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#206511
Evening fellow Maxwellians & others :)

Yet again there's a lack of challenges on the forum, and now i do think it's time that we have something that keeps things in motion here until we get the new 1.2 to play with.

The theme of this challenge is intentionally set to be diffuse to make it more challenging for everyone so all i ask is that you just obey the rules which is all i ask that you do.

Theme: No theme, create your own based upon whatever free models you have or find on the web.

Rules:

1. ALL models must be pre-made, non of them may be created by yourself. Models can be either commercial models of any shape, form or size. Selfmade models are strictly prohibited and if they appear in your scene you will be disqualified from the challenge. This rule is important so don't break it please!

2. Time for the challenge is one full month, meaning you got all of February on you to create something and then contribute it to the challenge at the 28th February.

3. Render resolutions may be from 800x600 and up to whatever you like above that resolution.

4. Poser models are ofcourse allowed for those of you who wanna utilize them as they are also pre-made.

5. The only models you are allowed to create yourself for your scene are flat plane emitter type objects and things like that, and if you're aiming for a studiosetup type scene you may also model the floor/walls your model(s) will stand on. But nothing more than that.

6. Upon request or on your own will you should be prepared to share your mxm's on the mxm site, and as always if you used commercial textures for those then you can't share them. But that should be common sense by now.

7. Textures.. if you have any pre-made one's then use those if possible, but if you run into a corner and must create some textures to finish your scene then you are allowed to do so.

8. Judges are everyone of us here on the forum who will vote on technical quality, and most creative usage of pre-made models and then ofcourse also rendering quality.

9. You can ofcourse contribute with as many renderings as you want, there's no limit. But the amount of renderings you contribute with doesn't make you a instant winner. :)

10. If necessary you're allowed to do some modifications to the pre-made objects in your scenes, obvious modifications are to change textures and materials, but also you can exchange screws, adjust pillows and whatever else it may be. But don't change something so much it no longer looks like the object you initially intended to use. Use some sorta selfmoderation. Now i know this is difficult to ask for but atleast try..

11. Last but not least the most important rule of all.. have fun and see this as a inspiring and creative challenge even tho you're not allowed to model yourself this time around. :) (the idea is that you should get excersize in learning to setup scenes, create mxm's and light your scenes aswell as render them nicely using pre-built models)

I hope to see alot of you participating in this challenge :) ..and if so it'd be nice if NL could pitch in with some prizes for the top 3 winners.

/ Max
Last edited by Maximus3D on Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:34 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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By misterasset
#206525
rusteberg wrote:i came accross this site the other day, im sure it could be of use.

http://archidom.net/ddd/model_A.htm
Alot of stuff on the ArchiDom website is stolen. Or at least they don't have the rights to give it away for free. Just an FYI.
By rusteberg
#206540
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwooops.... :oops:
By Jeff Tamagini
#206544
sounds like a great idea. just to clarify, if we are doing an interior scene ie. kitchen we can model all walls, soffits, ceilings, floors, doors and windows, on our own, and populate the scene with pre made stuff like dishes fruit etc. If that is the case where do things like cabinets and countertop fall, can we model those ourselves?

What about something like a simple bathroom mirror, the kind thats just a sheet of mirror glass adhered to the wall? Or something like shower curtains or even window curtains for that matter?

Jeff
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By Maximus3D
#206545
Jeff: Thanks :) you can model stuff like walls, floors, ceilings and when you need planes or other simple primitives as emitters for your scene you're allowed to do that. But you're not allowed to model any more complex objects than those things so stuff like curtains, plates, glasses and well objects which are more complex than the basic primitives included in your main 3d application.

/ Max
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By Tim Ellis
#206597
A great idea Max, thanks for running this. :D

I'm going to find it really hard to not model anything, but I'll have a go anyway.

Good luck with the challenge everybody.

Tim.
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By Maximus3D
#206648
Thanks Tim :D i'm glad to see you like this challenge.

Hehe, you know i thought about that. Since you and a bunch of others here enjoy modeling so much this time it's gonna be tougher for you while there are others on the forum who work exclusively with pre-made models for their daily 3d work, they might consider this to be a easy challenge. :)

I'm excited to see what you and everyone else can come up with this time.

Good luck to you all, get started now and feel free to start wip threads to show your progress if you like or just hold off and post your final work once it's done.

Maybe a moderator could make this thread sticky during the month the challenge runs, is that ok ?

/ Max
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By Maximus3D
#210286
Even tho it's only halftime now i think this challenged should be buried and forgotten since only two people actually showed interest and took part in it. I'm glad and thanksful they both did their part with their nice creations :) thanks guys!

However maybe it's better someone else or NL runs a challenge than me at this time.

Thank you.

This challenge is now closed.

/ Max
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By DrMerman
#210313
Max, don't be disheartened, I would have loved to take part, but I'm just bogged-under at the moment, and I'm sure other people are in the same situation. I think its really luck that dictates how many people have the free time for a challenge, so maybe the next one would be more successful?

Thanks for running it :)
Dr Merman
By sandykoufax
#210406
Sorry Max.

but I hope you don't be disappointment.

In my case, I didn't fully understand of this challenge and no theme is not always good for me. It's rather difficult.

JH
By pwrdesign
#210909
Max, this was a great challenge, dont hesitate to start other challenges.
I started to create a scene, but my job forced me to put it away :/

This is the first test-render I did before I had to stop...

Image

/ pwr

So, is this a known issue?