Modeling Mini Contest #3 - Starcraft Critters

[HappyCockroach]

Requesting 2 day extension. 30/04 ftw?
I'm as good as finished but I'm too tired to finish it now and tomorow I have school until 6pm.

I was really tired today, but I finished mine anyways, because of the deadline.
Go drink some coffee

 

[D a w n]

here is a small update.
Still have to do the texture and add some Zeratul feel into it (like adding a glow effect to the torch)

 

[supertoinkz]

Okay final submission.
Terralisk
The Terralisk is another Zerg Strain, but it became neutral. They were once laborers of the Zerg, but as they evolve, they gained the ability to produce fire, they used this to escape to the undergrounds where they nest.
Model Editor Screenshot

World Editor Screenshot

Good luck everyone :>

 

[tee.dubs]

PERENNIAL BISON

The perennial bison is a Zerg herbivore that lives on plains. It has a wonderful ability to clot blood very quickly and efficiently, and almost painlessly. This makes it able to regrow lost flesh and vital organs to virtually perfect health, and can live for up to 200 years. It filter feeds on dense bacteria filled air.



The concept, mesh, wrap and animations are scratch-made. It uses the Hydralisk skin, which is quite possibly the most ugly and filtered blizzard skin i've seen. Won't be going there again.

542 vertexes, 732 faces.



UH OH, i forgot to 2-side the materials. Am I allowed to just check that box about a day after the deadline? I feel rather silly to have overseen that rather minor detail.

 

[HappyCockroach]

Wow, this is really nice tee.dubs. That's exactly the StarCraft style of critters - those that in WC3 you'd judge as offensive, but actually they are no harm to the SC buddies.

 

[tee.dubs]

thank you dear, but i can't help but feel i've left something out of it...

 

[varsaigen]

eyes? a mouth perhaps?

 

[Zerox]

Skullborb

The skulborb is an ant-like creature found most commonly on barren worlds. With two antenna capable of electric shock and an explosive abdomen full of gas toxic to most smaller species, the skullborb is not one often hunted by other species. Terran Marines and Firebats have been known to destroy these creatures for sport due to their explosive nature. Though skulborbs have the capacity to be semi-dangerous most would find them rather docile as long as you just let them mind their own business. Skulborbs use their antennae to stun their prey into a state of temporary paralysis so that they may devour them slowly. Though the electric currents released from the antennae are only meant for stunning the skulborb's prey, if experienced in enough quantity it can be fatal.

Animations in Magos:

Note: There are more effects added in game and they loop perfectly. Magos and particles just don't loop well.

From Left to Right; Stand 1, Stand 2, Walk

From Left to Right; Attack 1, Attack 2, Spell

Death (Note: In-game there is a purple blood pool left behind rather than it just disappearing):

All in-game textures, custom animations from scratch, sound effects, particles, and only 426 polies. The skulborb will be a small light-weight addition to any map at only 65 kb.

Download it here!

 

[varsaigen]

Nice.

I am almost done with mine. But I'm supposed to be asleep for the next 7 hours. But I'll see what I can get done. I am rather surprised the contest wasn't a week long, but 3 days. :/

 

[Zerox]

@varsaigen: Many of us have finished already in three days, some above and beyond the call of duty with animations too. It's called a "mini" contest for a reason. I'm sure you'll do fine var. It doesn't need animations or the like according to the rules. Do what you can and move on to eye candy after you get the basics done.

@Azurot: Wow now that I suppose is what you call a vote of confidence. I'm glad you like my idea and execution of it. I had lots of fun making it and thinking it up.

@HappyCockroach: That's a very impressive model. I love that for the eyes you just used the pupils of the sorceress. I never would have thought of that. But I'll add it to my list of useable things in the future. It's an awesome idea.

@DonDustin: I like the idea. Are you using some custom textures as well?

@Midnighters: I could see it possibly being a creep so that's good. but something is terribly wrong with your animations. I thought it might of been unassigned mesh problems so I went to look in Mdlvis and I got a new error I've never had before, "Model Broken. Contact Author." Whatever it means it can't be good. And unanimated your model's feet go into the ground, and it's like 5 times bigger than most units. Maybe try scaling it down some and then reboning it. It might fix all your problems. And try simplifying some of your mesh if possible, 220 kb because of nearly 4k polies is quite a lot.

@supertoinkz: Wow the changing with the terrain thing is cool. Not very many other models do that.

I was really tired today, but I finished mine anyways, because of the deadline.
Go drink some coffee

I've experienced the same. Over the course of the time since this started all my free time has been devoted to it. I've been up to 1am on school nights and I've been staying awake through the mighty powers of Mountain Dew. Though now that I'm done and successfully within the deadline it's time I got some decent rest.

 

[tee.dubs]

i totally feel left out of that massive comment.

 

[Zerox]

Sorry tee.dubs. I actually did respond to it. I had just accidently navigated back a page to catch up on the stuff from before my post. And I accidently lost your stuff and var's. But I retyped vars and must have missed yours. My apologies.

