Hello again, fixed that alpha problem, Thanks for the help!
Now I'm sort of torn with what color these blades will be. Right now I have a self-ilium mask on the waves and center.
I'm partial to A since it was my original concept but I'm afraid that it might be straying too far from BS's color scheme.
CRITS? SUGGESTIONS?
Thanks,
I would go with C, and u will suggest u to do some work with alpha chanel in _color.tga mask. You can paint area around stripes in black so that area dont show up ingame, so only stripes can be visible.
I imagine it's because the importer previewer for summons and stuff only works for Beastmaster's summons at this point.
Yea, but he can still give a maya/max render so we can see the actual product. Hell, he can still compile it into the game the old fashion way to get in game renders out. No excuses.
Hey guys, I've mention somewhere before that I'm gonna make a set for Drow. Well here it is. This is my first ever set, made it in one and a half months, with no experience in 3D application nor training. I worked so hard make this, if it didn't make it into the game, I'll try again, never give up.
Hi there I kind of have a big question here ...
My problem sounds like this : I have just finished a model ( a sword for Skeleton King (Leoric) ) and I have just stumbled upon something ... I want to try my model in-game but I don't know how, now I know that I can see the item and analyze it before I post it in the publishing window but as I have already seen on the steam workshop some people are able to actually post videos of themselves playing with their items in-game (if you can't understand what I am talking about look here http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94732903&searchtext=gatuja ... this is the one courier that was never validated by steam but still we can clearly see that in the second video he/she (the maker) is using it inside the game to show us how it looks)...
Hope someone understands what I mean thanks for help if anyone offers
Hi there I kind of have a big question here ...
My problem sounds like this : I have just finished a model ( a sword for Skeleton King (Leoric) ) and I have just stumbled upon something ... I want to try my model in-game but I don't know how, now I know that I can see the item and analyze it before I post it in the publishing window but as I have already seen on the steam workshop some people are able to actually post videos of themselves playing with their items in-game (if you can't understand what I am talking about look here http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94732903&searchtext=gatuja ... this is the one courier that was never validated by steam but still we can clearly see that in the second video he/she (the maker) is using it inside the game to show us how it looks)...
Hope someone understands what I mean thanks for help if anyone offers
There is a solution for that, called Dota 2 Test. There is a guide here on polycount. Try to search.
@Taumich
I like the hood. I would try playing up the stitching between the sides and the top to add some more visual interest. @Hawt
Really digging this set! @chiniara
I definitely like the new crustaceous look to your sword. The only crit I have is that I prefer the gold part by the hilt to cover up the sword like you had in your original concept. Just my preference though, good lookin weap regardlesss. @stevo
congrats on your first set. Looking forward to sseeing more from you.
There are two new similar workshop contributors who submitted Lina set and teleported to 1st page; how did they manage to go so high at first try and day one without any kind of promotion or reputation (30-10 followers)?! This is so absurd and unbalanced!
When I saw first Lina's set this week, i was pretty shocked.
I dont know how people can earn so much votes for THIS. Okay, I understand the haircut, its not brilliant, but ok, at least it is different from original. But all other items... speachless.
Anuxi's Molten Fracture: 3678votes.
Lina_Flame_Master_Hair: 3733votes and rising.
Thank you @Pundt
I've made some new details to the armor and the hood.
But now i wonder which one of these hood textures i shall use? Or if i shall try to make a new texture.
Old:
New:
I want opinions, thank you
I like the look of the new one with the more complex patterns. It looks like there is some issue with the texture on the front of the hood right where the seam is. The only other thing I can think of is maybe darkening the seam just a bit.
When I saw first Lina's set this week, i was pretty shocked.
I dont know how people can earn so much votes for THIS. Okay, I understand the haircut, its not brilliant, but ok, at least it is different from original. But all other items... speachless.
Anuxi's Molten Fracture: 3678votes.
Lina_Flame_Master_Hair: 3733votes and rising.
I just can't believe my eyes.
The highest voted items follows a certain pattern.
I'm going to do a test by submitting a specific item, and i'll return the results
When I saw first Lina's set this week, i was pretty shocked.
I dont know how people can earn so much votes for THIS. Okay, I understand the haircut, its not brilliant, but ok, at least it is different from original. But all other items... speachless.
Anuxi's Molten Fracture: 3678votes.
Lina_Flame_Master_Hair: 3733votes and rising.
I just can't believe my eyes.
I think it's somewhat down to female heroes, particularly the more "revealing" ones as there are a lot of young males in the gaming community still working out how their junk works and a flash of boobs or a pretty face makes them go silly.
Was shocked by how many people up voted my "Wind in the Hair" hairclip for the Windrunner, even though it's clearly far too small to view ingame and frankly nothing special. Of course I'm just generalising as you still have to make something good for people to take notice regardless of the hero!
Oh and couriers, people are obsessed with couriers!
When I saw first Lina's set this week, i was pretty shocked.
I dont know how people can earn so much votes for THIS. Okay, I understand the haircut, its not brilliant, but ok, at least it is different from original. But all other items... speachless.
