The second AVS tournament

I don't think that this one will be starting for a while. Tugg gets back on the 18th(assuming he's in).

well cant wait!😁
will have to start thinking about the topics already 😉

btw i'm gonna be on vacation 'till tuesday...don't start without me...

yo do that Ishan 🙂. Don't worry Atero, we won't.

Originally posted by Ishan_Rocky
well cant wait!😁
will have to start thinking about the topics already 😉

Here are some suggestions for topics:

Quartic DM
Raytraced shadowing
Dynamic lighting
Tweened animation
Human figure
Using the entire variable limit
Non-linear tunnel

😛

Even you and unconed haven't made a quartic DM that works off of the z=0 axis.😛 Let's go with that one.😛

Let's not get carried away in the first round, lets do quartic DM's in the final round or something.

Originally posted by anubis2003
Even you and unconed haven't made a quartic DM that works off of the z=0 axis.😛 Let's go with that one.😛

Yeah lets go for that one. 😉

can we just start small first? and NOT use raytracing? im still trying to get that down...

Akuso, we were joking. Topics are more along the lines of "Glow in the Dark" and stuff like that. Technical knowledge isn't needed.

whew! ok... now that I look at it though I feel stupid for not noticing all the green smilies.... to quick to reply I guess

Its a good thing though.... I was worried so I started looking up how to do 3d scopes and I made my frist one! HAHAH!!! still confused but Im finally learning! 😁 now Im really exited to see what I can do when Im under pressure!



BRING IT!

BRING IT!

Be patient, we are waiting for tug and others.

it'll come, don't worry. And it'll start easy for sure, so don't worry about that either. 🙂

uh hello everybody

I'd like to join the contest, is it still possble to sign me up??
well i hope so,

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Sure, join the club 🙂. The more the better.

Yeah its just my psychological tactics at work.

Would join as a judge if I had time, I'm back to the island I'm spending my vacation on on Tuesday and won't return till 15th-18th August. I probably could start judging with the second round or something.

jheriko, cause of those "suggestions", i am hiring a hitman, well i would if i had the money. you lucked out.

You really shouldn't start scaring the newer guys among us away 😉. I don't even know what a squartic DM is.

A quartic DM is a DM that would allow some really cool looking surfaces, such as the torus. Jheriko and UnConeD have tried doing it, but can't seem to get it to work right(jheriko can't anyways).

Quartic DMs are raytracing DMs that can solve problems in form of x^4+ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html for in-depth... the maths behind it is complex, which is why most of us are leaving the work to the two of them 🙂

Quartic surfaces include Chmutov Surface (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ChmutovSurface.html), Goursat's Surface (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoursatsSurface.html), Torus (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoursatsSurface.html), and a shitload more.

lets not fill this thread up with more codey drivel. Tugg has said that he doesnt have time to enter, even when he gets back from his hol.

But ill ask him again next time he's o/l just to be sure =D

sounds cool, and damn hard 😛. Too bad to hear Tug will probably not join. 🙁. Any more people who want to join, or can we start discussing when to start the tournament? (that does not mean I suggest we start right away, just merely thinking about it).

how about you guys get your ideas of themes ready, and begin whenever

Edit: i am now senior member... neato

Yeah.. the sooner the better, I'm itching to get going. 😁

I thought were starting on tuesday because of Atero?

More ideas for topics:

-fire
-flow
-smooth
-scopes
-over the rainbow (I dunno 😉)

Jeeeeez, another tournament?

Yeah, why not, i'm in 😁

Btw, we had a couple of damn good ideas what could be done better in the judging system (see last tournament thread) so please remember them BEFORE we start this one.

I think it was like this:

We need one coordinator who gets the presets by mail.
After a round is done, presets are randomly renamed and send here, then every contestant can judge them (except his own preset).

The votes are send to the coordinator again and he publishes the result.

That indeed would be fairer, though it complicates things a lot. I like the general idea of the coordinator, though I don't like the idea of having to mail all the presets instead of posting them here. Also I can't see other peoples work (though that's fairer too 😉). We didn't have any problems with judging last round, so why change it? Ah well, I guess it's up to the judges. The idea is good 🙂.

Glad to have you in, Magic.X, and thanks for the judging support. 🙂

The basic things i dont like about the other system is that you can do only one thing, judge or create. Both would'nt be only fairer, it would give all Members the possibility to evaluate the other presets which i would prefere.

And the mailing thing is just fine. If the first posted Preset is some SupertechyUnConeDlikeawesomelooking stuff, the reaction among newbies is "OMG, i could never do something this good" which is fairly disappointing right at the start.

Its just a suggestion. Take it or leave it, i won't mind. 😉