THE CUBE CHALLENGE: The Results!

yay

That was a lot of fun and the entries turned out great!

A good idea would be to wait to start the new competition after the Brawl contest on polycount ends.

Grats to everyone, been kind of away from this whole thing, I didn't even voted!

Good job everyone!

@ Minos, you nailed the style once again, good stuff!

Good stuff again gang~and grats Mino

Congratulations. Minotauro's map is quite eye-catching.

Congrats to the winners!

vfig, how did you pull off the infinite hallways trick in your map? That and the texturing workaround for not being able to light it conventionally got one of my votes.

Nice work everyone

Nice entries. Crunch time prevented me from finishing my scattered attempts. It seems I become more scatterbrained and less able to focus one thing the less sleep get and more stress I have.

Can't wait for the next one!

Great work!

SamCom: Thanks for the vote! I wrote a bit about my process in making the map on my blog, but not really the technical details. Incidentally, I voted for your map, because I thought it made excellent use of the limited space and would have made a decent DM level for about 4 players.

The infinite hallway—and all the other abnormal connections except the bridge—were done by duplicating some geometry in two places in the map. Each place had a trigger_teleport at the place where I wanted the switch to occur, an info_landmark (at precisely the same relative position to the geometry in each place), and and info_target at the same position as the other point's info_landmark.

A trigger_teleport moves the player (and/or NPCs, physics props, etc) when it is either touched or trigged. Normally it moves the player to the exact location and angles as its destination info_target; but if you use an info_landmark as well, then the player's position and angles relative to the info_landmark are preserved after teleporting relative to the info_target.

So when you reach the small building at one end of the arched path ("showtriggers 1" should show you where the teleport triggers are), you hit the trigger and are teleported to the building at the other end. I took care that the little bits of the world that you can see between the pillars from inside were similar enough that you wouldn't notice the transition. If you look carefully and hug the edges of the path you can actually see some differences, but they're small. If you noclip and fly past the central section of the map, you can see how similar the geometry on either side of the path is in each of the three sections of it. I introduced the fog to make the transition less noticeable also, and so that I didn't need to extend the path visually further than three sections.

The transition inside the tower is done the same way, but obviously it was easy to make two parts of the inside of it appear identical, since the geometry was exactly the same. Similarly, if you found the ladder that leads down to the top of the tower, there's a teleport just after the u-bend there: the ladder actually takes you under the ground, where there is a blank white wall (that is indistinguishable from the fog) and a tiny section copied from the tower railing--all that you can see through the doorway. As you walk towards the door, you are teleported to the top of the tower; and as you walk back in the door, you are teleported back to the underground room.

There's some great looking stuff in here, lots of original designs, the talent here never ceases to amaze me

Too bad my motivation is smashed and ruined on the floor, else I would've made something for this

Quote from Zyndrome

Too bad my motivation is smashed and ruined on the floor, else I would've made something for this

Why with that attitude the sky's the limit!!