Modeling Competition - Chess Pieces

[Kwaliti]

Ah, chess. The game is about conquering your opponent, but why doing it with classical pieces? Why not with ultimate pieces! Design your chess pieces the way you think they should look!

Requirements:

-Full set (Pawn, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Queen and King) black or white.

Rules are:

- The models must not exceed 1500 polygons
- You must do your own texture, which will make the model look like it's carved from stone
- You mustn't base your pieces on other models
- The pieces must have stand, attack and death animation

Estimated time to finish is 10 weeks, and has chances to get extended, due to number of models

The score will be decided by the jury, with public poll score additions

Thought of this when I woke up, hope it gets approved

Updated!

 

[HappyTauren]

2000 polygons? best chess models have up to 50polies.

 

[Kwaliti]

Switched to 1500, 2k is too much, but we don't wanna make some squares, we want POWERFUL pieces

 

[HappyTauren]

that'd be preety much useless, if you ask me. How about making max poly down to 100? that'd be challange.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Do the whole chess set as doodads would be really cool, I reckon.

Not a difficult challenge; you can go for the bog-standard simple pieces, or you can go nuts doing Warcraft-style pieces or something.

 

[HappyTauren]

if lowpoly, you could make them all with few extrudes from basic shapes...

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Hence the 'do the whole set' -- and like I said, you could do that if you want, but there's still plenty of scope for going nuts. Doing the bare minimum wouldn't win you the contest.

 

[Kwaliti]

That's what i've been trying to say! GO NUTS!

 

[Kimbo]

An orc chess peice would be lovly, basicly making static models yep but in stances would be okay..but there is so many peices =/

 

[Elenai]

should the chess pieces be stuck to a stone carved base like real chess pieces or should they be like normal units except with a stone texture.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Ah, chess. The game is about conquering your opponent, but why doing it with classical pieces? Why not with ultimate pieces! Design your chess pieces the way you think they should look!

Rules are:

- The models must not exceed 1500 polygons
- You must do your own texture, which will make the model look like it's carved from stone
- You mustn't base your pieces on other models
- The pieces must have stand, attack and death animation

Estimated time to finish is 10 weeks, and has chances to get extended, due to number of models

The score will be decided by the jury, with public poll score additions

Thought of this when I woke up, hope it gets approved

Other than those thing I bolded,ect this looks like an awesom idea ecept a moddling compition running.

 

[Kimbo]

should the chess pieces be stuck to a stone carved base like real chess pieces or should they be like normal units except with a stone texture.

I like the idea of a normal unit (eg, orc warrior, horseman) with stone texture etc.

But i'm not encouraging people just posing a grunt, changing its texture and submitting it at theirs, id love to something original, posed and well made FOR being used as a chess peice

 

[Kwaliti]

Hmmm, the models shouldn't be based on other models, they must be unique, that's what the modeling competition is about!

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Definitely something to stock up for the modelling compo five, though.

 

[Kwaliti]

should the chess pieces be stuck to a stone carved base like real chess pieces or should they be like normal units except with a stone texture.

Both

w00t 100th post

 

[Chaos Overlord]

I think it should be that they have to model a whole set, like RDZ said. There are only like 6 different ones you have to make, and they use the same texture and anims, so SOME of the work is cut off. That way we could get really sweet stuff like... idk maybe a RDZ Industries set?

 

[Kwaliti]

Uhh, I think I said whole set Gonna update the 1st post. And it's not me who'll make the models, it's up to the contestants to decide how shall they look like. I only said the needed things.

 

[Chaos Overlord]

Do the whole chess set as doodads would be really cool, I reckon.

Not a difficult challenge; you can go for the bog-standard simple pieces, or you can go nuts doing Warcraft-style pieces or something.

No heres where RDZ said the whole set. And anyways, I wasn't trying to set a theme everyone had to go by. I was just putting ideas for people to use... now who here would make a RDZ set for us? Anyone?

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

If anybody else even dared to consider making an RDZ Industries set...

Anyway, I like the idea. It's not too big, it's not too bad, it won't freeze out anyone who can't animate, chess pieces can be as simple or as complex as you like, so more nubbly modellers might join in too...

A win-win situation; like I said, keep it in mind for modelling compo #5, whenever that comes around.

 

[Pyritie]

I don't think they should have to be carved ou of stone. It would make the contest more interesting.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

This would make an awesome idea for the next modelling competition.

King
Queen
Bishop
Knight
Tower (wall? I don't know...)
Pawn

Only one thing bothers me. The fact those models would only be useable in a chess game. And frankly, there aren't many, and they're never played.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Peppars Multiplayer Chess is perfect, no need for any other chess games than that one and I've played it plenty of times.

