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GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: Shockwave on April 13, 2008

Title: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on April 13, 2008
PROCEDURAL CHALLENGE!

Welcome to the Procedural GFX challenge!
Yes, it's time to look up those fractal bookmarks once more and dust off those pixel shaders because it's time to create something purely out of code!


[What we would like you to make:]
Procedural graphics can be any kind of texture, effect, fractal or image that you generate within your program.. You might make a beautifully coloured mandelbrot, a fully 3D menger sponge, a stunningly animated Julia set, maybe even you can make an ultra realistic picture or texture? :) Possibly you'll make something out of voxels?

Maybe you'll even go down the oldschool route and create a mindblowing plasma! Possibly you'll use particles of some kind to simulate fire or smoke or water or cloth or clouds, or anything!

This challenge is so open! It should give a lot of variety!

Here are the rules!


Here are the prizes!



Good Luck!
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Pixel_Outlaw on April 13, 2008
I've been working with mazes lately and would like to use the algorithm in a new way. Is it acceptable if I have already learned the algorithm but write code from scratch?
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: mind on April 13, 2008
im totally gonna enter this one ^^ i have a few ideas i want to try out..
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on April 13, 2008
Yeah, I am definately going to enter too
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on April 13, 2008
Btw, P_O using the algorithm you learned would be fine :)
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Optimus on April 14, 2008
So it can be a still image but also an animated effect or a 3d scene with generated texture/models, as long as no additional data files are used for gfx/models/etc?

That's very interesting. I am definitelly bringing something..
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: va!n on April 14, 2008
even i am sadly very busy atm, due fact of some private things, i will try to enter something small and simple too ;)

Btw, what about the sourcecode? So ppl can see, if there is real generated stuff or still something "hidden" (like image in own format) included? (the think is, Blitz generates big executables afaik and so its not really easy to check if there is pure code only or still some hidden included data ^^
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on April 14, 2008
Quote from: va!n on April 14, 2008
Btw, what about the sourcecode? So ppl can see, if there is real generated stuff or still something "hidden" (like image in own format) included? (the think is, Blitz generates big executables afaik and so its not really easy to check if there is pure code only or still some hidden included data ^^

Source code is of course always welcome, but people should not be forced to give it if they don't want.

It is certainly possible to "reverse" a blitz exe to extract any packed in gfx, I know this because I've done it. Although I cant ever recall anybody cheating in one of our challenges.

If that started happening I would stop running them.

Anyway I do hope you manage to have a go at entering, competition for this one will be fierce so to win will take some doing! Good luck.
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Hotshot on April 15, 2008
Ummm could u do showcase demo example for me please :)

then I know what to do.
I can create plasma  but I am not sure about the rest -  smoke or water or cloth or clouds.
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: va!n on April 16, 2008
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You may include sound in your entries.

Is it allowed to use and play XM, MOD modules or is it only allowed to play generated sound/music? (and what about V2m tunes, using the synth by KB?) thanks.
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on April 16, 2008
Hotshot,

Why not make a nice plasma? That would be acceptable.

Vain,

This is a procedureal graphics competition, so therefore the graphics are the things that need to be generated.

You are allowed to include a song, be it generated or xm, or whatever as long as the graphics are generated within your program.


Hope that clarifies.
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: va!n on April 16, 2008
okay great, thanks for the fast answer  :goodpost:
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on May 15, 2008
Closes at midnight tonight for any last minute entries!
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Shockwave on May 16, 2008
It's going to be a total pleasure to put the poll tegether for the voting!

Thank you everyone for the really nice entries :D
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Tetra on May 16, 2008
These were some really awesome entries and it was very hard to pick just three for the voting.

Its great to see such variety in approaches and languages used.

Very Inspiring.
Title: Re: Procedural challenge!
Post by: Voltage on May 17, 2008
Wow what an active comp, and what awesome entries.

This comp was a pleasure to participate in.

Good luck, everyone.