Modeling Contest #29 - Poll

[HappyCockroach]

Squad

Contestants should create a model that represents two or more separate characters that walk around together and act collaboratively at some animations, as the Mortar Team, or the Goblin Sappers.​

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• Each user can only vote once in the poll.
• You cannot vote for yourself. If a voter has the same IP as the author then the vote will not be counted and it may result in the disqualification of the entry.
• You cannot create multiple accounts to vote for an entry in the poll. If a voter has been found to be using multiple accounts none of the voters votes will count in the final result.
• You cannot bribe users for votes. Contestants who break this rule will be disqualified and given negative reputation.
• It is forbidden for participants to update their entries while the poll and/or judging are in course.

• First Place: 60 reputation points and your entry on the award icon.
  
• Second Place: 40 reputation points and an award icon.
  
• Third Place: 25 reputation points and an award icon.
• Participation: 5 reputation points.

All the entries are imported to a Test Map meant for trying every aspect of the models in-game.

MC#29 Test Map

It's highly recommended you base your vote in the test map, but if you're unable to do it, the entries are listed individually below:​

Contestant	Submission Name
Astaroth Zion	Skeleton Crew
HappyCockroach	Zangarmarsh Brewers
Hayate	Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad
Mike	Aero Team
PROXY	Boom Squad
Pvt.Toma	Chronosquad
Stefan.K	Brothers in Arms

• The_Silent
• HappyTauren

Mesh	How the mesh looks aesthetically? How are its proportions, its balance and scale? How coherent is polygon distribution?	/10
Skin	How good is the wrap? Are custom textures appealing? Or how adequate are the in-game chosen textures? Is it blurry/stretched? Do the tones go well together?	/10
Animations	How natural, smooth and appropriate are the animations? If they're custom, how well are they executed? Do they have physical coherence? Do they have character/personality? If they are imported, how appropriate was the animation choice? How hard is it to relate it to the original in that case?	/10
Effects	How adequate are the particle/ribbon/etc effects added? Do they contribute to the model? Are they impressing? But are they added in a good measure? Did the model need more?	/5
Mechanics	How well does the model work in-game? Are the animations recognizable in-game? Does it feature attachments/footprints/collisions/etc? Is it fully selectable?	/5
Creativity	How original is the general idea? How inventive is the execution? Does it fit the theme? Does it fit WC3 environment?	/10

• 70% of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 30% of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

Inviting your friends to vote for you, bribing random members with rep and otherwise cheating with the VB poll system will get you DISQUALIFIED, BANNED from future contests, -REPPED, and possibly INFRACTED. So don't do it!

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The poll will conclude on the 31st of July, 2016. The contest thread can be found here.

 

[fladdermasken]

Approved.

Good luck, contestants.

 

[deepstrasz]

For some reason, I like Happy's most.

 

[Xarwin]

Voted for Zangarmarsh Brewers, I like it.

 

[-Grendel]

voted for HappyCockroach.

 

[HappyCockroach]

I voted for Astaroth Zion because I see it as the most creative entry in this contest, and possibly the most creative one among the past few contests. To me he has grasped fully and intelligently the idea of a Squad and applied it marvelously, with a richness of stances and different roles - all inside a consistent and WC3-consonant scheme.

I really like the other entries, they have many merits - Hayate's Ogre Canoneer almost got my vote, for a complex and solid execution in many aspects - but when I vote at polls I tend to value creativity above all, and the most groundbreaking idea was AZ's. :3

 

[Misha]

looks like zangarmarsh brewers are in the lead 'u'

 

[A]mun]

Really digging the Skeleton Crew (no pun intended).
Also liking the Zangarmarsh Brewers and Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad.

Actually the Aero Team and Boom Squad are well done too. Can't decide...

edit:
Chose the Brewers for their fine animations and overall idea. Would've chosen the Skeleton Crew if their animations were better (less sudden transforming).

P.S: Two placeable votes would be preferable, having so many qualitative entries.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Oh baby oh baby. I'm really excited for how this Contest turned out, and very gratified that extending the deadline into oblivion really helped. We, what, doubled the final total of completed entries?

 

[MiniMage]

It appears I'm only the second person voting for the Boom Squad. All you need to make the model awesome would be to rename spell animations to attack 2, that way it would look like this;

Attack 1 - 1
Attack 1 - 2
Attack 2 - 1
Attack 2 - 2

Then after playing around with the editor settings, you could set a max distance and a min distance for range and melee. Thus, the unit would shoot stuff far away, and slize at things getting close. I find it far more interesting than the rest. At least as a usable unit. The potioneers are fascinating concept wise, but I have no idea how to actually use it ingame. XD

 

[Kyrbi0]

It appears I'm only the second person voting for the Boom Squad. All you need to make the model awesome would be to rename spell animations to attack 2, that way it would look like this;

Then after playing around with the editor settings, you could set a max distance and a min distance for range and melee. Thus, the unit would shoot stuff far away, and slize at things getting close. I find it far more interesting than the rest. At least as a usable unit. The potioneers are fascinating concept wise, but I have no idea how to actually use it ingame. XD

I love the Boom Squad, but I don't think it works like that (or rather, can). If you have a test map that'd be awexome... But AFAIK, the elusive "ranged attack anim @ range & melee attack anim @ close-up (against ground units)" nut still hasn't been cracked.

 

[HappyCockroach]

It appears I'm only the second person voting for the Boom Squad. All you need to make the model awesome would be to rename spell animations to attack 2, that way it would look like this;

Then after playing around with the editor settings, you could set a max distance and a min distance for range and melee. Thus, the unit would shoot stuff far away, and slize at things getting close.

