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Click here to download maps for the tournament



Winners!

2p Maps:

1st Place: Wrecked Train (by cyclops)
2nd Place: Langres by m1cHi
3rd Place: St. Mere Dumont by Kalipsojak
Honourable Mentions: Pine’s Crest Valley Town (onajourney41), Memorial Park (Cha0tic)

4p Map Winner: Operation Ground and Pound (by MobiuZ)
Honourable Mentions: Berchtesgaden (kallay?), Pays de la Loire (Umuppet)

6p Map Winner: Eder Dam (by blah238)
Honourable Mentions: St. Levanie (Jusas), Push the Front (?)

8p Map Winner: Meuse River (by Sarcasm)
Honourable mention: Foo Fighters (maxxim)

Winners can be downloaded here:
Right-Click Save As (40 mb zip)

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who participated! Winners - please e-mail ahenze@relic.com your full name and mailing address.


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You guys asked and we deliver

I'm running a Company of Heroes Map Contest.

Here are the details:

Map Contest: Tuesday, November 21st 2006 - Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 (3 weeks)

Official Map Contest Details:

Rules:

1. You must submit your map before midnight (12:00 AM PST) on Tuesday, December 12th 2006 to qualify.
2. You may submit up to ONE map each for TWO of the following categories:
a) 1v1
b) 2v2
c) 3v3
d) 4v4
Therefore you are allowed to submit a MAXIMUM of two maps total, and cannot submit more than one map per category.
3. You must post a screenshot (mini map and in game map), description, and download link to your file in this thread. You must ALSO e-mail this to me at ahenze@relic.com before the deadline. Please ensure your download link works or else you will be disqualified. I can provide hosting should anyone need it.
4. No custom decals, objects etc etc. This has to be able to be played in automatch by anyone.

Judging:

- Maps will be judged by myself (Relic Community Manager), the Relic balance team, and Relic developers
- Maps will be judged on creativity, originality, and playability
- More consideration will be given to maps made from scratch within the contest dates
- There will be TWO map winners chosen for 1v1, and one winner each chosen for 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 (5 winners total). If there are insufficient entries in one of the categories we will not select a winner for that category.

Prizes:

Each winner will receive:
1. A signed copy of one of the following Relic games (winner's choice): Company of Heroes, Dark Crusade, Dawn of War, Winter Assault, The Outfit
2. A Relic t-shirt
3. Relic prize pack (posters, magazines, other gear such as mousepads, Xbox faceplates etc)
4. His or her map used in the official Relic CoH tournament (coming in December)
5. Your map could POSSIBLY be entered into the official automatch rotation in the game if it is good enough, with credits in the automatch description to you! Please note that if your map gets selected to be included in the game, your map will be passed through an artist for polish and may look slightly different than your original. As well, if your map is selected, it will be some time before your map is polished and uploaded to the server, as has been in the past with Dawn of War map contests.

Thanks everyone, good luck!

SoylentNinja

This sounds really cool gotta get map making now. Thanks for organizing this. First Post!!

Wargrim

This time no stupid exams will stop me like for the DoW contest. Now just to finish it in time!

Corsix

Damn, wish I could make maps good...

Rampaged

Great news for the map makers out there. Unfortunaly I'm not one of them

Renahzor

Ooo, sounds fun.

-Ren

kbrinks82

wish the map maker was easier to use

DoctorLee

Awesome!

Gotta get rollin'

Fryloc

Yes!! This is what I've been waiting for, and to all you people that say the mapbuilder is hard to use, that is a lie. All you have to do is use the relicwiki and its easy.

Dark_Avenger

still learning but i should be able to whip something up

MadCatChiken

Lol i didn't even look at the wiki. Its very easy to work out.

Ok i'm entering Wake Island(1v1) and Town De Vou. (2v2)

Town De Vou.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showpos...894&postcount=1

The file is attached to the post. Also there are screens there. But some that show the map.


Wake Island.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showpos...367&postcount=1

File attached there, also screens.
More screens



What about HOMEWORLD!!

Danger30Q

This is an absolutely fantastic idea Relic. Prizes and the possibility for map use in automatch rotation should be enough for tons of great map submissions. Thank you for finding a way to formally use the modding community.

Corsix

Very few of the HW team are still at Relic, so it would be a little pointless.

Brat_Boy

Yay! Thanks, Buggo! More maps is exactly what we need. I hope there are some good ones for 2v2...

MadCatChiken

Should my 2v2 map very fun. Lots of close action combat.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showpos...894&postcount=1

Dark_Avenger

madcat, man i should have thought of it first, wake island, man i loved that map in battlefield 2, and 1942

revolucion09

hey one question, can i participate? im from latin america, specially argentina!!

Cabsav

Dam exams * shakes fist

Shizzle007

WOW when I use my COMPANY OF HEROES map builder I can win a second copy of COMPANY OF HEROES!!

I can submit this map:
http://www.gamereplays.org/communit...howtopic=162749
But I think its too small.

Relic

By the way, as always, all contests I am running are open to international members

Architect

I would also like to suggest to every participant to post their contest map in the CoH WorldBuilder Forum at GameReplays.org for a Map Review Apreciation too. We´re looking foward to see Gold Maps.

