POLYCOUNTVILLE GALLERY: #20 results

[hawken]

<font color="yellow">FINAL!</font>

http://dadako.com/forums/final_gates.jpg
http://dadako.com/forums/final_top.jpg

[Lee3dee]

if you wanted to, we could get the entries into Unreal Tournament, I'd like to help in that area /images/graemlins/laugh.gif then we'd be able to look at them ingame /images/graemlins/wink.gif. Be cooler to see PolycountVille in a game engine /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[hawken]

if someone is willing, I can export all the entries as map objects

[Gmanx]

Thanx for the organising Hawken..I hope I can finish on time!!

[Lee3dee]

You have a volunteer right here! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif I'm sure I could also get ElysiumGX to help me /images/graemlins/laugh.gif It would be awesome to walk around the town and look at everyone model up close. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Joshua Stubbles]

I'll send mine off to ya later today/tonight, hawken. Should be cool to see it plotted down in that scene /images/graemlins/smile.gif
I used 4 5x5 plots, mind you!

[adam]

Sent my entry in. No idea what you mean about confirming my e-mail tho :S

Look for one from Adam Bromell.

[Joshua Stubbles]

I also sent mine in earlier today. Hope ya got it, Hawkwen.

[Makk]

Mines sent off. Did the email verification thing.

[Joshua Stubbles]

eh? I didn't get any confirmation thing for it.....

[hawken]

hmm not had it yet...

[Joshua Stubbles]

Try it again, hawken. I don't think it worked when I mailed it from the office, but I got a confimation email this time, from home.

[adam]

Hawken, when this is done you should do a fly-by animation of the neighbourhood /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Sectaurs]

I just sent mine in, and just now realized I forgot to include the .3ds, I sent a .max file.

Damnit.

expect another email from me /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[hawken]

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Hawken, when this is done you should do a fly-by animation of the neighbourhood /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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I was thinking about somehow getting the whole lot into director so we could have it on the web!

[Joshua Stubbles]

yay! My house is across from the giant vagina! woohoo!

Err, I mean, the sarlacc pit /images/graemlins/smile.gif It's looking real good, hawken. I'd love to see this bad boy on the web, so we can drive around, change time of day, etc etc /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Ninjas]

Heyyy... wait. I haven't started mine yet! I'll have it done today!

[Gmanx]

I just sent mine in now. Talk about cutting it fine. Hope the transition from Blender to .obj to max works ok. I didn't get a email confirmation thing either, but it hasn't bounced back yet...

[ryanH]

hey does anyone know how to export your model as an OBJ from maya? thanks,

ryan

[MoP]

ryanH: You should go to the Plugin Manager list, if I remember right it's near the Preferences menu... then you need to check the box to load "ExportOBJ.mll" (or maybe OBJExport.mll, can't remember), then you should have a new file-type option when you go to File -&gt; Export.

[Cubik]

Damn, really wanted to join you guys this time, but I have scrapped my entry since I wasn't happy with my results. Cool building Vassago!

[ryanH]

thanks MoP. hey hawken i just emailed you my entry.

[Gmanx]

Just replied to my confirmation email.Hopefully made it in time.

[hawken]

I'll keep updating the images up there over the next few days as entries roll in

[MoP]

Just submitted mine, 6 minutes late /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I'll probably keep working on this even though I've submitted it, I kinda wanna polish it up just for fun.

[Joshua Stubbles]

Sweet! It's really cool to see the town being assembled like this. I can't wait until all of the submissions are in /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[LwoHeat]

I just sent ya one but didnt get a confirmation...

Lwoheat

[Lee3dee]

submitted my entry. I got the confirmation email, and replied. Great challenge, i really learned how to budget my texture space for such a complex model.

[Soccerman18]

I send in my stuff, haven't gotten the confirmation email though. Tried sending it twice through one email addy but both times I got a email back saying the email failed cause of an oversized zip, which at 330k doesn't seem too oversized to me. So I sent it though another email addy, but like I said I haven't gotten the confirmation email yet so I don't know if that one made it through either.

[Gmanx]

Cool!! I see the top of Gmanx Tower at the back of the perspective shot! I learned a lot from this, Well done to all.

[Ninjas]

I guess I can't make it... too busy again. Now I feel like a 'tard for saying I was going to enter.