Hmm... that sounds like an awesome idea, but as far as I know, we aren't able to set different animation names in WE for each attack - only different missiles. And the unit will only perform attack 2 in case the unit isn't a valid target to attack 1 - for example, flying units (In the case you put, an unit which is far away would only be chased to melee range instead of shooting). With some trigger tinkering it might work, though - which is, doing instant changes at attack parameters and adding animation names via triggers.

 

[MiniMage]

Actually, you can and I've made it work before. Setting a secondary attack lineup, you can thus configure it easily. You set the attack types to both. It's not about setting up new names, it's about using the right old ones.
Attack would naturally be a melee. As in 100 range. Attack 2 would be ranged, thus on average 600 range. You set the minimum attack range of Attack 2 to 200. That would mean that Attack 1 would be out of range for its normal attack when the enemies are far away and attack 2 would be unable to shoot with the enemy being too close.

In the past, I configured turrets like this, to make turrets rotate upwards to shoot air and whatnot. It should work fine with a unit model. Then again, setting up minimum attack range should be based on both attacks, so that could be tricky. Hm.

 

[That_Guy_There]

Hooooey! That's some fantastic submissions. I prefer myself is

(Drumroll)

Hayate's Goblin Cannon Squad!

The animations is just smooth, noicely textured.
just doesn't have that many animations compared to others...

 

[Heinvers]

Voted for Astaroth Zion. Pretty cool in terms of ideas and animations. Almost had me there with HappyCockroack and Toma.

So, AZ for being ingenious.

Overall, pretty good entries seen here. Well done guys : )

 

[Lone Adventurer]

Go team Zangarmarsh Brewers!

 

[KILLCIDE]

It was a tie between the Cannon Squad and Aero Team for me... but the Stand - 5 and Attack Alternate animation for the Aero team was just too awesome

On a side note, I really love the idea of having one test map with all the entries!

 

[Emm-A-]

For me, it was a tie between the ogre, the sceletons, and the former potioneers.
Initially, I liked the sceletons the most because of the creativity being over the top.
In the end, I voted for the zangmarsh brewers, because overall they were pretty good in each category, and they were not modified much after the first deadline ended. I think, they were animated very lovely as well.

I would like to say congratulations to all contestants. I am absolutely amazed by these model contests here, and one can learn so much from you guys!

I think, the squads really add a lot to the hives model data base.

 

[HappyCockroach]

The poll is already closed, and we're waiting on the judges. One of them sent the judging already, so results might come up soon.

While we're waiting on that, we might debate themes to a possible Modeling Mini-Contest to come!

 

[Kyrbi0]

Aw dang, seriously!? I wasted too much time. Completely forgot about this poll. Sorry guys. :<

 

[Hantoo]

@HappyCockroach
i know judges have their own things to do but
By any chance we have an estimate date on when will the result be out?

 

[HappyCockroach]

Estimate date is: as soon as I have both judgings in hand.

I believe in the next few days we'll have it.

 

[JesusHipster]

Very disappointed that Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad didn't get that much attention. I think it's an outstanding model.

 

[Hantoo]

Very disappointed that Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad didn't get that much attention. I think it's an outstanding model.

Maybe I did a mistake by giving him a non fancy name?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Maybe I did a mistake by giving him a non fancy name?

Always a mistake. Shoulda rolled.

 

[Emm-A-]

Very disappointed that Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad didn't get that much attention. I think it's an outstanding model.

I usually end up liking more than one entry a lot in the end, but you have to decide for only one sadly enough :/

 

[HappyCockroach]

Very disappointed that Ogre Goblin Cannon Squad didn't get that much attention. I think it's an outstanding model.

If you get disappointed with the poll, you need to start expecting something from it. Polls are always shitty, it is all-or-nothing. That's why in this contest poll has a little less of weight than previous Modeling Contests.

And about the results, we're still depending on one of the judging's to be finished.

 

[Kyrbi0]

...Polls are always shitty, it is all-or-nothing....

There are ways around that.

I do feel bad I didn't get to vote, though. If it's any consolation, my vote would've been choosing between the Ogre Cannon Goblin Etc Squad, the Zangarmarsh Brewers, or the Boom Squad.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Guys, a long time nothing was said here. I apologize as host that it has taken so long. The_Silent sent us his judging already, we've been waiting on HT's, which supposedly had it already finished but have been away for a while, before sending it.

We might move on with only The_Silent's judging, or find some quick volunteer to judge. I don't want to decide this by myself, since having only 1 judge isn't a typical thing in THW contests, and I'm a contestant myself, so... Thoughts?

(If anyone's eager to be a judge, let me know)

 

[PROXY]

I'm fine with one judging, this contest has not been going on as long as the other one did, yet at least. Let's try to keep it at bay this time ^^

 

[Hantoo]

mkay with one judge

 

[Astaroth Zion]

I'm also ok with one judge.

 

[Mike]

Agree too.

 

[Astaroth Zion]

Bump?

 

[Hantoo]

POKE POKE

 

[Astaroth Zion]

Hello?

 

[Kyrbi0]

Do we need to have a Poll to decide this? 5* of the 7, a super-majority, have agreed to have just one Judge. With that one Judge already having been done (for months now), it's literally just a matter of copy-pasting that into a thread, tabulating the Poll & Judge Results, and calling it a day.

If making a "Results" thread would take too long, go the Heinvers-route & just post a "Results Post" in this thread.

This can happen. We can be free. @HappyCockroach

 

[HappyCockroach]

Sorry guys, for giving no response here. The thread is set up, results should come up very soon.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Hey guys, results are out.

Modeling Contest #29: Results

Sorry for the long delay in having them posted.