Sithspecter's Midsummer Mod-Off

[Sithspecter 909]

I would like to announce a small modding contest to encourage some friendly competition and new mods in the community.

 

The challenge is to create a reskin or a model of an item, character, weapon, lightsaber, etc.

 

Sign up in this thread by Saturday, June 21st! Updates should be posted in this thread. Contest will run until Saturday, July 19th. Entrants should submit a minimum of three screenshots of their mod.

 

Voting will run for 1 week.

 

May the best modder win!

 

[Kainzorus Prime 205]

Do you mean, enter the already completed mods, or create a new one until 21 June? Because a week is kinda steep time to make something decent.

[Sithspecter 909]

Sign up by the 21st! You have until July 19th, at which time voting would begin. Length of time is negotiable due to the apparent lack of interest thus far.

 

Unreleased mods only.

Edited June 13, 2014 by Sithspecter

[MrPhil 58]

Well, if nobody is going to sign-up for this... Well, I might as well sign-up, even though that's not raising the bar a lot. I'm working on a reskin for the Twin Sun, though it might be only one of em' by the end of the contest, depending how it goes. WIP thread over here: http://deadlystream.com/forum/topic/2638-twin-sun-wip/

[Sithspecter 909]

All right! I'm signing myself up as well. I have a few things I'd like to break out.

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

So when do we have to have the first screenshots by? Can we choose to take vague pictures to attempt to keep it under wraps?

[Sithspecter 909]

Can we choose to take vague pictures to attempt to keep it under wraps?

 

This! Just make sure to have screenshots by July 19th!

[MrPhil 58]

Hum, is it not the purpose of this to have feedback while creating-it and to be able to see how the reskin is done by the person so a greater understanding of the process may be achieved and other can try to do the same later-on? Just my 2 cents

[Sithspecter 909]

I thought we were all supposed to keep our modding knowledge a closely guarded secret...

[InSidious 237]

I can't guarantee I'll finish anything, but I'll sign up for this as well.

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

This! Just make sure to have screenshots by July 19th!

 

That's great and everything, but I feel like we should probably be posting stuff on here so that any potential viewers of this thread don't just end up getting bored because of the lack of updates.

[Sithspecter 909]

Post screenshots but don't look like you're trying to post screenshots. I don't know...post screenshots casual.

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

Post screenshots but don't look like you're trying to post screenshots. I don't know...post screenshots casual.

 

Rrrrawrrrr rrroorrrrwwrrrr!

 

 

 

Anyways, I'll start the party

 

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Rrrrawrrrr rrroorrrrwwrrrr!

 

 

 

Anyways, I'll start the party

 

UMM?

 

 

(As in the "Ultimate Man box Mod"?)

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

It is a box, but it's more about who's in the box.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

I hope it's not Darth Jack!

 

[Malkior 476]

I hope the name isn't a misnomer where he's just an innocent guy with an unfortunate name. Or perhaps he is more nefarious than he appears?...

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

Oops I finished... well almost

 

 

I guess I better expand the scope of my project.

[Sith Holocron 2,478]

Will there be a blinking blue light on top?

[zbyl2 811]

Oops I finished... well almost

 

 

I guess I better expand the scope of my project.

 

I can imagine modelling the inside could take a while

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

I can imagine modelling the inside could take a while

Well yeah, it's much bigger on the inside.

[Malkior 476]

Also depends on which doctor/iteration you're going with. 

[VarsityPuppet 1,085]

Well, It's going to probably going to be more of an amalgamation of the different versions. This one has the St. John's Ambulance sticker on it but it's colored more like the 10ths.

 

A potential interior may take several components of all of the Tardis designs.

[Mephiles550 227]

Well yeah, it's much bigger on the inside.

I know next to nothing about Doctor Who, but isn't the Interior of the Tardis supposed to be incredibly spacious? Maybe you could replace the Ebon Hawk model with the Tardis, and going inside the Ebon Hawk could still make some sense. XD

[InSidious 237]

Oops I finished... well almost

 

 

I guess I better expand the scope of my project.

 

 

Really, really nice - though don't forget the glass in the windows.

 

I actually tried my hand at this years and years ago, though I did a really lousy job, and misjudged the scale quite spectacularly:

 

(This image is dated 24/06/2006, according to my computer - years and years wasn't an exaggeration. You can see why I never uploaded this pic before. )

 

I can imagine modelling the inside could take a while

 

Well, that can be sped up a little with block transfer computation, of course...

 

Well, It's going to probably going to be more of an amalgamation of the different versions. This one has the St. John's Ambulance sticker on it but it's colored more like the 10ths.

 

A potential interior may take several components of all of the Tardis designs.

 

If you're going to do an interior, there are only two contenders. The first is the original console room:

 

 

And the secondary console room:

 

 

Which was used for Season 14, for the run from The Masque of Mandragora through to The Robots of Death.

 

For reasons of practicality, the secondary console room might be easier: the primary during the first six years of the programme tended to shapeshift as space allowed, although you could probably combine the console and contents with the rough layout shown from The Three Doctors on:

 

 

 

So far as I can recall, at some point they added a pair of doors to this last one in the wall by the fault-locator and the scanner, on the right side as you look in from the doors, in the first shot. That was also the side used when they added interior doors to the original design, too, as I recall, for The Edge of Destruction (which is set entirely in the TARDIS, if you need to get an idea of the layout).

 

ETA: A much fuller/longer exploration of the TARDIS interior is seen in The Invasion of Time (episodes 5 & 6), but I'm not sure I'd recommend trying to model that... More seriously, the Cloister is seen in Logopolis, and the zero room (and a lot) of corridors in Castrovalva, as well as a couple of bedrooms in various Davison stories.