocks

 

I'll try adding a (small) mission myself. I also have a large mission in build which is rather unusual, but will most probable not be able to finish it til the end of the month (maybe I'll finish it til the end of the year).

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