Build time about 2 hours. I used 972 wooden crates. I also took my time to get the boxes as even as possible.

ZOMG That's amazing, take some less crappy screenshots.

Woah! That is the best, except it's not really a contraption.

By the way, what map is that?

Now that is awesome, best retro-style art made w. G-mod I've seen yet :)

5 points, well earned :)

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?

20,000 Crates! :tizzy: No Way.
I'd pay to see that!

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

Why use that many boxes anyway? There really isn't any point since you're just making bigger boxes with them.

"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.

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.

there is no way you could have used 20,000 boxes. especially in MP

On MP the server would crash!

Put a grenade in it and pray to god that your PC doesn't explode. If you can, take some screens ahah!

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.

holy crap 972 boxes!

That is very impressive and very accurate too. Good job :)

In case you didn't notice, the note under the contraptions thread link says

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.

"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!

you are like an artist amoung mere finger painters

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.

Amazing! I love it! Getting the colors just right must have been hard!

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.

What map is this? / \
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Its gm_hugeexmap_v2b.

wow you have alot of time on your hands

holy crap! that should be your avatar man! (crop it abit) still that is extremly good work >: D you deserve a cookie :D

I avatarified this.

Peeboy wins.

Yes it is.

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!

Nothing orginal about thit but. I know something like this takes time.

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!

nice