Ultimate Tournament.com Player Competition Thread

Think you have some elite modeling skillz... then this is the competition for you! To celebrate the Tournament.com launch and their sponsorship of Mod DB - we have decided to run a "tournament themed" competition and give away a couple of prizes! Read on for the details.

Join In
If you are or want to have a crack at entering this competition, then we dare you to create the meanest, smartest, toughest player-model character possible be it: human, hybrid, mechanical, alien or animal, worthy of competing in a tournament battle to the end. The model you create should fit in with the theme provided below.

Theme
The tolling of the midnight bell echoes through the moonlit halls of the New York Museum, breaking the silence. For a 100 years, this stone monolith has stood as a testament to human knowledge in all its forms. Ancient tomes and forgotten texts line bookshelves of impossible height, spiral staircases and dust-lined corridors make what was once a place for late-night study into a shadowy labyrinth for tonight's bloody cabal.

The rules of this deadly ballet are simple: A combatant of any race, size or species may enter. Only one may leave. It's going to be a long night at the Library.

Entering
So you have started working on an original player model, awesome! Join in the fun dev spirit and share your progress / renders in this thread so we can provide feedback to make sure your entry is as good as it can be. Once it is totally finished you need to submit it to Addon DB, complete with 4 screenshots that show off your amazing work. Make em good!

Tips

• Be open minded don't follow the crowd.
• Post WIP shots in the thread, get comments from others.
• We encourage the use of custom content , however 3rd party and mod content is not allowed.

Rules & Details
Full rules and details can be found in this feature. You must read this before entering! If this feature still does not answer your question then ask in this thread.

Prizes & Winners
Again all prizes, winners and everything else up for grabs is showcased in this feature. Check it out...

Good luck to all participants!

Edited by (in order): INtense!, INtense!, INtense!, INtense!, INtense!

This should be fairly aewsome. I'm in! Let's have it people!!

I'm currently swamped with work, but concept art is forthcoming!

For sure - we have wanted to run a "player model" competition for so long to see what everyone can come up with. It'll be interesting to see... I picture nasty Aliens type creatures and cocky humans like Duke... hmmm

Try and give your character some personality too - through a short background story. Kinda like Max Payne - so we know what they are like.

Edited by: INtense!

I cant win, but im going to enter, im going for a alien / cyborg / steampunk mix.

I can't model but I shall cast my less than critical eye over everyone elses for sure.

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TKAzA wrote: I cant win, but im going to enter

I'm with you brother, competitions are such an excellent discipline for pushing your work

i think my character will fall into mechanical, not sure, i know how hes going to look just need to get some concepts done. This is gonna be well good

Who came up with the theme? It sounds exactly the same as the setting of a Matthew Reily novel.

TKAzA wrote: I cant win, but im going to enter, im going for a alien / cyborg / steampunk mix.

Amen to that
Let's see if our twisted minds can produce anything interesting...

Edited by: zombieOnion

Darkcraft wrote: Who came up with the theme? It sounds exactly the same as the setting of a Matthew Reily novel.

Good pickup - you are spot on. This is noted on the official competition page. This is original Matthew Reilly version noted on Wikipedia:

The New York Library is a sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for Stephen Swain and his 8 year-old daughter, Holly it is a place of nightmare. For just one night, this historic building is to become the venue of a contest... a contest in which Swain must compete, whether he wants to or not. The rules of the challenge are simple: seven contestants will enter, but only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms, Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight. The stakes are high; the odds against him are brutal. He can choose to run, to hide, or to fight - but if he wants to live, he needs to win. For, in this particular contest, unless you leave as victor, you do not leave at all.

We thought this was quite suitable and thus used it as inspiration with the following ideas proposed:

The New York Library is a sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for just one night this historic building is to become the venue of a contest... a tournament in which the rules are simple: many contestants will enter, but only one will leave. The stakes are high; the odds are low. For those that choose to enter the tournament arena can run, they can hide, but to win, they must fight. For in this particular contest, unless you leave as victor, you do not leave at all.

The Moddb tournament, an epic event pitting battle-hardened fighters against each other in bloody arenas. We ask you to enter your combatant: a soldier of war, a creature that will stop at nothing to viciously rip away the life of its opponent. Enter the contest, and there is no turning back, you must stand and fight. The rules are simple: destroy your opponent and move on, or lose the fight and lose your life.

and finally...

