Comp 20 (Weapons) Comp 20

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Low Poly Mini Contest #20



Subject – Weapons
ALL WIPS AND CONCEPTS ARE TO BE KEPT IN THIS THREAD.

Guide Lines:

With the Dominance War right around the corner, what better way to show the world how ready we are than to show off our weapons. Here is the problem, no one knows when or where this war will take place, so as reigning champions, we need to bring everything we got. They can be future weapons, old school weapons, even weapons from the present.

The best part about this comp, which is the same thing with all our competitions; there are no limits/restrictions to what you can’t think up. Go wild with this, have as much fun as you can with this. I only ask that you keep this comp crazy. If you want to treat the weapon as a first person type, that’s fine, or it can be a RTS type, it’s up to you.

The specs for this competition will be 4,000 total Tris, it may sound like a lot for a weapon, but the idea is to keep you all ready for the up-coming Dominances War. We need to defend our championship. So consider this more training. You get about 3 weeks, so do not try and over do it. I want people to finish. So start now.

Above all,
Have Fun!


Judging: 3 categories of judging will apply. 10 points possible for each:

Concept - How well your idea fits the topic
Model – How well the geometry is structured, how well it looks like the subject.
Texture – How well the texture space has been used, and how well the texture is painted/applied.

DUE DATE: February 10th: a Sunday,11:59 pm GMT - SUNDAY

Idea:

Your mission if you choose to accept it, will be to create a weapon. You have 4,000 Tris, use them as you see fit. If you want to create more than one weapon, go for it, but make sure the total tri count does not exceed 4,000 Tris.

Poly limit:

4,000 Tris Total. You can do whatever you want with these, just don’t get carried away and don’t exceed the 4,000 Tris Limit. Remember, the limit tells you where to stop, there is no minimum, so use as much of the limit as you see fit.

Textures:
(1) 1024 x 1024 texture. This means (1) 1024 for color, (1) 1024 for bump, (1) 1024 for normal, (1) 1024 opacity, so on and so forth. You can chop it up into whatever you want, but you still need to go all out in your texture.

Textures can be hand-painted or you can use photographic sources. Do what you do.

Final Pictures:

Required In The Final Post (1 post per entry):

- 1 x Winning shot. This image can only have "One" image of your weapon(s). No multiple shots or different angles. Just one!

- 1 x Beauty shot of your weapon(s). Feel free to put multiple angles of your weapon(s) or just one big version or your weapon(s) on this page. Even better, try to composite a nice art piece similar to the ones in the Winners' Gallery. Be careful how you do this though, simple is often better. It’s up to you. Also add a picture of the character your redesigning. Like a before and after type thing.

- 1 x wire frame shot of your weapon(s). Feel free to put multiple wire frame shots or just one big wire frame shot on this page. It is up to you. Must have polycount included.

- 1 x texture sheet that includes all your used sheets squeezed into "one" sheet.

- Concept Sheet (Only if you have a concept)

You must provide a screen grab of your wire frame with your poly count, with the actual model and all its parts selected. Please don’t Photoshop your Poly counter with a bogus count. Make sure you post all work in progress, including final poly counts and wire frames in the work in progress thread.


A Final Entry Thread will be up and waiting around the end of the third week/beginning of fourth week. Don’t forget to submit your work by posting it in the final thread.

Good luck everyone!
BiG ToE.

[BenniKImmel]

WooHoo! Lets get this party started!

[de4dy]

i need explaining pls

weapons ar swords,spears,staffs,daggers,sabers,bows,handguns, sniper rifels,rifels,uziis,
shutguns,knifes,bricks,lazer guns,plasma guns,bombs?

is this it or ar there any others?

[L3XICON]

this should be good =)

out of interest and clarification, you can make more than one weapon, but collectively they cannot total more than 3000 poly's or you can make any number of weapons as seperate entries, each with a limit of 3000? ;p

[McKronic]

Ok I think I have decided what im going to do for this challenge, here it is..

[lordpisang]

Cool, new contest, it's really interesting to make mechanical poly.
Good luck at all, and try to finish it on the time! ^^

[Tank[NL]]

time to get busy. prolly gonna make a really big, over the top, railgun. or something.

few more hours, and ill be able to start concepting

[katana]

worked this up as a marker with some overwork in Painter....

...Powerpack fed....beyond that I can't tell you what the round is...I was watching Star Wars (ANH) at the time....

[McKronic]

what are the limits to the lighting set-up's? Are we allowed to use other images for reflections and what not, I figure alot of people are going to have shiny metal on their weapons

[de4dy]

McKronic found ur blade gun on google/pictures ^^

[Yvansteiner]

Hi!
I'm quite new here. I hope to do a good job for this LowPoly Challenge.
I think it will be a Sword or something like that.
Begin to draw.

[newhere]

Question: can we use 3,000 four point polys instead of 3,000 tris?

[Rhauk]

Originally Posted by newhere

Question: can we use 3,000 four point polys instead of 3,000 tris?

That's doubling the tricount (aka. 6k tris instead), so that's most probably a no :V

Anyway, I'm probably not entering this one. Don't got enough creativity to make up a weapon right now, and I'm currently doing a project that involves sculpting (my first real normalmapped character, hurr).

[McKronic]

de4dy - yah iv always wanted to make one im a pretty big FF fan

[Amblin]

hi folks,

I'm gonna try my hand here with this one after much lurking, that and I now have a machine that can handle modelling properly.

SoI thought I'd start with some names to get a feel for an idea of what to design and create.

So I was thinking,

Deceiver MKIII - A gun with a pull back/flip up face or carboard cut out of a person in front of the barrel. used when you want to shoot the guy behind the door, looking through the inspection slot. knock knock, who's there? oh it's you! Door lock clicks.....Boom! Thinking massively oversized weapon with tiny tiny barrel.

Snake Blade - segmented chainblade able to form a hoop of whirring death or any shape within reason. Got the idea staring at my rubiks snake. To include a 'smart guard' to stop the user dying as a result of handling the weapon.

Now this final one's a bit hard to explain, I thought I'd go a bit Douglas Adams and create a naff or improbable/pointless weapon. I was thinking of a gun that has some somewhat unpleasant side effects for the user and even more pointless effects on the target. I'll come back to that one later. I'm currently thinking of making the b'ruintrousa gun =P.

I'll add some sketches when I get home tonight. This compo should be real fun.

Anyways I just thought it would be good to show how to use a name or a word to show one method of well, my creative process. Always start with a name and make up a story. It beats google image search...cough...you know who you are....points up the page....