Thanks and Good Luck to all!

May the best map win and be launched in the official ladder/custom matchs.

Drapan

Here's my contribution

Close Combat (2p)

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?p=1939751#post1939751

Map, Screens and Description is in the thread I linked too... (Against the rules??). Also do I have too include screens and map in an email or could i just link to the thread again? (Against the rules?) ...

ShazBO

Could somone give me an example of a mini map pic.

mailpup

So, not just Canadians.

Phazon

Sounds great. Don't know how good a mapper I am, suppose there's only one way to find out.

Cobra5

Must we include things like, custom loading screen, in-game minimap picture, etc?

If they are not a must, do we get brownie points for them? They are a hassle for me, as the game itself does not include the tools to create these (.tga) files... therefore people with extra tools (like Photoshop) are at an advantedge

And another question, should all of our maps be suited for competition play? I notice you said these maps will be included in an upcoming tournament. I have ideas for maps, that alter the gameplay style, such as attack-and-defend...

I suppose I will just make competative maps for the contest anyway, and then make the other map ideas for just fun.

on a side note, are the overlay bugs going to be fixed in 1.4? I am sorry to ask questions on the topic, I am sure people at relic hear them frequently...

MadCatChiken

You can use any free photo ed tool to make .tga's. I use Gimp its free.

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

AppleHead

How many maps in a category are required to stop this from happening?

evotech

insufficient as in "just sucky maps" i guess

simmo

cool got my computer back up just in time will have will to work on my map hard out now

Cabsav

Can you post a link to the thread its much easier than recreating it. http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=124101

AOTE

YAY , well i'll start tonight... would have been better if it was for DC but what the hell lol

hawk_eye

Release Notes:

St. Marcouf v1.0

Make sure you have the -dev command attached to your CoH shortcut BEFORE installing!

Elements of the 101st Airborne landed near St Marcouf on June 6th 1944. They met up with the 82nd and proceeded to capture the city of Carentan.
Their next target was the sleepy village of St Marcouf, located East of Carentan, in Northern France. Little did they know that the German opposition would be fierce, as the crossroads provided a vital strategic point for both sides.

Allies: Capture and hold the crossroads so vehicles and supplies can make their way across France from Normandy.

Axis: Prevent the allies from capturing the crossroads, so they cannot get vital supplies to the front line.


Download Here


All screenshots

Teaser Trailer for release

Anything else can be found on my filefront page here.

Thread pertaining to map



There are a lot more images in the filefront screenshot gallery. Just go to "View all screenshots" above.





Cheers,
Benjamin
aka hawk_eye

blah238

very impressive hawk_eye, nice nice work all around. the bar has been set, who will top this?

hawk_eye

Thankyou. I love great feedback, as it is the only reward I get for creating these maps. It takes a lot of time to add this much detail.

May I ask everyone to have a look at my second map, "Near the town of St Lo" with a full final release. It showcases some more of my work.

Thanks goes out to the community for supporting me, Buggo for helping me with some problems (GREAT PR!) and Relic for making such a great game.
I was hooked on CoH from the time I played the demo... and just couldn't wait to get the full game and then start making maps.

Cabsav

My map now has a new download link

http://files.filefront.com/4P_Highl...;/fileinfo.html

Screenies here

AOTE

Wow there are some good maps, alot better han the last map contest...

ZyphO

alot of strat points there on the left :o

but looks a nice map to me

Maj. Impact

I will be starting my map today. I don't want to tell the name of it because someone else may take it. It is part-fiction part non-fiction, I think it will be a very cool one tho.

I am hoping its not already in the Champains though, I haven't finished them (been lanning ALOT)

AOTE

im starting my map this weekend, ive got a great idea for a 1v1 map with a good twist

Dark_Avenger

hey do we send it to you buggo? or do we have it uploaded somewhere else?

Relic

Yes send it to ahenze@relic.com or host it somewhere else.

AOTE

Omg damm map tools !!! my pc is: 1gb, 3gz dual core, with geforce 7 256mb ... and the damm maps tools lag... but luckly this weekend im getting another 1gb of ram i hope it works, becuase its hard to map with the amount of lag im getting

darkelf

I'll start this weekend. (Too psyched up about my b-day to start now )

Henry666

Here`s my first one:





You can download the map in .sga format and "-dev" format from my homepage:

WWW.AOWMAPS.NET

blah238

that map looks fun AND professionally put together, nice work Henry666. I think I'll try my hand at a map or two. By the way has anyone figured out the specifics of the loading screen image, what dimensions/format does it have to be, what does the file have to be named, etc. Once I have that information I would be glad to produce a loading screen for maps entered into the contest, using Photoshop to make them look as much like the standard maps' loading screens as possible. Or are custom loading screens even allowed for the contest?

hawk_eye

Well, that pretty much rules me out of winning LOL.. nice work Henry.

Rocknroll

how do you play these ,,, only 1 file ?

bigty

AM I missing something but I am not seeing any 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3 maps. I think you all are doing nice work, but I like to see some larger maps. YEs I am looking into making some myself. Not for this contest but to have new maps to play. Thanks Bungo for the contests.