The Courtyard – Contest Questions/Answers
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Every contest spawns a lot of questions. We try to cover as many as we can upfront on the contest rules page, but invariably the community thinks up new ones we hadn't seen before. Please post your questions and contest staff will do their best to get them resolved properly.
Good luck to you all. We look forward to some interesting interpretations of this challenge.
Good luck to you all. We look forward to some interesting interpretations of this challenge.
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- Should the three or five screenshots be related to the same mood or can we have a screenshot with an apocalyptic mood and another with a totally different lighting configuration like a peaceful mood.
- What do you mean by : "Contestants must not bake the lighting in the scene." What I understand is that we can only use precomputed realtime GI and realtime lighting but not Baked GI. Right ?
- Are we allowed to use Unity 5 beta versions ?
- Are we allowed to use other models than those included in The Courtyard package ?
2) Yes, spot on! You should precompute the static geometry in the scene (it's how Enlighten works after all) and use real-time lighting. Essentially prohibiting the baking of the final lighting.
3) We would encourage you to use the released versions of Unity 5. However, you are not restricted.
4) You are allowed to use minor models/props/light sources (candles, neon strips, chandeliers, etc.). however, the emphasis must be on the overall environment, and not on the props themselves.
The precompute was done in Unity 5.3, so you can start relighting there straight away.
Thanks for your answers @kubacupisz and @AlexMercer
And we need to keep it realtime, but can we still increase the resolution to whatever we want?
2) Presumably you mean the lightmap resolution? If so, you may indeed alter the resolution to whatever you want.
The time limits are highlighted on the main contest page. It runs from June 2nd to August 2nd at 11:59PM PST
Looking forward to seeing your entry!
The time limits are highlighted on the main contest page. It runs from June 2nd to August 2nd at 11:59PM PST
Looking forward to seeing your entry!
There is a "Open in Unity" button on the asset store which opens the launcher when pressed and after that nothing happens. Not sure what exactly is happening here. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT : So I had to create a project first and download via the asset store within the editor. I think I managed to solve my problem xD
"Contestants are also allowed to change textures and material properties however; they are not allowed to reposition any part of the larger structural environment assets such as walls, ceilings, doors etc."
*) This will will show the launcher where you should create a new project, as you already found out.
I'm getting the following warning:
Just to be sure, about the lighting.
So no Enlighten per-compute correct?
Just Realtime lights, emissive materials and light/reflection probes,yes?
EDIT: I think I've found my solution - just jump back to the scene view. Alternatively I did also find out how to toggle the camera animation/day and night cycle.
- No, touching up images in Photoshop is not allowed, all images must be captured/screenshot-ed directly from Unity 5 (1920x1080 PNG image).
- Descriptions should be for one mood/atmosphere/theme. So if you have 6 images for one mood, one short description would suffice. It's just to give us a background and more info on what you were striving for and aiming to achieve.
Cheers,Alex
Quality of lighting (Use of direct & indirect light, shadowing etc.)
Art style(s) (Concept art, art direction, description of images etc.)
Compositional strength (Use of colour, contrast etc.)
Originality
Alex
Unity doesn't have tempral aa, which gives good screenshots without aa
But yes, capturing in high res and scaling down is allowed. However, do not allow any additional retouches.
EDIT: Found a tool on the asset store that does this and works.
Not to sound nagging, but that post was about 5 days ago, am I missing something or is the submission thread not up yet?
As the dead line is in less than a 2 days away I'm wondering if I should just add the final screenshots to the W.I.P. thread or make a thread for my final screenshots, cause there is a good chance I will be busy on the date of the deadline and would hate to miss submission.
Any more info on this would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks
Apologies for this, we had a small miscommunication internally as to who would post the thread. The final submissions thread is now up, plus we have decided to extend the deadline by a week!
Looking forward to seeing your entry.
I accidentally posted an entry multiple times because it kept giving me an error. I edited the copies to only contain a "-", but I don't see a way to delete them entirely.
Edit: it seems imgur works fine if your pngs aren't too large.