*** MARCH CHALLENGE: Not Your Father's Random Dungeon ***

[ravells]

That's correct, Neon! Now break out your CC3 and get mapping!

[Badger]

additional details, can we also include extra critters?
And can we add our own dungeon entrance? I was a bit hazy on that part...

[RobA]

additional details, can we also include extra critters?
And can we add our own dungeon entrance? I was a bit hazy on that part...

From the original rules:

Additional details, contents, furnishings, ornamentation, fabrications, elevations (stairs), traps, or any other additions desired may be added so long as they are consistent with the source map.

Content Additions are allowed so long as the required elements are also there.

This would also include critters, so the answers are Yes, and Yes.

And add an entrance anywhere so long as it does not alter the layout of the map.

-Rob A>

[Redrobes]

I have been having a hard time keeping up with all the posts so I have created a web page summarizing the entries. The images are the latest ones in the threads so far but are not automatically updating so click on the thread link to see the latest and ill attempt to keep it up to date best as I can.

The thumbnail link

[alucard339]

That is a great idea and good Job Redrobes,
I proud of you ,
Alu.

[pyrandon]

Redrobes, this is freaking amazing! I have no idea how long that took, but I love it! I think we should do something like that for each month's challenge, whether we have 2 million entries or 2.

Thank you thank you thank you!

(Repped!)

[Darth_Gimp]

What is the entry deadline for the challenge?

[Badger]

I believe its five days to the last day of the month.. in this case... the 26th...its in the challenge rules located here:http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=503

[Redrobes]

Hi guys, Earlier I posted a link to an overview of this months entries...

The thumbnail link

...which I have been trying to keep up to date. I said that I would try to make a CGI dynamic page to gather up all the entries automatically and present them. I have been trying to do that and I have a script now.

The problem is that it takes so long to click on a challenge thread and get the results back that after 16 of them plus the time to search, download the image, rescale and present it, it takes too long to run as a CGI script.

So what I am intending to do from next month onwards is to run this script locally to myself and upload all of the thumbs that it generates for me. The script will take a few minutes to run and I may even be able to get it to ftp the results up for me too. Thats going to be easier than me clicking on 16 threads now and again to check I haven't missed any.

So in the future I am proposing that I will make a list of entries locally but if you want the script to put the latest WIP image into the thumbs page then just put...

### Latest WIP ###

as the last thing in your post, before the image and it will find the last one and use the next image as the current thumb. I have done this on my challenge entry this month for example.

I can make the script available to Arcana or any admin who wants to look at it.

[pyrandon]

Redrobes, I'm a tech idiot, but if this script of which you speak works the way I think it will work, that's awesome! Thank you!!

I'll leave it to Arcana and my other betters to decide what/how to utilize all your hard work, but I see great things in the future!