Staredit Network

SEN Mapmaking Team

I got permision from Moose to make this. This Team will be official meaning that they will be the only people who can put in Map Made By: Staredit Network. They will be working as a team in whatever maps the team is working on. Only one map will be worked on at a time since we want to make the best maps. The

Team will be divided in 3 sections: Terrain, Triggers and Writing. You can apply to any of the 3 sections as many times as you want and you can apply to several of them at once. If you are to apply to one section you need to be average in the other two.

For now I will be elading this team during it's first month or two. After that I will resing that position and assing the person whom I think is the best Team Leader. I will resing because I want to be fair and if I want to get in I'll get in the way everybody will get in. For now I'll just be as a guide. The second in command will be doing what the Leader would be regulary doing.

Requets to get in.

Writing
- Submit a piece of writing with at least 250 words.
- You need to have very few or no spelling errors.
- Gramatical and Ortographical integrity is very important.
- In depth plot and character development is important/\.

Terrain
- Submit a map no smaller than a fully used 96x96 map.
- Making pictures with Square Terrain will not get you in.
- Doodad placement and unit placement is important.
- Making use of Extended Terrain. (IE: DeathKnight's Waterfall)

Triggers
- Submit a map with as many advanced triggers as you can
- The map should only be about showing triggers. (IE: You go into area A and that will show A trigger. Area B will show B Trigger)
- There is to be no bugs in this map
- If you have created a trigger system before or right now with your map you have better chances of getting in.
- Here is a good example of advanced trigger system. Thank to Nozomu.
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SEN Mapmaking Team Roster

Leader
BeeR_KeG[eM]

Co-Leaders
LegacyWeapon
RexyRex
CaptainWill

Recruiters
BeeR_KeG[eM]
T-Virus(U)
Moogle

Writers
l)ark2004
CaptainWill
T-Virus(U)

Terrainers
VoidArchon(MC)
007Torrasque
Moogle

Triggerers
TEC_Ghost
LegacyWeapon
RexyRex
Kenoli(U)
High
TRiGGaMaSTa

Graphical Artists
TEC_Ghost
Moogle


Special Thanks To:
BSTRhino - Helps us with Team issues and gives us Tips on how to work with maps
Nozomu - Gave us the Trigger Example Map and helps us with team ideas
Mini Moose 2707 - Originally supported the idea
isolatedpurity - Gave us our Forum

Can we try to sign in even if we're already signed in other map making groups in other sites?

Yes, but if we see inactivity by your part in this team you will be kicked out.

Yoshi told us to put SEN in our maps if we could, to spread the word of our existance.

Ah, but we normally put in http://www.staredit.net/ don't we!

ok then, I'll give it a shot.

I'm trying to apply to Writer and Terrainer, you sure know that my English is bad... but eh... I'll give it a shot anyway:


And I attached a map for terraining, it took me 7 hours to make.

Moose told me that he doesn't want people putting SEN Productions or anything.
He said just put the http://www.staredit.net/

lemme review that writing

ADDITION:

Nice story. I liked it even though it had a couple of errors. It had a pretty vague introduction but the climax was awesome




You're in as a writer.
I'll edit the first post to put all the members in there.

ADDITION:
I liked your terrain. It's very detailed but not cluttered.
Can you make Extended Terrain?
IE: something like DK's waterfall
It doesn't have to be as good as that but it can be custom made ramps, custom buildings...

I've made this one fast, if it's not good enought I'll work longer and bring something for tomorrow.

I plan on trying out for this SEN Team. I Like to work as a "team" and things as such as that. I want to join the Terrain and storyline part. I'll go work on the terrain, but before i go i will write a story for the "writers" position.

Vegence of Alex

During the middle ages time a war was fought out through the world we know as earth. A great dark-wizard had threatened the human and elf race, for power he grew with. He has gained control of the orc's and the other hedious beasts throughout middle earth. 20 Years ago a young man (Alex's father) fought against this Evil Force, and lost his own life to save a allie.

