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I've been seeing a lot of those maps lately, where people record themselves making it on youtube, sped up with some cool music? It had me thinking; isn't watching someone actually make a map a much better measure of a good map maker than a finished product? I mean, what seperates the good from the great is often process over pudding. Erm, sorry, wasn't really thinking about the analogies. -_-

Anyways, it'd be really cool if we got more people to make these "recorded maps". It'd help new mappers get to grips with structure and placement much better than "less mine spam" or "more gold" or "less quotes", as they can actually see what they need to do. Who else thinks that this is a good idea?

It'd also be really cool if we could collect all of these recorded maps into a single place. Posting youtube and respective map links on this thread would be a good idea, and simply putting the mrmc tag in all recorded maps could really help us to put together an archive. Ideally, the more people who make a recorded map or two, the better; having some seasoned pros make videos would be much appreciated, as well as videos from up-and-comers.

If actually recording the map is an issue, just download Hypercam and give it a whirl. Then go into moviemaker and add some music or captions or whatever. I should have learnt this before I tried the horror of audioswap. :P

I'll add a link to my new recorded map when I've finished doing all this. Audio for the vid will probably still be uploading.

MattKestrel wrote:Who else thinks that this is a good idea?]

100%

This is a really cool idea. I did it a fair bit in the past.

http://www.youtube.com/user/furryant

All of mine are on my account ;)

I might do this, except I'd have to speed the video up so much that you wouldn't see anything. XD

Pheidippides wrote:I might do this, except I'd have to speed the video up so much that you wouldn't see anything. XD

Don't worry, clips of maps in progress would also be fine. It's still a snippet into the mechanations of a mapper. :P

http://vimeo.com/6229575

can u add it to your list?

Made this back in October of last year. Audio got screwed up. ;-;

I think this is an awesome idea, maybe even someone pin this?

HyperCam is annoying; use CamStudio instead.

Someone tell me to make a map. Then I'll record it. :p

i made two about four or five days ago :


zetsubou
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V117shroud



edit: and one more:

F.o.Z. (Form of Zone)


edit edit: i record a lot of maps so here's my channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/pelletofpellet

isn't watching someone actually make a map a much better measure of a good map maker than a finished product?

No; a good map is a good map, regardless of how it was made (excluding using programs and such, of course). Good mapmakers make good maps. Period.

Regardless, this is an awesome thread. And...

Pheidippides wrote:I might do this, except I'd have to speed the video up so much that you wouldn't see anything. XD

Same.

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:

isn't watching someone actually make a map a much better measure of a good map maker than a finished product?

No; a good map is a good map, regardless of how it was made (excluding using programs and such, of course). Good mapmakers make good maps. Period.

Regardless, this is an awesome thread. And...

Pheidippides wrote:I might do this, except I'd have to speed the video up so much that you wouldn't see anything. XD

Same.

If I recorded myself making a race, the resultant video would be like, half the size of my hard drive.

But I may record a couple of action maps - how do you speed up videos in movie maker?

Destiny wrote:
If I recorded myself making a race, the resultant video would be like, half the size of my hard drive.

But I may record a couple of action maps - how do you speed up videos in movie maker?

There should just be a video effect labled 'speed up 2x' or something. I just drag it onto the video and it's good to go. You can do this multiple times for the same clip, too.

I've always wanted to do this. This seems to be a good time as any:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWo83mH3h-4


sweet.

I expect either PALEMOON or sidke to record themselves making an N-Art within the next few days.

EDIT: Here's PALEMOON's map:

And here's mine:

Mmhmmm. Sorry i haven't been updating or supporting this, my laptop has died again, and doing it all on the ipod would probably lead to suicide afterwards :p If someone else would like to compile a list, i'd be fine with it. Cheers to palemoon and co for making a load of maps to support this!

Also, maxson, what if a good mapmaker makes an excellent map by fluke alone? If he places objects and tiles randomly and ends up with a good result, is that better than methodi ally and consciously piecing together a slightly weaker map?

GTM wrote:Also, maxson, what if a good mapmaker makes an excellent map by fluke alone? If he places objects and tiles randomly and ends up with a good result, is that better than methodically and consciously piecing together a slightly weaker map?

Well, if a good map is a fluke for someone, they aren't really a good mapper, are they? ;)

MattKestrel wrote:Cheers to palemoon

/reminds GTM that he has made six of these videos ;)

I hope more of you have the incentive to make these.

Aidiera wrote:I hope more of you have the incentive to make these.

I did.

I suppose this is the next best thing while NUMA is down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRNBYhUpJ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CfX22pVU1k - http://www.nmaps.net/218165

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxP-FN8jong - http://www.nmaps.net/220729

MRMC keep alive!