Against the wall! - Specifications & Rules

[doylle]

Theme

Games need more than models alone. They also need great textures. Because we had a relative high polycount for our latest competition, we're going for the other extreme with this competition. Your mission is to create a set of 3 tileable textures with a common theme of choise. The textures have to be tileable in one direction minimum, with for each texture one breaker. Every texture must have at least a normal, diffuse and specular map. You are not obliged to use a high poly model for your normal map, but we definitely encourage it, since that will be the only modeling you'll have to do for this competition.

note: A breaker is a texture that will tile in with the normal one but that has something unique about it to break the pattern - a door, pillar, some kind of panelling, pipes, etc... You are allowed to make this texture 512 or 256 pixels wide.

Useful links:
decs texture pack
Gamedev's normal map tutorial
Create tileable textures
Create Textures for Q4

Specifications

Applications used:
Any.

Maximum Triangles
2 triangles for each texture, being a perfect square. (12 tris in total for all 6 textures). Textures on planes with more or less than 2 triangles are not allowed.

Maximum Textures
1024 x 1024 Diffuse (obliged)
1024 x 1024 Specular (obliged)
1024 x 1024 Normal (obliged)
1024 x 1024 Alpha
1024 x 1024 Glow

All Geometry and Textures must be new and created by yourself for this competition, using previous assets is not an option.

Submission Guidelines

Entry Deadline is the End of Wednesday the 6th of June GMT +-0 as time zone. (changed)

Work in Progress should be posted by yourself in a seperate thread named by using the prefix "Competition #9" and your Username as thread title, i.e. "Competition #9 - doylle". This is highly recommended if you may want to receive some advice and feedback before submitting. Please structure it in a fashion that is understandable and post regular updates.

Final Submissions should be posted by yourself in the thread titled "Competition #9:Agains the wall - Submissions". Please note that to be able to submit, your entry must be a complete piece. Partially complete or incomplete, will be disqualified.

Provide the following in the Submissions thread:

• One beatuy Render of Final Piece 800x600 for each texture with breaker (3 in total)
• Links to all texture sheets used (original size)
• If used, wireframe of the high poly mesh
• E-mail Address

Failure to meet the above or incorrectly post your submission will be brought to your notice a single time, if the issue has not been fixed by the contest deadline, the entry will be eliminated. If you attempt to cheat by either not following the rules above, copying work or using past works you will be disqualified immediately (without notice).
Game-Artist.net reserves the right to amend any of the above during the course of the Contest.

Good luck to all !

Images in the header belong to Decs and "Gears Of War", thank you.

[StefanH]

great competition. I'm all in

could be good to apply the texture to more than one quad though to show off the tiling...

[Glicerart]

I like this competition, because you don't need to be a pro for participate .

[CaptainCock]

great I'm in !

[cnflkt]

great competition!!

I'm looking forward to this one :>

[Tim]

I am looking forward to the submissions!
Maybe I am going to participate, not sure.

[sethodie]

I am not sure if I can participate.
My friends from Carpathian Crosses Team will kill me if I start painting texture for competition instead of texturing tanks .

[Defeat]

Originally Posted by sethodie

I am not sure if I can participate.
My friends from Carpathian Crosses Team will kill me if I start painting texture for competition instead of texturing tanks .

haha im skinning for that mod Ill probably enter

[Salohcin]

I think I'm actually going to complete my submission for this one :P

[Flakk]

I don't quite understand how you're supposed to model a normal map for a generic seamless texture :/.