Modeling Contest #15 - Colossus

[jojomondag]

Uglug

Burning_Dragoon5 looking good! like the idea. I am also having problem finding time for this as im moving too a new apartment in a week. But somehow you always can find some minutes here and there

I just whanted too know does the wc3 engine support smoothed normal? i mean soften and harden edge.

Im done now with Uglug's lowpoly body going too model the trees, mushrooms and the house wich will be on his back.

Have a good night/day!

 

[anarchianbedlam]

good work jojo. looks like it transferred nicely. and your concept is looking good too burning dragoon5

 

[Pyritie]

I just whanted too know does the wc3 engine support smoothed normal? i mean soften and harden edge.

If by that you mean smoothing groups... I think it does.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Yeah it does. Things would look considerably worse if it didn't.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Burning_Dragoon5 looking good! like the idea. I am also having problem finding time for this as im moving too a new apartment in a week. But somehow you always can find some minutes here and there

I just whanted too know does the wc3 engine support smoothed normal? i mean soften and harden edge.

Im done now with Uglug's lowpoly body going too model the trees, mushrooms and the house wich will be on his back.

Have a good night/day!

It has turned out really good. Excellent job.

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah it does. Things would look considerably worse if it didn't.

I was more referring to multiple/combined smoothing groups

 

[jojomondag]

Uglug

i still have too fix a bit on his body and the one halv of his face. And some veins from the trees but im getting there.

/jojo

 

[The World Is Flat]

Holy, thats epic indeed... I gotta learn how to model... howabout putting a tiny cow or person on his shoulder? that would be hilarious...

 

[skrab]

It's still highpoly for my taste. Does he really needs fingers?

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

There's a bunch of great stuff in here !

Anyway, here's another WIP.



I'm currently unfortunately overbooked, and I wonder if I'll be able to finish the model before the deadline.

For now, I just have to add some planar polys for the branches and the leaves.
Then, the UVWrap, the texture and eventually the animations.

Time for explanations: This is a corrupted form of a nature element, Ivy one probably.
It is using all nearby nature things (trees, woods, roots, rocks, ivy) to "transform" into a huge and impressive Nature elemental. As it is magical and natural, it's using both magic and ramification to get a coherency appearrance. Fortunately, its "heart" (we should say the Ivy elemental itself) is defenseless, but its size and its abilities are enough to get rid of weaklings.

This looks good Its seems really to fit the theme

 

[jojomondag]

too many polys indeed

Skrab yeah I think I will keep the fingers but I still have areas I can optimize alot in. Yeah i think he has too many polys to im up in 2400 triangles atm. Uwmapping is about finished now. I have a question can i find some tutorial on how too make transperancy maps/ Alpha for gmax?

 

[skrab]

jojomondag can you scale that "stuff" on his back? It looks too small and maybe it won't be visible in the game. Scale it or add more dirty stuff
What tools will you use for animating?

 

[jojomondag]

wee for gmax

Yeah that's a good idea! im gonna use gmax for animation

 

[Pyritie]

I hope you aren't serious.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I hope you aren't serious.

Ehrm...the GMAX port of BlinkBoy's NeoDex script anyone?

 

[Pyritie]

DAMMIT I KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT THATl

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Typical banana peel scaled dragons.

 

[Time-to-die]

Well I am bored so I am going to submit my entry.

This is my Sea colossus! I really don't know what else I need to post.

 

[Mulgrim]

it needs more shadows, its all plain colored

 

[D a w n]

you should seriously take ingame textures...

 

[HappyCockroach]

Well I am bored so I am going to submit my entry.

This is my Sea colossus! I really don't know what else I need to post.

The anims are quite awesome. =P
But I'm not sure about all those textures. Good we got another submission, though.

 

[jojomondag]

Time too die what do i need too do to get your files working in wc3 i cant get your mdx file working

 

[RED BARON]

Well I am bored so I am going to submit my entry.

This is my Sea colossus! I really don't know what else I need to post.

It appears rather out of place in a wc3 universe... But I like the general model idea.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

a week left and i still ahvent started the anim. any idea if we are going to have an extension or not? i still havent seen that many entries

 

[HappyCockroach]

Yeah, extension please. I didn't even rig mine yet.

 

[Pyritie]

We'll see

 

[Time-to-die]

Time too die what do i need too do to get your files working in wc3 i cant get your mdx file working

Yeah you need like all the texture files, there is like 6+ cause I was kinda lazy to make one big 512 map. And they need to all have the textures\ custom path on them, and the model needs to have no path.

And I am horrible at textures, and I usually make them worse once I try to fix them. So that is probably as good as they will get, unless I figure out how to use WC3 ones.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

ya.... so i pretty much havent worked on my colossus at all since like... the first day.... so pretty much all i have at the moment is like... an arm.... and i need to make a skin for it :/ so ima try to do some work over the 5 day weekend ...... hopefully i can get some progress :/

 

[Forgotten_Warlord]

Would a giant Skeleton Warrior count as 'colosus'?

