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 Post #1
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
Build time about 2 hours. I used 972 wooden crates. I also took my time to get the boxes as even as possible.
 Post #2
 14th August 2005
Futur1919's Avatar
May 2005
649 Posts
ZOMG That's amazing, take some less crappy screenshots.
 Post #3
 14th August 2005
Mobius R's Avatar
August 2005
468 Posts
Woah! That is the best, except it's not really a contraption.

By the way, what map is that?
 Post #4
 14th August 2005
Pageuseun's Avatar
July 2005
599 Posts
Now that is awesome, best retro-style art made w. G-mod I've seen yet :)

5 points, well earned :)
 Post #5
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
lol the screenshot is crappy isnt it. I will take a better one later but right now im workin on somethin big and fun that eveyone will get too ride.

edit: By the way, this is nothing I once made a full sonic picture out of crates, and I dont mean pixel art either lol. Lets just say there was over 20,000 crates or more. Sadley I did it in mutiplayer and didnt take any pictures. Maybe I will do it again when I have time. And the map is hugeexmap v2b I think.

edit2: I also have the save for this and a save of the crates just white if any one wants to use them to make a picture?
 Post #6
 14th August 2005
Mobius R's Avatar
August 2005
468 Posts
20,000 Crates! :tizzy: No Way.
I'd pay to see that!
 Post #7
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
lol Alright I will start workin on it. Maybe I will do this picture . Its going to be 7739 crates since I dont have that much time lol.

edit: I may post pictures as I go.
 Post #8
 14th August 2005
Mobius R's Avatar
August 2005
468 Posts
Can't wait for that!:) But wouldn't that many boxes welded together totally crasherize your computer? (I've never spawned that many boxes, so I wouldn't know.)

edit: Oh yeah, do it in "gm_hugeflatmap_v4" or in "gm_hugeflatmap_v4_lit"
 Post #9
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
lol alright I use 1 of those maps. And I do not weld em to gether, I just freeze them. And yes if I did weld them to gether my pc would crash lol, although I never tryed welding them. I wonder what would happen if I tryed blowing them up all at once?

edit: Also you dont want to spawn them all at once, thats asking for a crash. I work with about 100 boxes first and then a spawn another 100, and so forth until im done.
 Post #10
 14th August 2005
R_Williams's Avatar
February 2005
847 Posts
You know there is a limit to how many entities you can create right? Garry himself said it was about 4000 something, so I doubt you made something with over 20,000 boxes, and I doubt you will be able to make something with just 7,000.
 Post #11
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
Hey then I will just have to prove garry wrong when I finish this lol. I have done it before so maybe its just his pc? It wont be done till next week since I have school so expect to see it maybe on saturday or sunday.
 Post #12
 14th August 2005
Erebus's Avatar
July 2005
278 Posts
Why use that many boxes anyway? There really isn't any point since you're just making bigger boxes with them.
 Post #13
 14th August 2005
R_Williams's Avatar
February 2005
847 Posts
"It's weird because there's a limit of 4096 entities."

That's a quote from Garry, and he's not just talking his pc, I'm pretty sure he's talking about the limit in HL2.
 Post #14
 14th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
Erebus you mean how I made 1 big box and just painted each box right? Thats what I usually do before I earase the background, makes it a bit more easy.

R_Williams maybe garry's right. You do have to remeber, do you expect me to count every box I use. The only odd thing is I did a bigger picture then im doin now so I would think with the size of the picture I did, it had to be around 10,000 to 20,000 boxes.... I know what it is maybe the recent modification I did lets me use alot more entities. Actually that cant be it cause I did the last picture on multiplayer, and only my friend has my mod and there were others on the server I think. Well like I said when im done you will see. And I will post pictures of progress.
 Post #15
 14th August 2005
Gold Member
_Twitch_'s Avatar
January 2005
3,976 Posts
there is no way you could have used 20,000 boxes. especially in MP
 Post #16
 14th August 2005
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ImBill's Avatar
April 2005
12,051 Posts
On MP the server would crash!
 Post #17
 14th August 2005
Erebus's Avatar
July 2005
278 Posts
Put a grenade in it and pray to god that your PC doesn't explode. If you can, take some screens ahah!
 Post #18
 16th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
Oh my now I remember I did not make the background the last time which drops it to around 3,000 crates. Sorry about that. I kept trying to do this pictures and the game kept on crashing, thats when I remebered I did not use the backgrounf last time. The game crashed at 3,900 crates.
 Post #19
 16th August 2005
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Sporkfire's Avatar
May 2005
1,455 Posts
holy crap 972 boxes!
 Post #20
 16th August 2005
Quakis's Avatar
August 2005
92 Posts
That is very impressive and very accurate too. Good job :)
 Post #21
 19th August 2005
Miky's Avatar
May 2005
303 Posts
Mobius R posted:
Woah! That is the best, except it's not really a contraption.

