Just wanted to let people know about Marshmallow Duel: Mowbray's Revenge. A MOD for UT2004 and an officially endorsed sequel to the 1996 classic Marshmallow Duel. We're running a character design competition and are hoping people might spare some time to mash together a robot for the game. The best part is if you model and texture your character you've pretty much done, the animation system requires no rigging or painting of skin weights, each limb is parented to the bones directly. And entrants will get to see their characters in a MOD, and even have a shot at winning our sweet prize!
Check out below and the thread on the official forums for more details.
LINK: [url]http://mduel2k5.spadgos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=403[/url]
About
The Marshmallow Duel : Mowbray's Revenge character design competition is a chance for 3D modellers and texture artists to get their work featured in a mod and win a USB vaccuum cleaner in the process!
[img]http://mduel2k5.spadgos.com/screens/ing_charactersPreview1.jpg[/img]
Closing Date: 11 November 2005, Midnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Character Guidelines
The goal of this challenge is to create characters for use in Marshmallow Duel : Mowbray's Revenge.
The characters are vibrant robots mashed together out of random limbs.
The mod uses a custom character builder that lets players create their own character by mixing and mashing existing characters. The body is broken down into: Head, torso, upper and lower arms, hands, upper and lower legs, feet, and shoulder pads.
There is no smooth binding, each part of the body is parented to its corresponding joint. This might sound a bit complicated but it's actually quite simple and means that there's no painting of skin weights, in fact it doesn't even need to be rigged.
Entrants may create full body sets or individual parts. No particular preference will be given to either, though remember that it may be difficult to create a left foot with the same impact as a full character.
[img]http://mduel2k5.spadgos.com/screens/ing_charactersPreview2.jpg[/img]
More info see the thread here at the official forums:
[url]http://mduel2k5.spadgos.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=403[/url]
Sorry I've been working so hard on the MOD I totally missed your post! I think we've only had one or two entries.
We'd still love character models if people want to make 'em, we'll be releasing additional content after the MOD launches, including maps and characters.
Check out the main site if you're interested in the MOD, screenshots, concept art and renders, all that jazz.
Should be launching soon (I'm a bit slow with my map, haha)
There's also info there on mapping for it and creating characters
We just put a trailer online as well.
http://mduel2k5.spadgos.com
Just a little update, we've added the rig for Maya 6.0 (as well as 6.5) to the devkit, now available online. Only 9 days to go, but still plenty of time to enter your own original character, or even body part. Feel like making a head? Then just make a head.