Trailer : The race of humans and elfs slowly walk side by side as the near the darkness (fog). They set up cannons and wield there swords as they wait for the beasts of the darkness to kreep out of the emptyness of the pitch black fog. Suddenly thousands of orc's spawn out of the darkness and the war begins. Cannons exploding, Humans sword fighting, elfs using there arrow's of light. The Dark hand greatly out numbers the anti-darkness as they notice defeat is near. Quickly Alex's father retreats his forces and with only one man left behind, Alex's father goes to save him and dies himself. 20 Years later Alex has become a young man himself and now he's out to find what happend to his father so long ago and why he never returned home.

Vegence of Alex (1) : The Search
You start off in a small coastal down on the beaces of the City of Azar. In the 1st of the trilogy you ask people if they know your father and you slowly build up clue's and start solving the puzzle while you have to do little mission-like objectives for the villagers to gain information. At the end of "The Search" you relize your dad was killed by the Dark-Wizzard of middle earth and now you seek to revenge his death.

Vegence of Alex (2) : Middle Earth
Now you are in middle earth we're your surronded by choatic beastes everywhere. You slowly move your way through the dark damp caves and eventually after going through many maze-like puzzles you make it to the Castle of qKasor. (The castle of death). From there you enter the third map..

Vegence of Alex (3) : qKasor Chaos
After entering the castle you must watch every step because in the castle of qKasor one wrong step can lead to death. It is a very puzzle / Tricky map and eventually if you can make it to The Dark-Wizards Liar you battle for revenge of your father. After slaying the wizard you return home and peace on earth is brought back.

I plan on releasing terrain for the terrain part of the team also. Please be patient. Also to contact me you can msg me on aim, msn, email, or private msg me.
AIM: Skater U Hater
MSN: sss_curtis@hotmail.com
Email: sss_curtis@hotmail.com

Isn't this KINDA like the little thing yoshi had about starting a map and someone else picking up where the other's left off?

Didn't that fail?

Ok, wasnt sure exactly how you wanted trigger maps, so here's my latest trigger system, its got everythig organized and commented if you want to take a look.

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And I can do terrain to, I have a melee map in the pro section of the DLDB

http://www.staredit.net/index.php?download=1283

Yoshi did something like this before?

T-Virus(U): that was pretty good but I saw no character development. If you can make a short one of about 1-2 paragraphs just emphazising in character development you'll probably be in.

AqoTrooper: You have a pretty good grasp in Extended Terrain and you're great making terrain in SCXE. You're in as terrainer but promise me you will practice with Extended terrain.

TEC_Ghost: I've seen that map before and it's quite good and I put it in pro section cause I liked it. Now make me some extended terrain.
I won't be able to see your triggers soon since I have practice now but I'll take a look at them tonight or tomorow.

BTW: If I have say 10 people in a category and some else wants to join and is better than the people we currently have someone will be removed from the team. As I said we want the best.

No idea what your talking about

Well i guess i better try out..

Job i want:
- Terrain

Here are my maps:

Sample 1 Map, i was messing around on jungle trying something out.
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Sample 2 Map, Another terrain map.
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Good terrain, nice gameplay and bit of triggers. Nice cutscenes and stuff =) i guess up to you. To say yes or no if ya like it.
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Hey np, I did that map in 20 minutes so I didn't put up too much effort into it, I'll work on a 128*128 one and make some really good terrain and post tomorrow or after tomorrow.
Also, I'd like to try get in as triggerer, do I need to put more than the things listed below:
1. hyper triggers
2. use of switches
3. use of kill counters
4. cloaking units
5. anti-lift
6. doors
7. pylonless buildings
8. hmm... hmm?

AqoTrooper,

I think you'll find he looking for complex trigger people, something like bolt and Tuxedo-Templar and whoelse is complex or good as them at triggering.

ADDITION:
Beer, you say only one project? im sure you will have enough people do number projects like 2 - 3. Will a person in team or outside team be allowed suggest ideas to SEN MMT?