By the way, what map is that?
In case you didn't notice, the note under the contraptions thread link says

Contraptions Note posted:
Post your non-ragdoll contraptions here
Therefore nearly anything that isn't a bunch of posed ragdolls is a contraption.


(On topic) This looks cool, I love it, it isn't made of 20 000 boxes is it? I saw someone say 972 or something.
 Post #22
 19th August 2005
Chubi Wolf's Avatar
May 2005
350 Posts
"its your body,nobody has the right to touch you in a way or in a place that makes you feel uncormfortable"

you get a four out of five!
 Post #23
 19th August 2005
bassbone's Avatar
May 2005
85 Posts
you are like an artist amoung mere finger painters
 Post #24
 19th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
thanks its 972 boxes, at first I had made a really big picture in mutiplay and said it had to be 20,000 boxes butt hen I remebered I had not done the background so it drops it down to more like 2,800 or something like that.
 Post #25
 19th August 2005
Gold Member
semiavrage's Avatar
February 2005
138 Posts
Amazing! I love it! Getting the colors just right must have been hard!
 Post #26
 19th August 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
actually the colors are easy to get right. All you do is go into mspaint and load the picture and selct the color. If you go to colors>Edit colors>define cutsom colors it shows red, green and blue which is exactly the same in garrys mod so you can get all colors perfectly accurate.
 Post #27
 8th September 2005
pain799's Avatar
July 2005
178 Posts
What map is this? / \
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 Post #28
 8th September 2005
tssthorn's Avatar
June 2005
137 Posts
Its gm_hugeexmap_v2b.
 Post #29
 17th September 2005
thugnasty's Avatar
September 2005
3 Posts
wow you have alot of time on your hands
 Post #30
 17th September 2005
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OzOMighty's Avatar
July 2005
2,147 Posts

holy crap! that should be your avatar man! (crop it abit) still that is extremly good work >: D you deserve a cookie :D
 Post #31
 17th September 2005
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December 2004
8,533 Posts
I avatarified this.
 Post #32
 17th September 2005
Futur19's Avatar
May 2005
1,426 Posts
Peeboy wins.
 Post #33
 18th September 2005
ItsmeOsama's Avatar
June 2005
348 Posts
Mobius R posted:
Woah! That is the best, except it's not really a contraption.

By the way, what map is that?
Yes it is.
 Post #34
 18th September 2005
kiya's Avatar
July 2005
1,458 Posts
Scince it's been bumped, geat work, I love and will always love sonic. To bad saga got taken over by nintendo. *sniffle*
 Post #35
 18th September 2005
DarkFury's Avatar
August 2005
1,380 Posts
kiya posted:
Scince it's been bumped, geat work, I love and will always love sonic. To bad saga got taken over by nintendo. *sniffle*
It's Sega, and I don't think they were taken over, I thought they just became 3rd party.

On back to on-topic... that is amazing! Keep up the good work!
 Post #36
 18th September 2005
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Tunak's Avatar
April 2005
2,543 Posts
Nothing orginal about thit but. I know something like this takes time.
 Post #37
 18th September 2005
Gold Member
Dennab
August 2005
3,945 Posts
hey dark. you're partly right about Sega. They weren't taken over, they just got tired of trying (and failing) to keep up with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony. So they stopped making their own systems and just focused their time on making games for other systems.

about the pic...WOW! that is crazy! 972 crates? I'd have given up in PURE EXHAUSTION at around...oh...150? lol. nice work!
 Post #38
 18th September 2005
Albinster's Avatar
June 2005
25 Posts
nice
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