Modeling mini-contest #1

[HappyCockroach]

god damnit id give a finger to participate.....too bad it will take some weeks till I get my laptop back...

 

[Taylor Mouse]

128 tris is such a horrible thing to work with.

Yeah, but I love what you did with 128, imagine what you can do with 1024

T.

 

[HappyCockroach]

this is pretty much a texturing competition xP

 

[syltman]

128 tris is such a horrible thing to work with.

It's really cool but that sword sucks becouse it looks like paper

 

[HappyTauren]

this is pretty much a texturing competition xP

This, yeah.

 

[Trilogy]

Subscribing.

Also, best thing I saw thus far is Anemic's fish. But the rest (especially HT's) look very promising.

 

[Pyritie]

this is pretty much a texturing competition xP

I dunno about supa but most of what I'll be judging is the mesh and how people use the 128-tri limit

Of course good textures help too

 

[R-66Y]

WIP - Escape Pod Station for Metastasis
Just need to work up a texture now

 

[Pyritie]

Are you sure that's only 128 tris? Looks like a bit more than that.

You could also reduce some polies by just converting that door thing into one big triangle.

 

[chilla_killa]

Argh, this is all awesome. It makes no sense that I upload my crappy shit here. It would ruin the whole good standard. Good Job you all, I'm just not good enough for this competition, but I will try to make something better than my current crap. Time is running .

 

[Dionesiist]

this is pretty much a texturing competition xP

Oh, yeah. That might be because no one does a proper texturing competition! DX

 

[HappyCockroach]

Argh, this is all awesome. It makes no sense that I upload my crappy shit here. It would ruin the whole good standard. Good Job you all, I'm just not good enough for this competition, but I will try to make something better than my current crap. Time is running .

Don't say this in hope of pity because it doesn't work...
Everybody is free to upload any kind of crap. Upload yours.

Oh, yeah. That might be because no one does a proper texturing competition! DX

Lol, the thing is that you can do a 128 poly model with a 512x512 hi-res texture and kick everybody's ass. ;P

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

lets all make a kite. 2 triangles and an epic texture

 

[R-66Y]

Are you sure that's only 128 tris? Looks like a bit more than that.

You could also reduce some polies by just converting that door thing into one big triangle.

Currently I am using those triangles in the door to bump out and smooth shade it. I could potentially turn the door into two tris and use the other 8 tris to get more definition in the silhouette, however in doing this I will lose out on the benefits provided by the wc3 shading engine. If I was able to make bump or normal maps to re convey the lighting I would use a plane instead. However I am limited to only the diffuse map.

Besides, I'm not even sure where I would put those tris, as I am pretty satisfied with the model. If you have any insight as to how I might use them more effectively please do tell.

 

[HappyTauren]

Congrats, R-66Y, you are amongst the few people that actually think about wc3 shading engine
Yeah, keep it that way, it'll look better when put into game.

 

[anarchianbedlam]

:/ been a while since i said anything here, But just a heads up for whomsoever cares >.> im working on my submission too. Ill be making a couple 128 triangle models, and see which one looks the best for submission...

 

[Kount]

Umm, I'm having a problem here.

Adding a replaceable texture to my model doubles its tricount. Is that supposed to be that way or am I doing something wrong? Or is it just a problem with the previewer?

Anyway, I dropped the previous model, just wasn't fitting to this kind of contest in my opinion, so heres the new one.



Polycount is 127 without teamcolorcrap

 

[Time-to-die]

Yeah, I think once you actually export it, it will lower back down. Because I noticed a big increase in the 3ds model viewer as well. Looks sweet tho!

 

[Thrikodius]

Hmm... Sounds like a funny minor challange. I have 10 days. And don't extend if I dont make it.

EDIT: I just got an idea.

 

[Pyritie]

Umm, I'm having a problem here.

Adding a replaceable texture to my model doubles its tricount. Is that supposed to be that way or am I doing something wrong? Or is it just a problem with the previewer?

I know blizz's models just use two separate models on top of each other for the team color. You can get the same effect if you just use material layers though.

 

[skrab]

Umm, I'm having a problem here.
Adding a replaceable texture to my model doubles its tricount. Is that supposed to be that way or am I doing something wrong? Or is it just a problem with the previewer?

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/3d-modeling-tutorials-282/team-color-in-3dsmax-5-a-31469/

 

[Kount]

Thanks but that's just exactly what I did

 

[skrab]

Post you scene here and I'll take a look.

 

[Kount]

If thats not against the content's guidelines, i'd be glad

Thanks for your effort

 

[skrab]

Yes yes the triangle count doubles in the Wc3 preview when you add teamcolor. I don't know exactly why Wc3 preview doubles the triangle count.
But you should stick to the polygon counter

 

[Kount]

Okay thanks.

