Far Cry 2 Level Editor Contest Thread

I heard a saying yesterday, I think it was by the deli lama or however you spell his name..
It was something like:
"If something can be repaired, then you can fix it, however if something is beyond repair, don't waste your time trying to fix it, just forget about it as there is nothing that can be done"

That's not the exactly quote, but it was basically saying don't worry about things you can't change or fix, it doesn't matter how much you think about it or try and fix it, you'll never get anywhere and it'll just stress you out.

So although I brought that up about the voting system (because it's a possible issue, and it happens with most community vote based systems), there is nothing any of us can do about it, so as you've both just said, we get on with the show and enjoy the opportunity

The only MAIN concern I have about the competition is actually getting our maps up for people to actually vote for them, it's like we'll have to rely on eagles server
I'm going to try and get my own server going, and figure out what needs to be done with port forwarding and so on, but eh..1.5mb connection generally doesn't go too well with servers

The other concern which is a personal concern, is uploading video footage of the level. I only know how to record with fraps properly thanks to zahl, however i'm not too sure what a good video compression program is, so any recommendations fellas?

Finally, I will be entering some of my old maps because at least they'll get a fair go now and not excluded due to bullshit reasons from Hen, so that means Ultra Tank is back in the game, I'll be doing it all up again, i'll try and rework the gameplay, and ....well since the intel glider has to be in the maps...I guess i'm gonna have to put a glider at one of bases, ...it's just a matter of choosing which one ...

What maps are you guys going to enter? Are you going to rework on your old maps, or are you going to bring something new to the table....or a mix of new and old maps?

Don't worry guys ModDB will be happy to support you in any way - just holla if we can help you do well in this contest.

well im going to make a better cavern glider map, and im going to polish up oasis crater some more and put the intel glider at the top of the mountain.
im not sure what i could do with the gliders though, an obstical course seems daunting, but like a good idea, and i have no idea where this single player idea comes from, but im intrigued.

i dont think many of our existing maps are exactly glider friendly.

im going to toss in hang glider 256000 just cuz it's already got intel gliders 

so i might have a grand total of 4, MAYBE 5 submissions for consideration.    and a month to work on 'em...

Otreum, i think most of your maps are pretty close quarters, i cant think of any that would work well enough with gliders except the original Ultra Tank and Bob-omb battlefield.

Cant play fc2 any more
it say too much activions ,i had to install it twice and it was fine but after the patch i have to activate it again
i need to resolve this issue,and i wont buy another fc2 it`s stupid to lose all 5 activions for bugs and reinstalling eh

be persistent, dont give up, be demanding, but above all, be polite and courteous.  but whatever you do, do not hang up till you have won.

you're our hero if you pull this off, you'll start the ball rolling for the rest of us to get back at ubi for sellign a corrupt product that only gets 5 installs!   FFS it's retarded!

they DESERVE to be cursed out, yes, but dont do it, that will cause only failure.

Good luck forevers, im rootin for ya.

uhh  give it an hour, a little busy right now, but sure,   i'll be in tonight.   i just hope to make it in time to catch the regulars 

damn, seems i wont be on tonight after all, maybe next time.   how was it?

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wait, what?  huh?   i am so lost....  paying for a map pack? DLC?   im a deeper shade of confused than you, zahl.

WOOOOOOOOOOH, hang on, this is ridiculous, they shouldnt even be allowed to do shit like this, damn. Ohwell, people can waste their money on the damn addon, I don't need it, however it does mean that people are going to run around being little silenced shotgun whores and crossbow whores.....buh.

BTW all, i've been doing some recording of my D-Day map, and will need some help from a few of you to do some choreography, I really only need about 4-5 of you, if more then that'd be sweet. I would run my own server, however it seems that I simply CANNOT open ports any more, it just doesn't do it in the router settings, I set it up, I click the little add button and nothing....it's crap, and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it at this stage. Until I do fix it, I won't be able to run my own server specifically for the chereography unfortunately

Zahl and I spoke about this yesterday as did F0u and I, and we think it could be a good idea to get a server going with maps we want to record footage of for this new competition, so if you guys want to record, maybe we could compile a list of maps for eagle to run, and a server password on a side server that eagle or someone else can set up, so that we can all get a chance at getting some footage.

Otherwise it'd still be possible to TRY and use eagles normal server with our maps and TRY to get people to cooperate in order to make some cool vids.

Edited by: Otreum

This is a good way for ubisoft to support piracy don't you think, lol.
Those who don't have steam are forced to rely on piracy in order to obtain the addon, how stupid.

You can play bouncer if you like, but if you lag, your bouncing abilities won't be too effective

We should play some good old fashioned free Wolfenstein ET. I never played it and always wanted to; it's amazing how many potentially awesome multiplayer games I missed because I thought I sucked. Damb you CS and Q3! Probably hackers anyway. EDIT: ok I wasn't that bad in Q3, others were just awesome.

Anyway, I'm certainly down for some video making.

I am working on an update for East because that last one wasn't tickling me the right way =P I have a longer train now with diamonds on it and I moved the one base back to make the spacing equal.  New Synopsis:
Wild Bill and his band of gun running bandits, and Little Murphy and his gang of booze runners are collaborating on a train heist. The train in question is holding not only gold but a rare shipment of diamond. Quickly things get out of hand and they face off in a battle to steal the others diamonds.

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What what and what? Don't over-complicate things just take a quick video jeez =P All you need is an accumulated 2mins of footage of your map, and you are one happy bunny.

New update of Once Upon a Time in the East birdseye.  Mainly for showing the positioning of diamonds, and slightly moved back UFLL base location. I will do a little bit of work and upload to UBI later.

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I wish ubi would add 32 player support and assault mode so then we don't have to make symmetrical or semi symmetrical maps

That birdeye view looks nice, I'm not sure what it is, but there looks like there is a big chunky arse dirt road kinda thing going from one building to the other and it looks fugly from top view, although, I can't remember what you had before, so it may just look diff from top view.
I wish we could have more textures to work with not just a total of 4...it'd be nice to have about 6 textures just for little touchups in diff areas.

What video editing software do you guys use, i'm just getting CyberLink PowerDirector now because I HATE windows movie maker so much, it's just doesn't work how it should work, and yes that may come down to inexperience but it SHOULD NOT be hard to select an area in the timeline and just delete it or cut it and move it somewhere else.
Not only that but the video in the time line seems to only play once for me, and after that, it will not play again, it's freaking annoying. Oh yeah and the program crashed when I tried to add an effect lol.

Anywho, i've got all the clips from the editor that I need to record so all that's left is about 17 seconds of in game online footage showing the player running up the beach from the water with a few people while about 2 or 3 others fire down deliberately missing but hitting right near players with grenade fire and mg fire.

Then the rest of the in game stuff will be just be running through the trenches and segments will be recorded showing small gun fights. This will go for about 30 seconds, so basically whoever is set to defend during the choreography will not really be TRYING too hard to do any killing, and it'll basically be me raping the defenders while running through the rest of the level up until the last bunker which someone will have planted IED's inside of, which will in turn finish the video with a boom

Edited by: Otreum