SC2Mapster

Who else is surprised that this has no comers? :P

@DrSuperEvil: Go

How did you get that >.>

For me it's because the first one doesn't sound interesting, the other 3 I would have no clue how to do, and I can't think of anything I might make myself. I might fiddle a bit more with the forward vector site ops and see if I can't come up with something, but it isn't exactly appealing to me...

Looks nice ;)

However, i do think, maybe you are expecting a little much with this exercise. The WDE usually is a somewhat simple basic task, which may be extended at will by the participant.
We are like the only 2 people, who know and use the methods you described, RCIX has a point here. There is probably hardly anyone, who knows how to implement the stuff you ask for or even if they do, they don't want to invest such a huge amount of time in it, which is required for this method by design, if you want it to look any good. Hell, I don't want to do the last 3 challenges, it would take months to get them right. I am pretty sure, your gate took you a long time as well.

Well, you could argument, that this is the whole point of the WDE; to create awesome stuff nobody would have thought possible with the data editor. But still, I feel the current task discourages just about everyone to put some work into the WDE.

I suggest to tone it down a little bit for the next exercise. Try to find a more simple task, which can be expanded at will, but doesn't require a metric shitton of work just to start with.

Also, we might need to work on a real tutorial for this stuff, it is quite hard to get just from looking at the various examples we created.

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So you are basicly saying the average map maker is too lazy?

I am very lazy, actually ;)

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Only did this because last WDE was a month old. Also It only took me max 120 hours (presuming I did not sleep those days). Just because I took a while to do it was purely due to my lack of free time.

So then we should start calling them monthly data exercises, no? :)

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Was hoping for a bit more enthusiasm from the community.

Maybe when HotS comes out :)

Myself, I might find more interest once HotS comes out. But a WDE like this... I've seen the vids and maps and demos etc, but uh... I can tell you right now I wouldn't ever use this in a map... too much work for one "unit".

I realized that(too much work) after I gave up on my giant mech-scorpion that I was trying to make.

My other ubers I've done took ALOT less time to make. Sure, it's just model additions/Site Ops work, but it did what it had to in a short amount of time. The longest part of working on the ubers was tweaking... and I can see the tweaking requirements being astronomical for this kind of thing.

Having to tweak 8 limbs + tail just seemed... pointless in the long run.

The Babbage Calculator... for real? Only Hard Difficulty? More like, Master++ Difficulty. Were you referencing this when you put the challenge for the Babbage Calculator?

@DrSuperEvil: Go

SuperEvil you are a prodigy. I really wanna see this robo arm - would be awesome as a boss for an RPG map

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However, i do think, maybe you are expecting a little much with this exercise. The WDE usually is a somewhat simple basic task, which may be extended at will by the participant.

This. your WDE #22 was perfect. It gave me an idea to take on and im expanding on that small idea to make it look cooler. General WDE ideas could work as both a learning experience for noobs like me and help spark ideas for the pros. and theres still always room for people to show off.

@DrSuperEvil: Go

that zerg gate was pro. youll see your work was not in vain in a week or so. ill post it here when its done