[Center] I am apllying for the story writer thing[/Center]



Leopold was wrapping up his days work when he realized he left one of the lights on inside the pit. He slowly climbed back down the ladder through the dark wet hole leading over 300 feet into the earth’s crust. He was about 60 ft. from the ground when he dropped his light “ !” he yelled aloud. God I need to retire he thought. He took two more steps down the ladder when he saw movement above, “HEY, this is a private excavation site. GET OUT!” he yelled. The loud boom of his voice echoing throughout the site. But, there was silence, What the hell am I doing all I need to do is turn the light off and then I can go home. He started down the ladder once again then he saw something hurling down towards him. Leopold was trapped and had nowhere to go. Being a strong man he grapples the ladder praying that what ever was flying down to him would miss.
Leopold was hit with bone crushing force and before he knew it he was twirling wildly towards the ground. There was a loud crash and then silence. Leopold awoke in a heavy daze with the object that had him topple off the ladder was laying lifelessly no top of him. He gasped in horror to see what was on top of him. It was a body that looked as if it had been decomposing for weeks. The body had one weird feature about it. Body was not dead from the fall. The body had one gaping hole between the eyes. The body was of a beautiful teenage girl that had gone missing weeks ago. Leopold tried moving but the weight on him was too much for him he couldn’t move his legs. He looked down and the bone in his shin was sheering out of the skin and reality started filtering in through his concussion. He began to whimper worried he would not be able to get out of this tomb alive. Leopold always worked harder than any of his teammates, the regular shift was two days a week but Leopold was in love with his job he worked seven days a week. He then realized that the next shift was not due until three days. Surely enough he knew he would die if he did not get out.
Back at the Winston home his wife began getting worried because her husband never worked this late. It was now 10:08 PM. His wife was a 28 year old nurse who embarrassingly made double on her salary. His wife was named Sophie she was a skinny mother who still looked as if she was in college but with eyes of deep blue wisdom.
Sophie knew something was wrong so she called the excavation agency hoping he was in the main office translating information into the main databank. He was never a computer person she chuckled to herself. But, she knew that was not the case. So she tried his cell phone but got the out of service tone.
She began to worry and thinking if something had happened to him when he was climbing out of the cave. That damn grave he calls home. He spends more time there than at the house. As she gets her clothes back on to go to the excavation pit to see if he was still there. Her cell phone got a text message and she opened up her flip phone and read aloud in a mono-tone “GT2DRCTROFFCENW” she knew exactly what it was: Get to the director’s office now. She had only seen this once and that was when some unfortunate soul came in from an accident with a local sport who had broken his back. Sophie was the head nurse in back and neck injuries. But, tonight was different she debated whether to go check up on her husband, she decided Leopold was alright and that she was worrying to much and decides to go to the hospital.
Leopold was getting dehydrated now and the numbing pain began to take its toll on his mental power. He began yelling like a crazed dog barking at the sirens of a passing fire truck. He started to worry more and more and now looked at his watch 3:38 AM. “Oh My God, I am NOT going to die down here!” He yelled with desperate inspiration hoping that would give him the strength to put the body that now felt like a freight train was on top of his chest. His breathing became more rapid and heavy. As he pushed on the body he saw black filtering into his vision. tunnel vision, that isn’t a good sign. He knew his body was now going into shock. He tried one last time to remove the body but fell into a dazed sleep.
