I don't know how I feel about users being part of service providers... Seems wrong in my opinion. I can understand fully, agree, and celebrate about organizations, communities and tools, but other users? Why?
Cause they made a guide? That's a bit stupid in my opinion. What's stopping that user from picking their name and getting a larger cut? Sounds selfish and unnecessary. I've helped plenty of new people with animations and couriers, but I'd never in a million years ask for anything in return.
Also, and I know we can request this, but where's DOTA Cinema, Beyond the Summit, GD Studio, JoinDOTA, etc. You would think those would instantly be on that list day one.
@Andrew I understand your point of view in some way. However its stated that you should pick from third parties that helped you create this specific item in some way. If you by any chance would made an tutorial about making courier and animations for it, even basic one than I think you would have place on that list guaranteed
Tutorials are always good, because they will eventually be viewed by so much more ppl than you could help directly.
Other thing is that those group/casters/channels that you listed don't have much to do with items creation. Even Reddit that is on the list in my opinion don't have much to do with it...
At the end creators decide who they will address with this bonus.
I started some sculpting for a courier that Dry and I have come up with (while he is on a two-week vacation in Spain). He'll be working on the other two versions, but since they'll be sharing a lot of geometry through attachments on a base model, I won't get to any texturing until after he gets back and we finalize some things.
I started some sculpting for a courier that Dry and I have come up with (while he is on a two-week vacation in Spain). He'll be working on the other two versions, but since they'll be sharing a lot of geometry through attachments on a base model, I won't get to any texturing until after he gets back and we finalize some things.
@Andrew I understand your point of view in some way. However its stated that you should pick from third parties that helped you create this specific item in some way. If you by any chance would made an tutorial about making courier and animations for it, even basic one than I think you would have place on that list guaranteed
Tutorials are always good, because they will eventually be viewed by so much more ppl than you could help directly.
Other thing is that those group/casters/channels that you listed don't have much to do with items creation. Even Reddit that is on the list in my opinion don't have much to do with it...
At the end creators decide who they will address with this bonus.
The reason I think they should be on there is a way for us to support those guys and everything they do. Besides just making an item for them. DOTA Cinema does the weekly workshop where some of our work gets 'marketed' to the community. That helps out quite a bit and in return, I would love to be able to give back to those guys for everything they do.
That also goes with Esport teams, and Broadcasters. It's helping the community grow as a whole and I would be honored to support those guys.
You shouldn't have to make a guide to get on that list, which is why I disagree with them being on there in the first place. And in my opinion I don't think anyone ever intended on making guides for the sole intent of getting any monetary compensation out of it. But I can bet that you'll see a increase of guides being created now. Furthermore, everyone on this website, as well as facepunch as help everyone else out, newcomers and veterans at some point, we all help each other being the best we can be.
Point being, and maybe this is just me, and I'm alone here, but creating items for the workshop, and succeeding in getting some of them implemented into the game gives me a moral obligation to help anyone that comes to me with a questions. I love giving my assistance whenever I can, and I'd rather not "share in the success of your item's sales" as valve puts its, but simile at the fact that my help has helped another person succeed. That feeling alone is worth more then anything. Doing it this way, just seems wrong. *shrug*
Posting this for anyone from Valve that's reading: add wunderboy from http://www.wunderboy.org/ - he supported modding Source through his plugins and tools just as long as CannonFodder, if not longer, only to quit the scene after getting disillusioned with how out of date and badly supported the SDK got. If anything, he should've been hired by Valve long ago, but alas.
Is submitting to the workshop not working for anyone else? When I submit it just opens the workshop page and says "This item no longer exists or the user deleted it." Only thing I could think is causing it is the .PSD file submitted for the marketing section but it's like 3mb so that shouldn't be an issue.
workshop has issues since yesterday i think. the cloud seems to be messed up too. so yeah, its not working for anyone. just from time to time you have to get lucky something goes through
The reason I think they should be on there is a way for us to support those guys and everything they do. Besides just making an item for them. DOTA Cinema does the weekly workshop where some of our work gets 'marketed' to the community. That helps out quite a bit and in return, I would love to be able to give back to those guys for everything they do.
But they don't help the specific item get made, that's the point. Creating a 2-minute video each week is a lot different to creating an entire program/forum/tutorial to support and nurture artists.
You shouldn't have to make a guide to get on that list, which is why I disagree with them being on there in the first place. And in my opinion I don't think anyone ever intended on making guides for the sole intent of getting any monetary compensation out of it. But I can bet that you'll see a increase of guides being created now. Furthermore, everyone on this website, as well as facepunch as help everyone else out, newcomers and veterans at some point, we all help each other being the best we can be.
Yes, we all like to help people but people like Vlad, Lenny, Wyk and all of the others went above and beyond the call of duty to help others on a grander scale that most of us do here on Polycount.
