6 brushes for a box.

2-6 brushes for another box inside it, depending on how many surfaces are shared. That's around 10.

10 brushes left for one or two walkways or ramps, one or two platforms or pillars, and a crate or something. Remember DM7.

Let's do a speedmapping cont... oh, wait. 

3 for a dollar! 

You lack imagination... <--This.

You can do a lot with 20 brushes and the clipper, and some planning and imagination. I was pleased to win that contest Spirit linked, and I'm tempted to enter this one. It's fun to work within limitations.

Also, I noticed something they didn't cover in the rules and restrictions that opens up a lot of possibilities... 

I always wondered, also for a low-brush type of contest for Q1, if it's possible to use an info_notnull hack to infintely replicate pieces of architecture turned into func_static/wall. It kind of would be cheating, but technically not breaking the rules... 

...let's count faces... this cannot be tweaked nor cheated :P 

Or marksurfaces?

Also a func_wall is made of brushes. So it doesn't matter, its still a brush, right?

I mean if you said you were allowed external .bsp's then whats th point in having a brush limit? You might as well say "no brush limit". 

Check this out http://negke.quaddicted.com/files/11brushes.zip

I'm inclined to test if this works in Q3 as well. 

Now that's just plain devious. Im sure you could argue that it uses more than 11 brushes, because it's like 5 of the brushes have been shown ten times, so effectively there are over 50 brushes worth of architecture.

Still, there ARE only 11 brushes in the source, so - who knows?

Im not gonna be the guy who makes that descision :S

Still - it's a neat trick :) 

I think the most interesting challenge is to use only 20 brushes, without any reuse via entity hacks, and counting brushes in bmodels towards the limit. Otherwise you'd get free lifts and doors as well.

i.e. a hard limit.

As I understand it, it is a test of how much you can do with a small amount of brushes, not how well you can entity hack. ;-) 

 

negke this is not 11 brushes :p


more like 11 walkways -:p 

all things hav 2 sides neggers ;-) 

 

;)

have to remember that 

all rules have exceptions to them as well :) 

If that's true, there must be an exception to that rule itself, and thus your statement is wrong. 

ParaDOX!!! 

Visit inertia in NYC!!!! 

.. Israeli mappers in this place ?
I have to go to Tel Aviv by end of January... 

:) you should come to Lisbon :) more safe...

and I buy you some beers ;) 

The day there will be an event in Portugal for which my company ask would me to go for, then you'll be the first to know ;) 

gosh, exchange of nerdisms.

*Tactical shield* 

two new reviews by tronyn are up at http://www.quaddicted.com/category/tronyn-reviews/ 

http://willbarnesonline.com/wordpress/2010/11/29/hi-res-camera-catches-couple-in-the-act/ 

A hi-res version of Obtex texture set? I'm guessing not, but I thought it was worth asking :S