DMC 1 - Gaudy sign for storefront/building

[RawMeat3000]

Here is the first of the daily modelling challenges, for everyone's enjoyment. Here you will be creating a sign for some sort of business or organization. Try to make it as flashy and conspicuous as possible.

To get you started, some Google images

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&s ... ns&spell=1
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&s ... 21&ndsp=21

As for the rules, you must be using an actual modelling program, no level editors, and please don't reuse any previously made models. That is all.

This challenge will end in 5 days, somewhere in the Thursday-Friday divide. Although I guess nothing is stopping anyone from making something after that, since I might not lock these threads. We'll see.

[Duke Nukem]

do we have to texture the model?

[Surfa]

Can we render our models inside a game-engine.

[TicTac]

Can we stop making so many challenge varieties o.O They're making my head spin!

[RawMeat3000]

You can texture, you can import into a game engine, you can do most anything. The whole point is to just make something for practice, and I didn't want a bunch of pesky rules getting in the way of practicing.

So there are none.

[Zipfinator]

Oooh, texturing it seems like much better practice than the high polygon shit that you're never going to use in engine from the other challenges.

[WizardExt]

thumbs up for RawMeat3000! :)

[mky]

dmc... love it. If its going to be daily though, couldn't it all be one thread?

[RawMeat3000]

Should I texture it?

[Zipfinator]

Well if you're going to allow textures then probably. Texturing it will also get people to be more poly conservative unless they want a retarded UV.

[source-maps]

Should I texture it?

that would be nice to have in-game

[TicTac]

Rawmeat, texture that with a selfillum map :D It'll be so cool looking!

[RawMeat3000]

Can models have animated textures nowadays?

[vcool]

They always did.

Animated texture are just like any other texture, but animated. I don't see why they should work.

In fact for the neon sign in my map battle entry, I as initially planning to have an animated texture, with one arrow flashing in and out. In the end, though, baking textures didn't go as planned to I decided to pass the idea.

[stoopdapoop]

you can have them, but they should generally be avoided as I see it. Each frame takes up the same amount of memory as a regular texture (so you better be using compressed VTFs)

Source has a few material proxies that can help you achieve simple effects, without using an animated texture.