It's the return of the Rapid Age Development Contest (or RAD for short) after a long time away. The theme for this RAD contest is Pod Ages!
RAD POD CONTEST RULES:
The contest will run from the 8th of February 2025 until the 8th of March 2025
A Pod Shell (Either a Blender or 3D Studio Max compatible file depending on your editor of choice) will be provided based upon the Dereno Pod mesh. This Pod will be a complete pod, interior and exterior, and all of the meshes for the buttons, switches, and internal geometry for the pod will be provided. The Default Spawn Point, clickables, animations, and Camera Setups will be included in the files if you wish to make use of them.
The Age must be made from scratch (aside from the provided Pod models), existing projects are not allowed. This is a single person build contest, no teams please.
The only requirement for this contest is that the Pod MUST be used in some way during your build, to make it a "Pod Age." No outside terrain will be provided beyond a Skydome mesh and the Sun Texture, should you wish to include a sun object for a day/night cycle. You must create a unique terrain for the Pod to view- whether it's explorable or not is up to you!
As long as the Pod is in some way included as a feature of your Pod Age, you are otherwise free to do whatever you wish to it. If you want to remodel the entire interior, you are welcome to do such. You are not required to make the Pod a part of the Rezihkzehv* pod Age (Negilahn, Dereno, Tetsonot, Payiferen) but if you want to you can. We just ask that if you do it has a unique number plate texture.
The only minor recommendations we can give you are that you colour grade the interior to match whatever terrain you build for it.
Obviously, we are not looking for something that is MOULa Ready with only one month of build time (with that said it does need to be playable for the judges to visit and vote).
Pod Files for Blender: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VivqJEnoQesYUnPsTBSRQqCEF6MfKyQ-/view
Pod Files for 3DStudio Max: Please contact Emor on the OpenUru Discord for the files.
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions will need to be sent to the Destiny operators so they can be placed on the Destiny server for judging. You will need to sign up to the Destiny forum to use their upload page.
Information for uploading your Ages to Destiny can be found here: https://destiny.mystler.eu/viewtopic.php?t=16
Upon submitting your entry please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/iJFpjPvAUcaBDntj8 for the judges.
JUDGING:
Judges will be Harley/Calum Traveller, Buddy, Nosila, TheScar, and Hoikas
Judging criteria;
Story: how well the age provides background information; includes puzzles and gameplay.
Note: this can be provided as a supplemental document to the Age.
Visuals: the use of 3D modelling, texturing and lighting for photographic realism while keeping a decent frame rate and load time.
Sounds: the appropriate use of ambient sounds, effects and music.
Dynamics: use of animations, scripting, and physics to produce realistic interactions with the scene.
Overall: the impression of the Age as a whole.
PRIZE: Bragging rights.
*CANON AGE DESIGN CONCERNS:
If you are setting your Pod upon the Pod Age, please note that the Pod Age as Cyan designed it was never considered with a Moon in mind- and as such, we have no canonical moon texture to provide. Additionally, no moon object is visible in Payiferen, so we are lead to believe that the Pod Age does not have a moon visible in its night sky. (It may simply be tidally locked to always show its shadowed side to the planet for example. We cannot say for certain.)