Modeling Competition #3 - Citadel

Deadline: 4th of June 2007 - with possible extension. Winner(s) will be decided by the final votes of a public poll.

For this contest you will have to create your very own Citadel. Let me explain:



Models would require, of course:

• Proper building animations, the standard ones in Warcraft III
  • Stand
  • Death
  • Decay
  • Stand Work
  • Birth
• Proper portrait camera
  
  EXTRA:
• Keep in mind upgrades might make the model more useful and appealing to voters, but they are not necessary

Basically, make your own building, much like the Town Halls or Fortresses featured in the game. But those are only an example, go wild with imagination!

Rules and Guidelines:

• Follow requirements above.
• You may only enter one submission.
• You have to make sure the model is fully and correctly functional in-game.
• The model must be textured, either in-game textures, or custom textures. If custom, made by yourself.
• You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
• To qualify for entry, you must post your model/skin in .mdx and .blp format, and an in-game screenshot of the model.
• You must post your entry before the deadline expires.
• You must make the model/texture for this competition. Which means that you cannot use old works.

Prizes:
The winner will receive +75 Reputation Points and a Special Award Icon.
Second place will receive +50 Reputation Points.
Third place will receive + 25 Reputation Points.



The new deadline is the 11th of June.

Cool! I think I'll take a shot at this one.

/me is pondering.

It could be done. A full sixty-second birth animation might be unweildy to work with, though. We shall see.

WHEEEE!

I suck at animating, but I might be able to come out of this one with a decent entry.

Good thing I can do some nice FX for birth anims.

I'll make a floating one.

Good i've made some building model once.This should be enjoyable to make.

4th June? That's enough for me (a total n00b of modeling) to learn the required things! So I may enter (if I can handle the basics)

A building! That's what I waiting for (hehe I am a hobby architect AND suck at drawing complex curves like a man's body - but I love to draw buildings)

I must find a free modelling software now...

but...

TDR said:

I'll make a floating one.

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DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! It came to my mind too... I must come up with another idea. Anyway, it will be a challenge to pwn you... wait wait wait, I joked. I will never can pwn TDR.

I was going to rofl if the entry was taken from Wikipedia
This should be pretty cool, good idea Chriz.

..hmph...a wood elf tree citadel..or a night eld huge tree citadel!...im here hunnies!! be afraid!!

Trees is overrated.

My idea is a Goblin Airship, just to make sure nobody else goes for something similar.

Details and concepts will show up later.

Katu said:

wait wait wait, I joked. I will never can pwn TDR.

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of course you will one day if you have the determination.

I'll make something in arabian style (with small improvisations), similar to the Academy town from Heroes 5 (but not the same thing).

strange competition... since when airships are citadels? ;/

It's a flying fortress, just as much as TDR's idea.

My idea consists of the airship being constantly grounded in some sort of "dock," basically some big scaffoldings around it. This will be it as a main base of operations.

I will give it morph animations, where it will be similar to the Tree of Life's "Uproot" ability, where it will lift up and take flight, moving the base of operations elsewhere. It can then land once again, and operate like normal.

If enough people don't feel this is a fair entry for the theme, then I suppose I'll have to change my idea. But it seems to fit the criteria to me.

I think it's ok.
Citadel dosn't mean to be necessarly a human building.

'Citadel', to me, just means it's big and bad-ass. People have mobile homes; why not mobile fortresses?

my thoughts exactly. as long as it's big, badass and fortified it can do whatever it wants. Walk, fly, whatever.

Ye i think it means just a building that can be used as a main or else the choice would be very restricted.

My idea is to make a fortress that have been made in the skull of a giant extinct beast.

Callahan said:

My idea is to make a fortress that have been made in the skull of a giant extinct beast.

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Ooh, sounds intriguing.

Chriz. said:

My idea is a Goblin Airship

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GAH!! I was going to make a dwarf one...

Be my guest.

They will most likely look completely different from eachother.

I might be down for this. Maybe something Tauren or Nerubian based, so i can use it in OH too.

Chriz. said:

Be my guest.

