For the record, the image I submitted doesn't use a "plugin" per se, but
is on a 3rd party map: 'A Borderland Odyssey' -
as I mentioned originally. The snapshot is taken from the actual game we played (i.e. is not retouched in any way). I also found the film (wow did I fumble in that game!).
If Lugas meant
map plugins weren't allowed - as in any 3rd party, non-standard map - and not just "plugins" (like Weirdobodomons, RDF, etc.), then no problem. Although I would have submitted something different if I thought that was the case.
Since so many people did use 3rd party maps (again, if that was what you meant by "plugins"), then maybe you should have three categories and re-run the contest (you might get more submissions this way too):
* Category A: No plugins of any kind: maps or otherwise
* Category B: 3rd Party maps, but no other plugins
* Category C: Any 3rd Party map and/or plugin
Any plugins used (maps or otherwise) can't be made just for the contest, the snapshot must be from a
real game (more than one team involved; not a "throwaway", dead, or fake game; and perhaps from before the contest was announced?), and of course no retouching of any kind. The snapshot also has to be viewable on the original film (unless the film is genuinely lost, in which case you, Lugas, can make a ruling).
Might be interesting.
BTW, for those that didn't know (I didn't until after I became a mapmaker/pluginmaker): that beachball is actually part of Bungie's original tags and can be used for the Bacon on any map. Funky but true. I put a variant of it on several of my maps as an Easter Egg and have made a version that behaves like a real beachball in my UGR plugin.
Oh, and Kaor won that game with the pursuing Thrall! I fumbled big time: between the relentless rain that prevented me taking them out I managed to push that ball into a corner (doh!) whereby I was trapped (too close to them to even fire!), and when I moved away I couldn't get back to the ball in time to contest!
