Modeling Contest #15 - Colossus

[Kuhneghetz]

Finally, my Furglewurg model is submitted to this contest. =D
I've included icons as well.


View attachment Furglewurg_by_DvO.zip

Furglewurg

Model by: Dan van Ohllus (aka Kuhneghetz)

Descriptions:
"Hurr hurr! I'm a giant mushroom humanoid titan with oversized muscles who can wipe out a whole army with only a few hits."
- Grebgleb, the Furglewurg

Model descriptions:
Mesh is made from scratch.
Texture is made from scratch, though the body used the campaign bloodelf texture for references.
Animations taken from Blizzard's ingame Owlbear rig with some edits, plus additional transferred animations.
Portrait model uses Peon animations.

Hints:
- Recommended scale: 2.00
- Recommended selection scale: 3.50
- If you're not using custom soundsets, recommended ingame soundset is Centaur (or Magnataur).
- Spell animation is recommended for a typical taunt ability.
- Spell Slam is useful for warcry or fear abilities.
- Attack Slam is useful for various slam abilities like Pulverize, Bash, Slam and War Stomp.
- Spell Throw is actually intended for matcho pose (cinematic use), but can be used for throwing or casting abilities as well if you want.


Resource -> Path:
Furglewurg.blp -> Furglewurg.blp
BTNFurglewurg.blp -> ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\BTNFurglewurg.blp
DISBTNFurglewurg.blp -> ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\DISBTNFurglewurg.blp
PASBTNFurglewurg.blp -> Replaceabletextures\PassiveButtons\BTNFurglewurg.blp
ATCFurglewurg.blp -> ReplaceableTextures\ActiveButtons\BTNFurglewurg.blp
scorescreen-hero-furglewurg.blp -> any path you want
Furglewurg.mdx -> any path you want
Furglewurg_Portrait.mdx -> must be in same path as Furglewurg.mdx

The unusual paths and name change on the command icons are a clever way to make BTN, ATC and PAS icons share the same DISBTN, thus sparing filesize.
I've tried that method myself, and it works.



YOU MUST GIVE ME CREDITS IF YOU USE THIS MODEL IN YOUR MAP!!!

Please DO NOT distribute and/or modify this resource without my permission.

Enjoy!

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No custom animations?

I realized that I didn't have much time to do that. Helping parents to fix wood, cleaning and other real life stuffz.
But you're still helpful, because you made me become aware about the biped's glitches and the solution, so that will help me in future works. So again, thank you very much and and I apologize if I wasted your time helping me.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Nice. Very nice. But....regardless of the availability issue, (that everyone has lol) the lack of custom anims hurts it. D: Still good though!

Of course, me being a geomerge hater, might be biased...

 

[RED BARON]

Finally, my Furglewurg model is submitted to this contest. =D
I've included icons as well.

I like it (and spell slam looks cool haha) - A few comments though.
I don't really get why his is flipping his upper lip in spell animation.. and nothing else (besides the tilting of head and such). It looks odd.. is he supposed to be spewing the spell from his mouth?

The club he swings on attack 2 hits himself, but thats a minor thing. I like how he appears to eat his club when he dies (properly not intentional, but looks funny.)

A other minor thing, after he have used slam, his head is tilted to the side.. not that its a problem, as it can only be seen for a short period of time.. just thought to note it.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

I like it (and spell slam looks cool haha) - A few comments though.
I don't really get why his is flipping his upper lip in spell animation.. and nothing else (besides the tilting of head and such). It looks odd.. is he supposed to be spewing the spell from his mouth?

It's a taunting animation that's useful for a taunting ability, or for use in cinematics where he insults the person like "Hurr hurr! You think you can beat up a giant like me, you tiny little shrimp?".

 

[RED BARON]

It's a taunting animation that's useful for a taunting ability, or for use in cinematics where he insults the person like "Hurr hurr! You think you can beat up a giant like me, you tiny little shrimp?".

Ah haha then I get. I had gotten the idea that the spell animation was what you wanted one to use for spells.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Attack animations are done, stand ready too. They are sexy indeed.

 

[Zpider]

Dan van Ohllus, I don't think this is seen ingame.
Because it is less than half a second you model opens his mouth this wide.
But I still suggest you take a look at attack - 2 animation and see if you can polish it.

 

[Just_Spectating]

i forgot to subscribe

 

[Mulgrim]

I give, not enough time, i suck.

 

[HappyCockroach]

If you had problems with time, you suck indeed. We had all extensions we needed. My model is about to be finished, btw.

 

[Mulgrim]

i'm just busy with all other things too, specially this month

 

[HappyCockroach]

i'm just busy with all other things too, specially this month

If you are posting at the hive right now, it's not like you're that busy. Everybody is busy. You just can't manage your time.

