low poly contests

make a setting. lets make a "model the shoes you are wearing right now" contest! 512 polies for the pair and 128^2 texture (no normalmapping. only colormap!) that's my suggestion

Cool Idea Hessi!

Colour mapping?

Please, do tell me what such magic is.

I wear socks indoor, and I have about 5 shoes that I wear every now and then.. Too hard.

Yea, sounds cool.

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How about low poly ships: 500 tris max - 256x256 diffuse + normal/spec/opacity

K just let me say that these low poly contest are awsome. What we need though is something that every one could do that have started with 3dsmax etc. Like for me i think i could pull of to make a shoe. But then the texture? I guess i could use 3dsmax own or maybe try to take some pic but i would fail in uw mapping anyway. So what about starting with making a model with least polys of something.

If the 'something' was a triangle I might be in with a fighting chance.

Seriously though, I miss these contests, they were good for me to ghost when I was bored. One day I'll hopefully get time to join in.

The boats sounds like a cool idea.

like on polycount?

how about 250 poly 64x64 contests

what if everyone models the car they own, or a bike, or a bus, or whatever you use for transport, making a clean and a dirty/rusty version? that'd be SO useful for a lot of people! with a very limited polycount and a texture of no more than 512² or 1024², what do you say?

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how about i post a texture sheet and you guys make cool models with that

Yes!

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Yes!

+1, I like the idea!

Quote from Minotauro

How about low poly ships: 500 tris max - 256x256 diffuse + normal/spec/opacity

This sounds fun. I haven't done normal, specular or opacity maps before on models tho, i can't either figure out why such a lowpoly model would need spec or normal map (except for practise purpose), model would be used on old engine with no such capabilities, so it's kinda pointeless doing them.. right?