Next texturing contest.

[frostwhisper]

You can't even begin to realize how much I vomit at BM animations. Get Callahan to customize this fucker.

 

[Dionesiist]

Ha, like he would do animations for every single model someone is too lazy to animate. BM animations work surprisingly well, I'll give you that. Reduces creativity, but I can't really do anything...
EDIT: Model is officially done, team colour and animations and all. Portrait comes next. Which will probably not have talk animations since I want to allow much freedom on what kind of mouth it should have.

 

[Pyritie]

Eh, it's a texturing contest. Animations can come later.

 

[markone]

dio post more screenshots

 

[Gausslander]

How about skinning worker units only? Now that's originality.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

no. the custom model dio is making gives us endless choice for skinning

 

[frostwhisper]

Dio, at least make his stand animation that of some other unit. Please. ;\

 

[Dionesiist]

Model is done, team colour is on upper torso only, the rest is alpha-able.
EDIT: Frost, the cape will be solid stiff if I do that. :< I'll have a look in the MPQs anyway.
EDIT 2: Ogre stand animations look promising. Will see more options before settling on one.

 

[markone]

great! im in that contest for sure!

 

[Xatoga]

I like, I like. Is the naga contest closed yet? Let's start this one up.

 

[Hawkwing]

I like it, but it kind of seems to be similar to Archimonde.

 

[Dionesiist]

That depends on how people make use of the abundant alpha possibilities..

 

[Just_Spectating]

looks a bit like a dreadlord type.

 

[XS-Archangel]

Be prepared for one of these two... Either Hell Spawn or Angel Spawn.. I like them both, which should I textured

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

so... any idea on the starting date?

btw. go for the first one.

 

[Gilles]

Regular spawn ftw!
Or medieval.

 

[Grog50]

This has so much potential, im already amped. BTW Gj with the model Dio. I love how much alpha is possible on it

 

[Pyritie]

How big is the texture going to be? 512²? 256² might be a bit small because a lot of it will be alpha'd, I'd think.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

make it high quality and go with 512.

 

[Dionesiist]

Well, as far as I've noticed resizing to 256x256 and adding a smart sharpen (as AR calls it) can conserve details...

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah but this texture will have a lot more alpha than most other wc3 textures.

 

[A.R.]

The wrap can be done in 256 or 512, resizing the guide really isn't a problem at all. The lines keep detail pretty well, its just the texture you've gotta watch. Besides, I don't see 256 res being an issue for alpha-ing, if anything it is better to work at true res (except in very specific circumstances such as working with the Demon Hunter's face or Shandris/Sylvanas' face in which case you're better off using 1024 res). People get the wrong idea that 512 res equals better quality. Sure, it looks better in Magos, there's all that extra detail. You can texture on all those nifty little doodads that there isn't enough room for in 256. 512 is great if you're new to skinning or skinning for a game where you encounter large, high detail models. Ingame in WC3 is very different, the ingame camera blurs out the small details to make the texture visible at the standard camera distance. In addition, you can expect that if your texture is going to be used for b.net, it'll be shrunk and compressed to the stage where the detail is blurred to oblivion. The only way to catch all that detail you put hours of work into is to scroll in to maximum zoom, which no-one will do. On the occasion where you are skinning high res for accuracy or whatever, you need to be extra conscious of how the texture will transform when it is resized to 256. It's a tricky thing to get right. So I ask, which is the better quality in the long run?

Kickass model btw, I've already got ideas for what I'll do texturewise with it :3

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

then is quality better in 512 with 50% compression or 256 with 99%? and is there a significant file size change?

 

[Dionesiist]

I usually use 75% compression which gives a likeable quality and low file-size.

 

[Hawkwing]

Part of texturing in Warcraft III is being able to make a skin in low dimensions - 256x256 - and still retain decent quality. Warcraft III doesn't require the amount of detail put into 512x512 images. Also, a fair amount of times your work can be destroyed when scaling the image down.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Are the things in his hands just big planes that you can alpha into whatever you want?

 

[RaijinSpark]

cyberish

seconded

 

[Dionesiist]

Here's the model just in case someone wants to have a look at it and signal if the unwrap is shitty or spawned from hell itself.

 

[THE_END]

I like the model, only thing I don't like is the portrait part of it
I'd be totally down for using this model

 

[Grog50]

I just tried out the chest wrap. Its streches a little but its easily workable.

 

[Dionesiist]

I like the model, only thing I don't like is the portrait part of it

Not much I could do about that.

 

[FrIkY]

Damn... this theme is so awesome.

 

[THE_END]

It's basically gonna be skin that custom model into anything by the looks of it
Though..I think I might want to enter >


Edit: Screw the contest I'm skinning this bad boy right now

 

[Hawkwing]

All is fine and dandy, as long as you don't plan on submitting that. And if you actually intend on "screwing the contest" I can host it.

Also, if you are going to texture that and showcase it, don't do it here. Do it in your own thread.

 

[THE_END]

Yes I know, I know Hawk. I wasn't planning on keeping on going with it. Just showing some of the alpha channels available on the skin if we do decide to use it. And I wouldn't mind that much actually joining in a contest for once, but I'll wait till another ingame unit, I'm gonna take some time on this one

 

[Mr.Goblin]

what about creating a special competition?

like,

create a hero skin (or) model
create 4 icons for his spells
create 4 spells that goes with the description
balance the hero so it works with the other warcraft 3 heros..

and it could be a team contest?

 

[Just_Spectating]

That contest will fail most likely, or have such a long dead-line that people will forget about it.

 

[Kyrbi0]

^Unless you do it in parts, like a "design a neutral Tavern hero" contest, then a modelling/texturing/animating contest, then an icon contest, then a spell-creating contest (all contests using the material from the previous one)

 

[Mr.Goblin]

^Unless you do it in parts, like a "design a neutral Tavern hero" contest, then a modelling/texturing/animating contest, then an icon contest, then a spell-creating contest (all contests using the material from the previous one)

like we could start with

Design a hero competition

Than for the texturing competition, you HAVE to pic, one of the entrys,

Than for the spell competition, you HAVE to pic one of the skin and the design that goes with it.

Than for the icons competition, you have to pic on of the skin with the design that goes with it and the spells..

 

[Just_Spectating]

trust me, only about like 4-6 people will join it

 

[D a w n]

trust me, only about like 4-6 people will join it

I don´t think that it´s true because many people joined the hive olympics at the beginning, but when they noticed that it was way too much work and just 1 month time the contest was doomed.

But the 1 that Mr.Goblin suggested is mainly the on that is hosted at wc3c quite often and they always had awesome entries :>

 

[Dionesiist]

4-6? Hah, more like 1-2.

 

[THE_END]

ike...post it somewhere else please

 

[ike_ike]

LET ME ATTENTION WHORE PL0x. Ima just dumping it here because I can't start it yet D:

Me will remove image though.

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Could we please just get this contest started soon?

 

[Hawkwing]

When the previous one is over.

 

[Deolrin]

I say UI contest. It could be both useful and interesting.

 

[Linaze]

We just had a texturing contest, didn't we?
Doesn't feel like a "contest" if there pretty much always is one up.

 

[Hawkwing]

I say UI contest. It could be both useful and interesting.

As much as I agree, nobody has the time, patience, or motivation to create an entire UI.

 

[Pyritie]

It's not as bad as it sounds. You don't have to worry about how your skin looks on the unwrap, for example, because what you see is what you get.