Special Effect Competition #1 - Winter Wonderland

[frostwhisper]

Well doh, that Jetfang afterall. Pretty good work there.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Update + Screenshots

Screenshots of "Comet", "Ice Spheres", "Ice Sparks", "Frost Aura" and "Frost Wall".

 

[JetFangInferno]

i like pics 6,7, and 8. very photorealistic. in my opinon, i would just like more blue but the term "frost" is loosely defined so its still good =)

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

This is definitely not snow.

Looks good,I didn't like the comet because the model you use is a bit ugly.

 

[Fulla]

I think the comet looks great, but id recommend making a minor shockwave, i.e. 1-2 rings expanding out after each other, upon impact.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Someone requested an Ice Incinerate so here it is. It looks STUPID in the pictures lol. You can only appreciate it if you see it in action =) Here are 3 pictures of the animation of the model.

*Added 2 pictures of Blizzard Eruption, my favorite of the icy models i've made so far =)*

*Added a picture of Freezing Ring, another favorite of mine =) *

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

This is definitely not snow.

Looks good,I didn't like the comet because the model you use is a bit ugly.

Of course it's snow. Living in Canada helps when it comes to replicating snow. It's just the screenshot.
Like all effects, it looks better in action. Especially the comet and explosion.

@JetFang: Doesn't look much different from most of your effects. I'd have to see in action to really judge.

 

[Fulla]

Lol, wasnt expecting someone to make it, looks good, I'll have to test it out ingame to see the full power.

Afew more potential effects, incase anyone needs ideas:
- Frost Corpse Explosion - Based of Animate Dead Buff Special, with all the bones/bodies exploding
- Icy Impale - The impale that comes out of the ground, perhaps with some cool icy effects
- Frost Cloud - The Dragon Hawk Cloud, perhaps with some blizzard/icy theme to it.

 

[Shade987]

Someone already made an icy impale in this thread, I think.

 

[JetFangInferno]

@Will, yeah my fx are very generic and all look the same to me but I like them anyway =) I can make a video for all of them if you guys want to see it. I'll post it up in a few minutes.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Same here. The video might be a bit jumpy but it'll show the FX decently.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Here are 3 videos of Freezing Ring, Blizzard Eruption and Ice Incinerate (God it's getting hard to name my models lol) Sorry if the Ice Incinerate looks choppy =/

*Please click on the videos instead of just looking at them through the preview icon because apparently it doesn't show up properly unless you click on it*

 

[frostwhisper]

I'm not too fond of the last one (the incinerate), but the rest are very well made.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

The second one is awesome. Here's mine:

Terrible low res youtube video

 

[JetFangInferno]

Hmm they all look cool. Maybe I should remove the Ice Incinerate? =/

 

[Daelin]

Freezing Ring is simply impressive! This competition is going to be really tough, no matter what people have already said. Seems like I need to get back to work!

-Daelin

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

I like Will's a lot.This one like an aura rocks!

 

[RED BARON]

Nice work.. !! Looking forward to maybe some more projectiles..

 

[JetFangInferno]

truth be told, projectiles are very hard to make because it's hard to make them GOOD and UNIQUE. I'll try to make a projectile ><

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I have a few projectiles... But showing them is slightly more work and we're lazy.

Alright, just spitting a few ideas in the air.

-Ice Shards (see video)
-Frost Waves (see video)
-Frost Wall (see video)
-Snow Storm (see video)
-Ice Block
-Ice Block Missile
-Freezing Aura (see video)
-Comet (see video)
-Ice Spheres (see video)
-Snow Cannon Missile ("photorealistic-like" Snow missile)
-Snow Cannon Ball (Think snow ball... at 500 meters per second)
-Freezing Shockwave (Big freezing shockwave)
-Freezing Cannon Ball
-Snow nuke (Had to do it. It'll be more of a frost bomb than a nuke)
-Cryo Bullet (Freezing Bullet)
-Cryogenic Gas Missile (Icy Flamethrower)
-Dr.Evil and Mini-me frozen in Cryo Chamber

 

[JetFangInferno]

I'll make a giant ice block missle and freezing spirits missle. That's all I've got for missles. I like flashy AOE spells better =)

 

[Daelin]

I'm more a buff and projectiles fan to be honest, rather than one-shot effect. I guess we are covering more areas here.

-Daelin

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Daelin makes good SFX with actual geometry.

JetFang makes good one-shot SFX with lots of particle "tails".

And I rarely use anything else than particles in any of my SFX.

We've got all bases covered, really.

