Report, edit, etc...Posted by DemonicDragon on 2006-12-13 at 05:01:49
Due to me being a bit short on minerals, being a just-now-active member of the forums, be it ever so slightly...
Anyways, the idea is to whip up terrain that one look at makes a person go, "What the ----?!" Simple stuff, like the famous stairwell artwork (which evades my name at the moment)...
I figure the contest would judge best on the most complex optical illusion that appears normal at first glance, but makes you question it at a closer glance.
If anyone's interested in doing this contest, I'd love to see the artwork that is completed, but, sadly, I can't host (lack of minerals, as said before, and a lack of constant time at the forums).
Anyways, the idea is to whip up terrain that one look at makes a person go, "What the ----?!" Simple stuff, like the famous stairwell artwork (which evades my name at the moment)...
I figure the contest would judge best on the most complex optical illusion that appears normal at first glance, but makes you question it at a closer glance.
If anyone's interested in doing this contest, I'd love to see the artwork that is completed, but, sadly, I can't host (lack of minerals, as said before, and a lack of constant time at the forums).
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Tuxedo Templar on 2006-12-13 at 05:57:08
Well, I can see a contest like this being mostly sprite-based, if you're to ask for something abstract like illusions (tiles are difficult to be expressive with due to their rigidity). Most illusions are accidental as is anyway, so you'd be hard pressed to make a contest out of deliberate ones. Hard enough for most mappers to deliberately achieve even intended illusions.
This would certainly be a challenge. Probably too much so for most. I'd be interested in seeing it anyway if more people are interested, though. We could always use a bigger library of effects and illusions to work with for maps.
This would certainly be a challenge. Probably too much so for most. I'd be interested in seeing it anyway if more people are interested, though. We could always use a bigger library of effects and illusions to work with for maps.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by spinesheath on 2006-12-13 at 08:45:00
You mean like this?
Yes, I know it's poor. It just fixed this up quickly...
Yes, I know it's poor. It just fixed this up quickly...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by WoodenFire on 2006-12-13 at 14:57:35
Everyone these days is just copying Rush's unnatural cliff-faces, whats with that? Is that the new fad and illusion that your good with terrain? Wierd.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by spinesheath on 2006-12-13 at 15:31:55
I said it's poor, can't you read? 
I didn't eben try to be original in this.
I didn't eben try to be original in this.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by DemonicDragon on 2006-12-13 at 20:34:35
Yeah, that was the sort of stuff I meant.
I figured stuff like this would be a challenge, and I'll see if I can do some myself... but with the way the camera is in SC, you'd think that opitcal illusions could be produced en masse.
I figured stuff like this would be a challenge, and I'll see if I can do some myself... but with the way the camera is in SC, you'd think that opitcal illusions could be produced en masse.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by NerdyTerdy on 2006-12-14 at 00:16:10
Somehow, I doubt it will work. To me the idea just doesn't sound that appetizing. Sorry 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by purple100 on 2006-12-14 at 00:50:44
How about impossible Escher-like scenes? Staircases that endlessly go down but meet up with each other, magic cubes, etc. Imitations of classic M.C. Escher paintings. It could be done.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Corbo(MM) on 2006-12-14 at 01:36:02
Well, to the comment of "(tiles are difficult to be expressive with due to their rigidity)" I have to say that: "Well, the point of a contest isn't it make it hard for the people to get creative and win?
And anyways, you could always test them to various scenes like giving them a list and say:
Make this: Beach, spaceship (from the inside), a forest, and such.
And after that the people will sed you all their tries to those scenes and the one that has the most winner scenes wins... that would be hard and fun because you will be testing their creativity to various cases too and not just one
And anyways, you could always test them to various scenes like giving them a list and say:
Make this: Beach, spaceship (from the inside), a forest, and such.
And after that the people will sed you all their tries to those scenes and the one that has the most winner scenes wins... that would be hard and fun because you will be testing their creativity to various cases too and not just one
Report, edit, etc...Posted by spinesheath on 2006-12-14 at 02:16:52
QUOTE(purple100 @ Dec 14 2006, 01:50 AM)
How about impossible Escher-like scenes? Staircases that endlessly go down but meet up with each other, magic cubes, etc. Imitations of classic M.C. Escher paintings. It could be done.
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I essentially did the endless staircase, it's the quickly done example in this thread...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Tuxedo Templar on 2006-12-14 at 03:28:28
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Well, the point of a contest isn't it make it hard for the people to get creative and win?
It is, but simply making it hard doesn't work. It has to have more than that.Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2006-12-15 at 14:14:16
The lllusion that you are ontop of the rock! 
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheatEnabled on 2006-12-15 at 18:11:36
That's a bit lame, Ratent. You could rather make an illusion that you are on jungle terrain in badlands or something.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2006-12-15 at 18:29:48
Or make the illusion that the enemy is rushing your base of only four marines with 50 reavers two minutes in a game of melee. But then you find out that they are all hallucinations. 
(Of course the real surprise in that is you now know they have a bunch of high templars and your screwed anyway...)
(Of course the real surprise in that is you now know they have a bunch of high templars and your screwed anyway...)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Tuxedo Templar on 2006-12-18 at 05:06:22
Hmm. I think this could work if the contest theme was more specific. Like "building illusions" or "nature illusions" or something like that. Most custom terrain is for illusions anyway.