Special Effect Competition #1 - Winter Wonderland

WILLTHEALMIGHTY said:

That freezing prison looks really particle heavy... make sure those XYQuads work ingame first before submitting them.

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225 total.

I haven't checked the XY Quad on and it works in game. Though it doesn't hurt to experiment with the tools.

Just made two others: an Ice Block and a compact snowstorm.

They're all a bit big, so I'll start making some smaller effects.

Nice stuff everyone. This is what I've made so far. Shiva's Wrath is pretty big but Ice Nova is smaller. Btw, pictures don't do sfx any justice... Ice Nova looks like crap from the picture but is better in-game.

I'm loving the effects that are coming from you people, ice is so lovely.

JetFangInferno said:

Nice stuff everyone. This is what I've made so far. Shiva's Wrath is pretty big but Ice Nova is smaller. Btw, pictures don't do sfx any justice... Ice Nova looks like crap from the picture but is better in-game.

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Damn you and your awesomeness!

About the yellowish snowflakes, use the other snowflake texture (snowflake2.blp). That one seems to work fine ingame.

Also, another SFX... I'm going for near-photorealism on this one.

Looking good guys, I don't see why we needed a month and a half for this.

Chriz. said:

Looking good guys, I don't see why we needed a month and a half for this.

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Because some aint the glowish gods of SFX... and might need a bit more time due to Christmas time

Yes, Christmas is the "problem" here, since not everyone is at home then.

WILLTHEALMIGHTY said:

About the yellowish snowflakes, use the other snowflake texture (snowflake2.blp). That one seems to work fine ingame.

Also, another SFX... I'm going for near-photorealism on this one.

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looking very good, I see you used some of your moving particles like in your giant explosion model. Wish I knew how to do that =/ btw, can we use custom textures? =)

JetFangInferno said:

looking very good, I see you used some of your moving particles like in your giant explosion model. Wish I knew how to do that =/ btw, can we use custom textures? =)

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Chriz. said:

All effects created for this contest must follow the following guidelines:

• In-game textures only.

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Nope. They have to be ingame.

JetFangInferno said:

looking very good, I see you used some of your moving particles like in your giant explosion model. Wish I knew how to do that =/ btw, can we use custom textures? =)

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That would be White_64_Foam.blp, except with a blend filter and gravity effects.

i think ill join but Im sure that i wont have a chance with my current sfx skills

But here is a wip of what I made yesterday:

Update:Improved the snowman a bit and added 3 sfx.

My lineup, sorry to people which I have similiar ones, snowball was a given! I made this list the moment I heard about this contest and just got my internet back.
Snowball
Iceball
Frost Barrage (pretty much fan of knives with ice shardS)
Snow Cloud / Rain Cloud / Hail Cloud (attached)
Snow Funnel (attached)
Blizzard (a.k.a. snowstorm)
Sno-Bomb (virtually an exploding snowman)
Visions of sugarplums (sugarplums dance around head)
Visions of ornaments (ornaments dance around head)
Ice Casket (based of W.o.W. Ice Block)

Okay here's my list:

• Icicles summon, fall down
• Iceberg summon, falls down
• "Cone of Cold", WoW style
• Ninja-snowflake (like a ninja star, but a snowflake)
• Ice cube model, can be used to stack on top of each other and stuff
• Another snow ball
• Icicle missle
• A pickle, for the hell of it

Here is my first one IceEarthquake
i hope i will finish it soon =P

Pyritie said:

Okay here's my list:

• Icicles summon, fall down
• Iceberg summon, falls down
• "Cone of Cold", WoW style
• Ninja-snowflake (like a ninja star, but a snowflake)
• Ice cube model, can be used to stack on top of each other and stuff
• Another snow ball
• Icicle missle
• A pickle, for the hell of it

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lol! Nice one!

Pretty scary but I did the EXACT SAME model as skrab except I used different particles o.o Even the texture of the ice is same!

That's why it's best to spit out all your ideas before someone else makes it!

I've made the idea of Ice earthquake age ago....
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/models/2320/

my earthquake so and so sucks i have more stuff but i will post it later

wow Callahan's icequake ownz mine lol.

it uses the same additive OpaqueCrystal technique as my Ice Casket and Iceball, and Ice Barrage... ooo!

No it's the opposite since this model has been released in 2006.

One model down, six more to go!
Two models down, five more to go!