 

[HappyTauren]

dont be so negative, this might make people make more chess games, even the one u mentioned covers it 100%

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I don't say people shouldn't make the models, I'm just saying that there is no need for anymore regular chess maps as Peppars is the best there is and has just about everything needed. A sort of "battle chess" where the figures attack eachother and such on encounter though, that would be cool.

 

[atropos007]

Tower (wall? I don't know...)

Rook

 

[Pyritie]

A sort of "battle chess" where the figures attack eachother and such on encounter though, that would be cool.

That's what I was thinking!

 

[Katu]

Hm, why must we do an attack anim? Chess pieces don't attack. (they don't die too... they just disappear)

 

[Kimbo]

Hm, why must we do an attack anim? Chess pieces don't attack. (they don't die too... they just disappear)

umm..hello? This is a computer game..not real chess..

 

[Arab4life]

Peppars Multiplayer Chess is perfect, no need for any other chess games than that one and I've played it plenty of times.

Soul chess, its unique and fun (Not much like chess though...)

 

[Callahan]

I wouldn't join such unexciting contest...

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Soul chess, its unique and fun (Not much like chess though...)

It has nothing to do with chess besides that it has squares, I know the game, I used to be in clan with the maker.

 

[SuPa-]

this seems like an awesome idea. But things like an attack and death animation should still be required. Reminds me of harry potter XD

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

No one plays chess. No one needs chess models. Frankly, this'd be a boring contest.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

No one plays chess. No one needs chess models. Frankly, this'd be a boring contest.

People DO play chess....Peppars Multiplayer Chess is fine, I dunno why we need models for more chess games, SO I agree with no one needs them. Allthough, some people wanna make more chess games for some reason.

I might be interesting seeing chess pices ideas people make up.

 

[Callahan]

Since all chess pawn model have been made in peppar's map the utility of pawn model as you mean it is null.

 

[Xatoga]

Huh? More English please kthx?

 

[LordOglog]

Hmm I think I'll enter a nubbly moddeler as RDZ puts it.
Can we start now or do we have to wait till the competition gets approved.
Also what formats can we enter them in or will screenshots do?

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

... Working MDXes every time.

Wait until the competition is announced, if it will even be considered as a real compo.

 

[LordOglog]

Okey dokey, im rather impatient.

 

[Callahan]

Maybe it's good to newbie practise but it doesn't deserve to make a contest about it.At least not the official modeling competition.

 

[YoshiRyu]

what a good idea! a chess modeling contest!
i doesn't want to influence you...
but in order to win, you should make orcish pieces!
you should create a beautifull orcish sorceress hero queen...
that was a totally greedy comment

 

[NovaBlade]

in response to everyone who is against the 1500 polly limit, the reason it is here is so the pieces can be highly detailed. instead of a pawn that would look like a basic pawn, maybe you could make a stone warrior with a sword in his right hand and a shield in his left?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I wouldn't really like chess pieces.

It's limiting, and will NEVER be used.

 

[NovaBlade]

I wouldn't say that. Someone might make a really cool chess game, and its not limiting at all! People are thinking of chess pieces like this:

when they should be thinking like this:

(see, thats an actual chess piece set with a LOTR theme. Try that, pick a theme for something you like and make all the pieces like that)

or something like this:

Or for an example piece lets go with the rook piece in chess. For your rook, make a tower. A beutiful, stone tower. On the top of the tower place an archer. For the rook's stand animation, have a bird fly onto the tower, peck at it for a few seconds, and then fly way (remember, this is a highly detailed tower! it should look like this:

For its attack animation, have the archer on the top of the tower draw back his bow and fire an arrow. For the death animation, have the bottom of the tower crack, and then the top of the tower fall down to the side.

If I had a modeling program, I'd be all over this contest because I see a lot of possibilities.

 

[Pyritie]

If this competition went ahead, you'd probably be the only one doing it.

Oh, and here's your modeling programs.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's a single purpose model.

Which means it's a bad competition idea.

 

[NovaBlade]

Oh, and here's your modeling programs.

dude, if milkshape is a free download, then thank you.

 

[Pyritie]

$25 is a very, very good deal for a modeling program. But you should try out gmax first to see if you like modeling.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

A well-designed set of chess pieces would do for an amazing slew of doodads, or if they're fully animated units...

 

[SuPa-]

This would actually be a cool contest. There's tons of ways this could be done, and has way more potential then just making old, boring chess pieces. And it's not a single-purpose model if people actually sprout an imagination. Which usually happens