 

[Mulgrim]

well im doing my best, 3/4 of the time i post im not on the computer that has all my stuff, (my dad is another reason for why i can't get on it..) besides when i even spent 2 hours on it i always had to move a lot of verteces around to make it look right before moving on, but i think i'll just move on and leave that dead like all other things before it *sigh

 

[HappyCockroach]

Son of Anubis

Polies: 1720

This model is only displayed correctly in-game. Ribbons and sounds do not display, and animations don't display correctly in Magos' Model Editor.Mesh and wrap are scratch-made. Has a set of 15 scratch animations. Among these, 5 attack animations.
Have fun with it and give me credits.
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More screenshots

 

[Pyritie]

deadine is the end of today guys!

 

[RED BARON]

deadine is the end of today guys!

It has ended now I presume

Shame that I due to Christmas never got to finish my idea for an entry.. but I had to play around with my newest bamboo instead.

Anyway this question relates to it; is it actually on Hive accepted to upload models of the size equal to those of this contest, without it being a part of the contest? I assume it is, but I thought to ask while at it anyway.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

hey i just bought a bamboo today as well
/me hi-fives RED BARON

and yeah, i dont think models this size would be acceptable.
anyways, well done to everyone, those who did manage to submit and even those who couldnt

 

[Mr. Bob]

5 bucks says it gets extended again?

Happy Holidays all. You modelers, wether you finished or not, make me proud to be a member of the Hive. Seriously, you guys are great.

 

[RED BARON]

hey i just bought a bamboo today as well
/me hi-fives RED BARON

Ye gotta love vacom and those lovely pens /me hi-fives back

and yeah, I don't think models this size would be acceptable.

Yea - thats what I been wondering about... but well now I'll see what Pyritie says.

5 bucks says it gets extended again?

Why should it? We have good deal of entries now.

 

[Cavman]

Shame that I due to Christmas never got to finish my idea for an entry.. but I had to play around with my newest bamboo instead.

hey i just bought a bamboo today as well
/me hi-fives RED BARON

Ho damn, so I'm not the only one with a new Bamboo.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Why should it? We have good deal of entries now.

That's true!

Now! Let's get this poll up and running asap!

LET'S FINISH THIS SUCKER!

/me can't wait for modeling contest 16...

 

[Just_Spectating]

if the theme is right, i might join 16 too.

 

[Palaslayer]

haha, bamboo ftw. i got one as well ^^

 

[Pyritie]

yep, contest over

 

[HappyCockroach]

POLL rite nao

 

[RED BARON]

Haha, bamboo for the win. i got one as well ^^

Ho damn, so I am not the only one with a new Bamboo.

Yea - Christmas is a time for Bamboo's

Looking forward to the poll.

But Pyritie - What about my question

 

[anarchianbedlam]

welp, unknown to me the family was headin up to Oregon for the holidays, no internet for the past 4 or 5 days, :/ finished the model in time but couldnt upload it without a connection, Im at a public library right now, usin their internet to post. Looks like i missed the deadline, i suppose its for the better though, my model was too rushed in the end. I doubt i would have been happy if i had submitted it, modeling contests are about quality not quantity after all. looks like HC's anubis came out very nice. ( ಠ_ಠ) still doesnt have any teeth. BUT its still a great lookin model. Ill remake the colossus i had in mind for this contest a bit later, make it look really solid and polished. textures are a bitch to make.... anyway, hope everyone had a good holiday _{(i can't say i did)} and good luck to the entries we have.

EDIT: for those of you who wanted to know what it looked like... consider this one "VERSION 1.0".... p.s. texturing is a bitch i have a new respect for skinners

THOR

hopefully ill have time to work on it soon, but you know how busy us fascist soccer moms are.... just work work work....

 

[Mr. Bob]

welp, unknown to me the family was headin up to Oregon for the holidays, no internet for the past 4 or 5 days, :/ finished the model in time but couldnt upload it without a connection, Im at a public library right now, usin their internet to post. Looks like i missed the deadline, i suppose its for the better though, my model was too rushed in the end. I doubt i would have been happy if i had submitted it, modeling contests are about quality not quantity after all. looks like HC's anubis came out very nice. ( ಠ_ಠ) still doesnt have any teeth. BUT its still a great lookin model. Ill remake the colossus i had in mind for this contest a bit later, make it look really solid and polished. textures are a bitch to make.... anyway, hope everyone had a good holiday _{(i can't say i did)} and good luck to the entries we have.

EDIT: for those of you who wanted to know what it looked like... consider this one "VERSION 1.0".... p.s. texturing is a bitch i have a new respect for skinners

THOR

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hopefully ill have time to work on it soon, but you know how busy us fascist soccer moms are.... just work work work....

Looks good! It's like a better version of Optimus Prime. I had no idea you could texture.

And btw, soccer mom socialism ftw.

 

[Dj0z]

Yeaah keep going modelers that's some interesting material to work with.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Dan van Ohllus
HappyCockroach
Mr. Bob
Pyramidhe@d (image)
tee.dubs
Time-to-die

These are all the working entries I could find in this thread. Other entries I could find were either incomplete or had texture path problems.

Now start the poll! =)

 

[RED BARON]

Well, unknown to me the family was heading up to Oregon for the holidays

A well known problem, why is one never informed about those arrangements?! It always strikes me, but well that must be natures will.

Shame that it messed up your entry.

 

[The Panda]

You all have nice entrys. Nice job.

