Map of the Month #6

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=229131

 

Attention Map of the Month mappers and fans!

As you may already know, Map of the Month #6 (June) will pit against each other the last five month’s winners---The Crucible, Marshlands, Sanctuarium, The Eighteenth and Hysteria---in a super Grand Tournament (details still to come).

But that doesn’t mean there isn't an opportunity for mappers to show their skills! For MotM #6, in addition to the Super Tournament, we also present:

Map of the Month #6 Aesthetics Challenge
A great map has balance and looks amazing.

The purpose of this challenge is to submit a map with a solid visual look or theme. In order to take the map layout out of the equation, every submission should be a redress of this ugly duckling of a map:

Download the map file.

It is your job to turn this duckling into an amazing-looking man-eating ninja swan.


What constitutes an amazing looking map? Should there be 10,000 lights? Should you use every doodad in the catalog? Should the map be a beautiful menagerie of critters with some minerals in there somewhere?

No!

An amazing-looking Starcraft 2 melee map should:

• Always put the game first. Can you see the important pathways, cliffs and choke points at a glance? If not, players will constantly be spending valuable game time deciphering your map’s layout and they won’t play it next time. That means map death.
  
• Never go overboard--if it takes 1 hour to load your map just to play at 5 fps, welcome back to MAP DEATH.
  
• Finally, a good-looking map has a scheme, or unity or a theme. If your map looks like a pretty, well-crafted pile of misha-mush, well it’ll be forgotten quickly. Lots of simple schemes (like a two-tone scheme, just two dominant colors) or complex themes (The Eighteenth) will stick in the minds of players and the audience. They’ll meet the good looks of your map first, then fall in love with the layout second.

Instructions
Download the submission template.

• Don’t change the map layout in terms of big terrain changes or adding destructible rocks, etc. It’s ok to change cliff contours to achieve a specific look, or add doodads into the pathable areas, as long as the passageways still function essentially the same.
  
• Do change the cliff types, textures, background, maybe the lighting (this is REALLY HARD to find better settings than the Blizzard pre-sets, be careful). If you have never tried to do this stuff in the editor, now is a perfect chance to learn!
  

Resources
Custom Maps Forum: Simple Questions/Simple Answers
Search for a simple question first, can’t find it? Post in here!

Cliff and Texture charts
Want to see what all the textures and cliffs look like at once?

More map resources
A bunch of links to helpful mapping threads compiled by Barrin.


Putting out a call to the veterans
Here is a chance to help out your fellow veterans and newcomers alike! We invite everyone to collaborate in this thread on the challenge--help each other find resources, techniques, tutorials. Everyone can kick their mapping game up a notch.

iGrok will at some point this month be streaming a live Lighting tutorial, so make sure to tune in for that!


One final point: for the Aesthetics Challenge, the winning map will be chosen entirely by you, loyal, beautiful and handsome TeamLiquid community members! So fire up the editor and start your submission, or keep an eye on this thread and start making a list of your favorites as they roll in.

Please send your final map file to [e-mail] by June 24th, 11:59pm EST and also post images of your submission in this thread!
This post written by dimfish

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안녕하세요~ 잭키프라임 입니다. 평소 해외 소식하면 리그에 관련된 소식이 많았었는데요,

이번엔 새로운 방면의 소식을 전해드리고자 합니다.

 

여러분께서 잘 알고 계시는 팀리퀴드 : 맵 커뮤니티에선 매달 Map of the Month라는 맵 공모전을 개최합니다.특히 이번 Motm #6은 상당히 색다른 주제로 공모전을 개최하였는데요, 샘플로 제공되는 맵을 이번 공모전 참가자들이 화려하게 꾸미는 것입니다.

 

이번 공모전은 2가지로 구분됩니다. 첫째로는 슈퍼 토너먼트 : 기존 MotM에서 우승을 차지한 5명의 맵 제작자들의 경쟁이 펼쳐지는 것과 둘째로는 슈퍼 토너먼트 참가자를 제외한 다른 맵 제작자들만의 경쟁이 펼쳐집니다. 기간은 6월 24일 자정까지며, 제출을 희망하시는 맵 제작자께서는 [e-mail] 으로 맵파일을 첨부하여 보내시면 됩니다.

 

이번 공모전은 맵 구도를 직접 짜는것이 아닌, 맵의 디자인 부분을 가장 화려하게 꾸미는것이 관건이기 때문에 평소 맵 제작에 관심을 가지셨던 분이시라면, 이번 기회를 통해 참가해보시면 좋겠습니다 :D

 

보다 자세한 내용을 원하시는 분은 글의 상단부분에 있는 링크를 따라가 주시면 되겠습니다.

감사합니다 :)

지난번에 winpark님께서 순위권에 들었던 대회네요 ㅎㅎ
한국 맵퍼들도 나가나요?>

그 우리 프라임클랜 그분들도 나가시남.ㄷ

준비완료 ㅎㅁㅎ

와.. 맵퍼분들 저 맵 꾸밀 때 마다 즐겁겠네요.
즐기시길 ㅎㅎ

위에 맵은 완전 테란맵이네요 의료선 활용하라고 공간 만들어놨네요......

1/맵 파일 설정상 언덕 위에 유닛이 내릴 수 없도록 되어있습니다 :)

귀차니즘 ㅜㅡ
내 맵 만들기도 바쁨

그냥 언덕이 많네요...