Special Effect Competition #2 - Nature

[Deleted member 126647]

Special Effect Competition #2

Nature

Deadline: 11th April 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, meaning the effects must be related to grass, leaves, trees, earth, rocks, roots, poison, etc.

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 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.

 

[D a w n]

I already have 2 ideas but first I have to improve my warshape skills^^

 

[Callahan]

Finally I join this contest!

 

[Pyritie]

Ahaha! You know I'm in this for sure!

I just hope Daelin doesn't decide to "happen" to appear again for this one...

 

[Oziris]

Well i wish good luck to all people that enter this contest!

 

[donut3.5]

If I can conjure up some time for this, I might enter.. I have some pretty nice ideas floating around in my noggin.
--donut3.5--

 

[Callahan]

First WIP : Angry Trunk

A WIP of my Angry Trunk effect.
It summon an angry trunk that falls on enemy.



In the gif it doesn't show scaling anim and bliz particle.
It spawn dust particle on landing.And it has a growing birth anim and shrinking death anim.

Should be used with Infernal spells with 0.3 landing delay and dummy summon.

 

[D a w n]

nice Callahan


this is what Im working on atm: still have to add some bumblebees and some particles + i have to animate it( the aura will rotate,every single flower will rotate + the bumblebees will fly from 1 flower to another 1)

 

[Pyritie]

A WIP of my Angry Trunk effect.
It summon an angry trunk that falls on enemy.

In the gif it doesn't show scaling anim and bliz particle.
It spawn dust particle on landing.And it has a growing birth anim and shrinking death anim.

Should be used with Infernal spells with 0.3 landing delay and dummy summon.

Looks like a good start, but remember when things fall from the sky they don't just sit there. Usually they bounce a little or shake or something.

this is what Im working on atm: still have to add some bumblebees and some particles + i have to animate it( the aura will rotate,every single flower will rotate + the bumblebees will fly from 1 flower to another 1)

That's a very original idea. I would never have thought of using those.

So now I will! >

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'll see what I can think up.

 

[JetFangInferno]

Lol I have no ideas and even the brilliant ideas that i DO have, I'm not good enough to make them. =(

 

[D a w n]

I finished my first model. It´s an acorn missile =)

Edit: tried to improve it
Edit2: more improvement

 

[HappyTauren]

doesnt really look like an accorn, shape it lil better.

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

I finished my first model. It´s an acorn missile =)

Edit: tried to improve it

Acorn needs to be flater, smoother... more round intead of pyramid like.

 

[D a w n]

well...it doesn´t look like a pyramid when its ingame,because the acorn does a barrel roll^^

but I improved it 1 more time

 

[JetFangInferno]

that's pretty cool lol.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

Lets see more work you guys.

 

[MadseN]

a bit off topic, im trying to do my own sfx but how do i use the ingame textures ? because when i export from max 5 with art tools they make a new skin of the ingame texture and everything becomes red when i import it to wc3 if i don't import the skin?

Should i use Dex and export it that way and then use the notepad to type in the texture path ? or is it a easier way ?

/MadseN

 

[Pyritie]

Yeah, you can either use Magos to add the textures or just edit the mdl in notepad.

I'm completely out of ideas for this one :/

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I think I'll give this compo a start... I made a quick FX.

 

[frostwhisper]

Looks yummy.
/eats

 

[JetFangInferno]

Yeah, you can either use Magos to add the textures or just edit the mdl in notepad.

I'm completely out of ideas for this one :/

ur not the only one lol. and @ will, that looks pretty neat

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's actually a lot less than I wanted to do... I'm out of ideas for this one. Maybe I'll make a few green/gaseous explosions, but not much else...

 

[JetFangInferno]

Here's my first model. An improvement of my Shiva's Wings models now for Gaia, the spirit of nature

 

[Pyritie]

Bah. I'm probably going to be overusing Textures\Leaf4x4.blp. I have like one or two ideas.

 

[frostwhisper]

Hopefully inspirational suggestions:
- A wind effect, blowing many leaves in one direction
- A re-make of the paladin ultimate effect using some kind of treant or ancient
- Some kind of glowing runestone appearing form the ground with lots of dust
- Re-make of the lightning shield model, using rocks and dust rather than electricity
- An altered birth animation effect (like the undead or nightelf) using rocks, plants and dust

 

[Pyritie]

Can I call dibs on all of them :3

 

[frostwhisper]

That's what they're for, Pyritie.
Be my guest.

 

[JetFangInferno]

darn it! I guess i'll have to tweak those ideas a little bit xD

 

[frostwhisper]

I'm glad I could help. ^^

 

[JetFangInferno]

So much neglect in this contest... Anyways, I've made a set of 6 orbs and they're all in this one screenshot.

 

[Pyritie]

Bah I wish I was better with ribbons.

 

[Jaakko]

jetfanginferno can you make a birth and death animation for that orb effect?

 

[Gilles]

Pretty sweet. Is the writing included? lol
You should add the writing to the pack.

 

[JetFangInferno]

jetfanginferno can you make a birth and death animation for that orb effect?

Well, they appear and swirl around and disappear when the effect is gone. I personally can't animate so sorry On a side note, the effect in the screenshot contains SIX models put together so if you want the full effect, you must attach all 6 models. I made another rotation orb model. Here are 2 pics.

 

[Pyritie]

I think we're gonna need an extension for this one :/

 

[Gilles]

The last one was so successful! Try sending a PM to all the previous competitors. Or an email if they have theirs shown.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

It's just the theme.

I'll get working on some SFX right now.

 

[JetFangInferno]

I'm working on my last sfx, a simple missle... I have like 4 models lol! Here it is.

sorry if it looks choppy

also added gaia shield.

 

[Pyritie]

Ooo is that first one based off of the Tinker rocket missile?

 

[D a w n]

lol I also made something like your gaia shield xD

but it doesn´t look so good :/

 

[JetFangInferno]

yes it is based off the tinker rocket missle and @ DonDustin, it's ok. It takes me many hours and a ton of tries to make something look good.

Well, I'm finally done with my sfx and in the pack includes:
- Gaia Orbs (1-6) [attach all 6 for best effect]
- Gaia's Wings
- Gaia Missle
- Nature Explosion
- Swirling Earth
- Wisps (must attach at origin)

Screenshots:
Nature Explosion

(Better all black shot but same model)

Wisps

Gaia Shield

Gaia Missles

Swirling Earth

Gaia Orbs

Gaia Wings

 

[JetFangInferno]

Is it just me or does this ocntest suffer from major neglect?

 

[D a w n]

well...I didn´t had that much time + I didn´t got any good idea....but I started yesterday to work on some sfx

btw: very nice pack JFI.My favourite 1 are the wisps

 

[Pyritie]

I've made like three so far. This theme was harder than I expected :/

 

[D a w n]

I also finished 3 now + I still have to finish my flower aura:/

Update: I think it´s time to show what I created atm (pictures take some time to load......)

picture1: NatureCircle picture2: DruidBuff picture3: AcornMissile

 

[JetFangInferno]

Looks nice, but the acorn missle looks more like a brown boulder. However, the exploding effect of the acorn missle is lovely.

 

[D a w n]

yeah,but it should look fine when I change it a bit more

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm working on a few things, might need an extension. Here are some pic. I'll make a video on youtube when they're all done.

 

[JetFangInferno]

May I ask what the 2nd model is based off of? It looks lovely.