Half Life Theme Voting

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Storm are you still working on that licious theme?
If you are...hurry up already!

I can't wait until it's completed.

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And those icons are....uhhh....wO_Ow.

http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?pid=2951&fullsize=1

RIght click and save the image as. Then open it up with photoshop shop or whatever you use and you can edit it freely.

[Porky]

Here is a render for you

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It's moving!!! AHHH!!!!
Cool...

[Porky]

yeah I for got to disselect it before I changed it to a Gif

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Well I added the png below yours.

[gfxindia]

Destine Designs will be posting here in a few minutes

[Destine]

Hello all,
I think i have been mentioned in the first post. So i am posting.
I did give permission to Darkman to convert my Nuke theme. I asked him not to alter copyrights. And i think he has kept his word.

Hope this post helps you all in some way.

Thank You and Regards.

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*No Comment*


[Million things going through my head...]

[Thurnok]

Darkman, I believe the issue is not so much that you did or did not get permission for modification of another theme.  I believe the issue is one of originality.  I think you did a great job on converting a phpNuke theme over for SMF/TP.  I think the fact that it looks so close to the original makes it appear as though you are basically submitting someone else's work for a contest that was started with some originality in mind.

The rules did state you could use things from another author with permission, but I think it was implied that you would add your own work to it.  I think the wording of the rule probably could have been done better, but everyone else pretty much understood it.

The other issue I believe has to do with submittal time.  The rules do clearly state that your work needs to be submitted by 15 September.  Whether you are in a different time zone or not, you did not submit on the 15th in any timezone on the planet.  You showed up late on the 16th in many locations and even the 17th in your own timezone.  I think that even if it weren't done, had you submitted it on time, the other issue of originality would have been overlooked for the voting purposes.  However, a combination of the two is what got you into trouble.

My advice is to just chalk it up as a learning experience for the next time (as someone else already mentioned).  It is not the end of the world, and hopefully not the end of contests on TinyPortal.

ΨPorkΨ - I think you did a good job on setting up the contest, however, I would say that you probably have learned something here today as well.  The next contest you might want to clarify rules even to a larger extent just so no unfortunate mishaps come up such as the issues here.  Another learning experience.  Personally, I probably wouldn't have done even half as well as you did.

For all the contestants - I think you all did a great job on all the themes.  I hope that you are all encouraged and motivated to perform more of these contests because I believe it is a great event for the TinyPortal community.