Official AmuTrem Contest

[fleash eater]

this is the official Amutrem Contest Thread
Deadlines: Sunday, november 23 to enter | Friday, December 17 before midnight(pacific time)

Rules:
1. Any act of plagiarism or cheating will be Disqualified
2. Maps MUST be turned in by midnight (pacific time) on the final date.
3. all maps will be posted in a separate topic labeled "Aumtrem Map:(name)" and they will be linked on this page
4. You are allowed to have only 1 Teammate who is also in the mapping competition
5. If you submit a map  that seems over the level of this competition, your map has the possibility to be disqualified by judges choice.
6. if you want to be in this Contest please private message me or post here.

Current Participants:
Flesheater
Evoc/grim
smurftyous
Archangel
Amz181
nubcake
seeeker
CactusFrog
plague bringer

Judges:
Ingar
TRaK
Your Face
 
All Maps will be added to Fun-Zone for gameplay tests

Good Luck all of you and i hope you Make a good map and learn some good things from this contest 
-ƒlesh 

[Evoc]

I have decided that I will have a partner. His name is Grim. I'm excited to begin my our map ASAP!

[amz181]

because i will obviously have to test my map, is anyone willing to have a test agreement. I test yours, and you test mine?

[Evoc]

How about some server owner volunteers to have a week of gameplay testing from Saturday the 13th of December to Saturday the 20th of December?

[nubcake]

If a map is deemed too high for the level of competition, can it still be judged anyways?

[fleash eater]

it will be judged unless judges say it is over the top compared to the standards of the rest of the competition

[fleash eater]

Update: Winners Reward
Update: New Judge(ingar)

[Syntac]

Good luck to Flesh and the rest of the team. I would've entered the competition, but I suck at mapping.

[fleash eater]

Syntac, this competition is for people that suck lol, and if you want ill be your partner since mine left me and we can work on a map together,  because i cant do this just by myself.

[Hendrich]

I have great idea for a map! It will include boxes, lots of boxes! Repeatable textures! Fall-thru floors and lighting in places that shouldn't be! And I might add in 100% see-thru water, so the player will never know if he/she's drowning as a human or he/shes on solid ground!water, and why not add huge jump-pads that launch you 50-ft into the air? I want large, open spaces for the aliens and tight corridors for the humans and little vents that lead to nowhere.

It will the the greatest map in the world! And soon every Euro server will play it! Mwhahahahahaha!

Join me Syntac, and you'll get this cool black cape! Its a chick Granger magnet! Who cares if fleash eater is making a balanced map  that looks decent? BORING, how about a map that makes you do weird jumping shit before you can get to the actual fighting? PERFECT! I am off, Radient, here I come!

[Syntac]

When I said "I suck at mapping", I really meant "I have no mapping skills whatsoever". That said, I don't think I'd be a very good partner for this thing.

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[fleash eater]

Update: TRaK is now a Judge, Winners Map Won't Stay on Rotation at Fun-Zone

[Bissig]

Update: TRaK is now a Judge, Winners Map Won't Stay on Rotation at Fun-Zone

Aha, nice discouragement.

[cactusfrog]

i hope i will be able to finish my  but i doubt it  stupid computer keeps flashing blue

[Evoc]

Me and Grim are already out of the planning phase and brushing away.

[amz181]

i'd like to withdraw from the contest. I thought it was for mapping nubs :p but clearly not, i can see about three good mappers on the list  ill just release my map the normal way 

edit: ive decided im staying in, , as i may be able to finish my map in time because now i got my shaders and lighting working properly!!!

[nubcake]

i'd like to withdraw from the contest. I thought it was for mapping nubs :p but clearly not, i can see about three good mappers on the list  ill just release my map the normal way 

Aww You can still make the map, I think my map may be disqualified from what people are saying, but id still like my map to be judged anyways Make the map, and you and your friends can test it on my server if you want to. Its an aussie server so you may get higher ping, but im sure you can make a fun map Not all fun maps look great (Push cannon) but are still very popular. Make the map anyways and challenge yourself

[amz181]

i'd like to withdraw from the contest. I thought it was for mapping nubs :p but clearly not, i can see about three good mappers on the list  ill just release my map the normal way 

Aww You can still make the map, I think my map may be disqualified from what people are saying, but id still like my map to be judged anyways Make the map, and you and your friends can test it on my server if you want to. Its an aussie server so you may get higher ping, but im sure you can make a fun map Not all fun maps look great (Push cannon) but are still very popular. Make the map anyways and challenge yourself

thanks :p you were one of the ones i was worried about :p I may still enter, but im really not sure whether ill make the deadline. And i dont want to release a map thats shabby when theres brilliant maps like yours out there :p

thanks for the support, you made me change my mind. Your map looks great btw.

And i finally just figured out shaders and lighting! Ive been getting porblems with both of them for ages Im feeling great

[nubcake]

Thanks If you need help with anything PM me and ill get your email/msn help with the things ive learnt

[TRaK]

Are there any plans to require/request mappers to include the .map in their submission? It would allow the judges to offer much more constructive feedback about brush techniques, etc.

[nubcake]

Are there any plans to require/request mappers to include the .map in their submission? It would allow the judges to offer much more constructive feedback about brush techniques, etc.

I think I will. The only issues ive had with it is when ive given people my .map files only to see them rip off my work But I trust you guys are better than me anyways

[your face]

Usually your work doesn't get ripped off by including the .map.

[amz181]

achk! more problems! Making a first map is so hard, and its the second time this problems cropped up, it the crappy TW VERT EXCEEDED problem. WHich i dont understand at all, because after i searched, its apparently because some of my stuctures are too complicated?

[your face]

possibly trying to add a 32 sided cylinder?  Try using a patch mesh, reducing the sides, and detail brushing it.

[nubcake]

It sounds like that big room you made has too many sides. Try cutting the brush that makes the room in half?

[amz181]

hmm, thanks ill try it. The room im trying to make is two cylinders ontop of eachother with a cylinder connecting them, so that people can drop down the high one into the low one.

and by patch mesh you mean the curve>cylinder?

[nubcake]

No, simple patch mesh (shift + p), press v, then move the vertices till it makea a semi circle. Copy/paste it till its a full circle.

[Archangel]

ack, i better get crackin' :L

[your face]

No, simple patch mesh (shift + p), press v, then move the vertices till it makea a semi circle. Copy/paste it till its a full circle.

I recommend using a curve>cylinder instead.

[nubcake]

If hes making a room out of a curve cylinder he wont be able to add doors etc. Unless theres a way to cut through cylinders?