[BLOG]: myApertureInnovations First Official Mapping Contest

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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 22, 2012
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Coppermantis wrote:
It's sort of working more or less now. Occasionally it will slip up but it's configuring for Portal more regularly.

This may have been addressed before, but how will the prizes be distributed between team entries? I'm going to assume that there won't be a signed poster and $30 game for everyone.

The poster will have to be for only one of the members, I'll let you decide how that works out. The nonspecific prizes will be for each team member.

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reepblue
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Posted Oct 24, 2012
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p0rtalplayer wrote:

Coppermantis wrote:
It's sort of working more or less now. Occasionally it will slip up but it's configuring for Portal more regularly.

This may have been addressed before, but how will the prizes be distributed between team entries? I'm going to assume that there won't be a signed poster and $30 game for everyone.>

The poster will have to be for only one of the members, I'll let you decide how that works out. The nonspecific prizes will be for each team member.

I just hope there is not just one map to play after the deadline.

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FelixGriffin
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Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Cobra and I have ours in the playtesting stage, so there will be at least one. Who else is entering?
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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Me! Unfortunately not as much custom stuff as I could have hoped for.
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p0rtalplayer
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Posted Oct 24, 2012
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Glad to hear we'll have at least a few entries

Working my ass off with this ~secret~ map, I suppose even if I don't finish it by the contest deadline I'll still release what I have around then (it's rather holiday-specific)

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Coppermantis
263 Posts
Posted Oct 24, 2012
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I hope I will be entering, but I will not have a chance of winning. Custom content is not my forte. Also my map will probably be terrible since my SDK only just recently started working at all, and it's still inconsistent.
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LambdaCore 21
144 Posts
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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why are you panicking? many people will test and refine the shit outta their maps (me2 btw)
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Omeqa
578 Posts
Posted Oct 25, 2012
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My map isn't still half way done, but a 3 days weekend might help!
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ChickenMobile
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Posted Oct 28, 2012
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Sorry to bother you peoples, but just a question regarding the submission of maps (I like to be annoying and in-depth) Pretty much I'm ready to post my stuff to the contest.

Can I upload it to the workshop/TWP as well as to mAI - or would this break some kind of submission rule? Because I would like to upload it to the workshop and post a link to the workshop page, that way I get ratings and plays straight away.

  • I am going to list everything custom made with references to everything else.
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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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ChickenMobile wrote:
Sorry to bother you peoples, but just a question regarding the submission of maps (I like to be annoying and in-depth) Pretty much I'm ready to post my stuff to the contest.

Can I upload it to the workshop/TWP as well as to mAI - or would this break some kind of submission rule? Because I would like to upload it to the workshop and post a link to the workshop page, that way I get ratings and plays straight away.

  • I am going to list everything custom made with references to everything else.

It's fine if you upload it other places, in fact I encourage you to do so, however I would like to request you at least mention it was made for this site, if not have a link - it is mostly a publicity contest, after all It's fine if you don't, it would just be great if you did.

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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Ok so I submitted my map and then realised that it doesn't take code tags.

I cant edit it because it I get this error:
[attachment=0:3t2uyi68]Untitled-1.jpg[/attachment:3t2uyi68]

Also I must be blind because I see no option to delete the map and re-do it.
Is there an uploading guide / managing thread somewhere? I tried both looking in announcements and searching.

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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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Congratulations friend, you have discovered the mess that is the site's filesystem right now

I'm on it. Hang tight.

Edit: okay, it's a code sanitation thing. That is to say, I have none of it. The brackets and slashes in the bbcode are fucking up the SQL query.

Edit2: Temporary fix, I'll update your post manually from the admin panel, you can fix it as you see fit.

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ChickenMobile
2,460 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 38 minutes later
I still can't edit it, even if I just put a couple of words in the description and one tag. - though it does change if I put a very small description (though still getting the error). I think it may have something to do with putting links into the description.

It doesn't matter for now. I got all I needed in it.

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reepblue
894 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
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p0rtalplayer wrote:
Congratulations friend, you have discovered the mess that is the site's filesystem right now

Does this mean he will get a medal? Be a big shame if he did not.

Three days left, looking forward to it.

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Coppermantis
263 Posts
Posted Oct 28, 2012
Replied 57 minutes later
Got Portal config to work again. Commence power-mapping session.
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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Hopefully, -hopefully-, it should all be working now

Workshop autodetection isn't, but I'll get to that tomorrow, along with a couple other things I need to clear up before the contest is over.

Pleasedon'tbreakpleasedon'tbreakpleasedon'tbreak

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Coppermantis
263 Posts
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Lots of wind here, unrelated to the Hurricane though. Power's sketchy. If my power, and thus my internet go out preventing me from uploading will it be acceptable to apply for an extension?
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p0rtalplayer
1,366 Posts
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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Coppermantis wrote:
Lots of wind here, unrelated to the Hurricane though. Power's sketchy. If my power, and thus my internet go out preventing me from uploading will it be acceptable to apply for an extension?

Yeah, sure thing. No more than a day or two, though.

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Coppermantis
263 Posts
Posted Oct 30, 2012
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p0rtalplayer wrote:

Coppermantis wrote:
Lots of wind here, unrelated to the Hurricane though. Power's sketchy. If my power, and thus my internet go out preventing me from uploading will it be acceptable to apply for an extension?>

Yeah, sure thing. No more than a day or two, though.

Yeah, wasn't expecting more than a day of no power. The wind seems to have died down with only some flickers (Although I hear the school nearby lost power for a little bit) so there probably won't be any need.

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FelixGriffin
2,680 Posts
Posted Oct 30, 2012
Replied 16 hours later
Hm, I think I found a glitch in the database. When I try to comment on a contest entry map, it says that I am "not authorized to access this forum".
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