As Sophie pulled into the parking lot there was a helicopter landed fifty feet from her office entrance. She was now trotting towards her office placing her uniform on in a desperate attempt. Sophie was unlocking her office when a man approached her. The man looked as if out of a movie, he was wearing a wire behind his ear and a black suit with a black tie. “Are you Dr. Winston?” he asked with an urgent tone. “Yes I am.” Sophie replied with a weary tone, “Come with me you are needed at the intelligence agency.” Sophie was puzzled. “Who are you.” “Don’t ask questions Doctor there is no time I will brief on our way to the Agency.” The man grabbed her arm and pulled her into the helicopter. She didn’t resist him. Sophie could feel the mans overpowering grip around her forearm, the man was walking very briskly and did not turn around once. What the hell do they want with me? She thought to herself. They both entered the highly sophisticated helicopter. The man sat her next to someone she had seen before but she couldn’t place a name or when she had seen the person.
The helicopter ripped away from the ground at mind-boggling speeds. Sophie asked the man “Why am I here I need to be in my Director’s Office!” “Doctor the Intelligence Agency was the one who sent that message your Director has no idea of your whereabouts.” “But what is going on? And why do you need me all I am is a Supervisor at St. Mary’s Medical Center.” “You haven’t done anything Doctor, it is about one of your previous patients. I believe his name was Josh Anderson” Sophie said the name under her breath a few times until she realized who it was. It was the boy who had broken his back. “What does he have to do with me being here? He was a patient of mine!” She asked frantically. “Well we need to know everything about his health, age, and appearance.” The man said as if he had been reciting that line all night “And you are asking me!?” “Well this is one of his best friends his name is Michael, but he won’t tell us any information on where Josh is.” “So you asked me to give you a profile on him?” “Exactly.” She leaned back and began to think about Leopold and wondering if he had made it home again. She pulls out her cell phone and begins to dial the number, “STOP, yelled the guard pointing a gun at Sophie’s head. There will absolutely no communication to people outside of this helicopter!” Sophie began to sweat profusely. What the hell is going on here, I was called into work by some Agency, They want information about some punk kid who broke his back, and now I am not even able to call my husband. “Your telling me I can’t even call my house?” “No, we are running a high classified case and there will be no information leaks.” Sophie puts her phone away and begins to think about being at home in her warm bad with her husband.
Leopold was now coming in and out of consciousness he looked at his watch and the time was now 6:54 AM. He knew he wasn’t going to live much longer he decided to give up and die in this dark tomb 300 ft. below the surface of the earth. Leopold had closed his eyes and gave up the on going battle to live. Leopold was now dead with a girl who had been kidnapped, shot, and disposed carelessly in a hole that looked inhabited.
Sophie began describing Josh. “Well, Josh was tall, brown hair, brown eyes, typical jock from high school, strong looked like the team leader.” “Is that all you can remember Doctor?” “Yes, for now it is late and he was in my care over eight months ago. Besides, what is this about?” “Have you heard of the 17 year old girl who went missing about six months ago?” “Ya I guess so.” Sophie said with not full clarity of what this has to do with her. “Well we believe Josh was involve in her kidnapping and we need to question him. But, he is running from us so we believe that he wasn’t just involved but he was the one that kidnapped her.” “I still don’t understand why I am here?” “Doctor, I am not at liberty to tell you why you are here, but what I can tell you is that if you see this punk watch yourself he is considered to be armed and dangerous!”
The helicopter began slowing down and heading towards the cold damp earth. They landed after what seemed to be hours of continuous flight. They walked in a line as if coordinated they were all in step and two by two with the man in the suit in front. The building the were heading towards was enormous with over 20 stories. The walls were a stark white with windows that looked as if they were mirrors. They entered the building through doors that mad a hissing noise and then rolled into the wall like doors on a science fiction movie her husband loved. God I hope Leo is alright, she thought quickly before she was interrupted by another man pointing a gun that looked like a weed killer at her and said through a gas mask “Close your eyes and mouth please!” And the man began spraying her with the gun.


