Mini-Modeling contest #4 - TOWERS

[anarchianbedlam]

Contest Theme: Towers


Contestants are to create a "tower" building model. Something that could act as a "tower" ingame

1. No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
2. You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
3. You may make as many models as you want, however pick only one for the final judge's evaluation.
4. To qualify for entry, you must post your model(s) in .mdx format, and an in-game screenshot of the model.
5. You must post your entry before the deadline expires and attach it to a post.
6. You must make the model for this competition, which means that you cannot use old works.
7. Your model must have these minimum animations:
   • Birth
   • Stand
   • Death
   Other animations are optional
8. Your tower may have an "attacking turret" on it.

• First Place: 30 reputation points and your entry on an award icon.
• Second Place: 20 reputation points
• Third Place: 10 reputation points

• 100 % of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
  • Score shall be taken out of 50 points,
    • 15 points for mesh (verticies and faces)
    • 10 points for animations (or how well Blizzard animations have been used)
    • 10 points for skin (or how well Blizzard skins have been used)
    • 5 points for mechanics (how well does this model work ingame)
    • 5 points for effects (appropriate use of particles, particle saturation, etc.)
    • 5 points for creativity.

All submissions must be complete and submitted 4 weeks after the contest is started.
The contest shall begin on Wednesday, October 6th and conclude on Wednsday, November 3rd, 11:59 PM, 2010 GMT

Tell us if you want to judge!

1. Devine
2. l0w_kwaliti
3. HappyCockroach

I will list the participants here as they enter

Contestant	Entry
Anarchianbedlam	Barad'Dur
Shamanyerbutthole	Elemental Tower
Pyramidhe@d	Amethyst Tower
Mr.Bob	Mortar Tower
Dan Van Ohllus	Succorbenoth
-Peper-	Dragon Tower
The_silent	Tesla Tower
Chilla_Killa	Alien Tower
Revilo	Crystal Tower

Extensions
We will be using this new deadline extension protocol.

Deadline will end (no exceptions) when BOTH criteria are met
1. Pre-set date (e.g. November 3rd 11:59pm GMT) is met
2. We have minimum of 3 completed entries

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Tell me if i forgot anything, lets get this party started wooo!
any questions?

and paired contest results will be up when i get supa-'s judging

 

[HappyCockroach]

Alright, I got 1 question though... Considering the first criterium already fulfilled, it will last until the end of the day (GMT) which we have 3 entries at least, or when the third entry is submitted the contest is closed and this is a 3-entry-contest now.
Cos if it lasts until the end of the day, maybe those who still didn't finish can still give up on polishing it and upload their unfinished shit with rushed stuff and the contest will turn out quite better, with 4 or more entries.

Then it would be:

Deadline will end (no exceptions) when BOTH criteria are met
1. Pre-set date (e.g. November 3rd) is met
2. We have minimum of 3 completed entries at the end of the day (GMT)

 

[Mr. Bob]

I think I speak for us all when I say:

...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

Anyway, time to model a tower at record speeds.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Yes happycockroach, nov. 3rd 11:59 GMT.... hence' why i said "THE DEADLINE"

the contest wouldnt end "sometime that day" it would end on the deadline

 

[HappyCockroach]

Yes happycockroach, nov. 3rd 11:59 GMT.... hence' why i said "THE DEADLINE"

the contest wouldnt end "sometime that day" it would end on the deadline

obviously that wasn't my question...
read my confusing post for the third time... or just ignore it and put me in the contestant list

 

[darkdeathknight]

Hey I'm joining like I said previously, but I have a question. I am making an "organic tower" is that alright? But that doesnt mean a spear throwing troll with the walk anims removed BTW. It means a like a Ancient Protector.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Hey I'm joining like I said previously, but I have a question. I am making an "organic tower" is that alright? But that doesnt mean a spear throwing troll with the walk anims removed BTW. It means a like a Ancient Protector.

Why wouldn't it be alright? :|

 

[darkdeathknight]

Well ok i'll release a WiP as soon as other people put up their ideas. I don't want anyone doing something similar to me .

 

[Deolrin]

I'm entering. I'm gonna make a gnomish tower. No one steal my idea k thx.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

First WIP.


Note that the grid is there to show how the tower will be placed on the ground.

This is an early progress so I have more stuffs to do on this tower, such as...

- Adding a demon in a similar method to this model, only difference is that the upcoming demon is organic and will attack by throwing magical stuffs (thus acting as a turret).
- Adding various accessories to fill up with the emptyness of the tower.
- Add team colour somewhere (I'll improvise, perhaps on the accessories and on the demon).

 

[PROXY]

Hell, it's about time. I'm in.

 

[viiva]

I'm hoping someone will make a fun and creative mechanism to launch a projectile. Not just some orb on the top that shoots energybolts. Maybe a rocket platform, a trampoline-based tower, or a huge troll on the top of the tower with a baseball bat

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Hm... I wish to judge in this project :3

 

[Mr. Bob]

Stop. Wip time.

UVWrapping this is going to take twice as long as it took to make the mesh lol.

Animating it is going to take half the time.

EDIT: Poly count is 4195 btw.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

That looks good, but I can bet that it would take a hell lot of space.

 

[Devine]

I can judge.

 

[Mr. Bob]

That looks good, but I can bet that it would take a hell lot of space.

Not really. I mean, while poly count does contribute to filesize, its nothing compared to what anims take up.

