Freedom Studios Voxel Competition results!

Banshee · Last edited by Banshee on Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:10 pm; edited 1 time in total

For those thinking that with Command & Conquer 3 would stop voxellers and users of Final Sun, think twice: The old C&C modding community is still strong, with Mental Omega being one of the Top 100 on ModDB.

There were two contests being ran in these recent months: Freedom Studios Voxel Competition (FSVC) and Single Player Map Making Competition (SMMC) for Tiberian Sun. I'll get to the last one later.

So, FSVC had 13 entries and the results were announced recently.

Congratulations for MadHQ for winning yet another Voxel Contest, with his Bull Dog Mech, scoring 96 points. The judges were too easy on this contest amd there were other voxels that scored over 90 points. I have to admit that a Bull Dog Mech is more usefull than a Tesla Turtle that MadHQ did a while ago to win one of the old YR Argentina Voxel Grand Prix. Here's the results:

[1st]: MadHQ's BullDog Mech, scoring 96 pts:

[2nd]: Tony's Reaper Tank, scoring 92 pts:

[3rd]: ihateharrier's F-15 Tomcat, scoring 91.3 pts:

And the others:

[4th]: Sleepwalker's Rhino Mk. ll, scoring 90.333 pts
[5th]: Stingerr's Mi35, scoring 90 pts
[6th]: Mig Eater's Yukikaze, scoring 87.667 pts
[7th]: Sherman_buster's T-35 Heavy Tank, scoring 87.5 pts
[8th]: Rattuskid's Soviet Heavy Bomber, scoring 87.333 pts
[9th]: Rawlo's Orca, scoring 80 pts
[10th]: Team Black's Cement Truck, scoring 71.333 pts
[11th]: 4StarGeneral's Super Terror Drone, scoring 68.667 pts
[12th]: Tyler Adams's Intruder, scoring 60 pts
[13th]: raminator's Banana bomber, scoring 55.667 pts

Two of the top 3 voxels were displayed to public before they were submitted, so let's say that these results were quite polemic. Nonetheless, congratulations for everyone who submitted and all your base are belong to the Banana bomber.

ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

the normals are reversed on that banana bomber. hit the flip y checkbox in 3ds2vxl to fix that.

and that is not an F-14 Tomcat. that is an F-15 Eagle

ihateharriers · Rocket Infantry **Joined**: 20 Sep 2005

two things: i just realized that i screwed up the name a bit, it is in fact an F-15 strike eagle, which i did state in a readme that part of the zip sent to the judges.

as for the picture posted by banshee, it is in fact not the correct voxel. this one here is:

it's tough to see the normals in VV, so i'll try and get a good ingame to show off my much improved ability to do normals.

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Tyler Adams · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

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That is not the version I downloaded from the Vxl Competeion pack

*Tony*'s Reaper certainly deserved it's place, as did MadHQ's Bulldog. But, imo, ihateharriers' F15 _Eagle_.. well.. sucks..

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raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

ViPr wrote:

the normals are reversed on that banana bomber. hit the flip y checkbox in 3ds2vxl to fix that.

and that is not an F-14 Tomcat. that is an F-15 Eagle

oh...kk i´ll try that

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Oshog · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject:

Well, Banshee, thanks for posting the news about the competiton after it's over. :/

Clazzy · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:14 pm Post subject:

I may be biased, but I thought Rattus' entry deserved higher than it got. Sleepwalker's was excellent, too. For the most part, the quality was at a very high standard, but that's to be expected nowadays.

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Oshog · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:34 pm Post subject:

There will be a revision of the results anyway.
And yeah, Rattuskid's entry was excellent, but there were some flaws, which no matter how small, took him down.

raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

raminator wrote:

ViPr wrote:

the normals are reversed on that banana bomber. hit the flip y checkbox in 3ds2vxl to fix that.

and that is not an F-14 Tomcat. that is an F-15 Eagle

oh...kk i´ll try that

it worked

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

raminator wrote:

ViPr wrote:

the normals are reversed on that banana bomber. hit the flip y checkbox in 3ds2vxl to fix that.

and that is not an F-14 Tomcat. that is an F-15 Eagle

oh...kk i´ll try that

it worked

show us

raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

the top one is the flipped...

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bonzy_buddy · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 31 Oct 2006

Do madhq's mech has animations ??

ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

raminator. it doesn't seem to have helped much. that's very strange. would you mind sending me the 3d model?

Mig Eater · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject:

It looks like the normals are back to front, should be light on the front & dark on the back etc.

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Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

Gratz MadHQ

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

raminator. i need to resolve this issue. if your normals are reversed and you hit flip x then the normals will be rereversed so they will be corrected however the model will also face backwards. if you then hit flip y after that then the normals will be rerereversed which will make them reversed again. you were supposed to hit flip y, not flip x and flip y. is that what you did? that's all i can think of that can be the problem still.

raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

yeah...somethin to do with too much flippin i gues...
i´ll take a look

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daTS · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:

I should have entered my Starship.

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

ah now finally the normals are correct but now there's a mesh misplacement error. how on earth did you manage to do that?

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HELP. WHERE IS MADHQ´s MECH DOWNLOAD LINK?

Oshog · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

http://www.nahaira.freedomstudios.net/fsvc/

Rattuskid · Sergeant **Joined**: 01 Sep 2003 **Location**: Jersey,new

Gosho wrote:

There will be a revision of the results anyway.
And yeah, Rattuskid's entry was excellent, but there were some flaws, which no matter how small, took him down.

Yeah, originally I was just going to have the blade sets be as one and rotate 180 in their own place (hence the normals for them being built for the different positions) but I made a mistake in rendering and they looked exactly the same when rotated around the fuselage by 180 degrees.

Instead, I just switched the back and front, thinking the normals would 'blink' but they'd be fine otherwise. Although the offsets seemed to insure that they were all now drawn 'under' the aircraft. I'll have to make a fixed version later or at least a jet conversion.

Also, yeah, in comparison to the higher entries, I lost a lot of points for coloring/decaling.

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raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

ViPr wrote:

ah now finally the normals are correct but now there's a mesh misplacement error. how on earth did you manage to do that?

i simply mirrored the model in 3dsmax (x-axis) and that´s what happened afterwards...
i tryed to fix it but then the backpart of the banana faced downwards instead of upwards...

but i plan to remake it...
maybe somehwen next week

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ViPr · Gauss Rifle Trooper **Joined**: 30 Dec 2004

yah, mirroring causes strange things to happen in 3ds2vxl