It isn't finished but if you want me to finish it i guess i will

Define complex, you're right that what I stated is not enought, but I'm asking than what's defined complex.
So BeeR_KeG[eM], or someone else that might later on appear under the 'Leader' line in the first post of this tread, define 'complex triggers' so that it'll be clear what you want.
As for now, I don't find SC triggering difficult at all... if there are aspects of it that I haven't heard of I wanna hear of!

He should give better example =/

I'm good with grammar and stuff, I'm not much for writing though (Oh sure, I can write about a topic, rant and rave, but I dont make plots very well).

Is there any limit to the map team size? When's the deadline? (I want to use my tourney map, becuause it has some advanced triggering in it. Somewhat. But I dont know if that would count as early releasing and whatnot, I'm not done though. I need to just do some simple trigger and copy it 43 times. )

I'd like to apply to the triggering department. But I have few maps that would qualify me... (I'll post some of my maps, and tests, and whatnot)

(BTW, I know Starforge triggers, if that helps at all xD)

Simple map I made, noting special, just felt like posting it. (Spike Dodge)
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Making another simple map as my real entry... (lol)

You should try asking BSTRhino too about the rules to Starchitects before join this team.

Anyway, I hope you guys get a good start off with team. Maybe a map battle between Starchitects and this team in the future.

This is just because I enjoy writing...

Above the planet Nihal IV, a pinprick of white light shone briefly in the upper atmosphere, becoming a faint streak as an object fell towards the surface near the small, isolated outpost of Trai Ridge. The forested hillside beneath the outpost glowed for a second as the object hit the ground at high velocity, and an audible thump echoed across the valley.

Captain Dethus squinted through his military issue Teleglasses at the landing site - the enveloping darkness of the 37 hour Nihalian night had quickly returned after that momentary flash of light from down in the valley - and a wall of dark conifers prevented any observation of whatever had landed down there. Dethus quickly switched the Teleglasses to infra-red mode, scanning the dense forest for the tell-tale red blip in the darkness. Aha! There it was - a rounded object had appeared on the screen projected by the equipment. Dethus frowned - the object was too rounded to be natural, and the on-board assistant software was bleeping at him frantically to take notice of something. "What is it?" he snapped irritably. The long nights of sentry duty on this godforsaken backwater planet were a constant strain on his patience, and the last thing he wanted to hear was the digitised voice of the assistant telling him that there was problem with his Teleglasses. The damned things always seemed to break. At the sound of Dethus's voice, the assistant flashed up a message on the screen, and at the same time informed him:

"Warning, heavy gamma and ultraviolet radiation is being emitted from the coordinates 164'452."

Dethus was alarmed. A radioactive, ultraviolet emitting, perfectly round object sitting in the forest less than a mile from his position was not good news. He interrogated the assistant:

"Get me a GeoSat reading on the coordinates."
"Sorry, Captain, GeoSat appears to be offline."

Dethus' eyes widened. GeoSat was never offline, ever!
The assistant continued:

"All satellites on the GeoSat network are failing to respond - heavy radar interference has been detected."

This was extremely strange, and the captain was feeling more and more uneasy as he thought about the situation. An unknown object had landed in the forest, and Nihal IV's interplanetary communications had been cut off. He removed the communicator from his belt and called the outpost commander.

***

Down in the forest, a large, dark form emerged from the red-hot drop pod lying in a small clearing that its sudden arrival had created for itself. It took less than five seconds for it to come awake from its state of hibernation and enter its only other state - that of battle readiness. As it stared up the valley towards Trai Ridge, the lights of the outpost filtered through the trees and reflected dully off the new arrival's eyes. 'Let the prey come to you.' The thought echoed in the mind of the scout, and it obeyed it without question. It silently scaled the trunk of a tall fir, and waited.

***

Trai Ridge Outpost was still quiet. The civilian settlement in the North-Eastern corner of the enclosure was sleeping peacefully, as was much of the military complex. The perimeter lights still shone, and so did the lights of the commander's office on the second floor of the officers' lodgings.

"Just send a scouting team down, Dethus." said Commander Richardson, not at all happy to have been ousted from his bed, "We can fully investigate this in the morning, which is, I might add..." he made a point of looking at his watch "...in just 5 hours time."
"But, Sir, the assistant gave some very disturbing readings."
"You know as well as I do that our equipment here is obsolete and prone to errors, Captain" said Richardson, his tone final "Send a scouting team to investigate this anomaly, or ignore it. Good Night, Captain Dethus."

***

Five minutes later, Troopers Bennett and Smith were zipping through the forest on their scoutbikes. Their Xenon headlights cut through the darkness as they rapidly approached the landing site. Smith tapped his helmet, activating the short-range communicator with Bennett's earpiece. He wished that they didn't have to wear the cumbersome HAZ suits, but a worried-looking Captain Dethus had told them that they were investigating a source of radiation.

