Modeling Competition #3 - Citadel

[Dionesiist]

Buildings aren't really popular and the contest fell exactly when some (might) have their exams

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I think that if there are at least three entries like in the first competition it will be fine.

So I'm counting on SecretArts, Illidan, WILL, Katu and RDZ to pull through on this contest.

 

[PrinceofIce]

Maybe raise the date by a few days?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

did u use the skin modifier?

No, I used link... Is that the problem?

I doubt I'll have the time to work on it, I won't get to a computer until Sunday, and I have loads of toher stuff to do.

Sorry.

EDIT: I just remembered, on my first model I had a problem like this, one part used link and the other skin modifier. If I have time to fix it (and I'd probably need a day or two of extra time...) it should work.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Maybe raise the date by a few days?

I've already extended it by a week, come on. People have had a month and more to do this, it's not my fault they start at the last minute.

I hope you can enter WILL, I like your model.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I can guarantee you won't like the anims.

But I'm planning to make more models for goblins, with mobile rocket launchers, tanks and other machinery.

 

[Pyritie]

Well I could really use a nuke, so I hope you finish it. As well as katu's, his is awesome.

 

[Massive_attack]

Yess i want both of you to enter, will you have my vote ! Oh and whatever happened to Cavman's model. That thing was almost done !

 

[Katu]

I've done the modeling an texturing. I'm not fully satisfied with it (I wanted a bigger res, but even this is 512*512...), but I like it a lot.

The differing height of the windows on the towers are because there is a stair inside it.

I deleted almost all of the unseen faces... now the final face count is 2603.
I also used some texture tricks on it.. like the small stairs on the back door.

Now I('m tring to) animate, I'll do something like the Dalaran building anims, since it's my first model and I don't want to put a shitload of SFX on it.

EDIT: I'll upload the final submission at about 12h GMT+1 at Monday.
EDIT: Of course I'll dot it for Humans, but can't find a good name for it.. Any ideas?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Looks great, hurry and finish it up.

 

[TheSecretArts]

want to see the other stages

 

[Deleted member 126647]

There don't have to be other stages, and I doubt there are for his model.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Looks more like a large walkable castle doodad than a building, mostly because of the large amount of polies.

Very nice though.


PS: mine is abou 1009 faces.

 

[TheSecretArts]

u all make me feel bad with my 16000 faces...

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Did I mention mine was only 456?

 

[TheSecretArts]

-_- ur jus trying to annoy me.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

u all make me feel bad with my 16000 faces...

If that's for all the stages and extras (building parts etc.) then it shouldn't be so bad.

If that's one of your models, you could really reduce it.

Also, don't forget, people:

Models would require, of course:

* Proper building animations, the standard ones in Warcraft III
o Stand
o Death
o Decay
o Stand Work
o Birth
* Proper portrait camera

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Hmmm... the only one I'm missing seems to be decay and possibly stand work.

Decay is easy though, stand work also.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

I disagree with stand work.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Just make some glowly light coming out from the tower in yours, Rao, and maybe make that metal door open slightly.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Like hell.

I was going to add some pistons, but they just wouldn't sit right in the model. Bunkers never stop working -- they are always a hive of activity. But that activity is underground, where you can't see it; and that makes it all the scarier.

 

[Pyritie]

Well you have to have some sort of work animation, so you better get thinking - only 2 days left!

 

[TheSecretArts]

mine doesnt have a work anim cuz war 2 didnt

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Well get creative, you need one to qualify.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Then it'll be the disqualification heap for me. A bunker is a bunker is a bunker. They don't have moving parts; moving parts get blown off when people dump nukes on you.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Did I say it has to actually do something?

A stand work animation is a stand work animation. Whether it actually animated anything significantly (or at all...) is the author's choice, so long as the animation exists.

 

[Pyritie]

Well then this is one that is impervious to nukes.

I dunno, just come up with something! It'd be a shame to be disqualified after your model is all done!

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

I make models for fun anyway, it'll just get shelved into the galleries of RDZNet instead of seeing a tangible release.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

The point is, this contest needs entries, so why not just take 5 minutes and add something, so that we can have a decent poll?

 

[Pyritie]

Just make smoke come out of a pipe or something.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Seriously, maybe just a light turning on or something.

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah, I mean it's gotta be doing something.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

My citadel is finished.

I'll append the 'work' tag to all my stands, if it'll make you happy?

 

[Pyritie]

But does the work animation do something? Like a little blinking light or smoke or something at least?

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

No blinks, no flashes.

It's a bunker. It sits there and gives shelter. You can send a telegraph from it (the mast on the corner). You can stand in the tower and peer out at the world around you. Real life is mostly static -- films and games always do it wrong. No, searching the police databases does not make the computer bleep and bop, the results don't bounce around the screen. You'll get a page of raw text, if you're lucky. It won't bleep, it won't flash. It'll actually do stuff.

I have already stated that I disagree with work animations. I feel that the model, in its current state, needs no more or less embellishment than it posesses -- I would not have released final screenshots was I unsatisfied with its appearance or animations in any way.

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[TheSecretArts]

i agree, that was what made war 2 harder, u didnt know what was building and when...

 

[Deleted member 126647]

My citadel is finished.

I'll append the 'work' tag to all my stands, if it'll make you happy?

Yes, very happy, especially if that means you enter it in the contest after all.

 

[Massive_attack]

so its not up for download.... well too bad i was hoping it would be.

 

[Katu]

I'm making my animations now and I think that the stand work anim for me will be nothing more than a waving flag or something.

EDIT: Is Werewulf's entry finished?

EDIT2: Because there are finished entries, there are still no submissions. I don't wanna be the only one

 

[Pyritie]

One day left!

 

[Drp3]

I'm making my animations now and I think that the stand work anim for me will be nothing more than a waving flag or something.

EDIT: Is Werewulf's entry finished?

EDIT2: Because there are finished entries, there are still no submissions. I don't wanna be the only one

i think only werewulf has atually submitted hers in

 

[Kimbo]

I gave up on mine. enough said (typed)

 

[Dionesiist]

Lol, such ambition

 

[Pyritie]

Aww, come on! You finished yours way before anyone else even started!

 

[Kimbo]

Thats why i gave up.. i think. : |

 

[TheSecretArts]

ugh texturing is being to much of a b*tch so im gonna have to call it a day...

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Yes, very happy, especially if that means you enter it in the contest after all.

Not that it will actually make any tangible difference to the model or how it operates in-game, but it is done.

I suppose, then, that I should finally attach the model itself to a post...

Hmmmmmz.

 

[TheSecretArts]

and also it will take like two hours to export from gmax

 

[Pyritie]

That is so true.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I just completly fucked up my model when exporting, so yeah, damn it, I'll either have to restart or find a way to make it all better and renanimate.

It was something about "exceeded vertes count: skin: skin" and then the keybar screwed up and erased everything, then turned into a 1 frame key bar. I can't fix it.

EDIT:, okay I'll have to reanimate...

EDIT2: Oh thank god I'm saved, its not fucked up, I can fix it now.

EDIT: but it keeps happening... whats the problem? Am I doing something wrong with the skin modifier?