I think yours is really cool! It looks like it could fit in the StarCraft universe easily. Great use of the Hydralisk texture. I think your animations are very cute and fitting as well. I'll be happy to be competing against your model.

 

[varsaigen]

@varsaigen: Many of us have finished already in three days, some above and beyond the call of duty with animations too. It's called a "mini" contest for a reason. I'm sure you'll do fine var. It doesn't need animations or the like according to the rules. Do what you can and move on to eye candy after you get the basics done.[/QOUTE]
Yes, well, I just find it rare to find any contest with a three day deadline. I joined on the day it started. :/ And, due to time zones, it made it hard to get enough time to work on it.

I've experienced the same. Over the course of the time since this started all my free time has been devoted to it. I've been up to 1am on school nights and I've been staying awake through the mighty powers of Mountain Dew. Though now that I'm done and successfully within the deadline it's time I got some decent rest.

Yep. I have had all of that, minus the Mountain Dew. :/

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The Murloc Reaper, the cruelest form of Murloc Marine you can find. Capable of scaliing cliffs with ease, they drop in upon unexpecting prey, unleashing chaos with their dual pistols.

Textures completely free-handed, as well as the model being scratch-made by me. Based upon the Starcraft II Terran Reapers. With 1178 polies and a file size of 38.3 KB, I conclude my submission.

 

[HeroSlayer]

Finally, I have finished my robot... haha

Infested Robot

Due to lack of time, I cant make any animations ( I really need to get some sleep.. )

The infested robot was a result of the zerg invasion over a terran war factory. It throws acid through its main tentacle, and combines terran steel and resistance with zerg lethal acid.

Hope you like it
Size is kinda high... there were no limitations so i think its ok

 

[PROXY]

HeroSlayer your model crashes magos, don't know if it is in We also, need to check it.
anyway: you know that yours isn't a critter?

 

[Midnighters]

@Midnighters: I could see it possibly being a creep so that's good. but something is terribly wrong with your animations. I thought it might of been unassigned mesh problems so I went to look in Mdlvis and I got a new error I've never had before, "Model Broken. Contact Author." Whatever it means it can't be good. And unanimated your model's feet go into the ground, and it's like 5 times bigger than most units. Maybe try scaling it down some and then reboning it. It might fix all your problems. And try simplifying some of your mesh if possible, 220 kb because of nearly 4k polies is quite a lot.

Yeah, Idk what happened to them, I will try, but as for the model, it is acceptable for the contest so.

 

[HailFireer]

OK this is my final entry. Works in Magos and WE.
It is unanimated due to lack of time and my inexperience.

Tbh I don't really expect to win seeing all other great animated models, but what the heck.

Oh and scaling value has been set to 3 on screenshot so they can be see better. They are way smaller regularly.

 

[D a w n]

nice models guys. But a few notes:
@ varsaigen. I really like your idea, but it would be even better if it would have some clearer murloc design ( like making the texture look more like it could be one)
@ HeroSlayer: your model is not really a critter, but I will still keep it in the contest, because it seems like you have put some effort in it. But I would still like to see some WIPs of your texture though

 

[Midnighters]

When will judging start on the models? And when will we know the winner?

 

[tee.dubs]

Sorry tee.dubs. I actually did respond to it. I had just accidently navigated back a page to catch up on the stuff from before my post. And I accidently lost your stuff and var's. But I retyped vars and must have missed yours. My apologies.

I think yours is really cool! It looks like it could fit in the StarCraft universe easily. Great use of the Hydralisk texture. I think your animations are very cute and fitting as well. I'll be happy to be competing against your model.

LOL i was joking, i feel bad now for making you feel bad... sorry... *rubs foot against ground*

I love your model too, i'm fascinated by your global anims and special fx, they're beyond my understanding of modeling and i'm sure many would find it REALLY useful if you could do a tutorial on it.

 

[Zerox]

Hmm I suppose I could try doing a tutorial on it yes. I put everything I know into that model. And even some stuff I learned for that model. I didn't feel bad I just felt goofy I had forgot to retype yours. No hard feelings.

 

[Xndr]

Zergling Pup

Here's my entry:

Zergling Pup
A baby Zergling that has yet to grow to full Zergling size and develop his wings and claws...but he can still bite your ankles off.

-474 polys
-256x256 custom texture map
-NOTE: no animations

3ds Max viewport

Texture map

In-game screenshot

It was a fun contest, though took me longer than it should have since it was my first time modeling anything for WC3 and using the World Editor.

 

[supertoinkz]

u didn't provide any wip pics

 

[D a w n]

ok, the official contest time has ended.

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Oh and as I don't take part of this contest beside that poll which won't affect the results, I'm also submitting my model now, even though it is already 45 minutes after deadline / I guess that noone minds)

oh and this was my inspiration: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/033/2/c/sc009_For_Draenor_Dark_Templar_by_thenonhacker.jpg

 

[Amigurumi]

@ Xndr: too late? The contest ended at 15:30 CET. Now it's 16:27 CET. (You uploaded at 16:22 CET)

@ DonDustin: OMG draenei stracraft 2 fanatic bay! D:. Awesome Idea with the weapon xD

 

[Xndr]

u didn't provide any wip pics

Is that directed at me? Page 7.

