Vote: Possidon

Vote: BF_Tanks
The elevation and ice actually looks quite nice.

Zetnus is right, the ice and hills look surprisingly good for being so empty.

Still, I like Possidon's screenshot better, you were lucky with the theme, the selected pine is not very noticeable. On a grass map it could have ruined the screenshot, but the snow hides it so well that I wouldn't have seen it without Arnas' comment.

MrMew's is not bad either, similar to Tanks' one. I don't know of any way to make a field of ice look better either, so no criticism about the emptiness there.

Vote: Possidon

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Vote: Possidon.

Snow and Ice are probably the hardest terrains to work with because there's almost nothing you can do with it - Especially if you're wanting thick snow, and not the broken up, clumpy snow that layers the grass/dirt/road terrains.

I like Possidon's screenshot. It's much more detailed than mine. However, Mine's supposed to be in the north pole area, unlike Possidon's. There's not supposed to be a lot going on in my screenshot. I was tempted to touch it up with some kind of snow effect in an image editor but I didn't know if this'd be allowed.

For Possidon's, I think the edges of the trees would look better if they extended outside of the camera's view. Right now I get the sense it's quite literally two strips of trees, and I don't know if this is intended or not.

I also notice he's accidentally selected one of the trees.

Sadly I can't even see MrMew's entry whilst I am at work.

Vote: Possidon

Edit: I've looked over the rules, And yeah I think adding snow falling would be breaking the rules.

On the subject of that, however; Would it be possible to use an eye-candy mod? No new graphics, however things such as fire, smoke, piles of snow from rooftops, bamboo stumps, maybe even footsteps for putting over snow, if I can find the ID numbers. Would this be acceptable as it's still AoK graphics?

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Edit: I've looked over the rules, And yeah I think adding snow falling would be breaking the rules.

I believe Tetsuo did this with data editing in one of his scenarios.

Vote: Tanks

For Possidon's, I think the edges of the trees would look better if they extended outside of the camera's view. Right now I get the sense it's quite literally two strips of trees, and I don't know if this is intended or not.

I was meant to cut it out but forgot

On the subject of that, however; Would it be possible to use an eye-candy mod? No new graphics, however things such as fire, smoke, piles of snow from rooftops, bamboo stumps, maybe even footsteps for putting over snow, if I can find the ID numbers. Would this be acceptable as it's still AoK graphics?

This is acceptable. Things such as your EEE Mod are allowed as they don't add new graphics into the game.

Ahh, That's great news! I'd really like to make a mod focusing on eye-candy and screenshots and whatnot. Kinda like EEE, but y;know.. Not broken.

Quoted from Tanks:

Snow and Ice are probably the hardest terrains to work with because there's almost nothing you can do with it

Snow on its own is hard to work with but blame that on the editor. That's why in Blood of the Bear I added splotches of grass or dirt to break it up and make it look more appealing.

Breaking it up to make it look appealing is pretty much mandatory with Snow, unless you're doing something like me and implying the entire landscape is snow and ice.

Thinking about it, I could of used the ICE beta-object. It wouldn't of added much but it'd be placed in the water and at least add something

Vote: Possidon

It's actually quite surprising what you can do with the seemingly limited number of wintry objects. I've always believed that you can get away with less terrain mixing in a snowy map than you could otherwise (on a snowy map the snow is supposed to be a dominant feature).

For a large wintry map, you need a solid mix of snow, snow grass, snow dirt, and leaves. Dirt 2 and dirt 3 can also be used sparingly. In terms of eyecandy, rocks, snow pines, and any bare oak or pine tree graphic are good. The beta ice objects are good, as are the odd small pool of water, because the blend of water with snow actually looks pretty sweet. Mountains look good if you stick snow pines on them to keep the wintry feel. Most generic gaia objects such as skeletons, signs, broken carts, etc still have a niche as well.

One other really underrated thing about wintry maps is the separate snow graphics that buildings have. That alone was one of the coolest parts of the game to me growing up.

Quoted from HockeySam18:

It's actually quite surprising what you can do with the seemingly limited number of wintry objects. I've always believed that you can get away with less terrain mixing in a snowy map than you could otherwise (on a snowy map the snow is supposed to be a dominant feature).

I agree with this

Vote: tanks

for the humor alone.

I also echo the sentiment about winter maps. I think we should have a PFC (pretty forest contest) and there should be a theme of "seasons"

I agree with your idea, CK. Except,how do you make a different forest when it comes to spring and summer?

Wasn't there used to be some kind of Totally Terrain Contest?

New Theme: Oblivion

As a staff team we are currently having a discussion about future contest. Feel free to share any thoughts you guys have. You can always bump the 2015 Contest Discussion Topic.

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If we have an MGC, I'll volunteer as judge.

DtS maybe?

The TTC that Dev mentioned was hosted by me, a long time ago.
You can find the thread here!

I'd be up for a DtS contest

Yeah I also think DtS would be nice

Quoted from Arnas:

I agree with your idea, CK. Except,how do you make a different forest when it comes to spring and summer?

In spring there is still a little snow on the ground, so I'd have a mix between the greenery and the remnants of winter (as opposed to the total verdant landscape of summer). Depends on the region of which you think, though - I may be a little too used to spring in Maine, where you still have snow in mid-to-late April

Accepting entries until the 23rd!

You can find the thread here!

boy, was that a fun trip through typo-land

Oh my...

If you want a real good laugh at stupid people, just search by author: tanks_fst

*bump*

Should I sticky it again?

I was just going into this thread to ask why it wasn't stickied. And what was the last post I just read?

is the deadline extended for "oblivion", then?

Oh come on guys. I thought this was an easy category.

*breathes life back into the competition*

A helpless trade caravan faces certain oblivion at the hands of a ruthless steppe horde.

Entering!
Something happned to the images resolution though, dont know why but it is kind of blurry or something :/

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Nice one, though I don't know what it means.. My guess is it's an attempt to recreate the Gates of Oblivion from TES4?

Just pure destruction
_{might have missunderstood the meaning of the Word oblivion though :c}

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