2008 Make Something Unreal Contest Announced

[Hourences]

IMO there should be a tutorial and help category, that will reward those who put in time to help others.
On the long run that helps Epic, licensees, and just about anyone who is involved in the modding the scene.

A category like that would stimulate a lot of people to share their knowledge.

 

[evilmrfrank]

Agreed but it might also get a lot of people who really don't know what they are talking about to try and post a bunch of duplicate tutorials just to try and win the contest.

 

[The_Head]

Agreed but it might also get a lot of people who really don't know what they are talking about to try and post a bunch of duplicate tutorials just to try and win the contest.

They're not going to get anywhere doing that in the same way they wouldn't get away with stealing content from someone elses map.

 

[Hourences]

Then they will not win. Natural selection.

You could say the same about levels. There will be hundreds of really bad levels be submitted, that all look alike.

 

[Angel_Mapper]

So, you're advocating for a "Give Money To Hourences" category?

 

[evilmrfrank]

Makes sense if you put it that way But I still think the contest is for content creation

 

[willhaven]

So, you're advocating for a "Give Money To Hourences" category?

 

[Hourences]

A better educated community will actually cost me money on the long turn, as they will pose a bigger challenge, making it harder for me to win whatever other category. If I wanted money, I would do better in shutting up and just taking all of my tutorials offline. No?

So again, a help category for just phase 1 would benefit modders in phase 2, 3, and 4. Education should be the first step.

 

[Angel_Mapper]

If I wanted money, I would do better in shutting up and just taking all of my tutorials offline. No?

Why, are you offering? I wouldn't mind being a part of that conspiracy.

 

[Grobut]

Character creation isn't done using epics tools so why would they be required to give you a tutorial on it? As for the editor there are loads of tutorials on how to use it.

Part of it is done with Epic's tools, you need to put the model into the game afterall, and besides that, you'd think they would have an intrest in seeing people make content like player models, so it seem to make plenty of sense to me to describe what must be done for that to happen.

 

[evilmrfrank]

Sure you have to import it and do a few other things but the actual creation isn't done in their engine.

 

[XeroWolf]

Character creation isn't done using epics tools so why would they be required to give you a tutorial on it? As for the editor there are loads of tutorials on how to use it.

It's the engine aspect I'm talking about. You're right there are loads of tutorials out there on how to use the editor just very little to none on character creation.
I'm not asking for a tutorial on how to model a character and so on. I just wish there more documentation on that aspect of the editor available for the mod community.

 

[R.Flagg]

....including Intel® Software Development Products and Velocity Micro PCs based on the Intel® Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform with two Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processors...

Don't know why I didn't think to ask this sooner, but I'll go ahead and be late with it....

Will the promised computer prizes this time around, actually be the same as what is delivered to prize winners?

Last time around, members of the community who participated and won PCs, ended up receiving computers that were worth approx. half of what was promised/promoted. (did BU every do a story on that?)

It's a fair question.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

I don't think we ever did a story because the computers got delivered about a year later than the contest or something silly like that

 

[evilmrfrank]

That is pretty crazy... Hope its not that long of a wait this time around

 

[hal]

I knew there was a delay, but I hadn't heard details about the actual prizes.

 

[Asura]

Hang on; this was announced in April and the deadline is June 2008? That's ridiculous.

 

[evilmrfrank]

The game has been out for quite a while now. Epic announced before they even released the game they would do another contest, they just didnt say when

 

[Angel_Mapper]

And June is just Phase 1.

 

[fleshsniper1]

Hey im doing TC and costume characters for this competition. Havent even started but i want to make it for this first phase for costume characters.

Some questions - would be nice if Epic them self can answer question 2
1. The skeleton rig is not in T pose is this correct? I just downloaded and the hands are down almost relaxed.
2. Wondering if i can do a remake of an already existing game for the TC. It will be specifically for this contest only, would this be against the rules. I have 2 games in mind, Tenchu and Resident Evil.