New DC rules?

[olofmoleman]

I've been brwosing through the DCed models, and I noticed there are too many models that don't actualy don't deserve a DC.

So I suggest new rules for DCing, so that not every model can be DCed.

1. Must have a portrait
2. Relative low poly and file size
3. must be put some effort in modeling/skinning, so no simple geomerges etc.

DCs aren't just about how it looks, it's about every espect of the model

 

[DeadDogNoGoWoof]

you would have had to download every single one of those models to find out if they had a portrait or not.

did you?

and there was a 3385 poly model that was awarded DC. but, can you say, with a straight face, that that model is not awesome?



i very much doubt there are ANY simple geomerges in that archive, excluding model skins.

 

[olofmoleman]

you would have had to download every single one of those models to find out if they had a portrait or not.

did you?

and there was a 3385 poly model that was awarded DC. but, can you say, with a straight face, that that model is not awesome?



i very much doubt there are ANY simple geomerges in that archive, excluding model skins.

I haven't downloaded every DCed model to chack if they had portraits, but it's a good guideline for the future, isn't it?

 

[Blade.dk2]

portrait OR camera.

 

[olofmoleman]

That makes no sense, when a model has a camera, it has a portrait...

 

[Horn]

That makes no sense, when a model has a camera, it has a portrait...

A model can have a portrait animation and camera.

OR

A seperate portrait model.

The latter covers most of Blizzard's models.

 

[ben_xuereb]

olof that is a good idea but i cant realy judge modles if they dont deserve somthing cause i cant do no better

 

[Metal_Sonic]

Models shouldn't have to be low in file size. If you make (yes, not rip) a nice model with lots of animations, and a good skin, that shouldn't hinder it form receiving an award.

 

[Leopard]

you would have had to download every single one of those models to find out if they had a portrait or not.

Isn't it moderator's task? And you don't have to download all models, just some models which you think are beautiful, to check whether it has portrait(or just portrait anim) or not.

 

[Afronight_76]

DC=director's choice, as in it's up to whatever is appealing to the director.

 

[olofmoleman]

yeah, of course the mods have the final word, but DCs are supposed to say "this model rocks"(well sorta), and rules for DCing can help mods make the right choices.

 

[Vexorian]

2. Relative low poly and file size

The fact is that this game's models are extremely low poly compared to other games latelly, so what you would call high poly is actually a model with a normal number of polys.

3. must be put some effort in modeling/skinning, so no simple geomerges etc.

DCs aren't just about how it looks, it's about every espect of the model

DCs are about how the model looks, because models are eye candy , no player cares about the other aspects of a model and models are supposed to be used in games not to be studied.

 

[olofmoleman]

2. Relative low poly and file size

The fact is that this game's models are extremely low poly compared to other games latelly, so what you would call high poly is actually a model with a normal number of polys.

Sigh, you know what I mean, low poly and file size for wc3.

3. must be put some effort in modeling/skinning, so no simple geomerges etc.

DCs aren't just about how it looks, it's about every espect of the model

DCs are about how the model looks, because models are eye candy , no player cares about the other aspects of a model and models are supposed to be used in games not to be studied.

Portraits are also eyecandy...

 

[Horn]

You can't really stop a model receiving DC for a portrait. You can add one in 5 seconds thanks to Magos.

 

[olofmoleman]

That's also true...

 

[Daelin]

However, a resource is good if you only have to import it in order to work and do no further changes to it (unless it comes to balancing in the case of the spells, where you may want to change some values, case in which those values should be easily changed by adding some special functions). Yes, this applies to Models, Skins, Icons and Spells (as far as I know, these are the basic resources).

~Daelin