 

[D a w n]

your post wasn't visible before. Oh and your unwrap seems a bit screwed :/

 

[Xndr]

Yeah, not sure how that unwrapping problem happened, I'm new at this =/. Something must be screwy in the converting-to-.mdx process...it is an old script that I used.

 

[Misha]

There has been some lulz on this thread

Good job on the murloc Reaper

sweet job on the scantid, that one is cool.

neat job on the lill zergling, although the face needs.. to be different.. Oo

and last, sweet job on the baby overlord It kinda looks like spore model :3

EDIT:

Yeah, not sure how that unwrapping problem happened, I'm new at this =/. Something must be screwy in the converting-to-.mdx process...it is an old script that I used.

oh.. i've just seen the zergling model and.. well that happens when you weld up the vertices... you'll have to rewrap the model, Xndr

 

[varsaigen]

nice models guys. But a few notes:
@ varsaigen. I really like your idea, but it would be even better if it would have some clearer murloc design ( like making the texture look more like it could be one)

Easier said than done, actually. I origionally had a tail on him, but I realized that it woulld get burned off by the flames. And, due to the black armor concept that the Reavers had, it made it difficult pushing the murloc concept through. Had it been another unit, the face could have been showing, but... I picked the Reaver. Oh well, at least it benefits my series some. But I agree, there are ways that it could be a bit more murlocish, but I am not quite clear on what they are. :/

 

[Devine]

Guess.. the dealine has passed?

 

[PROXY]

Guess.. the dealine has passed?

jep.

 

[Svenski]

I might even do a small extention for people who are almost finished.
But it is always better to finish before dead line

IMO if you're within +1 or 2 hours, let the man participate after all the work he did, referring to Xndr's work.

 

[HeroSlayer]

I'll post my texture and some anims for my model in a couple hours n_n

 

[Zerox]

@Xndr: Make sure your model is on a 256x256 texture and that it is all on the texture. Wc3 doesn't do repeating textures. If it runs off it just stretches it back to the end point of the texture.

 

[Kitabatake]

Wc3 doesn't do repeating textures.

Mmm nope.

1. Right click the texture in Magos' model editor's (War3 Model Editor) Texture Manager
2. Select Edit
3. Enable "Wrap Width" and "Wrap Height" of the texture

-> You've got a "repeating texture"

 

[Zerox]

NO WAY! I had no idea. And to think I've made textures larger than needs be to work around non-repeating textures. Wow that's awesome. Thanks Kitabatake. I'm gonna have to try that out now. So just curios is it possible to only repeat a certain portion of a texture? Like say the lower half or something?

 

[Kitabatake]

NO WAY! I had no idea. And to think I've made textures larger than needs be to work around non-repeating textures. Wow that's awesome. Thanks Kitabatake. I'm gonna have to try that out now. So just curios is it possible to only repeat a certain portion of a texture? Like say the lower half or something?

That depends on your UV-maps

 

[HeroSlayer]

This is the new texture, now my model is 100% freehand

 

[Equal]

Ah man, the Icon contest and the spell contest dont finish until the 30th april, so i asumed this one also :/ . would like to make a model also, however;

I wish best luck to all contestants
greets Equal

 

[Midnighters]

The deadline has passed already.

 

[D a w n]

Ah man, the Icon contest and the spell contest dont finish until the 30th april, so i asumed this one also :/ . would like to make a model also, however;

I wish best luck to all contestants
greets Equal

well....Ralle actually only wanted a contest that lasts 2-3 days and I gave you 4 :>

 

[varsaigen]

Ah. that explains the length. Thanks for the extra day!

 

[HeroSlayer]

Ah. that explains the length. Thanks for the extra day!

Its nice to know we have more time... but i thought mods were more strict about the time. I almost didnt sleep last night...
Anyways, thanks.

 

[varsaigen]

It ended at 6 Pacific time. Today. (almost 10 hours ago) Ralle wanted it to run from Sunday to Tuesday. DonDustin generously gave us Wednesday (though my time zone kinda negated that XD)

 

[Midnighters]

As did mine, I completed mine in 3 days though with working 6 hours a day, I just got back from working.

 

[HailFireer]

I didn't saw my name in the entries list. Plz don't forget me ^^

 

[varsaigen]

I didn't saw my name in the entries list. Plz don't forget me ^^

I don't recall your submission... :/ Could you link it?

 

[HailFireer]

I don't recall your submission... :/ Could you link it?

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/arena-226/modeling-mini-contest-3-a-165064/index11.html#post1562180

 

[varsaigen]

Ah, the armored Zergling. They may have just missed you, like they did with Zerox. :/ Perhaps a message to DonDustin could get that fixed.