The tolling of the midnight bell echoes through the moonlit halls of the New York Museum, breaking the silence. For a 100 years, this stone monolith has stood as a testament to human knowledge in all its forms. Ancient tomes and forgotten texts line bookshelves of impossible height, spiral staircases and dust-lined corridores make what was once a place for late-night study into a shadowy labyrinth for tonight's bloody cabal.

The rules of this deadly ballet are simple: A combatant of any race, size or species may enter. Only one may leave. It's going to be a long night at the Library.

Edited by: INtense!

Hmm this shall take some serious thinking.

Thats what I've done till now. I have just started, without drawing much concepts I will see where I will get...

Bilder-space.de

Nice work so far - since you are the first I guess you are winning at the moment

Edited by: INtense!

Ahh cool, Scott. I just wanted to make sure nobody was plagiarizing from one of Australia's best writers. (just in case, I wasn't infering that you or anyone else on the staff were stealing ideas, I had assumed Tournament.com had come up with the idea)

I started on my female assasin
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needs to come down in size a bit modeling a chick is hard...

I don't see what's hard about it, all you need is 2 giant breasts, and you're done....

oh now I see what's hard

There's one thing I don't get which I think is important: where the contestants originate from. You said "match the theme" but the theme is currently not much more than a place without much background. Where do the contetstants come from? Out of "things" inside the museum ( hence do they come out of a certain "topic" alive )? Why is this night taking place ( hence is this a sort of challenge of a higher instance )? As to give a character some history in a given context you need to know a bit how this context looks like.

Dragonlord wrote: There's one thing I don't get which I think is important: where the contestants originate from. You said "match the theme" but the theme is currently not much more than a place without much background. Where do the contetstants come from? Out of "things" inside the museum ( hence do they come out of a certain "topic" alive )? Why is this night taking place ( hence is this a sort of challenge of a higher instance )? As to give a character some history in a given context you need to know a bit how this context looks like.

The wrote: The rules of this deadly ballet are simple: A combatant of any race, size or species may enter.

From this, you can probably infer that a character of any background is appropriate. I think you are reading too much into it.

We made it generic to see what you can dream up. We are essentially looking for any hard-ass tough character!

INtense! wrote: We made it generic to see what you can dream up. We are essentially looking for any hard-ass tough character!

Allows allot more artistic freedom

Update on my female assassin.
5500 tri so far.
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Edited by (in order): TKAzA, TKAzA

What's with the razor sharp calfs?

ahah it was a wip i gave her pants now

Edit: Update
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Wire:
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Edited by (in order): TKAzA, TKAzA

JoeX111 wrote:

Dragonlord wrote: There's one thing I don't get which I think is important: where the contestants originate from. You said "match the theme" but the theme is currently not much more than a place without much background. Where do the contetstants come from? Out of "things" inside the museum ( hence do they come out of a certain "topic" alive )? Why is this night taking place ( hence is this a sort of challenge of a higher instance )? As to give a character some history in a given context you need to know a bit how this context looks like.

The wrote: The rules of this deadly ballet are simple: A combatant of any race, size or species may enter.

From this, you can probably infer that a character of any background is appropriate. I think you are reading too much into it.

Yeah, chances are that I do. I had something in mind and just had not been sure if that would go... I just don't know if I find the time to do the puppy

One thing that i dont understand is the unproportionate texture size to model tri count. 8k polies usually asks for more texture space than 1024x1024. I understand that this is all relative, but more texture space means more normalmap space, and more detail.
Comparing to the Dominance War contest held some months ago: 6k triangles and 2048x2048 textures. That gives one a lot more room for nomalmapping details. Although, we on ModDB.com might not be as ambitious modelers as the boys at Polycount, or CGSociety.

So in theory, you have more polies and less texture space to use than a *regular* game character. That means, more mirrored parts, and more duplicates. Like, adding an extra spike, or extra claw is alright, if you recycle the texture. Also, consider the parts of the models that you need to show off, and give them more space on the texture sheet. Let's say you are making a humanoid character. The give his face more detail than the other parts, like undersides of his arms, or soles of his feet. If you are making a camouflage pattern, do not make it too good. You would not want the texture breaking up the silhuette of your beautiful model! Mirror all parts that can be mirrored on the UV sheet.

Why the hell did i just type that? No idea. Maybe someone will find it useful. Now to do my chemistry report..

god i wish i could model characters. im barly any good at anything else.

something big will come to you