They will most likely look completely different from eachother.

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Ya mine will suck and yours will own lol.

Ooo... first entry are me

Nerubian Temple. I might give it upgrade-ability if I'm not lazy. WIP atm, will add some more detail to it and Im debating attempting to skin it myself or just using ingame textures

just out of curiousity...does the citadel have to be based on a wc3 team or can i be for example a big japanese building?

it can be whatever you want

Xatoga said:

Ooo... first entry are me

Nerubian Temple. I might give it upgrade-ability if I'm not lazy. WIP atm, will add some more detail to it and Im debating attempting to skin it myself or just using ingame textures

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I suggest you use in-game textures...

Cool idea on the theme of the contest!

Hmm.....if I have time, I might make some kind of a cloud castle (though I don't know what theme the castle itself will be, good or evil or something).

Huh, I finally found out what I will make: a simple human citadel "castle". But before I start, I just need to know:

1. Can the bulding have unique pathing texture/size?
2. Is there a polygon limit or any other limitations (like detail, texture size etc.)?
3. Is there a size limit? Let me explain. The original human Town Hall's size are VERY tiny in comparison to the Peasant or any other units and I want to make mine a little bit closer in size (however the size ratio will never be 1:1 - I plan something in the size of the Cathedral doodad.)

an can answer to question 1: yes
the rest is up to Chriz.

No, and no.

But do make it usable in Warcraft please, and as practical as possible.

I may join, if so, ill make a fortress on again walking turtle. If not..then i don't know.

fortress on a turtle sounds neat. Reminds me of one of Matt Dixon's paintings:
http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/8/5763/5763_1116455796_large_tiff.jpg

okey.. that picture scares me...
thank you for giving me nightmares

Im actually not sure if i should go for a mechanical Turtle for a possible robo race (idk, there are many planets in wc3 lore) or either an organic with for the nagas. any choice from u guys?

Naga would be more immediately appropriate, I'd say.

k.

neat!

Pretty sexy wire frame there, Wulfy.

Could you increase the overall diameter of the turtle's shell rim to give yourself a lot more room for terrain above the water line?

I can't wait to see the barnacles and moss and stuff that are sure to be adhering to the slimy skin of your swimming citadel!

Chriz. said:

No, and no.

But do make it usable in Warcraft please, and as practical as possible.

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So we must use the Town Hall pathing texture and size?
Do we need to make all three "versions" of the building? (like town hall - keep - castle)

Just a suggestion: You all keep talking about makeing flying fortresses, but IMO what would be really cool, is make one like night elf buildings: Its a ground fortress, and then it "uproots" to be a flying one, or w/e...

IMO, that wiuld be really cool and useful (to me anyway )

Jaakko said:

And maybe dance too? lol

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omg disco citadel.

I have to try that... Flashing strobe search-lights and a dance floor and stuff...

Katu said:

So we must use the Town Hall pathing texture and size?
Do we need to make all three "versions" of the building? (like town hall - keep - castle)

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No you don't if you don't want to.

And no, I said it's optional to have three versions.

Keep it up Wulf, looking like a good start. Though I don't like the mixture of feet and "fins." I would say either make it a land or a sea turtle. But, just my two cents.

i say make it both....

just use brewery for panda citadel

I finally planned it in paper. Unfortunately I left the plans at home... but I can show what inspired me:

Jaakko said:

I really think a town hall would need three versions. Could somebody do a troll citadel? And a Pandaren? And maybe one evil Undead citadel? Please please please. I could use these if they look good enough.

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This is not the place for requests. You can give ideas, but don't beg for them.

Jaakko said:

Could somebody do a troll citadel? And a Pandaren? And maybe one evil Undead citadel? Please please please. I could use these if they look good enough.

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Sounds like begging to me. And a request.

I'm just saying, you can suggest something, but don't try to get your requests done this way. If you need something, feel free to make a request in the proper section.

Enough with requests in a contest
Unless it involves a request with money..such as a bribe..ANYWAYS
So who is making a Naga Citadel..?

I suppose Wulf's could go that way if she wants.