@GhostDetector I don't think that any of those items breaks the tris budget, and if they do, it's a nice challenge either way. On the note of changing the challenge to be signup based instead of monthly, there's no real need for that, since you don't have to start at day 1. You can start at the last day as far as I know,…
Exaclty because the income isn't uniform I think this is hard to pull off. If I think back to when I started, I wouldn't have waited for some others guys to sign up as well. I wouldn't have participated in the whole thing in that case and would have tried to teach it myself. Which is exactly what I and probably most of us…
Considering this noob challenge is going direction of not total beginners we still could link the very basic model tuts on the front page of the challenge thread so people that are interested get a chance to straight forward dive into the very basics.. thinking helljumpers blender tut or helljumper tf2 and dota2 guide,…
Everyone is welcome! Though it's recommended that you know how to use the softwares you'll need to create the items, since teaching people how to do it isn't the point of the challenge.
@cagdasx44 As heboltz3 and Insaneophobia said, the contest is not supposed to reward people with prizes or anything, but instead with better skills through the criticism you're going to give and receive. If you believe that the time you're going to spend on the contest isn't worth of the stuff you may learn and the skills…
Yup! According to the wiki, all of those swords were created by Valve haha EDIT Since it's apparently unanimous, I believe that this sword will be our first challenge! Here's a better picture of it from the model viewer: Hopefully I get the thread all set up by saturday, and then we can start working! :D
Since the noob challenge is uphttp://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13073 i thought I'd point out on this thread that there is no submission requirements when presenting the final product(ie: lod0 lod1 textures etc) other than the promo and ingame shots. Shouldn't the UV's as well as the low poly model be…
So, we have until the end of this week to choose a concept. I'm going to post some that I think would be great to start things off. Everyone can also feel free to post suggestions! Here are a few really simple Sven and Juggernaut sword from Valve that I suggest to start off the challenge: Like any of them? Go ahead and…