"Hey, do you know exactly what it is we're supposed to be looking for?" he asked.
"No, they don't tell us anything - you should know that by now, Derek."
Smith paused for a second.
"So...you didn't buy that crap Dethus spouted about a meteorite?"
"Of course not, why would he send us out at night to investigate something as mundane as a meteorite? There's obviously something he's not telling us."
"Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking."
"Proceed with caution then?"
"Yeah, stay alert."

***

The scout watched from its vantage point as the clumsy bikes approached the rapidly cooling drop-pod. It would wait for the men to dismount before attacking - it did not want one of them getting away to raise the alarm. The bikes stopped. The scout's claws extended to their full length and a boil of adrenaline-based combat hormones surged through its body as the first man jumped off his bike to investigate the landing site. A thought flashed through the scout's mind: 'Humans can be curious to the point of stupidity.' Watching the two men in the clearing, the scout had to agree.

Derek Smith was approaching the drop-pod slowly when Bennett's voice spoke through to him through his earpiece.

"Stop. I think we should call Trai Ridge before we go any further. I have a really bad feeling about this - there just seems to be some kind of...evil aura about this thing, and it's obviously not a meteorite, so we can just tell them that it's something weird, and get out of here."

Smith tapped his helmet three times to connect to the outpost communications centre.

"I'm just getting static, Jack."

Bennett tapped his own helmet.

"I've got a connection, but it's shaky." "Control, come in Control."
A tinny sounding voice answered. "This is Trai Ridge - we can hardly hear you, Trooper Bennett, there is too much static on the line. Please report your current situation."
"We've located the anomaly and it's no meteorite, I can tell you..."

Meanwhile, Smith was reaching out to touch the drop-pod's glossy black surface. He was suddenly thrown to the floor as his hand encountered some kind of powerful force-field. Dazed, he realised that most of the energy had been absorbed by the HAZ suit. 'I'm glad we brought them after all,' he mused.

Bennett saw his friend fall to the floor, and with an exclamation of 'Jesus...,' leapt from his bike and began jogging towards the prone Smith. He never made it there. Without warning, something dropped from the trees on the other side of the pod, and hurled itself at him. It was like looking into the face of Death as it silently closed the distance, eyes locked on and glowing, mouth open in a slavering mess of razor-sharp teeth, and 4ft blades extended. Smith forced himself to his feet and looked on in horror as the creature whipped its claws left and right in a frenzy of aggression, slicing Bennett into three pieces as if he were made of warm butter. Smith was already dashing for the nearest bike, his suit encumbering him as he scrambled into the seat and rammed his foot onto the accelerator. Nothing happened. Panicking, he grabbed his sidearm - an automatic pistol, aiming it at the monstrous creature as it left Bennett's mangled corpse and rushed at him, once again with that deadly silence. It seemed to anticipate him, weaving to the left. Still, several bullets smacked into the scaly body of the scout, but it still came on, raising the 4ft claws above Smith's chest and bringing them downwards, slicing through his torso and then continuing into the frame of the bike, pinning him like an insect. The angry creature did not afford Smith the mercy that it had given to Bennett, leaving the trooper to die in the seat of the destroyed scoutbike.

At Trai Ridge Outpost, the operators at control listened in shock to the screaming and tearing sounds coming across the comms channel over the static. Suddenly, there was silence.

"I think," said an ashen faced operator, her expression grim, "That someone should call the captain."

Well im not sure exactly what your asking for i'm thinking your asking for more of a description of the character thats reasonable.

Alex (A 20 year old, young man) is finally old enough to search for his father. He knew nothing about his father , killed when he was just a little boy and his mother died shortly after. He has been working in the fields all of his early life and now he is set to quest to figure out what happend to his father (which takes place in the 1st map). Alex basicly becomes a young warior after finding out what happend to his father and basicly becomes pretty angry. He learns new skills, by training and fighting enemy's. Oh also that is just one idea, i do alot better with horror story's so beer_keg if you feel you need to hear another story please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Still..hoping to get on the team...
T-Virus

Finished my simple battle map

I dont play starcraft anymore is it possible to be a writer? I'll add a piece of writing w/e you guys tell me if its okay.