Modeling mini-contest #1

Trilogy · Sep 16, 2009

Winners never quit.
Quitters never win.

Kount · Sep 16, 2009

The Witch of the Swamps

Polycount is 128.

HappyCockroach · Sep 16, 2009

This way you could add a particle emitter of 2 parts per second and 1s lifespan to make spell/attack look 10 times bettter...

Pyramidhe@d · Sep 16, 2009

Kount said:
Upload from mobile phone didn't work I guess.

Here she is though, animated to be a basic caster unit or something:

The Witch of the Swamps

View attachment 65657

Not entirely sure about the polycount - w3 previewer says it's 128, but then again w3 previewer tells a lot of crap. According to Magos' it's 124 though.

:O holy cow it melts and stuff. very clever
not sure about the attack anim but the rest are well done. great job

anarchianbedlam · Sep 16, 2009

Kount, where the hell have you been hiding all this time, a modeler like you just poppin outa the blue.... great job

Time-to-die · Sep 17, 2009

Dang, I didn't know there was so many modelers doing WC3 stuff lol. I have not seen a whole lot of maps with custom models.

Thrikodius · Sep 17, 2009

Time-to-die said:
Dang, I didn't know there was so many modelers doing WC3 stuff lol. I have not seen a whole lot of maps with custom models.

Look in the model section instead.

Kount:
That is a really nice model. As HappyCockroach said you could add a particle in the spell anim. Some pulsing light with the Shockwave10 texture could be nice.
But I think you should hide the mudpuddle in the anims where it's not used cause it will pop out of the ground if she walks on a hill or stands on the edge of a cliff.

syltman · Sep 17, 2009

Pyramidhe@d said:
say herro to me weeddle fwend
View attachment 65629
a turret unit

Awesome!

FlowerofSpeech · Sep 17, 2009

Trilogy said:
Winners never quit.
Quitters never win.

Some drug addicts would tell you otherwise.

Upload from mobile phone didn't work I guess.

Here she is though, animated to be a basic caster unit or something:

The Witch of the Swamps

Attachment 65657

Not entirely sure about the polycount - w3 previewer says it's 128, but then again w3 previewer tells a lot of crap. According to Magos' it's 124 though.

Holy crap I think this model is awesome. Great work, love the idea... it'll be really useful for some people too.

Just_Spectating · Sep 19, 2009

great models guys

may the best one win

anarchianbedlam · Sep 19, 2009

Hopefully shamanyouranus can finish his worm before the contest ends

Princess Kiali · Sep 19, 2009

I am not entering the contest, so I apologize for posting here, but I wanted to ask... I just downloaded Milkshape and I'm trying to make my first ever model. How can you guys make entire figures with so few triangles? I have a head and part of a torso and I'm already over 300...

skrab · Sep 19, 2009

Princess Kiali said:
I am not entering the contest, so I apologize for posting here, but I wanted to ask... I just downloaded Milkshape and I'm trying to make my first ever model. How can you guys make entire figures with so few triangles? I have a head and part of a torso and I'm already over 300...

You have to learn the 3D modeling fundamentals. I suggest you to google some basic tutorials...
If you use 3Ds max you can find basic tutorials in the Help menu.

Kuhneghetz · Sep 19, 2009

That witch/hag looks awesome, but I agree with Thriko about the puddle thingy.

Princess Kiali said:
I am not entering the contest, so I apologize for posting here, but I wanted to ask... I just downloaded Milkshape and I'm trying to make my first ever model. How can you guys make entire figures with so few triangles? I have a head and part of a torso and I'm already over 300...

Modelers usually begin with boxes or planes and use wonderful modifiers like extrude and connect to make shapes and styles.
But as skrab said, you should consider searching for some basic 3D modelling tutorials on the internet so you can get a good start.

Devine · Sep 19, 2009

anarchianbedlam said:
Hopefully shamanyouranus can finish his worm before the contest ends

So you wouldn't be last? xP
Well the contest is (almost) over ... I really have no idea when exactly it ends

I think skrab and anarchiambedlam have a nice shot at winning

Just_Spectating · Sep 20, 2009

is there a public poll?

Pyritie · Sep 20, 2009

Just_Spectating said:
is there a public poll?

No.

By the way guys, you have until the end of today to post them! That's about 13 hours from now!

Thrikodius · Sep 20, 2009

Jikes I have to pick up the pase.

Kount · Sep 20, 2009

Wow, I finally got internet again, just in time

Thanks to your feedback I made a few minor tweaks.

# Puddle hidden (Didn't hide it in the first place cause it looked good in the portrait. Got seperate portrait animations now)

# Particle Emitters: I already had a version with particles, but I was unsure about the tricount (the previewer showed 128 tris even without particles). Though since I'm having 124 tris and a maximum of 2 particles at a time according to Magos', I hope I'm fine with them in.

