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3DVIA Challenge 16: Spacecraft: Battleship
I’ve always had a fascination with these space faring juggernaughts. Nothing fills you with more dread that comming around an asteroid after finishing off those pesky scouts than coming face to face with a battleship. I speak from experience! From X-wing vs Tie-fighter all the way to Descent: Freespace and Taychion the Fringe and of course as I commanded my armada in the Homeworld series.
For this challenge, we want to see your Battleships! Build the core of your armada, with its sleek lines, heavy railguns and beam cannons. This challenge is open to all age groups, you build the ship, we’ll make you famous!
Come on and test your mettle against the best of our community for the chance at fame and fortune. Winners will recieve all the acclaim of being own of our Challenge Champions, a special page we create with your winning entry, and a space on our newsletter, letting everyone know who the Champion is.
Are you the next Champion?
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REMEMBER THESE KEY DATES:
UPLOAD YOUR MODELS:
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 through Sunday, November 29, 2009
VOTE:
Monday November 30, 2009 through Wednesday December 2, 2009
WINNER ANNOUNCED:
Wednesday December 2, 2009
3DVIA USERS – HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CHALLENGE:
A summary of the terms and conditions is included here.
1. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
1a. You must be a registered user of 3DVIA.com
3DVIA accounts are free, sign up here.
1b. No Age Restriction.
1c. DS 3DVIA employees involved in the organization of this contest (including their family members) and members of any agencies involved in the organization of this contest (including their families) are not eligible.
2. PARTICIPATION
2a. You must upload one “Battleship” model by Sunday November 29, 2009.
Starting on Thursday, November 11, 2009 through Sunday November 29, 2009, upload your best “Battleship” to 3DVIA. Only new to 3DVIA and original work will be considered, 1 submission per user, NO team entries.
2b. You must tag your 3D model with “3DVIAChallenge16″.
Tag your model with the keyword “3DVIAChallenge16″ – you must use this exact tag to enter (the tag is not case-sensitive). When you add this tag to your model, you will see a pop-up reminder that you must have read and agreed to the 3DVIA website Terms of Use.
2c. Models created using the 3DVIA Shape software which constitute derivative works reproducing existing models created by third parties under the Creative Commons license are eligible for this contest.
More information about Creative Commons can be found at http://creativecommons.org/ and, with respect to the existing licenses, at http://creativecommons.org/about/license.
2d. Models created using the 3DVIA PrintScreen software or any other software that copies existing 3D models, as well as creations containing any third party proprietary elements are not eligible for this contest.
3. LICENSE TO USE THE MODELS
3a. By uploading your model to enter the contest you are granting DS and DS Subsidiaries certain rights regarding how your model may be used to help promote 3DVIA in the marketplace.
4. WINNERS
4a. A jury made up of six 3DVIA representatives will judge each model from 1-10 (10 being the best score) based on the models artistic merit, technical merit and accuracy.
Artistic Design - Eye catching design, the coolness of the model.
Technical Accuracy – Mechanical or realistic accuracy and detail
Modeling Efficiency – Polygonal construction, modeling skill.
If more than one model receives the same score, each model with the same score will be designated as a Winner and will receive the same prize.
4b. The winner will be announced on the 3DVIA.com web site on Wednesday December 2, 2009.
4c. Decisions of the 3DVIA representatives are final.
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not bad
I’ll try
many of my models don’t look right on 3DVIA because I use modifiers in blender which are ignored by 3DVIA’s software. Will the model I submit be based on how it looks on 3DVIA, or how it looks with Blender, or even by a render (as they usually look better than real-time graphics can manage)?
What Modifiers get erased? I know I can delete history in maya to accept the deformation from a deformer as permanent and export as dae/ or obj to import into 3DVIA.com, Will that work for blender?
In the interests of fairness, all models are judged by their real-time display using the 3dvia player.
Lets fix it so you can enter your model from Blender, with out any problems :)
I’ll have to apply all the modifiers before I upload it then. Which means the file will be a lot bigger.
Before you upload, you can zip the file, that compression usually helps. If it doesn’t send me the exported file in dae or obj and I can try to finagle it to fit in the upload :)
juan.delrio@3ds.com
I’ll try, my first time!
you know something?
i hate you
actually is the greatest idea of all, sionce i am now interested by these stuff
just PLEASE abort a little(maybe 3 days) the competition until i can find a good 3dsmax and start to model
prepare to eat SPACEDUST!
wait
am i reading rite?
NO AGE RESTRICTIONS?!
ARE YOU CRAZY?!
PARTICIPATING IS 100% LEGAL?!
SO WHERE IS THE FUN OF PARTICIPATING WITHOUT RESPECTING ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND STUFF ABOUT AGE?!
ugh…..conformism….i suck
i refuse to par…naaah….you wanted it!
Nice, no age conditions, so it’s just for fun then. This will be a tough competition!
no prize?
Where’s the fun in that, not sure if I’ll decide to enter this competition or not. : ) good luck to everybody
Well thats not the spirit! There maybe no official prize but that doesn’t mean I can’t send you goodies :)
The winner will get, not only they own page, and sent in the newsletter to 70,000 subscribers but also one of Cliffs T-shirts !! Woot!
I’m working on my own Battleship, its looking awesome. I may even at a later date import the best battleships into a game engine, like Homeworld
Hey where ’s my backup ? when the enemy arrives, am I gonna have to do all the Heavy lifting alone ? Get your ship to the front line
Mine has gone through 4 redesigns as I keep refining my ideas. I should be able to put one up on monday. I’ll let you guys decide if my model counts :)
This is my first time too…. also this was the first time i was working on a fairly big model ….had weird problems with the unpublished model, like disappearing textures when the model was reopened …. in some cases , even lost some textures …. that is … although i could see the texture names ( or texture file names ) the texture looked like just an empty square !!! …. finally found workarounds and was able to publish to today :-)
Can you post these issues on the shape forum? I can help direct the attention of the devs to it and see if we can find a fix.
I love battleships :)
I tried uploading my own battleship, but its too big for my own site! I manage to get one of the defense guns up. i’ll keep deleting till I can upload. I gotta get them to raise the upload limit.
:P:P:P:P
we asked for that hundred times before
anyway, i skeched ~9 huge mothaships but i must find something good to model in
3dsmax 10 would be an exagerated but excellent choice, but till then, skechup is perfect
just not in time for :((
We’ve doubled the upload limit!!! OOO I think its time to unveil my monster Capital Ship!
Great!! I can’t wait to see it!
Final date to upload
The Battleship should be unite today
There is no tab / shortcut available to go to the forum ?? How to check the forum???
I’ve uploaded mine!
I added the latest 5 topics from the forums to the bottom of the blog section, now everyone can find the forums !!
They are also available from the Community tab, then the forum tab :0
The winner has been chosen, I just gotta sneak some time tomorrow and post the winner blog.
How do we follow this challenge? Whats our next one?
We also just rebuilt the User Ranking algorithm! If you go to our search page and search for users, you’ll see our community members ranked by activity :) Its actually a very large mathematical thingy that takes into account how many people comment on your models and so many other things but hell check it out !!
http://www.3dvia.com/search/users