[Joshua Stubbles]

jerky!
hehe. You'd better make an entry next time /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Skizot]

the tga IS the alpha sheet /images/graemlins/frown.gif

it's a mask

[Soccerman18]

woot! I see mine! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Disintegrator]

the 'Ville is looking great guys. Very glad to participate in this challenge that's just about fun and cool ideas. Can't wait for the next. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[ElysiumGX]

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top pick for this challenge is RyanH's house.

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That house is pretty wicked. Nice one.

[hawken]

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the tga IS the alpha sheet /images/graemlins/frown.gif

it's a mask

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Ah I need seperate sheets for each pass. (diff, spec &amp; alpha). I've noticed that some of the diffuse tga files have pure white alpha channels, this makes max do a specular pass, for some reason. I'll check out your diffuse TGA and make an opacity sheet from the alpha channel.

Also the Alpha sheets I've got, some of them are only white where flags etc are detailed. I need everything else blocked out in white if you want it to appear! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Ninjas: we're open till thursday

[Joshua Stubbles]

ooph, you render that with the area filter.....not good!
Try using Catmull-Rom, or Sharp Quadratic, along with the 2.5 star super sampling /images/graemlins/smile.gif
It will come out a LOT less blurry.

[bearkub]

Lee3dee:

Are you still planning to compile this as a playable map? Polycount has a dedicated server on a nice fat pipe that this map could sit on and be viewed by many. =]

[Lee3dee]

bearkub,

id like to see all these entries in a DM level yeah /images/graemlins/smile.gif I think it would be awesome to walk upto each model and look at it, Or kill someone jumping towards it.

I don't want to step on Hawken's toes /images/graemlins/frown.gif since he's organized this.

I'm working in maya, so Maya and XSI people send me an obj with the a TGA with an alpha channel. 3dsmax people, you can export the model as an ase that its recognised by Unreal Editor and I'd also need a TGA texture too. Please Zip your files, incase they get dammaged in shipping

my email is lee@lee3dee.com

[bearkub]

Right on. I don't assume Hawken will mind as he is working on a web-style viewer for everything. We shall see though.. =]

[hawken]

Lee3dee, I think the best option is to wait until I get all the models through, then I'll send them to you in one bigfat 3ds file, at the correct scale w/ maps organised etc, because I'm doing that as I go - no sense in doubling up the process /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

can you make a CSS map too? would be cool to run around this in cunter strike

[Lee3dee]

CCS map, i don't know the editor for HL /images/graemlins/frown.gif Someone else may.

One big 3ds max file would be a bad idea for unreal. I'd prefer to get each exported separately and assemble them in the editor. Then I can add collisions, jump pads, weapons etc /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[hawken]

ok I'll mail you outside this thread and we can work out the finer details http://boards.polycount.net/images/icons/poly112.gif

[bearkub]

OK, as you can see the other thread, we have someone doing a CSS version of the map too (thanks ex'ers. =]) so that those of us that don't have one game can see the entries in another.

This was my suggestion on IRC, you folks can "yea or nay" it as you will. Either give us a link or send your entry in a generic 3d format (obj or 3ds) so we can bundle all the entries up in one zip file for the map creators to grab and do with as they need. It SHOULD make it easier on hawken, expendable and lee to do the work and have the raw formats available.

Trust me, the zip file will be kept between us and not released to the public unless otherwise requested.

I can't tell you how much you guys rock and how happy this challenge has made me. Thanks again folks!

[Justin Meisse]

gonna get mine finished by today or tomorrow!

[Disintegrator]

I know my way around unreal ed to a certain degree as well if you think i can help, lemme know.

[adam]

Would it be easy enough for hawken to pass on our files to you bk? Instead of having to repack and send everything all over again?

[bearkub]

either way is fine. all I am going to do is pack them all up into a zip file and upload them somewhere. I am not even going to mess with them.

[Joshua Stubbles]

badrobot - your submission was too big damnit! I told ya, it was 4 5x5m plots! Not 4 10x10m! /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[adam]

I still think Polycountville has a giant vagina in the middle of it.

[BADROBOT]

/images/graemlins/laugh.gif it WAS 4 5m x 5m plots!! I think..... :P

[hawken]

the house on there was tiny in that case! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Sectaurs]

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I still think Polycountville has a giant vagina in the middle of it.

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As every town should /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[MoP]

sent my final in, with working textures now ... should be good to go. hope i made it in time /images/graemlins/tongue.gif