Point being, and maybe this is just me, and I'm alone here, but creating items for the workshop, and succeeding in getting some of them implemented into the game gives me a moral obligation to help anyone that comes to me with a questions. I love giving my assistance whenever I can, and I'd rather not "share in the success of your item's sales" as valve puts its, but simile at the fact that my help has helped another person succeed. That feeling alone is worth more then anything. Doing it this way, just seems wrong. *shrug*
Yeah, and we should all be doing this for no money and just be happy that we have items in a cool game. Luckily Valve is amazing and is giving an insane amount of their profits to the community and now that they're giving even more to specific people and organisations you have a problem with it? There's literally no downside to this I think it's insane someone could have an issue with people getting rewarded for doing hard work.
You can now pick service providers for your submissions. These are for site and communities the helped you in creating your item. Maybe you got some feedback or read some guides? You can pick the service provide and add give him part of Valve's share now!
Lol, damn! "You cannot choose a third party organization that is also a normal contributor on your item."
Wow im blown away to see Valve have gone above and beyond by adding not only larger communities such as polycount, but also contributors to the guides section. Definitely has me motivated to create some more tutorial related content and will hopefully see many more high quality guides making the rounds.
Mostly im so pleased to see Polycount being supported, i dont know about anyone else but i learned most of what i know from here and being able to give back has me smiling.
and cheers Vayne4800, Bronto and Konras, really appreciate the support .
Trying to submit a set... anyone had this error before? It pops up in a browser window in steam after the final submit button is clicked.
"Sorry!
An error was encountered while processing your request:
That item does not exist. It may have been removed by the author."
After hitting the final "submit" button.
It Kept happening last night with different file names and titles and items. The very first time I tried to submit an item last night I hit cancel mid submission since i forgot to include a marketing psd. Not sure if this then broke it for every submission that I tried after??
it took me like 2 days of tears and ritual sacrifice to get my sven set submitted. you really just have to wait, sadly.
Everytime some guy asks me how to make workshop items I direct him to vlad's guide or the pudge one (who should change the bind to bone part btw ) ,so I dont mind having them in that list
Everytime some guy asks me how to make workshop items I direct him to vlad's guide or the pudge one (who should change the bind to bone part btw ) ,so I dont mind having them in that list
BrontoThunder: love the hairdo
Cheers for kind words and feedback, bind to bones section updated .
For some reason, i'm getting all kind of errors importing my ward model into dota 2. It says the geometry file contains on polygon data, as well as CTargetMDL::Compile Failed. So what i tried to do was re export my windrunner ward model (already in the workshop) with the same export settings and got the same thing.. Its really weird and od. Im using Maya 2012 with the FBX exporter. Am i missing settings or something stupid this time around which could be causing this issue. Any help would be great!
Yeep, tried that. And the geometry is defently there. Also i havn't done the animation yet for the ward. So currently just importing the same file renamed for each of those. But im pretty sure affect it at all?
Lookin' good, Vlad but you'd benefit from using more subtools!
Biggest thing I notice with this is the pixelation across the whole model. Vlad- I dig it, but if this is how it's going to look in game you might want to consider re-evaluating your uv layout before going too far into texturing that. At the very least with the wraps.
Biggest thing I notice with this is the pixelation across the whole model. Vlad- I dig it, but if this is how it's going to look in game you might want to consider re-evaluating your uv layout before going too far into texturing that. At the very least with the wraps.
Flat shader in Max displays it like this, no need to worry, it looks awesome.
Flat shader in Max displays it like this, no need to worry, it looks awesome.
Not 100% sure if this will help but what I usually do is just edit the normals, move them all vertically upwards then drop an omni light in with inverse square decay, tweak it then bake it out
Not 100% sure if this will help but what I usually do is just edit the normals, move them all vertically upwards then drop an omni light in with inverse square decay, tweak it then bake it out
Yeah, i know that method. You can also planar the gradient on another map channel and bake it, but the script is way easier. i fixed it by attaching the trueform to other object that gots correct alignment, but i still want to know if there's a correct way to fix that.
Yeah, i know that method. You can also planar the gradient on another map channel and bake it, but the script is way easier. i fixed it by attaching the trueform to other object that gots correct alignment, but i still want to know if there's a correct way to fix that.
Gotta ask, are you going to be adding any of the armor from the bear onto the true form? if not its going to look fairly generic I feel.
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Cause they made a guide? That's a bit stupid in my opinion. What's stopping that user from picking their name and getting a larger cut? Sounds selfish and unnecessary. I've helped plenty of new people with animations and couriers, but I'd never in a million years ask for anything in return.
Also, and I know we can request this, but where's DOTA Cinema, Beyond the Summit, GD Studio, JoinDOTA, etc. You would think those would instantly be on that list day one.
