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Speedmapping Thread!
From now on, this thread will be the place to discuss speedmapping issues. This will also be where all speedmapping events will be annouced. This is just an effort to keep General Abuse on it's topic of 'anything' rather than being about speedmapping every weekend.
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In Retrospect 
I was being wayyyy too ambitious, it would have been a good turtle map. 
Eeek, 
bit late with this, but yes, we're having an SM event tomorrow! /me blatantly CnP's Starbuck....

The time
9pm GMT on Saturday, 24th January
that corresponds to 4pm EST or 9pm UK time

The place
on IRC, in #speedq1 on gamesnet.net

The plan
Make a map in 100 minutes or less.

The theme?
well... we had spoken about doing the layout drawing thing, but there isn't a drawing ready ATM, so we'll hold off a bit again... I'd rather show that off on a wedesday so people can think about it.

So this week, optional theme of SKYWARD maps. This means the layout should go up up and away! Weee!

scampie@spawnpoint.org if you want to send me a map during the day tomorrow. 
Well Guys... 
I'll bang out a layout tomorrow and show it off and we can decide if this is what we want to do for sm65.

but big news for us now is... we got a little place on the internet to call our own! yay!

http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org

check out Pulsar's and RPG's expanded maps! 
Its Looking Great 
Pulsar and RPG's maps look awesome too, especially that outdoor shot of RPG's. 
Future Speedmap Theme 
May I suggest the theme of "parody" for a future speedmap? This would be any map that parodies something; it doesn't have to parody another map. For example, Penile Devastation and RPG100B1 are both parodies (the first is of Bestial Devastation, and the second is of Jeff K. (so is that a parody of a parody?)). 
65!!! 
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/etc/sm_layout.jpg

Speedmap 65!

Now we're going to do the use the layout drawing as the map's layout theme! In the above image, I have a few differant colored 'layout bits'. These are a top-down view. You may use these however you will, above/below, side by side, whatever. You do not have to use them all, and you may use them in multiples if you wish. The yellow hallway bits are suggestions that you could add some connecting hallways also, as I didn't draw any. some of thos bits I have drawn may be stairs, or walls, or just floor/ceiling details. There is no texture theme, use what you will.

Please look at the drawing a good long time and think about how to use the peices for this Saturday, 1/31/04.

Time will be 4:00 pm EST as always, and the 'timelimit' is '100 mins'. #speedq1 on irc.gamesnet.net is the meeting spot, or maps can be mailed to me at scampie@spawnpoint.org.

Have fun! 
Whose Two Year Old Drew That For Us? 
 
My Guess 
is its not anyone's who frequent these forums... I doubt any of us have ever been laid, let alone havea child. Maybe Martha Stewart's? It's colorful. 
EST = GMT-5 
I've been leaving WorldCratf since Tuesday and am ready to enter this one. I assume since it will be 11.00am over here in the UK, you boys obviously need the advantage of been only half awake.

Now, I just need to learn how to make a door before Saturday... 
.. 
*advantage of ME only being half awake*

Ho hum, it ain't as funny with a typo. 
Damn You, Timezones 
actually it starts at 9pm UK time, so you shouldn't be at a disadvantage there... a lot of speedmappers dwell in the lands of blighty too. 
Hmm You're Right. 
Having trouble with the very time of the competition is an imminent sign of my doom.

By the way, is it permissible to prepare a few custom textures in advance? 
Yeah 
thats never a problem 
It Just Occurred To Me 
that this week should have been run by myself, not that it matters of course. I may be able to join in the session this week too (!), as I've managed to set up quake on the shitty p233 
More Examples Of Parody 
SM49_Starbuck and probably sm63_Fat could both be considered examples of parodies. 
For Those Who Don't Follow Everything That Happens On IRC 
i'll run Parody as the theme next week.... its been ages since we had a 'silly' theme 
Speed-Episode 
Idea for speedmap session: provided enough people show up, I think it would be a cool idea to make a speed episode, where each player's map exits to another player's map making a mini-speed-episode. The maps could all be in the same style, so it'd roughly be like Quake Condensed, but with many people producing the maps instead of one person. Then the episode could be roughly equivalent to one full map per week instead of a collection of tiny insect maps per week. Good idea or bad, or has it been done before? 
I Like That Idea 
Sounds like fun. 
Idea For Speedmap Session: 
metal maps!

no-one seems to make metal maps anymore :( 
Probably 
because idbase is better 
...or Not 
...as popular concensus confirmed. 
Done 
Phew, finished! - only 6 hours late... but then it was my first map ever. heh :) 
Woo GJ 
where is it? 
Soz ... Here : 
http://freespace.virgin.net/megazoid/sp_mz1.zip

The map is in the shape of the bottom right object in the picture. I was going to use all 4 shapes, but erm, it took me 6 hours as it was :) 
Not Bad At All 
excellent for a first map, congrats. 
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