The 2015 Summer 72hr Mapping Contest!

[GPuzzle1]

I would have loved to participate in this, unfortunately, I'm travelling on the 30th of June.

Probably for the better that I didn't manage to participate in this.

 

[Fantaboi]

What are the rules on modifying MVA assets for this?
I wanna try and make some of them.. bigger, but I'm not even sure if the assets are completely available.

I can do this both during/before the contest.

 

[iiboharz]

I would have loved to participate in this, unfortunately, I'm travelling on the 30th of June.

Probably for the better that I didn't manage to participate in this.

It's in July though.

 

[Berry]

What are the rules on modifying MVA assets for this?
I wanna try and make some of them.. bigger, but I'm not even sure if the assets are completely available.

I can do this both during/before the contest.

Can't you just use the prop scale setting?

 

[GPuzzle1]

It's in July though.

Then it's worse, end of Winter Holidays. Oh well.

Might attempt to do it earlier, though.

 

[tyler]

Can't you just use the prop scale setting?

...this works now?

 

[Crash]

...this works now?

Yep! Has to a be a prop dynamic.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

It doesn't dynamically scale in editor though, so you'll have to compile to see how the scaling works.

 

[tyler]

Neat, thanks. Anything else change in the last few years I should know about?

 

[Berry]

It doesn't dynamically scale in editor though, so you'll have to compile to see how the scaling works.

I feel like it may also make sense to use maths when you can, though that doesn't really work when you're trying to get a specific bit to a specific size. (Though a VBSP only compile doesn't exactly take forever, so what's lost?)

 

[Idolon]

Neat, thanks. Anything else change in the last few years I should know about?

Prop lightmaps!

What are the rules on modifying MVA assets for this?
I wanna try and make some of them.. bigger, but I'm not even sure if the assets are completely available.

I can do this both during/before the contest.

If you can get permission from the MvA people for anyone/everyone to be able to modify the props, and/or release the modified props before the contest begins, then yes.

 

[tyler]

How long do we have to say if we're doing one of the other weekends? I'll have to do one of those but I won't know which is better until they are closer. That alright?

 

[Idolon]

You can let me know any time up until a period actually starts. I'd like to know before then just for convenience sake, though.

 

[Mangoe]

I noticed that in a recent update Valve added a cvar for servers that by default blocks usage of point_servercommands. Will the TF2Maps Server have this disabled, so we can use point_servercommands?

 

[Idolon]

We've never allowed the use of point_servercommands in the past, and we don't plan on changing that.

We will allow the use of point_servercommands, but we prohibit most of the things that you can do with it. As long as whatever it does is something that automatically resets itself to default, you can use it.

In other words, if its a variable that a sever might have set to something other than the default value, don't mess with it. mp_restartround is an example of something that you can modify, since it isn't a setting.

 

[Mangoe]

Oh, ok. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Idolon]

I made a mistake in my last post. We will allow point_servercommand to be used, but most of its uses are not allowed. See the above post for a further explanation.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

(If you're not sure, please ask!)

 

[Mangoe]

So "sv_allow_point_servercommand" will be set to "always"?

And am I able to change the value of "mp_waitingforplayers_cancel"? Not really sure if that's considered a setting or not.

 

[nightwatch]

why would you want to?