Pyritie said:

• Iceberg
• Ice cube

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Hell yeah, I love those

I'm gonna use both of those

+rep


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Another idea,

If you have ever used the "phoenix fire" special effect, where if you add it to a unit, and the unit moves around, you see a "tail" that follows the unit

If you made a special effect JUST like it, except blue/icy(if you can do icy), I'd +rep, cuz that'd just be really cool

So far:

-Ice Shards (Snow explosion... trying to be photorealistic with this one)
-Frost Waves (Previous pages)
-Snow Storm (Previous pages)
-Ice Block (Previous pages)
-Ice Block Missile (Some sort of ice block that gets thrown)
-Freezing Aura (Light frosty mist aura)
-Freezing Mist Missile (Misty and sparkly missile thing)
-Comet (Meteor, except icy)
-Rotating Ice Blocks/need another name (Rotating Ice Blocks... what else?
-Snow Cannon Missile ("photorealistic-like" Snow missile)

And maybe more.

WILLTHEALMIGHTY said:

So far:
-Rotating Ice Blocks/need another name (Rotating Ice Blocks... what else?

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I would suggest Spinning Ice Twister, or maybe just spinning ice.

Nah, it'll be like the Blood Mage's spheres.

So... Ice Spheres? Works for me.

RED BARON said:

I would suggest Spinning Ice Twister, or maybe just spinning ice.

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I have something similiar to that. Snow Funnel. Tornado spewing out snow and ice.

More Ice casket images.

Ooo, Icey!

oops, sorry about double post, didnt realize...

I have SOOOO much stuff to make =)

TheSecretArts said:

More Ice casket images.

Ooo, Icey!

oops, sorry about double post, didnt realize...

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Simpel... use edit to merge them..

Just throwing the idea here [In hopes someone else would make it so i could steal the model and use it], but it'd be really cool if someone would bother to do "Icestrike" Like flame strike, with all the gathering, the explosion and the small explosions. And the flames on the ground turned into small ice spikes or something.

That's just a simple recolor of the flamestrike texture and then change the color of the particles. It's too simple.

I'll add it in anyway, so I called it

And yet another noob magnet is born.

Anyways, just finished the ice spheres.

Woa, some amasing entries so far.
I've been fiddling around with the model editor latetly, playing around with a few effects, was going to enter but lol, ill get pwned

Think ill just 'suggest' entries:
- Frozen Meteor
- Frozen Starfall
- Frozen Implosion (Opposite of Nova, sucking unit inwards)

Good luck all!!

Fulla said:

I've been fiddling around with the model editor latetly, playing around with a few effects, was going to enter but lol, ill get pwned

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It's worth a shot. You could end up getting third place, you never know.

A few more sfx I've made. Also fixed the older ones (no yellow shit). These models are finished, but I might make more if I have time.
Note that they look best when you see them animated, so I've uploaded them for viewing purpose.

Though you may use them in your map as long as you give me credit.
And remember, DO NOT distribute or modify these resources without my permission.

I might enter and make stuff over break.. I might do a fancy animated nova.
--donut3.5--

Heh

Yeah those are nice

So you are German???
If so, you got some pretty good english

I was looking at your picture and I noticed the snowball items
SHADOWS!!!

Almost every map I have seen the people ignore the shadows, has a big effect on the map

Maybe you could make a 3snowball pyramid shadow???
If anybody even knows how to get shadows into WC ><
(And I don't mean just messing with the values , cuz somebodies gonna suggest that)

Other than that, those are some pretty insanely great looking effects

Herman said:

So you are German???
If so, you got some pretty good english

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No, I'm from Sweden.
But thanks for the compliment.

I was too lazy to adjust the shadows when I tested the models ingame.

O ok

Hah, thats ok

I was kinda wondering if any of you other pro modelers know anything about importing custom shadows, for things like buildings and such

wow Dan's got some nice stuff =)

I'm so in! Just need to get Art Tools on my comp again and I'll get rolling! Haven't modeled in months, and as it's holidays, I have some free time! Splendid! Quite a boring theme but there are enough skins in the game to make some cool stuff. So if nothing else "bad" happens, to say so, count me in!

-Daelin

Woa look whos back.
The entrants & entries are really looking good

Well, I've kinda lost my touch... so don't except something huge! Haven't worked at this kind of stuff in months.

-Daelin

Ahhh now all the SFX masters are joining.

This is going to get intense!

-Ice Shards (Snow explosion... trying to be photorealistic with this one)
-Frost Waves (Previous pages)
-Snow Storm (Previous pages)
-Ice Block (Previous pages)
-Ice Block Missile (Some sort of ice block that gets thrown)
-Freezing Aura (Light frosty mist aura)
-Freezing Mist Missile (Misty and sparkly missile thing)
-Comet (Meteor, except icy)
-Rotating Ice Blocks/need another name (Rotating Ice Blocks... what else?)
-Snow Cannon Missile ("photorealistic-like" Snow missile)


Progress report.

Pyritie said:

That's just a simple recolor of the flamestrike texture and then change the color of the particles. It's too simple.

I'll add it in anyway, so I called it

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I didn't actually mean that. I just meant effects that would work as "ice strike" or such spell. Mainly an effect that gathers in power around. Recolour of the flamestrike will propably look lame..