I didn't change any of the animations, I think attack looks pretty decent with particles and the right projectile ingame

Example with the Banshee-Projectile with 500 Speed and a 10% arc

Guess thats final then :hohum:

SuPa- · Sep 20, 2009

Oh my goodness, it's the 20th already!

Cavman · Sep 20, 2009

SuPa- said:
Oh my goodness, it's the 20th already!

D:
And I didn't get mine done.
Oh well, it looked like shit anyways. We got a good group of models here.

skrab · Sep 21, 2009

4 minutes left....

anarchianbedlam · Sep 21, 2009

So when will we find out the results?

Taylor Mouse · Sep 21, 2009

So maybe I missed this, but where do we actually vote ?

T.

dansaDisco · Sep 21, 2009

You don't vote.

Pyritie and Supa are just going to announce the winner.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Thrikodius · Sep 21, 2009

dansaDisco said:
Pyritie and Supa are just going to announce the winner.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Actually there will be rewards to.

dansaDisco · Sep 21, 2009

Thrikodius said:
Actually there will be rewards to.

Yeah. I know. But there wont be any "scores", or no public polls

Just_Spectating · Sep 21, 2009

there will be scores

just not shown to us

Thrikodius · Sep 21, 2009

Just_Spectating said:
there will be scores

just not shown to us

I think they'll be too lazy to make scores. At least I would.

Pyramidhe@d · Sep 21, 2009

SuPa- and I will be judging. To speed up the process we won't be giving any sort of score breakdown. It will just be a simple "okay you win" sort of thing.
no scores

Pyritie · Sep 21, 2009

Pyramidhe@d said:
Pyritie said:

SuPa- and I will be judging. To speed up the process we won't be giving any sort of score breakdown. It will just be a simple "okay you win" sort of thing.

Click to expand...

no scores

fixed for clarity

Pyramidhe@d · Sep 21, 2009

XP sorry Pyritie

skrab · Sep 22, 2009

Thrikodius · Sep 22, 2009

And yet I only missed two of them.

Pyramidhe@d · Sep 22, 2009

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D)/ this is great. lets do this more often

Dionesiist · Sep 22, 2009

With two triangles!

Thrikodius · Sep 22, 2009

Dionesiist said:
With two triangles!

You could make a butterfly.

Pyritie · Sep 22, 2009

Dionesiist said:
With two triangles!

2 TRIANGLE FOOTMAN GOGOGO

bahaha

Nah, next one of these will be critters

D a w n · Sep 22, 2009

Pyritie said:
2 TRIANGLE FOOTMAN GOGOGO

bahaha

Nah, next one of these will be critters

yo got to be repped for this post <3

Time-to-die · Sep 22, 2009

2 triangle footman lol. Would work with animated texture. just make it like a sprite haha.

Pyritie · Sep 22, 2009

Hmm, I could probably make a wisp with only 2 triangles...

Pyramidhe@d · Sep 22, 2009

ok, after that we can have the one triangle challenge

Taylor Mouse · Sep 23, 2009

Yeah, you could, like... make a euh... triangle ! :grin:

T.

anarchianbedlam · Sep 23, 2009

you could make any model you want, what you do is create a texture about 50feet by 50 feet, then you draw the model you want (i.e. footman) and then you copy and paste that picture you drew 500 times over and align it to a grid pattern, and then slightly alter the pictures so it looks like it is moving. It would be like stop-motion animation., all you would need to do is set a plane (2 face square) to one of the little guys, and then have a texture animation move the UVed box around for each 1/60th of a second for each animation. Then you put that geoset on a bone and set that bone to billboarded, so you can see it from all angles, like a real 3d model.

its like an extremely fucking complex somewhat 3d version of a stop motion reel, just like in the old days

Kwaliti · Sep 23, 2009

Hmm... I can see a compo like that in the future, but due to its' complexity, I highly doubt.

skrab · Sep 26, 2009

I thought this will go faster with "okay you win" sort of thing...

Pyritie · Sep 26, 2009

Yeah, SuPa-'s been busy lately and I need to wait for him to not be busy

SuPa- · Sep 26, 2009

Yeah, I'm really sorry guys, I haven't had any free time lately. I have a little time right now in the morning, so I'll try to look through the models

Wow! I looked through the models and I was impressed by all of them. Nice job handeling the poly limit, animations, and textures everyone. I won't be able to get back to you guys until tomorrow though, so hopefully I'll have my decision then

anarchianbedlam · Oct 6, 2009

..... that was like 10 days ago :/

Devine · Oct 6, 2009

That was like 15 hours ago :/
Man, don't push them... It may have been long since the deadline but chill down ...
the results probably won't take too much longer.

Modeling mini-contest #1

The Witch of the Swamps

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The Witch of the Swamps