Personally, I don't have a problem with this issue, just wanted to make sure it won't be a problem for this contest either.

+Rep for your efforts kind sir

 

[Thrikodius]

Cookie to the one who can guess what this is.

Preview

 

[Pyritie]

something in isometric view

 

[skrab]

Pyritie's dragon without a tail xD

 

[Paladon]

Somekind of creature with wings.

 

[Thrikodius]

something in isometric view

Not accurate enough.

Pyritie's dragon without a tail xD

Way wrong.

Somekind of creature with wings.

Not accurate enough.

But I never said you should get it right so here's cookies:

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

your green dragon

 

[Thrikodius]

your green dragon

Sorry guessing time is over. Please come again 2013.
(btw... wrong guess)

 

[skrab]

There is no way you can make a good looking model with 128 triangles to fit on that rig.
There is just too many joints..

 

[Thrikodius]

There is no way you can make a good looking model with 128 triangles to fit on that rig.
There is just too many joints..

You just wait and see. The mesh is done.
There are 126 triangles and one particle emitter (Pyritite told they count as 2 triangles).

 

[Pyritie]

No, each PARTICLE counts as two triangles. Not each emitter.

 

[Kount]

Actual tri-count depends on the emission rate and particle lifespan, multiply those two, double the result and you have your emitters tri-count. (Not sure if there's other things that factor in, haven't found anything yet)

 

[Pyritie]

Or just look at the little "Particle count:" number on magos'.

 

[Kount]

Well yes of course. I do emitters in Max, didn't think about magos

 

[Thrikodius]

No, each PARTICLE counts as two triangles. Not each emitter.

Oh... so if I have 126 triangles I can only have a maximum particle count of 1.

 

[Pyritie]

Oh... so if I have 126 triangles I can only have a maximum particle count of 1.

correct

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Is there like an official application form or someting like on GameArtisan.org , a final pic with everything on it, or something ?

T.

 

[Trilogy]

About the contest? No way. Just post it with a screenshot and attach it. That's it.

 

[shamanyouranus]

I finally got a decent practical idea. MWAHAHA!

BLEURGH!

EDIT- Oh yeah, and it has 76 triangles.

 

[A.R.]

Is this your reference?

:D

 

[Thrikodius]

OH!... I made it (breathes heavily).
Well the model is done but I have a little problem.
In my death alternate animation I have a particle. But in order to limit it to one I have to put it on emission rate 8 for 0.1 second to ensure the best result. But the only problem is that it doesn't show the first time I play the animation, and the first time is the time it plays when the unit dies. So I increased the emission rate to 10 so that it always shows, but every 6th or 7th time I play it the particle count LEAPS up to 2.
What I'm trying to say is that I hope it can be allowed since you really don't play the death alternate anim twice in game. The unit will be dead afterwards so there will only be one particle.

 

[Cavman]

OH!... I made it (breathes heavily).
Well the model is done but I have a little problem.
In my death alternate animation I have a particle. But in order to limit it to one I have to put it on emission rate 8 for 0.1 second to ensure the best result. But the only problem is that it doesn't show the first time I play the animation, and the first time is the time it plays when the unit dies. So I increased the emission rate to 10 so that it always shows, but every 6th or 7th time I play it the particle count LEAPS up to 2.
What I'm trying to say is that I hope it can be allowed since you really don't play the death alternate anim twice in game. The unit will be dead afterwards so there will only be one particle.

Find a place where you don't need ploies and shirk it down? If you got any flat planes, use a two sided material instead of an whole extra set of polies?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

shaman, i think you could spare to use more triangles to make it look more rounder, especially at the top part

 

[Thrikodius]

Find a place where you don't need polies and shirk it down? If you got any flat planes, use a two sided material instead of an whole extra set of polies?

Well the two sided material thing is not really new and I have already spent some time cutting down on polies in order to finish the mesh. But now that you mention it there might be 4 polies I can remove.
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Changes made and here is the model:

Model

BEHOLD...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? no it's...

A PIG
named Piggy Pilot

View attachment FlyingPig2.mdx
(now with attatchments)

 

[Devine]

Well the two sided material thing is not really new and I have already spent some time cutting down on polies in order to finish the mesh. But now that you mention it there might be 4 polies I can remove.
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Changes made and here is the model:

Model

BEHOLD...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? no it's...

a...

an*...

epic...

...ly awesome...

...ness covered...

PIG
View attachment 65310
View attachment 65309

You should be negrepped for that retarded hiddentag spam. model looks allright though...