Another RAD Contest Proposal

[teedyo]

Hey guys, didn't see it in the rules anywhere, but it was a rule in the past:

Are we required to indicate credit anywhere? Before we had to put something in that listed what tools we used, programs, people's names, like if someone made some music for you.

It had to be like a plaque or a journal or something.

Are we doing that again this time around?

I think that falls under the following rule:

You may request technical assistance, but you must ultimately produce all content yourself.

[andylegate]

No I understand we're suppose to do everything for ourselves......what I'm asking is if we still need to do a plaque or something that lists all the tools and things we used. We had to do that in the first RAD contest.

[teedyo]

Ahh, that portion. I'd just be guessing but; my interpretation of the rule-making rules would be that since it wasn't explicitly stated or even discussed prior to the start of the RAD that it's not a requirement unless all those contending choose to make it so.

[Lontahv]

Can I use CG textures? Because if I have to make all of the textures myself... I wouldn't have any time left to work on it (it already uses lots of textures from there).

I was wondering about this before. Just want to make super-sure so I'm not submitting something that's not allowed. If it is prohibited for my to use a texture-resource site I'd seriously consider dropping out and having my age separate from the RAD.

A few people I talked to seemed to think it was ok to use CG textures, and I'm assuming not everyone here is going to caves to get their textures or making them in MS-paint .

[Trylon]

Actually the point in question is new to me too - I keep wondering where all those "interesting" new rules come from

Anyway FYI, here is my viewpoint on the mentioned rules:
I interpret them as
1) just being there to avoid people submitting the extensions they made to a previous age as an entry (like some did last shell RAD contest),
2) to avoid unfair group efforts (where major work being split up between people).

I will not make all my textures from scratch - I'll simply use any that I can get my hands on freely.
If there are free blender models available of small objects (furniture etc) I will still use them if I need them.
I also have no problem with commissioning minor separate models and textures to my brother who has more time on his hands than I. (Me having a pretty busy schedule and all...)

That's how I'm doing it, and I'm not about to adhere to any strict interpretation of those rules.

[andylegate]

Sounds good to me too.

I mean, ideally, sure, we should be able to make all our own beautiful textures, but hey, I'm not shy to say, at making textures I SUCK.....

Here and there I get luckly and make a good rock texture or wood texture, etc. But more times that not I spend more of my time at one of the free texture web sites, or I go digging at the Modding sites that I used to hang out at. They have some good meshes too.........just to bad that most of them are either .map or .bsp format.....but that's okay. I load them up in my other editors for those games and take pics! Nothing like calling the pic up in one window of Blender while trying to copy it in the 3D window, hehehehe

[GPNMilano]

Most of my textures come from free sites as well. Though I do use some of my own, as well as making my own lightmaps by hand. Many of my textures, I reuse, just as Cyan does with theres in other ages I work on. Little coloring here, different UV map there, and the texture looks like its a new texture, when really its the same one. This is found throughout uru, and I see no reason why we shouldn't do the same. I even go so far as naming them like Cyan did, with the first four letters of the mipmaps name being the original age i used it in. That's just an OCD thing, and I don't even have OCD.

So, my two cents, if you want to use CG textures. Use them. If you want to hunt down textures at free sites, do so. (As long as they're not copyrighted I see no reason not to. And if you want to take a camera out and make your own do so. There's only so many textures you use before you run out of space on a hard drive, and realistically speaking, if Cyan reuses textures both CG and real, i see no reason why we shouldn't as well.

Now, I'm off to work on figuring out clusters.

[Lontahv]

'k, thanks for the response all.

[Grogyan]

No I understand we're suppose to do everything for ourselves......what I'm asking is if we still need to do a plaque or something that lists all the tools and things we used. We had to do that in the first RAD contest.

That list was never a rule, so it wasn't written so for RAD3, it still is a request only for politeness, so say you got a mesh from a website, you'd put that website in on the list.

Can I use CG textures? Because if I have to make all of the textures myself... I wouldn't have any time left to work on it (it already uses lots of textures from there).

I was wondering about this before. Just want to make super-sure so I'm not submitting something that's not allowed. If it is prohibited for my to use a texture-resource site I'd seriously consider dropping out and having my age separate from the RAD.

A few people I talked to seemed to think it was ok to use CG textures, and I'm assuming not everyone here is going to caves to get their textures or making them in MS-paint .

By all means, if they are free for you to use, or generate your own from an application like Genetica

The contest is still a solo effort, later competitions may involve groups.


Ps i'm sorry for the lateness of the replies, i've just returned from a trip up north to see a friend of mine, which of course I walys enjoy just spending time with her.

[Grogyan]

As a reminder from tomorrow, the contest will be in its final build week, this is really the time to get that can of bug killer out.

Were all eager to see what you all managed to come up with