Here are our finalists for round #60 of Campaign of the Month!

Finalists:
Theme by Author

- The Devil's Lair Campaign by @Addy
- The The EXP Campaign by @Master Raiden

@Addy and @Master Raiden must abstain from voting.

All votes will go through a verification process. Fraudulently placed votes will result in disciplinary action including (but not limited to) disqualification of campaign/vote, suspension of participation/voting privileges, and PR2 disciplinary action.

For a sample judging scheme, you can see @bls1999's judging streams on YouTube.
Voting closes on January 3rd. Thanks!

I learned to do art growing up here on PR2. I even used some printouts of drawings I did here to apply for my middle school's advanced art class, and got in! I have never been good at drawing from my head, I've always been a referencial artist. And yes, a lot of the things I've drawn on levels are easily findable on google images (this was a scandal of sorts back in the day). I think referencing images is a great way to amp up your own levels. We aren't profiting off of our levels, it is just for us and we are publishing levels, not artwork. The art is just a part of the level. Which leads me to my first tip.

Find a reference! My level had an empty space that could use a nice drawing, so I searched for the right reference. I found this gem.

 
It is perfect for my level, so now I just need to draw it. Luckily, the composition is pretty easy, otherwise I'd need this next step.

Trace! Tracing is taboo with art, but I think it should only really be taboo for art students. art students should be learning to draw from sight. We are not art students, we are Platform Racers! Back in the day, for a complex drawing, I'd print out a photo of what I wanted to draw and tape it to my computer screen, then trace an outline to start with. If I were to do that now, I'd use a transparent overlay of the image to trace it.

Color Picking! We are very blessed today with the updated color picker. Gone are the days when we only had the 150 colors to choose from. But what a lot of people didn't realize back then, is that you could paste in color hexcodes to bring in way more colors. Now our color picker is much better, we have everything we need. almost.
Back in the day, Clairehof gave me some tips. She would upload her reference into paint and use the eye dropper tool to get the hexcodes of the colors in the reference, then paste them into the PR2 color picker. That was revolutionary for me.
Now, I have an eyedropper extention on my browser, so I'll take a few samples from my reference and post them in a note's page and label them so I can come back and find the same color again later. I'll take a sample for the main color, the shadow color, and the highlight color. Now I just need to put the colors where they go. It is a make you own paint by number.
The first thing I did after getting that tip from Clairehof was this:

I found an image I liked. I traced it. I got the exact colors from the reference, and painted them where they went in PR2.

Another thing I'll do when I'm not exactly drawing something, but just decorating, is I'll look up a color palette and adjust colors from there. By starting with a color palette, I know that all of the colors I use are going to look good together.


Be aware and careful with the Atmospheric Effect in the game. The color you have as the background will effect the colors in the layers. Especially layers 2 and 3. In my drawing of the Lemon, I drew it when I had a neutral gray background, but at the end, I changed it to be brown/orange. This made the Lemon look more orange than it used to because it is being effected by the background color. When drawing in farther back layers, I'll still use an eyedrop tool to get the color, but I'll use the ingame color picker to raise the intensity of the color so it has more pop when I use it.

Let me know if you have any questions. A part 2 is possible, and I may need to expain some things more clearly. I am also horrible at spelling, so there is that too.

Throughout the vast history of PR2 there have been many notable level creators. There are many different types of levels: around, traps, race, puzzle etc. 
There are so many factors to consider when choosing the best level creator - but generally, someone who has stayed consistent throughout the years, and has always produced quality levels, who do you guys think should take the cake? Someone who has a vast portfolio of great levels?

And I am not only asking for typical "race" creators, but also trap, frust etc. Give me your best bets!

with it being a couple of years since my idea of PR2 Challenges and how everyone perceived it, i've decided to create an updated 2024 version of the idea. i would like everyone to discuss what ideas they have for the challenges so we can get some challenges set in stone. 

more uses for the Group Badges idea

Spoiler

(24th December 2023, 1:06 AM)Different Wrote: It's been 3 years, and I can see why these ideas (along with the replay system) hasn't been implemented. Gotta find somebody else, people. Because unless it's fairly simple to work on, Ben10 won't work on it if it's too time consuming.

Howdy, I am will! Played the absolute crap outta this game back in 2008, was revisiting it w my family for a nice lil nostalgia trip this Xmas only to learn that this game still has a community going strong! Was a very fun surprise all around. Good to meet you all!

Do you think that Karen got what she deserved, or was he in the wrong for escalating a situation from bad to worse by assaulting her? The first video is where you really want to see the action. Personally, these damn Karens make me sick as hell.

Problem: The PR2 screen goes black after clicking the Quit button in a race
Type of Problem: Client
Expected Behavior: The level is still visible when you forfeit
Actual Behavior: The screen turns black and most UI elements are missing when you forfeit

Steps to Reproduce the Problem:
1. Enter a 4 player race on The Stone Age by Shadow Z (5830113)
2. Forfeit shortly (a fraction of a second) after the countdown ends
The Race Complete dialog box appears, and the rest of the screen turns black

This only happened once, and I'm not able to reproduce it

Edit: It happened again. I forfeited before the countdown ended and the screen went black.
The only difference is that the Return to Lobby button was not responsive.
Video: https://www.sendvid.com/q0520w7a


Additional Information:
All audio stops playing.
Your account remains online when this happens.
When I logged in to the same account on another PR2 instance, the Disconnected and You were disconnected because you logged in somewhere else messages were fully visible and I was able to close them.

After clicking Return to Lobby, the screen looks like this:


Right-clicking anywhere except the mute/unmute button brings up this menu, the same one you get when you right-click when a dialog box is open.