 

[RED BARON]

Would a giant Skeleton Warrior count as 'colosus'?

Why shouldn't it? As long as its huge..

 

[Mr. Bob]

OK I'M BACK.

I was gone for a week due to some family crap. BUT NOW IT'S TIME FOR MORE SERIOUS BUSINESS.

I'll get it done in a day or two.

 

[Mulgrim]

well, i'm fucked, i can't rise enough will to even continue, i think i'm kind of tired of modelling for now, and there's not much time left, so now i won't enter back for sure.

is this normal?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

its quite normal to see only 30%, 20% or even less, of the original contestants finish their models, especially on time. Modelling contests are always like that

 

[Pyritie]

I will probably extend this


And I'd better see some entries. This is why I did not want to do this theme. As usual you guys were like NO THIS IS THE BEST THEME I WILL DEFINITELY PARTICIPATE AND FINISH and now look; we only have 5 days left and still no entries (that I can remember)

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Hey, it's not our fault our modellers suck.

EDIT: Well, it's not *mine*.

 

[Mulgrim]

Hey, it's not our fault our modellers can never finish their shit

fixed

 

[Slaydon]

i dont think ill manage to learn animation in so short time, soz

 

[Mulgrim]

transfer animations? i'll do the same, with a single custom due to time

 

[HappyCockroach]

I will probably extend this


And I'd better see some entries. This is why I did not want to do this theme. As usual you guys were like NO THIS IS THE BEST THEME I WILL DEFINITELY PARTICIPATE AND FINISH and now look; we only have 5 days left and still no entries (that I can remember)

We got 2 entries. Time-to-die and tee.dubs have uploaded theirs already.

 

[D a w n]

Mr Bob also already submitted a model :>

 

[Slaydon]

well, i didnt manage to transfer animations ;/

 

[Illidan(Evil)X]

Hmm.. I might quickly put together something for this competition..

 

[anarchianbedlam]

I will probably extend this


And I'd better see some entries. This is why I did not want to do this theme. As usual you guys were like NO THIS IS THE BEST THEME I WILL DEFINITELY PARTICIPATE AND FINISH and now look; we only have 5 days left and still no entries (that I can remember)

thanks pyritie for extending this
but its not MY fault i want to go to college, have a good life and not become an alcoholic bum..... college apps and schoolwork take a long time :/
ill get work done over this weekend

 

[Mr. Bob]

Well, I am gonna finish. D: Probably tomorrow.

Even if I don't, I already finished 2 other entries....So don't give be grief.

I will have made 3 models for this contest. And, due to the holidays and stuff, I will have only been present half the time. Also, I will have only been able to spend an hour a day for 5 days a week.

So I don't want any of this crap directed at me. D:

 

[Mulgrim]

I don't know if this looks too good, so give feedback please, you know what it is. And don't whine about polies, it'll be nice and square like you like it -.-"

 

[RED BARON]

I don't know if this looks too good, so give feedback please, you know what it is. And don't whine about polies, it'll be nice and square like you like it -.-"

I have a hard time saying if it looks good, as I have no idea what it is... Is it an arm? (If so, then it have some well defined muscles) An arm and a leg?

A one legged monster?

Sure, looks fine for what it is - Dunno if it looks fine as something else

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

holy shit :O, whats the poly count on that thing?

 

[Mr. Bob]

This is mai official release foo's!

SO, this is my space station. It is the longest I have ever spent on one model. (5 freaking hours! Not all at once of course.) Most of the time was spent trying to find a texture.

The idea behind the death anim is that a station this big wouldn't just fall apart, it would do this:

This

BOOOOOOOM!!!

So much boom infact, that it blots out the screen with light. Yep. It's that awesome.

Oh and I made stand alternate for those who don't want the parts to spin.

Enjoy! And, feel free to edit and redistribute!

PS: Yes, I know the texture is bland...Why the heck do you think I picked it? Gah. Search for Manaan on google. Then shut up.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

:/ mr.bob.... just.... :/ followed by a short :? and possibly a

death animation.... *sigh* "scaling:3300" on a particle emitter .... i like the spinning in the stand anim... but i cant imagine anyone logically building the outskirts of a city first before the building the center ( and making them float down )

but it is pretty damn epic size, definitely a city i dont know why the centerpiece isnt moving/spinning... nor why it has a giant gaping crater in the middle of it. anywho. creative, sort of like your original floating city idea but this one is less fanciful, more futuristic. the render makes it e***ulate glistening awesomesauce.

anyways.... im workin on my submission :/ its going slowly... but steadily

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

Mr Bob you crazy old fool