New Contest Ideas

Jesse Moody

Ok I think it's been enough time since D War wrapped up and I think we should get some ideas together on what we could do next.

My ideas....Environment guys in mind...
*** FPS GUN CHALLENGE ***

Ok so it seems like quite a few people would be interested in an FPS Gun based theme so...

Basing the specs off what was in UT3 I would say for a Hero gun. The big mama jamma...

1x 2048x2048 Diffuse, Spec, Normal, Gloss, Glow, etc...
Max of 8k tris.

From everything I have done these are pretty much the limits I have worked with so I figured it would be a pretty cool to see what people can do with this.


Older idea....




GTA4 style environment. Maybe we could just make a few buildings or pieces of a city block, or anything that would be environment related to a GTA style.

Maybe base it off another city besides New York. San Diego, Chicago, Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco.

Once done we could compile them all together and make a larger scene.



Just my two cents but I think that seems like a pretty kick ass idea.

Lee3dee

I need an environment challenge to get back into it. Could allow special treatment for those in crunch

adam

Just gonna reach in my pocket and throw 2 cents on the table and say that working on buildings @ that resolution would be boring IMO. As good as the game looked in the end, I'd probably shoot my face off if I had to do that over and over.

Not to mention, doing work like that is pretty uninspiring and I find it hard to stay motivated. The architecture would have to be interesting enough, I guess.

Not to shoot the idea down, I just think it should be a bit more compelling for people to get in and build a couple city blocks.

Also - Fred hinted at this already, but there's an environment art contest coming in the summer time we may want to sit pretty for.

Sage

DS environment maybe?

Or lets make some guns...

Snowfly

Haha too many gun models is what drove me to Polycount in the first place. But yeah, I second a nice first person gun contest. Not sci fi...maybe fictional modern day.

Mil0

I was loving the mario-cart-ish contest on GA.org (i think it was there?), but I imagine I was about the only one here who didn't do that. What if you took GTA into different centuries? find a screenshot, and rework it into a different time period.

Jesse Moody

FPS gun would also be cool.

or maybe a vehicle. There was a really cool post apoc contest like forever ago.

Maybe the theme could be Mad Max style vehicles, fallout 3 or whatever?



or better yet.

To celebrate Indiana Jones we could make something to do with that? Although that may be too big since there is so much available to do.

Chung Wong

What sort of specs? Never done enviromental stuff before. Sounds interesting.

EarthQuake

FPS gun? Bwuahahaha! Yes yes, we could do that =D
If we do the GTA content it has to be a requirement to have shity photosourced relfections in all of the windows.

Marine

giant death ray. environment and gun in one.

MikeF

I'd do the gun or environment, sounds fun

jerry

I'd Definately jump in on the next gen weapon (in about five weeks, when my exams are over). I'm down with any style really, maybe not Mad Max because i have to something like that for my exams.

rooster

i like gun+environment idea!

Ozymandias

I like the gun and environment idea, but for the environment, why not take poly count guidelines from GTA IV and create buildings/environments that are completely original, as in almost never seen before by man. So that, in other words, if your building/environment resembles a New York brownstone or San Francisco city street, its an auto fail.

Lee3dee

I like the gun idea also. Maybe make it into a gun that would be in a FPS and EQ cannot enter his gun he already made

Jesse Moody

yeah i'm thinking the gun idea would be totally cool.

Let me ask the powers that be if we can get this drawn up.

I edited my first post to reflect the ideas I have for the FPS gun

EarthQuake

Lee3dee wrote: »

I like the gun idea also. Maybe make it into a gun that would be in a FPS and EQ cannot enter his gun he already made

How about the gun i'm currently doing for work? =D

Cybroxide

I Vote for guns!

adam

Guns!? Make it a low-poly challenge and knock EQ down a peg or two, that's what I say! haha

either way, a gun contest could be cool.

EarthQuake

lol its high time you learn how to make a highpoly model anyway adam.

Jesse Moody

Round One.......Fight

Justin Meisse

I'm up for anything that isn't some sorta giant castle with playable interior space

Lee3dee

please no fantasy castles or Orcs

Jesse Moody

Ok so I proposed this to Hawken so hopefully he will get back to me.

Don't see why I couldn't just run it myself since it's nothing too special but I'm not part of the "in" crowd I suppose.

Chung Wong

Sweet. Any idea on the specs?

Joseph Silverman

I say drop the specs, a bit. Look at the work done on the Fzero challenge -- 4-5k tris and a 1024 is more than enough for cool art, and won't require as much of a time investment. Polycount's usually a bit more casual on the contest end of things.

Jesse Moody

I left the count higher because it will give people a way to play with designs a bit more and get creative with some shapes. If you can get your design done with 4-5k tris and a 1024 then thats great, but like I said it was left higher to give you guys something to play with and get creative with.


yeah polycount is a bit more relaxed on the contest side of things but why not start doing some shit like gameartisans does?

I would be more than willing to dedicate my free time to helping with it.

Sage

WTF I made a suggestion that stuck? LOL

Been looking to guns for a bit. We have done vehicles before, but in the last few years I haven't seen a gun one... Maybe it's time. I hope the style is left open, so everyone can do their thing. So for example we can combine sci fi and steampunk if we chose, or a fantasy style gun. The best contest are the ones that have a fairly open interpretation in terms of the theme I mean.

Alex

StJoris

Lowpoly would be really nice, either PSP or DS, gun or enviro, equally cool.

Joao Sapiro

i would forbid eq to enter the competition sinc he would make penis rocket launcher.FACT.

EarthQuake

I say any weapon that you would see in an FPS game, any style etc as long as its something that SHOOTS.

Jesse Moody

Yeah as far as the weapon design I would say go nuts with it. Anything that would be in a fps like EQ mentioned.

EarthQuake

So, just wanna take a quick poll here, see what people would realisticly be more interested to participate in, say:
2 weeks, 1024, 5k
4 weeks, 2048, 8k

EarthQuake

EarthQuake wrote: »

So, just wanna take a quick poll here, see what people would realisticly be more interested to participate in, say:
2 weeks, 1024, 5k
4 weeks, 2048, 8k

Edit, on second thought lets just do 5-7k, 1024 and 3 weeks. Those sound like good numbers.

Jesse Moody

Sounds good to me

Nate Broach

Sweet I'm in, lets get this thing started SOON so we can work on it through memorial day.

elementrix

Sage wrote: »

DS environment maybe?

Or lets make some guns...

yeah DS environment would be cool

maybe sometime in the future?

Archanex

I'm just throwing this out there, but I'd like to see people make some cool carmageddon-esque vehicles heh

Chung Wong

Wow. Just seen EQs machine gun. Thats really something. Better pull my finger out for this one.