The Beast - Questions and Answers
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Any questions you have about the contest should be posted here. The Allegorithmic folks will be watching here and providing the answers.
The most common questions will be added to this post along with the replies.
The most common questions will be added to this post along with the replies.
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Like, a character from Warframe, or ogre from Warcraft, or Hydralisk from Starcraft, or Isis from Ragnarok, or something.
Overmind5000 The asset is supposed to be an original creation. But nothing prevents you from starting off a base mesh you may already have lying around somewhere.
At the last stages, we need to use renderer like Vray to render the hair or fur out.
So, can that be allowed?
I'd like to create both, the Beast and the beauty in the same pedestal,
otherwise the topic doesn't have any sense... it would be just a regular monster without the Beauty.
rohMizuno It has to be actual textures, but nothing prevents you from painting polypaint and baking it to a texture at the end of the process.
Johnny_Wuu Hair and Fur must be part of the 100k triangles limit, so it would have to be modeled or baked down to geometry, no render-time fur please or the poly limit won't make any sense.
SergioSantosloretah It's the Beast only. One of the interesting aspects of this contest is the suggestion of Beauty, through the small backstory posted with the asset, or through subtle hints on the pedestal, something belonging to Beauty maybe, or in the Beast posture or action. We also thought 2 characters would be too much for a lot of people to handle in the contest timeframe.
may I ask more about the pedestal?
is it a place for beast to stand on top of it?
can it look like a land or something else?
any reference for it?
a couple more questions here..
-is height map/tessellation allowed? (im pretty sure not, but donset hurt asking)
-can we use the Alpha channel from our maps for extra information? or we are limited to the RGB channels only
i'm a little confused about the texture rules
"4 x 4096 texture sets maximum (can be split further: 1 x 4096 = 4 x 2048, etc.)"
does 1 set contain anything from (albedo,normals,roughness) or are all those considered separate sets?
letmekhush Yes you can get inspiration from existing concepts
roMizuno Tesselation/subdivision is not allowed, again to keep the poly limit relevant.
Yes, alpha is of course allowed, any kind of map is pretty much allowed.
WvB A texture set is anything used in a material, so it can be a siungle diffuse but it can also be an albedo+normal+roughness, etc.
So 4x 4096 means 4x 4096 materials, no matter how many channels are used in these materials.
Amaury Of course!
PostProcess It is kind of pushing it but if the "ghost" is subtle enough not to be considered a full on character, that could work, find the right trade off!
risu Grey area here, I would say parallax occlusion is allowed as long as it doesn't affect the silhouette of the object.
You can of course use any content provided by default in the tools or grabbed on Substance Share. Make sure to include credits in the description if you used Share assets.
Thanks in advance.
Just to make sure, does this mean we can use Marmoset's Post Effects on our realtime renders?
Cersei_Lannister Yes.
Zielarz Yes, since the character would still be unique in the scene, even if "technicaly" duplicated.
(vegetation will be part of the pedestal limit ofc)
Microchip As long as the particles are subtle and add to the mood of the scene without being too central, yes, particles are fine!
I am having the same problem, but no one seems to be able to help...sigh
EDIT: I got it to work finally with just writing out the HTML. For anyone else having this problem switch to HTML view. It's the </> icon above. Then paste:
cheers, and thanks for hosting this cool contest!