Rules Are Online - Page 3

BLueSS · 06-24-2006, 06:42 PM

Any of the majorly rumored songs for ITG 3, confirmed or not are not allowed.

Mason · 06-24-2006, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by BLueSS

Any of the majorly rumored songs for ITG 3, confirmed or not are not allowed.

How wonderfully ambiguous.

BLueSS · 06-24-2006, 08:32 PM

If someone cares to get a list of those songs I can specifically rule them out one by one.

<3 can't be entered because it was in TM.
Dragostea Din Tei was in OSC.

Juub005 · 06-25-2006, 04:05 AM

Do we get extra points for a (somewhat useful or enjoyable) folder of graphics extras? Because ranatalus gave me points last time for it (the file was Gimme Gimme Gimme) and it wouldn't be fair if other people didn't know they had that opportunity. Or wait--was that in ranatalus's tilt? Yeah, I kinda forgot tilt was part of scoring.

BLueSS · 06-25-2006, 01:09 PM

It was probably in tilt.

You can try to do anything to get a judge to give you a good tilt score, as long as you don't break any rules.

ranatalus · 06-25-2006, 04:48 PM

yeah, I gave you a point or 3 of tilt for that, because it shows a lot of extra work in your file, Juub. You did Gimme Gimme Gimme (A man After Midnight), right?

banzaigtv² · 06-25-2006, 10:56 PM

Before signing up for the contest, I need to find out if we could enter ITG simfiles with rolls in the stepcharts. Also, can simfiles with double pad steps be entered? Do I have to upload the simfile in the simfiles database before entering it?

BLueSS · 06-25-2006, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by banzaigtv²

Before signing up for the contest, I need to find out if we could enter ITG simfiles with rolls in the stepcharts. Also, can simfiles with double pad steps be entered? Do I have to upload the simfile in the simfiles database before entering it?

rolls - yes.
doubles steps - not officially graded, but could land extra points with judges/public.
do not upload it to the database - we have our own uploader.

Juub005 · 06-26-2006, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ranatalus

yeah, I gave you a point or 3 of tilt for that, because it shows a lot of extra work in your file, Juub. You did Gimme Gimme Gimme (A man After Midnight), right?

Yeah, that was the file.

IcePagoda · 06-28-2006, 02:46 AM

Can someone explain the bolded part from the rules:

The ZIP you send in to the uploader must not be more than 12 MB; size your AVIs appropriately. Specific Exceptions may be allowed.

Is this for close calls in file size or for something else?

The reason I ask is that both of my entries contain video files that are about the 12MB by themselves (not sure if they'll pack down or not yet), and I was just going to toss 'em on Rapidshare with links in the readme's. But if the 'exceptions' could be explained, it might help my decision on what to do in this case...

Tanks.

Xythar · 06-28-2006, 05:47 AM

You can easily compress a 2 minute video to below 10MB if you don't mind sacrificing some quality. Send it to me if you don't know how and I'll do it for you.

BLueSS · 06-28-2006, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by IcePagoda

Is this for close calls in file size?

Yep.

Aeronautical Vigilante · 07-01-2006, 03:39 AM

It's for close calls in file size, basically. If the entry's 12.2 MB and the video's reasonably well-compressed and you didn't use uncompressed WAV files or something, you're in. Reasonable compression without losing TOO MUCH quality can be attained in many ways, though the typical rule is, the higher quality the source, the better looking the compressed form will be. If you're compressing a DivX of a Matrix film and a DVD of it to the same size in another, the one from the DVD will look better. (Note: I don't advocate piracy here, only note that format compressions sometimes use the Matrix trilogy is often a benchmark for it's intricate effects, which are easy for bad compression to turn into nasty results.)

cpubasic13 · 07-01-2006, 07:51 PM

My sim goes 198.1 BPM, but, there is a slowdown that goes to 73 BPM. Is it breaking the rules if I set the BPM display to be only 198 since that slowdown is for barely a second during a freeze arrow? I don't see why not, since 99.8% of the song is 198...

BTW, is the uploader getting up and running or what? I haven't seen anything on it yet...

Krazy · 07-01-2006, 08:17 PM

If our files have any of the "not required" charts, what happens with those charts? Are they judged or not? For example, say my DDR entry has beginner steps and edit steps (which are actually keyboard steps), but no challenge steps. What would happen with the judging?