2012 Heavy-Duty Super-Mapping Super-Contest
Now I am caught in the decision of making a map for the contest or finishing my mappack. I will probably stick to the mappack, though. It has lasted waaaay to long to delay it even further... Although I could modify one of my mappack maps and no one would ever notice.
A map pack coming soon. - click for more information
I am in a nearly similar situation. What I've thought is to map one of my already drawn in paper ideas that will be for my mappack, but giving it a completely different style than my mappack's. Then, I can still use it later for the mappack by simply modifying the visuals... The advantage is that all the structure will be already mapped, and changing only the visuals won't take much long...
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I am in a nearly similar situation. What I've thought is to map one of my already drawn in paper ideas that will be for my mappack, but giving it a completely different style than my mappack's. Then, I can still use it later for the mappack by simply modifying the visuals... The advantage is that all the structure will be already mapped, and changing only the visuals won't take much long...
I don't see how you cant do it the same way visually as your map-pack. We are allowing custom content afterall.
Yeah, that's true. 
I maybe will do so.
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Ah, I guess that answers my question in the FAQ thread. Cool, custom visuals.
Maps in Development:
[spoiler]- Penrose 04 (on hold)[/spoiler]
Awesome, this should get me back into proper mapping. Anyone else going to try an Underground themed map since that's what i'll go for, just like last year! Now that I know what texture alignment is things should go a lot more smoothly...
... Maybe 
Woo, time to finish my portal deflection map!
Are we allowed to modify PCF files, which can't be packed? For example, adding the sticky gel back into the paintblobs file?
Are we allowed to modify PCF files, which can't be packed? For example, adding the sticky gel back into the paintblobs file?
I think the contest site is fairly clear that the final product must consist soley of a BSP file.
The rules also say that you may not use engine glitches. I asked Jeep Barnett (Portal/Portal 2 dev) and he said that the laser deflection the gel now exhibits was an unintentional bug. (and then told me a story about even stranger bugs when I told him I found it odd that such well-defined behavior could happen by accident... I can find a chat log if you want it.)
I think this is a bit of an edge case for the glitch rule though, so that'd be something to ask msleeper about.
Who wouldn't want to know?