 

[JetFangInferno]

BEHOLD! Shiva's Wings!!! Animation is a little buggy at the moment but that will be fixed in due time =)

 

[frostwhisper]

That's sick man. Seriously. Very original.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Looks messy to me, try to make it more icey and glowy; right now it looks like blue fire doodads rotated diagonally.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Chriz, can you please define "icey" so I can make it look better?

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

Actually I liked it.It is original.Has the icey feeling.Looks good generally!this is tough competition everyone's great!

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Icey in this case is anything that looks like ice or frost or snow. For example: Whitish mist is more realistic. But blue-white-teal frost is more warcraft-like.

And Shiva's Wings look icey enough. But messy. Maybe a more defined shape?

 

[frostwhisper]

They look ghostly, that's cool.

off topic: I just love the theme of this contest... frosty <3

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Your avatar, for example, JetFang, looks icey in my opinion, something more like that.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Hmm, to please everyone I guess I'll make 2 of them lol. @Will, the wings are made of 2 tail particles rotated to the left and the right. If i gave it a more defined shape, it would just look like 2 blue stretched ovals rotated to the left and right. The only way I can think of to make a more defined shape would be to use geometry and stuff which Daelin is good at but I have no knowledge of. In addition, since I use magos' modeleditor, any rotations I attempt to edit result in total failure. As a result, I can't really change the wings.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm sure you can use some sort of crystal-like geometry (lots of spikes) to place at the base for example.

Just take a sphere from the good old Frost Bolt missile and edit it a bit in Vertex editor. Geomerging is easy once you know how to do it.

 

[JetFangInferno]

i have never geoset-merged in my life because i can't understand a thing in the vertex modifier. a failed idea in my hands... =(

oh well, here's another model that i'm making but it's not finished yet. I still might add more to it to make it flashy. It's called Shiva's Enchantment o.o

 

[FireEffect]

Oooo. Awesome effects!

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Ribbons? Awesome work there.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Thx and yeah it does use ribbons.

 

[UchihaSasuke.gr]

I think it would look better animated,looks really nice!

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Thx and yeah it does use ribbons.

Do you have them rotate? I've been trying to figure out how to that for a long time.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Yes, it contains one rotating bone and 4 ribbons along with particles attached on 4 different points. Because the bone rotates, it drags the particles and the ribbons in circles. Btw, you know I NEVER completely make something on my own. I always base it off something. But guess what model I'm using. Should be pretty easy

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I remember the model, but not what it's called... where can I find it?

Not that I want to steal your idea, I just feel like experimenting with it.

 

[Shade987]

Spirit Link, is it?

 

[JetFangInferno]

@ shade, close but not quite. you can find the model in war3x/abilities/orc/ancestralspiritcaster.mdx it's quite a fun model to play with lol. I made that same model I did for this competition a while back with different colors and textures so I just spiced it up a bit to match the ice theme.

a quick question: do ribbons count as particles? (for example if the particle has an emission rate of 20 does it count as 20 particles?)

 

[Daelin]

Ribbons emit planes in the direction of movement. Depending on the number of sides and lifetime, you will have a directly proportional number of polies. Each plane is 2 polies, just like for particle emmiters. But unlike them, particle emmiters are not tied to movement and emmit planes from the plane, which remains the same size. Both ribbons and particle emmiters are useful in their own respective situations, but both can be high polycount-consuming.

-Daelin

 

[JetFangInferno]

Ok i'm using 16 ribbons in a model I've made. Their tail and head lengths are both 20 and the emission rate is 20. Is each of the ribbons 40 or 20 particles? So is the total amount worth 320 or 640 particles?

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Depends on the life span. I think it's (Emmissionrate x lifespan).

 

[JetFangInferno]

emission: 20 lifespan: 0.5 total: 10?

also, i'm having trouble with a model. it contains 16 bones that move from one point in the center and they fly out in a circle. attached to each bone are 2 particles and 1 ribbon. the problem is all the particles show up but only half of the ribbons show up. also, you have to move the effect around to see ALL the ribbons. i wasted like 3 or 4 fucking hours on this damn model and it doesn't even work in the end. (guess that's what happens when u use magos to do ribbons lol).

 

[DwarfZealot]

everyone has been saying "icey" when its really "icy" thought i'd just correct that

 

[RED BARON]

everyone has been saying "icey" when its really "icy" thought i'd just correct that

Haha I thought just the same

Well nice hearing some Projectiles is coming (symbolic meant, else I would have to hide)

Edit:
Damn shaking fingers
Fixed.. dont make it to a spelling tread

 

[DwarfZealot]

coming not comming...