Anuxi's Molten Fracture: 3678votes.
Lina_Flame_Master_Hair: 3733votes and rising.
I just can't believe my eyes.
The funny part is votes don't matter in the slightest bit. Honestly people should stop worrying about it. There are mythical items that had 400 votes on the workshop, and there are common items with well over 4000 votes. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, whatever Valve likes gets into the game, regardless of the communities opinion.
@chiniara
Looks pretty good in game but I can def see what you are talking about with the normals. The gold part on the sword doesn't appear to have even lighting and the blade has a consistant spec. I would try limiting the spec to the tip of blade maybe. @taumich
yeah it was the w throwing me off. I would recommend changing its color or something to make it stand out from the trim
The funny part is votes don't matter in the slightest bit. Honestly people should stop worrying about it. There are mythical items that had 400 votes on the workshop, and there are common items with well over 4000 votes. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, whatever Valve likes gets into the game, regardless of the communities opinion.
I don't know about that so much. I think a lot of the outliers with not many votes were things that got in a while ago, pre-polycount comp. The wild west days of the workshop where ice bows and stolen maces could get in.
The last three or so chests and months of sets have been mostly straight off the front page of the workshop.
As much as I want to believe it's not, I think getting the front page popularity is relatively important right now with so much competition. If there's two equally awesome sets/items, one without community support and one with community support, the latter would be chosen.
On a similar note, I've noticed the way that it's being weighted is much more dependant on downvotes than upvotes. Things that make it to the first page generally have very few downvotes, but don't need a huge amount of upvotes, just a high ratio of up to down. Things will hit front page with 100 votes, as long as >95% are positive.
Quick stats from my items, because they've been all over the place in terms of workshop popularity:
naga hair - hovered on page 3/4
841 total
82% positive
18% negative
kotl staff - mostly page 1/2 for the week
407 total
96% positive
4% negative
Windrunner hair - hovered on page 2/3
262 total
88% positive
12% negative
old qop set's highest charting item, page 1
1333 total
98% positive
2% negative
3,700 votes, out of 45,000 views. A huge part of that vote count is how long it's been sitting in the top 1-3 spots, because anyone that goes to launch dota 2 from steam will see it in the window and potentially click on it. Also I'm fairly sure we determined early on it was definitely getting heavy traffic directed to it from some other site.
The funny part is votes don't matter in the slightest bit. Honestly people should stop worrying about it. There are mythical items that had 400 votes on the workshop, and there are common items with well over 4000 votes. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, whatever Valve likes gets into the game, regardless of the communities opinion.
I agree mostly, I think it's a mixture of what valve likes and community support. A tidal wave of upvotes will certaintly make them more likely to pick an item than if it had none, but if it had no chance to get in in the first place then all the upvotes in the world won't matter.
On a similar note, I've noticed the way that it's being weighted is much more dependant on downvotes than upvotes. Things that make it to the first page generally have very few downvotes, but don't need a huge amount of upvotes, just a high ratio of up to down. Things will hit front page with 100 votes, as long as >95% are positive.
This. Also I've noticed speed is another important one. If two items both have the exact same number of upvotes/downvotes, but one has been in the workshop for half the time, it'll appear much higher on the list. I also think views are somehow factored into things as well, for example 30 votes out of 100 views will place higher than 30 votes out of 1000 views. Then again that lina set is still at the top spot, so I'm not exactly sure how things are calculated but it's definitely a factor.
Posted my set for SD but i'm not really sure if i have gotten the name right. Does one say Vestiments of the dark realms or Vestiments of the dark realm?
Hmm, i checked here http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vestiments before posting, is that wrong? The spellchecker says vestment but the old word seems to be Vestiment so i went with that.
@oDD: That is a really nice concept, watch out you don't make to much details it can become really noisy.. Keeping my on that one
Did some more work on my brewmaster set. Not really going fast but I'm taking my time on this one. The bakc and shoulder are without the masks. Comments are really welcome!
the antimage have a colar piece or a sholder one right? what are you doing with it? you need to think your item to work with the other items in game. i dont know if they will clip
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Feel free to bombard with feedback!
You can click on it!
Where's the actual ingame pictures? Science has created a monster and I want to see art!
Yea, but he can still give a maya/max render so we can see the actual product. Hell, he can still compile it into the game the old fashion way to get in game renders out. No excuses.
Wip promo image for the alchemist set Jal and I made
Why ogre is wearing a sci-fi helmet?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136648717
My problem sounds like this : I have just finished a model ( a sword for Skeleton King (Leoric) ) and I have just stumbled upon something ... I want to try my model in-game but I don't know how, now I know that I can see the item and analyze it before I post it in the publishing window but as I have already seen on the steam workshop some people are able to actually post videos of themselves playing with their items in-game (if you can't understand what I am talking about look here http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=94732903&searchtext=gatuja ... this is the one courier that was never validated by steam but still we can clearly see that in the second video he/she (the maker) is using it inside the game to show us how it looks)...
