Just kidding, Daz, though the idea of manbabies scares the crap out of me. 

what the hell is it supposed to use, harsh language? 

No, it uses those Sonic, E-Lectronic Ballbreakers ;D 

Anyone know if headshot's maps are still available anywhere? 

http://peek.planetquake.gamespy.com/authors/headshot.html 

http://mapsbytron.com/images/pcpp-quake-article.jpg

Can't remember who wanted to look at it now, but that's a scan out of the Australian magazine PC Powerplay from a months ago that mentions a discussion right here on Func. 

Nice one, Tron.

Careful, though. They're reading the board, so you might get sued for intellectual property rights infringement. O_O 

That's the same magazine that I had randomly found speedmap packs on a couple of times, so if they want to start playing that legal game we have ammunition right back at them. :) 

That's cool. Somebody there must have a soft spot for Quake. :) 

Quake r4wks. 

That's a cool little article. Pretty accurate and rather kind to the little Quake community. Makes us sound like quite measured reasonable people. Which we are not. Sloppy journaliism, I say! ;) 

Far from being sloppy, I thought it was the most electrifying and important piece of journalism since the Pentagon Papers. 

the bit about some kind of fued between coders and mappers brought a tear to my eye (no, it didn't, but it touched me (and not in a molestation kind of way)). 

http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/contests/artcontest2006/
We will be looking for 3D work and we love to see low-poly 3D too! 2D rocks and can be faster to make, but don�t forget about all of the prizes that you can win for your 3D environments and characters, AND in all 3 of our universes � Diablo, StarCraft, and Warcraft!

Nice prizes... And you can also choose the cash. I am sure there is something mean the copyright (like you transfer it to Blizzard by submitting or something) but I think some of you might have the power to compete in this contest. /me looks envious at Bal ;) 

Being a big blizzard fanboy, I will definatly try and find the time to make something.
And yeah those prizes rock. =) 

Of the rules, isn't that fun, cool otherwise though.

Sponsor Use of Entries. You hereby agree that in consideration of your being allowed the chance to enter the Contest, you hereby grant Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide license and right to utilize the entry materials that you submit to Sponsor in connection with the Contest (collectively, "Entry Materials"). The Entry Materials will not be returned to any entrant. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge that Sponsor shall have the right to use, modify, reproduce, publish, perform, display, distribute, make derivative works of and otherwise commercially and noncommercially exploit the Entry Materials in perpetuity and throughout the universe, in any manner or medium now existing or hereafter developed, without separate compensation to you or any other person or entity and you waive all moral rights in such work. You agree to take, at Sponsor's expense, any further action (including, without limitation, execution of affidavits and other documents) reasonably requested by Sponsor to effect, perfect or confirm Sponsor's rights as set forth above in this paragraph 7. 

You have that in most big contests really... =\
Most of all it gives them the right to actually use and display the image entries, with eventual resizing, cropping and whatever else they want to do.

I like the "throughout the universe" bit, talk about thinking ahead. =) 

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no mappage ? 

Hopefully everyone's waiting for the expo... although to be honest I think most people here have been busy watching anime and masturbating. Yeah, at the same time. 

lol i�m finishing my crapy map pack :p no time to masturbation 

no time to masturbation

Well, I am managing to get the odd one in here and there. So perhaps you need try speed wanking. 

cool, I've been iching to play some quake. 

So all you mappers out there: some people have complained that czg's curve tutorial is too hard to follow, doesn't have enough steps, or otherwise doesn't make sense. I'm thinking about writing a new one, and/or expanding on it. So what do you want to see improved/expanded?

Link (currently not found):
http://czg.leveldesign.org/curv_tut/curv_tut.htm 

is much trickier than the brush work. Some tips on doing that would perk my interest.