Cartographer's Call Competition III results are online!

Banshee

Hey everyone! Aro has posted the maps that were submitted to the Cartographer's Call: Yuri's Revenge Mapping Competition. There were 10 maps submitted by Aurora196 (1), LordCesare (5), Omegabolt (1), Zero18 (2) and Mevitar (1).

Aro has enjoyed all 10 maps and posted them at our Red Alert 2 Map Archive. Here's the ranking. Click at the name of the map for detailed review and map download:

1st: Blood and Concrete [8], by Aurora196 - 43 points
2nd: Paradise Battle [2], by LordCesare - 41 points
3rd: The Honeymoon [4], by Omegabolt - 39 points
4th: Blistering Heatstroke [2], by Zero18 - 38 points
4th: Ruined Oasis [4], by LordCesare - 38 points
6th: Lonely Paradise [5], by Mevitar - 34 points
7th: Sacred Lore [5], by LordCesare - 33 points
8th: City Overload [3], by Zero18 - 31 points
9th: Communists of the Caribbean [2], by LordCesare - 27 points
10th: Scars of a Far, Far Planet [2], by LordCesare - 26 points

And here's the minimap from the top 3 maps:

CCCIII: Blood and Concrete [8]
Aurora196's entry: 1st Place (CCCIII Winner!)

CCCIII: Paradise Battle [2]
LordCesare's entry: 2nd Place

CCCIII: The Honeymoon [4]
OmegaBolt's entry: 3rd Place

Congratulations for Aurora196 by confirming his 'mapping God' status in this community once again! And also, a round of applauses for all those who submitted, specially Lord Cesare and his 5 maps and for his bravery of submitting a lunar map (Scars of a Far, Far Planet) for this contest, as lunar maps are definitely hard to do proper detailing and layout.

Aurora196 shall receive a custom rank once he PMs me telling which custom rank he wants. He also needs to PM Cranium to obtain his copy of the C&C Ultimate Collection.

That's it and enjoy these maps! We don't know which contest goes next. It depends on you guys. I've seen some people interested on a voxel contest, but I'm unable to organize it. So, I'll rely on you guys once again.

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Thanks Banshee. Here's to another competition that went down well.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

You forgot the 5th place #Tongue

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Banshee · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:01 pm Post subject:

No, I didn't forget it. I've skipped the number 5 because there were two number 4.

Zero18 · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:51 pm Post subject:

That was some close competition indeed. Smile

Gg Aurora.

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^Rampastein · Rampastring **Joined**: 11 Oct 2008 **Location**: Gensokyo

@Aro: Your JPG megamap images use too much compression, they're annoying to look at.

It's nice to see a real mapping competition (with some actual competition) for a change though, everything that has been organized for the past 5 years has more or less failed. The most of the those maps seem very good.

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Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

The quality loss is due-to the map renderer, I used that instead of making them by hand in order to get the results out there much sooner.

Agreed, but I don't think the first two CCC competitions were so bad, this one was definitely the best of the three, though it would have been nice to have more entrants.

OmegaBolt · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:02 pm Post subject:

Can't blame map renderer as it also does PNG. #Tongue

But yeah seemed like it had quite a few good entries I shall be using in my mod, so thanks to everyone who participated.

Matthias M. · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:07 pm Post subject:

How did you do the full-screen map render?

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

It's a tool called CNC Map Renderer, but the best way to do it is to take multiple screenshots and just piece them together.

OmegaBolt wrote:

Can't blame map renderer as it also does PNG. #Tongue

But yeah seemed like it had quite a few good entries I shall be using in my mod, so thanks to everyone who participated.

Oh give me a break, I'm leeching off of work's wifi and didn't want to have to wait ages for huge PNG's to upload. Laughing

RP · Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 8:43 pm Post subject:

Matthias M. wrote:

How did you do the full-screen map render?

It's using code similar to zzattack's.

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Aurora196 · Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 5:30 pm Post subject:

Great competition and many thanks to Aro for organizing this event and judging all these maps. It seems that the results were very close, which is no surprise, seeing the great overall quality of the maps. I'm very happy, not only because I won, but also because it was a successful competition.

Now it's time for me to try out some of these maps. Razz

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