Hope someone understands what I mean
There is a solution for that, called Dota 2 Test. There is a guide here on polycount. Try to search.
I like the hood. I would try playing up the stitching between the sides and the top to add some more visual interest.
@Hawt
Really digging this set!
@chiniara
I definitely like the new crustaceous look to your sword. The only crit I have is that I prefer the gold part by the hilt to cover up the sword like you had in your original concept. Just my preference though, good lookin weap regardlesss.
@stevo
congrats on your first set. Looking forward to sseeing more from you.
I've made some new details to the armor and the hood.
But now i wonder which one of these hood textures i shall use? Or if i shall try to make a new texture.
Old:
New:
I want opinions, thank you
I dont know how people can earn so much votes for THIS. Okay, I understand the haircut, its not brilliant, but ok, at least it is different from original. But all other items... speachless.
Anuxi's Molten Fracture: 3678votes.
Lina_Flame_Master_Hair: 3733votes and rising.
I just can't believe my eyes.
I like the look of the new one with the more complex patterns. It looks like there is some issue with the texture on the front of the hood right where the seam is. The only other thing I can think of is maybe darkening the seam just a bit.
The highest voted items follows a certain pattern.
I'm going to do a test by submitting a specific item, and i'll return the results
Cause the "W" thing on the forehead is a separate object.
Also... I need opinions weather or not i shall have symbols on my Anti-Mage armour:
Thanks!
I think it's somewhat down to female heroes, particularly the more "revealing" ones as there are a lot of young males in the gaming community still working out how their junk works and a flash of boobs or a pretty face makes them go silly.
Was shocked by how many people up voted my "Wind in the Hair" hairclip for the Windrunner, even though it's clearly far too small to view ingame and frankly nothing special. Of course I'm just generalising as you still have to make something good for people to take notice regardless of the hero!
Oh and couriers, people are obsessed with couriers!
The funny part is votes don't matter in the slightest bit. Honestly people should stop worrying about it. There are mythical items that had 400 votes on the workshop, and there are common items with well over 4000 votes. It doesn't matter. At the end of the day, whatever Valve likes gets into the game, regardless of the communities opinion.
It's this time of year again :poly002:
Looks pretty good in game but I can def see what you are talking about with the normals. The gold part on the sword doesn't appear to have even lighting and the blade has a consistant spec. I would try limiting the spec to the tip of blade maybe.
@taumich
yeah it was the w throwing me off. I would recommend changing its color or something to make it stand out from the trim
Valve's on holiday I believe. I think for the next 2-3 weeks.
I don't know about that so much. I think a lot of the outliers with not many votes were things that got in a while ago, pre-polycount comp. The wild west days of the workshop where ice bows and stolen maces could get in.
The last three or so chests and months of sets have been mostly straight off the front page of the workshop.
As much as I want to believe it's not, I think getting the front page popularity is relatively important right now with so much competition. If there's two equally awesome sets/items, one without community support and one with community support, the latter would be chosen.
On a similar note, I've noticed the way that it's being weighted is much more dependant on downvotes than upvotes. Things that make it to the first page generally have very few downvotes, but don't need a huge amount of upvotes, just a high ratio of up to down. Things will hit front page with 100 votes, as long as >95% are positive.
Quick stats from my items, because they've been all over the place in terms of workshop popularity:
3,700 votes, out of 45,000 views. A huge part of that vote count is how long it's been sitting in the top 1-3 spots, because anyone that goes to launch dota 2 from steam will see it in the window and potentially click on it. Also I'm fairly sure we determined early on it was definitely getting heavy traffic directed to it from some other site.
I agree mostly, I think it's a mixture of what valve likes and community support. A tidal wave of upvotes will certaintly make them more likely to pick an item than if it had none, but if it had no chance to get in in the first place then all the upvotes in the world won't matter.
This. Also I've noticed speed is another important one. If two items both have the exact same number of upvotes/downvotes, but one has been in the workshop for half the time, it'll appear much higher on the list. I also think views are somehow factored into things as well, for example 30 votes out of 100 views will place higher than 30 votes out of 1000 views. Then again that lina set is still at the top spot, so I'm not exactly sure how things are calculated but it's definitely a factor.
Link to set
Did some more work on my brewmaster set. Not really going fast but I'm taking my time on this one. The bakc and shoulder are without the masks. Comments are really welcome!
awesome! great work on this set
the antimage have a colar piece or a sholder one right? what are you doing with it? you need to think your item to work with the other items in game. i dont know if they will clip
Your normal green channel might be inverted. Your bakes looks a bit wierd.
Also make the metal parts 0 in mask2 green. I think the rim light might be also causing some problems? maybe?
no more black on the metalness
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136833124&searchtext=
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136833485&searchtext=
nice work man! i like the new style
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guys, im reworking my hawk, here is a print on the model viewer
any suggestion?
thanks in advance
humf i really like the horns! you mean the model or the texture? or both?
Those wings loook 1000000x better than the last ones I saw.