 

[HappyCockroach]

The first modelling contest I took part in!! First of many others, hopefully. =P

Thank you guys for your feedback and motivation, they were essential to my model be finished, what is already a victory for myself. You all have made an amazing job, turning this contest into a total success!

 

[Mr. Bob]

Yes, DVO, the ball tank is my entry. XD

 

[Time-to-die]

You should have an "on time" score for the scoring next time. Have it at 10 or something and just take one away for every day late. That should give some motivation to finish on time

 

[Dentothor]

DvO wins in Creativity
HC wins in Epicness

But Pyramidhe@d just wins.

nice work. all of you.

 

[Mr. Bob]

Bob's prediction of modeling contest 15.

OK I predict that...

1st. Pyra
2nd. Megapod thing.
3rd. Mai model.
4th. Anubis guy. Almost made 3rd, but the arms contrast with the body to much. As if they were UVWrapped separately. (Which they were.)
5th. Shroom Shrek. (Needs custom anims.)
6th. The walking thing with a bunch of random crap on it. The mesh just looks too ugly. Sorry.

THIS IS MAI PREDICTION. IT SHALL NOT FAIL...

EDIT: lol I forgot one.. added it now.

 

[RED BARON]

OK I predict that...

1st. Pyra
2nd. Megapod thing.
3rd. Mai model.
4th. Anubis guy. Almost made 3rd, but the arms contrast with the body to much. As if they were UVWrapped separately. (Which they were.)
5th. Shroom Shrek. (Needs custom anims.)
6th. The walking thing with a bunch of random crap on it. The mesh just looks too ugly. Sorry.

I almost agree - Mine would be like this:

1: PyramidHe@d
2: HappyCockroach
3: Mr. Bob
4: tee.dubs (Its getting four, because that thing is just plain nasty.. its nicely made, but considering usefulness and hive users)
5: Dan van Ohllus (Only reason for this is the lack of custom animations and the flaws in that connection, also of course due to the many other good entries)
6: Time-to-die (The idea is good and I sense some humor about it, but it doesn't appear alive enough due to the mesh/skin and the none connected elements on it. It uses a little too many custom skins for my liking. Animations also miss a certain edge and his head is plain ugly (and should be seen more). I also really missed some particles, which I believe could have improved it a lot - like water dripping from him and thereby making his movements seem smother).

Good luck everyone.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

i thought DvO's entry was fantastic. i dont see how a non-custom anim is any problem

 

[RED BARON]

i thought DvO's entry was fantastic. i dont see how a non-custom anim is any problem

Well my main point for complaining about it at all is because some off the animations just doesn't look right. The lip thing is not my style and he collides into himself in certain animations... But indeed its a great entry - and only the other great entries prevents me from placing it higher which I wished I could.... Let me put it like this; DvO's entry would always be high on my list - presumably the same spot even if this contest had more entries and Time-to-die's entry would have stayed rather low (of course depending on what entries would have arrived in this theoretical speculation.)

 

[Sephalo]

wtb poll!
I wanna vote!

 

[RED BARON]

What about the (Edit Note: Could also translated to Want To Buy - Usual term for it in MORPG's, but figured you meant the other thing) poll!
I wanna vote!

Patients is a virtue

 

[Cavman]

Patients is a virtue

Patients is a virus, that kills you when you all want to lay down and sleep.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Patients is a virus, that kills you when you all want to lay down and sleep.

you're both wrong.

Patience is a virtue

 

[anarchianbedlam]

i think DvO pyra and HC have the best shot at placing, i dont know which order, but pyra had a great, original idea, it had a good custom mesh, animations and texture, all-round awesome
I liked HC's idea, egyptian, 4 arms are hard to animate but i love how each arm attacks in a separate animation so it's a flurry of sword swings, makes for very epic attacks ingame, very well done custom animations and ingame textures were used superbly, great UV map _{( ಠ_ಠ) no teeth though}
DvO's entry was lulzy, the UV wrap on the arms wasn't the best and the flappy lip animation

was a little odd, but ingame animations were used nicely, not perfect, but at least it has animations.

 

[RED BARON]

Patients is a virus, that kills you when you all want to lay down and sleep.

Damn I wrote patients

you're both wrong.

Patience is a virtue

Indeed - Core idea of my failed attempt to preach. I will now never do so again.. at least not using that word..

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anarchianbedlam: Agree, though I have the switch around as already posted.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Model Compo 15 Poll DO WANT NOW!!!

I have a feeling that my model will reach the 3th or 4th place due to it's lack of scratch anims.

 

[RED BARON]

Model Compo 15 Poll I WANT NOW!!

Yea - And pyritie still haven't answered my question

 

[anarchianbedlam]

Model Compo 15 Poll DO WANT NOW!!!

I have a feeling that my model will reach the 3th or 4th place due to it's lack of scratch anims.

No, you wont get 4th DvO, sure you didnt have scratch animations, but at least you had animations.

 

[RED BARON]

No, you wont get 4th DvO, sure you didnt have scratch animations, but at least you had animations.

Problem is that a good deal of the other also had that.. actually they all had if I remember correct. But well time will show.