Hopefully this gets clean up. :thumbdown:
Tutorials are always good, because they will eventually be viewed by so much more ppl than you could help directly.
Other thing is that those group/casters/channels that you listed don't have much to do with items creation. Even Reddit that is on the list in my opinion don't have much to do with it...
At the end creators decide who they will address with this bonus.
I doubt it. You can plug in an image of the hero you need one for on this site and it'll generate one for you though.
http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php
The reason I think they should be on there is a way for us to support those guys and everything they do. Besides just making an item for them. DOTA Cinema does the weekly workshop where some of our work gets 'marketed' to the community. That helps out quite a bit and in return, I would love to be able to give back to those guys for everything they do.
That also goes with Esport teams, and Broadcasters. It's helping the community grow as a whole and I would be honored to support those guys.
You shouldn't have to make a guide to get on that list, which is why I disagree with them being on there in the first place. And in my opinion I don't think anyone ever intended on making guides for the sole intent of getting any monetary compensation out of it. But I can bet that you'll see a increase of guides being created now. Furthermore, everyone on this website, as well as facepunch as help everyone else out, newcomers and veterans at some point, we all help each other being the best we can be.
Point being, and maybe this is just me, and I'm alone here, but creating items for the workshop, and succeeding in getting some of them implemented into the game gives me a moral obligation to help anyone that comes to me with a questions. I love giving my assistance whenever I can, and I'd rather not "share in the success of your item's sales" as valve puts its, but simile at the fact that my help has helped another person succeed. That feeling alone is worth more then anything. Doing it this way, just seems wrong. *shrug*
Just my opinions.
You're missing the point entirely. It's not about just throwing money around to people or organisations who do other Dota-related things.
Yes, we all like to help people but people like Vlad, Lenny, Wyk and all of the others went above and beyond the call of duty to help others on a grander scale that most of us do here on Polycount.
Yeah, and we should all be doing this for no money and just be happy that we have items in a cool game. Luckily Valve is amazing and is giving an insane amount of their profits to the community and now that they're giving even more to specific people and organisations you have a problem with it? There's literally no downside to this I think it's insane someone could have an issue with people getting rewarded for doing hard work.
Then I'm scared of you.
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=156075153
Wow im blown away to see Valve have gone above and beyond by adding not only larger communities such as polycount, but also contributors to the guides section. Definitely has me motivated to create some more tutorial related content and will hopefully see many more high quality guides making the rounds.
Mostly im so pleased to see Polycount being supported, i dont know about anyone else but i learned most of what i know from here and being able to give back has me smiling.
and cheers Vayne4800, Bronto and Konras, really appreciate the support
it took me like 2 days of tears and ritual sacrifice to get my sven set submitted. you really just have to wait, sadly.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156068403&searchtext=
Collection: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156101150
YouTube Video: http://youtu.be/WmLk1WMQpCY
Going to try making a Lich set. Here's my concept:
Concept art isn't really my bag so any feedback would be much appreciated
Just finished my Batrider sculpt
looks great!
BrontoThunder: love the hairdo
Allllssoooo, what do you think?
it's only for heroes with preexisting weapon particles like PA and AM
As for the weapon. Balloon animals, nice!
Cheers for kind words and feedback, bind to bones section updated
Image just incase:
i had this a few times and for some reason the exporter sometimes decided to export only the joints with no geometry
Does anyone think that this is the best Juggernaut mask ever created to the manking of Dota 2?
- Mask made by: Dev4stator (The Almighty)
last pa weapon I uploaded was too thin, guess I overcompensated a bit too much.
Edit: thanks for the info on the particles, gonna try to flatten. update the textures and implement those
Looks like this Santa just tasted those black liquid from X-Files, man.
Lookin' good, Vlad but you'd benefit from using more subtools!
Biggest thing I notice with this is the pixelation across the whole model. Vlad- I dig it, but if this is how it's going to look in game you might want to consider re-evaluating your uv layout before going too far into texturing that. At the very least with the wraps.
Not exactly top - down.
@Bronto, what do you mean?
Flat shader in Max displays it like this, no need to worry, it looks awesome.
Not 100% sure if this will help but what I usually do is just edit the normals, move them all vertically upwards then drop an omni light in with inverse square decay, tweak it then bake it out
Gotta ask, are you going to be adding any of the armor from the bear onto the true form? if not its going to look fairly generic I feel.
edit/ ofcourse forgot the link -.-
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156210174
Really nice i love it
Grats to anyone else who got stuff in!
What a good day to be alive.
Upvoting, woo!
Bonus pics:
Nice self portrait ike, came out great!
Also, I saw someone post this a couple days ago about ripping this from a DomWar model, and its back up? The guy apparently has permission now? Can anyone clarify? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=156245536&searchtext=