September's modelling contest - RTS BUILDINGS

[Pericolos0]

Eventhough there wern't many entries, the last contest had some good entries. This month we are going back to something inorganic though:

RTS BUILDINGS!

The limitations this month will be very strict, but to make up for that you are allowed to sumbit as many buildings as you want, aslong as they fit together in a nice set. For example you can make 5 buildings for a faction from a RTS game of choice. Or you could design buildings yourself for an imaginary faction.

Make as much stuff as you want, however keep in mind that with the voting, quality counts over quantity!

The limitations for each building are a maximum of 128 triangles and a maximum of 128*128 pixels for the texture. alpha, normal and specular is allowed but not required. This may seem really small but keep in mind the building will also be very small on screen too.

You can also paint a ground decal that is used to make you buildings blend with the environment.. this is done in most rts games , so i though it would be cool to allow this too. The decal texture can be up to 128x128 pixels.

to sum it up, each building must not exceed the following spec:

128 triangles

128*128 texture

128*128 ground decal

For submissions, make a final render with your entire set displayed on it. Keep the render simple, like how they would appear in a game ( so no soft shadows or ambient occlusion).

good luck everyone!

The contest will end at september 25

[Ducky Paterson]

Oh yeah you can count me in on this

[Sindwiller]

Im building

[Sindwiller]

Its 11:00 PM here, my father will kick my ass because im too long on the computer and im finished with the modeling part of my first building

Still WIP thought

Its something like a Orc voodoo hut. And yes, i choose a orc'ish race for this contest

[st0lve]

Let me install 3ds max and I'll be pumping out some bitches!

[Defrag]

I'm tempted to make a monkey factory, but I'm too busy right now D;

[OL]

petition to double polycount

[st0lve]

NO.

[Skjalg]

the polycount is too low, I dont even think wc3 have this low polycount (I might be very wrong though, since blizzard is excellent at low poly modeling)

[SnipaMasta]

Agreed - the texture is quite small as well. Consider how much you can zoom in on buildings in RTS' - unless this was a PS2/Xbox game it should be FAR higher.

[Warby]

you guys should donate the results to the open transport tycoon project they are dying for cutesie little rts sprites rendered from 3d models ))

the official page

http://www.openttd.com/

couple of samples

http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/City_ ... raphics%29

tutorial

http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/GFXDev:Main_Page

they completly reverse engeneered the entire game code now they are busy replacing all the graphics becasue rigth now to play the game you have to copy the graphics form your real copy of the game to make the game run ! and obviously they want a 100% solution for people to download and play

for everyone who has never played or heared of transport tycoon i can only recommand to check it out its super fun ( much more fun than rollercoaster tycoon if you ask me ) chris sawyer for the win !

[Skjalg]

I've actually played OpenTTD alot this summer

Oh and, its pixelgfx.. I think.. ?

[Warby]

they render their sprites so why shouldnt we ?!

[Dennispls]

128 tris is NOT too low

neither is 128x128

PSP and DS games work most with these settings

Sometimes even with 64x64

[ReFlex]

Hehe...

I will make one!

2D for old RTS games or like generals?

First WIP of my weapons factory:

8 triangles free for the door.

spam:

Some things I have made for a RA2 Mod:

http://reflexsuite.com/private/cnc/firstingamebase.jpg