Special Effect Competition #1 - Winter Wonderland

[Deleted member 126647]

Special Effect Competition #1

Winter Wonderland!

Deadline: 31st January 2008 (0:00 AM, GMT) - with possible extension. Winner(s) will be decided by the final votes of a public poll.

This contest is about making Special Effects, but since only one SFX is rather simple and small, we'll be making SFX packs. The effects have to be centered around the chosen theme, Winter Wonderland, meaning the effects must be related to frost, snow or ice.

New to SFX? Well it just so happens there's a tutorial available to learn the basics right here.

What is an SFX?

SFX stands for Special Effects, and are mostly made of particles, ribbons and one-poly models called "planes". So far as I know, there are two kinds of SFX:

One-shot Effects:
-Usually a single burst of particles used for explosions and the like. These are usually made of one "birth" sequence that is non-looping. One-shots use particles, but not many planes and ribbons.

Buff Effects:
-These are long lasting Effects with Stand and Death Sequences (stand being looping) and occasionally Birth. These are mostly used for buffs like divine shield, and are a mix of planes, particles and ribbons.

For more info, read the tutorial I mentioned before.

All effects created for this contest must follow the following guidelines:

• In-game textures only.
• Buff effects require proper animation sets including
  • Birth
  • Stand
  • Death
• Effect must be decently scaled, meaning it can't get any bigger than a 512
  square in the World Editor (the yellow grid).
• Particle cap is set to 1000.
• You must make at least two different effects in your pack.
• All effects must be centered around the chosen theme.

Rules and Guidelines:

• Follow requirements above.
• You have to make sure the model(s) is fully and correctly functional in-game.
• You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
• To qualify for entry, you must post your model(s) in .mdx format.
• You must post your entry before the deadline expires.
• You must make the model for this competition. Which means that you cannot use old works.

Prizes:
The winner will receive +40 Reputation Points and a Special Award Icon.
Second place will receive +25 Reputation Points.
Third place will receive +10 Reputation Points.

 

[Pyritie]

Oh, I'm so in on this one.

 

[SuPa-]

You're so PWNT! on this one

;-)

I'm in I guess

 

[Pyritie]

Question: Are we allowed to use a model of something here, as long as we give credit of course?

I have a good alternative blizzard effect missile I want to use.

 

[Elenai]

Hmmmmz...I think I will join this contest.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Edit someone else's work? Or in game stuff?

No to editing anyone else's work, editing in game effects is permitted but it must be significantly altered.

 

[Pyritie]

Edit someone else's work? Or in game stuff?

No to editing anyone else's work, editing in game effects is permitted but it must be significantly altered.

Ahhh fine. Guess it'll be the ingame one then.

 

[DesKaladA]

Can i uplaod them all as a Rar or zip file
cuz i might do it

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Yes, of course.

 

[Pyritie]

I'm probably going to be doing something with runes.

EDIT: The picture isn't working. You go upload it somewhere.

 

[Herman]

Suggests

I'm sorry I'm posting even though im not gonna join
And you guys probably have your minds made up

But, I was workin on some spells that had to do with frost nova

-Ice shard projectiles (one w/ a looping flipping motion)(the second like the quillboars attack)
-Ice shard falling object
-A seperated frost explosion (if you know how to do a ground effect to go with it, seeing an explosion that doesn't hurt the ground is just wrong)
-A frozen unit buff (ice on a unit sort of like divine shield)
-Snowball projectile D)

[I realize a frozen unit buff isn't too exciting, but maybe one that effects him in stages, they way ice does to Link if you've ever played Zelda]

Just a few things blizzard doesn't have that would be cool
(I'm not asking as a request, just puttin the ideas out there for you guys)

 

[Pyritie]

Frozen unit buff? Ever looked at Frost Armor?

 

[Herman]

I mean like FROZEN

visible ice around them, not just cold

Like stuck in a block of ice type of thing

Except an unconformed shape, with more detail

I probably shouldn't have used divine shield as an example

 

[Shade987]

Freezing Breath?

 

[JetFangInferno]

I'm in =) Off to make some ice thing... Can some of the effects be stuff you've made in the past?

 

[donut3.5]

• You must make the model for this competition. Which means that you cannot use old works.

This sounds fun, I might do it.
--donut3.5--

 

[JetFangInferno]

oh darn, oh well.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Holyfreakincrapimsohappynowicandieinpeace

It'd be a shame if I wasn't entering.