The poly count is 4195. I didn't reach my goal of 5000....D;

 

[PROXY]

Though, 4195 is a lot of polies :/

 

[Mr. Bob]

I know right?

Bob is mai name and poly spam is mai game.

 

[PROXY]

lol. xD

Anyway, my idea might be some egyptian "tower".

 

[Devine]

lol. xD

Anyway, my idea might be some egyptian "tower".

First I was like "are there even towers in Egypt?"

But then I was like "lol" when I googled "Egyptian tower" and found this to be the first given picture.

>

Bob, it looks fine but I'm pretty sure it'll take too long to finish or you might not even finish at all. Better make something more simple.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Bob, it looks fine but I'm pretty sure it'll take too long to finish or you might not even finish at all. Better make something more simple.

Give me another 2 hours and it will be done. D:

 

[Devine]

give me another 2 hours and it will be done. D:

I dont believe this omg its magik D;
If you say so...
Good luck

 

[shamanyouranus]

You might as well just give me the award now, because I'm pretty sure I just won.

Hidden

Stand

Attack

Spell-Fart

 

[anarchianbedlam]

 

[Misha]

shaman, rofl

 

[Dragon270 THE ONLY]

Stop. Wip time.

UVWrapping this is going to take twice as long as it took to make the mesh lol.

Animating it is going to take half the time.

EDIT: Poly count is 4195 btw.

That would be perfect for if some1 made a LEGO Battles map. The Kingdom and Navy races had tower units almost exactly like it.

Shama... that is the most awesome model I have ever seen.

 

[Apheraz Lucent]

Shaman, i can't stop laughing

You might consider of feminine tower as well

 

[Titania]

I wanna see the result

 

[Mr. Bob]

Texture applied!

 

[darkdeathknight]

that's really nice Mr.bob.
BTW is that WC3 ingame or 3Dmax preview(or whatever you use)?
I will show you the wip I guess real soon but it would look crap (hence its a WiP)

 

[Mr. Bob]

Its a render sadly. D;

 

[-Peper-]

I'm joining, i'm gonna make Dragon tower.

 

[darkdeathknight]

Okay Here is my first WiP.
The make a long story short, I am making a "tower" made out of skin.
Some "necromancers" steal babies (babies are most malleable) and morph it into material which they can use to make minions. These special necromancers do not resurrect the dead, but the morph the living.
This one in particular is a magic minion, one who has lost its ability to move, feel pain, hear, and feel emotion, but instead get powerful magic. Their magic makes them aware of any hidden foes. They can also shoot fireballs that not only burn the body physically but also mentally, and the cause of death is usually suicide, and not burns.

This is a Wip showing the back of the Blind Magic Minion as well as a crappy pic of it on the right (i used adobe flash because I felt like it instead of a proper program).
Currently I am making the hand which will probably be the hardest bit, other than anims.
BTW if this is not a tower tell me now

 

[Pyritie]

You might as well just give me the award now, because I'm pretty sure I just won.

Hidden

Stand

Attack

Spell-Fart

 

[HappyCockroach]

Texture applied!

 

[darkdeathknight]

Here is a drawn Sketch I made and just scanned.

 

[Zealon]

You might as well just give me the award now, because I'm pretty sure I just won.

Hidden

Stand

Attack

Spell-Fart

LOL!!! are you serious?

 

[AIagremm]

Awesome contest!
I love towers!

And Mr.Bob that tower is god like, but perhaps you will make an edit of it into a "Ranger tower", with plants, vines, trees and no cannon?

 

[darkdeathknight]

Unfortunately, I screwed up massively on the Model so I have to start again, so the previous WiP doesn't count.

 

[-Peper-]

First WiP...
As you can see, there is four dragon head each side. And it's completely unskinned. Still searching for a skin.

 

[Goolygot]

First WiP...
As you can see, there is four dragon head each side. And it's completely unskinned. Still searching for a skin.

You know you shall make a tower? And that model don't look completely unskinned? Did you choose wrong picture?

 

[-Peper-]

Oh fuck, wrong pic. I'll edit it.
EDIT: Edited!
Sorry, many files in my comp called WIP.

 

[Goolygot]

Well it looks good, but hard to tell how the mesh looks like. Can you try to get a grey color instead of completly black?

 

[The World Is Flat]

- Overly gay comment editied out - Bob, your tower is 100% sex-appeal.

ok that was wrong, but it is a perfect model, i love it, it fits in rly well, only suggestion might be the cannon is a bit... wimpy looking.

 

[Titania]

I LOL'd at shamanyanus's model

 

[Infinitynexus]

Poly spam in an old engine is for people who don't know how to model

The wrap on the stone parts looks extremely lazy.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Poly spam in an old engine is for people who don't know how to model

Or for people who understand the limits of an engine and understand how sparingly a hero-ish building is used.

4k is nothing. Especially for a building. The engine can handle it if all the units and buildings in the game had double the polies. It wont lag the engine at all. What it will do is lag the computer. But, we are far beyond the era of poly conservation for the sake of computer power. As long as I am in the limits of what the engine can handle I'm fine. And this engine can handle more than what the game itself offers.

The wrap on the stone parts looks extremely lazy.

How so? All the seems line up, and the shaded parts are where they need to be.

 

[Infinitynexus]

Talking about the extremely sharp transition between cliff and grass.

I assumed it was wrap related.