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A pollution-ish theme? IE. a hill completely covered in garbage, with dead trees and yellow grass around it, or mutants living on top of a vespene generator.
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How about you (Mozared) post an initial picture of, say, a landscape, and the person below will have to re-create that landscape in the editor, and take a screenshot that looks like the image. In their comment they will also post an new landscape image, and so on. If you wish to work on an image, you will comment beforehand in reply to the comment, so that another person does not work on that project at the same time. No 2 people may work on the same image. For you to be allowed to post an image, it must be accompanied by an editor re-creation, and vice-versa. Also, prompt them not to be too mean with their image; try to imagine how difficult it may be to re-create in the editor. Example: While the valley image is cool, it would be quite a great deal more challenging than the icey image (though you would need the beta editor for that one).
Also, if someone takes longer than 1 or so day(s) to re-create the image, then another person may step in.
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It would probably work out a bit better if everyone had the full week to recreate the same image, and then another image be brought up in a future WTE.
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Oh! What about this: Create a map using only HotS assets, units, and tilesets.
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Quote from HydraMannequin: Go
Oh! What about this: Create a map using only HotS assets, units, and tilesets.
I imagine this will probably be the first one after HotS launches. But for now a lot of us are still stuck with only WoL.
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For easier navigation, how about adding a short description to each weekly excercise what it is about, e.g Deserts, Mountains, Underground, etc. E.g I am looking through all of them but the names do not always say much.
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Dark forest, really big trees prevent the sunlight from reaching down, should be a place to expect spiders and the like.
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Hey, that's a good one! It's a tad harder to set-up, though: numbering the textures was a lot of work to begin with, can you imagine numbering every single doodad? If you've got any suggestions for making this easier I'm all ears, though I'll try and think something up myself as well - this thing sounds too cool to pass up.
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You could group doodads by theme (terran installation, protoss, jungle, space platform, wreckage, etc).
Or just pick a list of interesting (or creatively uninteresting) doodads similar to the Do That Doodad WTEs - then people randomly roll off that list. Then we all get to giggle at the one guy who ends up with Barrels as his primary doodad.
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I think I would only find through all doodads, the less interesting ones, make the list of them and then pick randomly one and make it be interesting. Doodads that aren't rocks, trees, bushes, houses... mostly some that alone, looks really bad.
Edit here is a bunch of random hots doodads. Some of them could be really hard to add into a terrain, but if they are in the doodad's list, it's there to be used so, use it!
- 1 - aiur chef counter
- 2 - aiur chef stove
- 3 - char exhaust vent
- 4 - char floor panel
- 5 - electric conduit path small
- 6 - frozen hatchery
- 7 - ground cracks
- 8 - hack arena
- 9 - half structure plates
- 10 - iceworld - ice cave
- 11 - iceworld - ice protoss sanctum
- 12 - iceworld - ice spiked waves
- 13 - lava pillars
- 14 - power supply warfield
- 15 - panda items
- 16 - protoss tamac
- 17 - river rapid
- 18 - road
- 19 - ship piping
- 20 - space camera
- 21 - space gun rack
- 22 - space platform scaffold
- 23 - starship ice world fauna
- 24 - starship ice world flora
- 25 - starship ornate elements
- 26 - starship vent
- 27 - T.I.M. Appendix
- 28 - tar sludge
- 29 - terran half wall
- 30 - zerg bone pile
- 31 - zerg curbs
- 32 - zerus pool sparkles
- 33 - explosive mine entrance
- 34 - hybrid lab fake shadows
- 35 - hybrid power conduit
- 36 - hybrid vent shadow caster
- 37 - hybrid viewing deck
- 38 - iceworld - ice bridge
- 39 - korhal mengsk symbol
- 40 - korhal red carpet
- 41 - landing lights
- 42 - military fence corner
- 43 - military supplies
- 44 - protoss fire medium
- 45 - psi destroyer wave
- 46 - space scrap
- 47 - space tank trap
- 48 - space vent wall
- 49 - space window BG
- 50 - starship forcefield wall
- 51 - terran butcher prop small
- 52 - umojan lab psi ball
- 53 - hybrid cannon
- 54 - missile silo
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How bout you assign each letter with a number, you pick a number, and any doodad that has that letter in it, or starts with it for certain ones, then you use those. easier than numbering many a doodads.
So say I choose number 8, and number 8 is the letter c and any doodad that has the letter c in It I can use, not sure what to do with letters like a, e, I, o and u personally, but just want to get the gears turning in the head. (or even you cannot use a doodad with the letters and you could choose 2 or 3 numbers)
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Scbroodsc2 AuthorSounds good to me ;)
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