 

[Herman]

Oh

I see

Well anyway, the other suggests aren't bad, although you could make a snowball out of the frost wyrms attack (but you'd need to scale it, and the ball looks like its falling apart)

Just scratch the buff from the list, although a Zelda type ice effect would be really cool to use in an ice version of storm bolt

 

[CombatTheWombat]

Hmmmm, I have never tried making any special effects, but I think I will take a crack at this.

 

[valkemiere]

can i edit from other special effect or from default warcraft?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Edit someone else's work? Or in game stuff?

No to editing anyone else's work, editing in game effects is permitted but it must be significantly altered.

Here's your answer. But the point really is to make the stuff from scratch...

 

[Pyritie]

Okay, scratch that rune stuff. I'll be doing some more... slapstick spells.

For example, summoning a huge iceberg and making it fall down. Boom!

 

[Callahan]

I'm in and rdy to win!It'll remind me my first days at war3 modding.
FX is life!
But i don't like your description of sfx.It's not necessarly a plan/particle/ribbon.There's a lot of sfx that are made from primitive model like shockwave,rocket,warstomp...

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Interesting, so many "pros" entering. I might enter if I get a good idea. Is it allowed to have someone help you with different problems that one might enquire? Let's say I find an unsolvable bug (to a noob like me) and I send it to let's say HappyTauren and he fixes it and sends back, would that be okay or a no-no?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm sure that's fine.

Feel free to ask for help.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Already done with my first... it's some kind of giant ball of ice that generates frost waves... and freezes peeople.

It has a birth anim where it charges up and releases.


Now onto the next FX... as soon as I figure out what it is.

 

[Pyritie]

I already made a list of like 7 or 8 different FX.

Now to just make them all.

 

[JetFangInferno]

any specifications on how many sfx are required in the pack?

 

[Pyritie]

Two or more.

But the more the better.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Of course you can ask for help or fixes, no problem.

 

[Elenai]

Chriz: I want to make my SFX in 3ds. But I cannot seem to animate, advance model (while I'm asking for help) or ect.

Can you help me?

Perhaps make a tutorial, or a quick explanation, ect.

 

[Pyritie]

WIP of an iceberg model. It's untextured and unanimated, but I got the basic mesh.

Basically that big blob appears in the air, hovers for a second, then smashes down, particles appear, then those other small blobs appear and scatter everywhere (ice fragments).

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Chriz: I want to make my SFX in 3ds. But I cannot seem to animate, advance model (while I'm asking for help) or ect.

Can you help me?

Perhaps make a tutorial, or a quick explanation, ect.

Explain what you want to do and I'll try to give you a little outline of a tutorial.

 

[TheSecretArts]

I might make a few:

Ideas;
Snow Funnel!
Ice Storm!
Snow Cloud!

 

[Elenai]

....*shifty eyes*....

Its a secret idea I have...

Should I PM it to you?

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Sure, go ahead and do that.

 

[RED BARON]

Holyfreakincrapimsohappynowicandieinpeace

It'd be a shame if I wasn't entering.

That gotta give us other troubles....

Hmm I am entering only If I gets the time to do so...

 

[skrab]

Chriz: I want to make my SFX in 3ds. But I cannot seem to animate, advance model (while I'm asking for help) or ect.

Can you help me?

Perhaps make a tutorial, or a quick explanation, ect.

i can't found any nice tuts for SFX in 3ds to
i think i might enter but i need a really good idea

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

HINT: Don't make a giant explosion.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Why not, is it because you're making one? I personally like giant explosions

 

[Bob27]

I'm gonna enter this competition.

Only made my first SFX ever last night though, so I probably won't be able to come up with anything that great.

I'll post a wip soon.

Edit: Ok heres to wips of some effects I made. Not sure what the second one is, just made it, so not even sure if I'll include it in my pack eventually.

 

[Pyritie]

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=45555

SFX tutorial for 3ds max 5 with art tools.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Why not, is it because you're making one? I personally like giant explosions

Nah, it's because giant explosions are rather uncreative.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Not if I make them ^^ jk lol

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Here's my SFX WIPs. There will be more to come later.

Note: The snowball items are just bonus though, since I've made a snowball missile.

 

[Pyritie]

That aura was a good idea. Those particles seem a bit yellowish though.

 

[Herman]

I love those

I could use every one of those models Dan Van

Nice Job

+rep

 

[Kuhneghetz]

That aura was a good idea. Those particles seem a bit yellowish though.

I'll try to make them lightblue-ish to fix this issue.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

That freezing prison looks really particle heavy... make sure those XYQuads work ingame first before submitting them.