While im not going to say its bad or anything i really think you need some reference pictures next time :) that thing is way too wide and long, also the proportions are really off, of course i presume its not meant to be a realistic head and more of a stylised/cartoony head. Still its always...
I think its a great idea to ask valve for a prize im sure they would be willing to donate some tshirts or something :). Even if there is no prize i definately think a competition is in order, perhaps a made up weapon or an alien player model? even a vehicle might be good. Judging could be based...
Yeah when i read your post i immediately thought of the alienware challenge it just kicked of yesterday and you have a good 2-3 months to work on it :). But be warned cgtalk has probably the highest quality cg work anywhere on the web but like the previous poster said even if you dont win you...
The trigger guard part looks very blocky. Also i think you should post a wireframe even if its unoptimised 1700 triangles seems very high perhaps we can help you lower it down. Other than that it looks good but i would also work on the bottom of the handle it looks weird.
You would probably run into problems due to the fact that a lighsaber mod for hl2 would compete with the jk series of games. Best bet is to just send an email to? lucasarts? and see what they have to say.
A great place to start would be the stickied thread at the top of this Forum. Another way i often find images is to go to www.google.com and use the image search (make sure safesearch filter thingy is off)
Jeeze this thread has turned silly trying to compare which games require more "skill" to play. In my opinion almost all games require "skill" to be good at them(not counting chance games and very simple games, etc). And trying to claim one game requires more skill then another is just ridiculous.
well i have never used wings3d so i dont know how it works but I think what you need to do is learn your smoothing groups, Once you smooth those models out, epsecially the first picture they seem to lose all of there definition and they appear as a big funny shaped blob :(
HLDM was great... sure we all got bored of it eventually but i played it online for about 2 years after release and during that time there was a huge number of servers and players playing it. That started to die down once all the mods where released but there is still a comunity playing it and...
Yeap this is old news :) lots of us got to see it happen in ... realtime
pity they cut the "what do you mean by clarify" part out that always gave me a chuckle.