Technical Issues on the War Pages

[FredH]

Please let me know of any technical issues you have encountered or are encountering on the War Pages.

This thread is only for technical issues. If you have questions about topics, submission requirements, polygon restraints etc, please post those in your chosen team's forum.



_FreD_

[arshlevon]

yo fred, i think there is a small typo on the brief.. not too big of a deal but it might cause a little confusion.

- Race:
3dtotal: Cyborgs and robots (only moderate flesh is allowed)

CCSociety, 3DTotal, CGChat: Humans or Aliens. (only moderate mechanics is allowed)


3d total is listed twice and polycount is missing, i am assuming that polycount is suppose to be the cyborgs..

[FredH]

Fixed, thanks!

[SeanB]

This is a minor issue, but I don't believe you need the quotes in this part:
- Vehicle:
“NO” Vehicles allowed!

[FredH]

Should I make NO in red then? hehe Ok, Quotes are removed:) thanks.

[walruseater]

what do i need to do in order to sign up for the war?
i've registered here, and i've been registered at cgtalk/society for quite a few years now, do I just need to submit my name somewhere now, or what?

[FredH]

You must wait until february 7th.. then the personal entry forms will become active:) As you wait, you can get started by making a w.i.p thread in your team of choice. Getting out a concept out as soon as possible will let you have something ready to show on the w.i.p page when it becomes activated.

on february 7th, your team's thumbnail page will look like this: (example)
http://www.realtimecg.com/gameart/35/view/index.htm

If you have any additional questions, i would be happy to help.

_FreD_

[JPSeiler]

First off, really nice new forum you got there, i defenetly think it will fill up in the next six weeks, and will have a great start with the Dominance War II.

Anyway, back to topic. I read the brief carefully, and also most of your comments on the other boards. But i'm still unsure about this.


Race:
3dtotal: Cyborgs and robots (only moderate flesh is allowed)

Polycount, CCSociety, CGChat: Humans or Aliens. (only moderate mechanics is allowed)


You should flesh that out, defentatly, as i see alot of people have problems with that. For all other people than 3Dtotal, does that mean, you can not have a robotic/cybernatic leg or arm replacment, or even both, or in total up to four replacments (two leg, two arms) etc pp.

And also what does that mean for 3DTotal, is a human torso as a "base" okay, or even with a head? Or just some organic bits, like organic arms or legs, or just a head. What is okay and what not.

I'm currently pretty much finished with brainstorming, and will propably start doing concept drawings tomorow, but i want to know, if its working anyway. I want to join 3DTotal, my base will be atleast a female torso, with propably the head attached, anything else will be robotic replacments. So is that okay, or allready to much organic?

Also an other question, as i'm actually from germany, i could easily show boobs and stuff to my mom, well since im in the USA ... that would be a consider as crazy here. So what, partitally nudety is okay, or not, are nibles allready to much?


Anyway, i wish anyone alot of fun with Dominance War II !


Edit: Oh yeah, and for the 3DTotal guys, as we are going to do cyborgs and robots, i guess alot of the entries will have the weapons attached to the robots. So how can these guys use tyhe additional 1000 polys and texture sheet for gear?

[FredH]

Ok, I will revise the rules.

Perhaps If I simply put in a percentage, things will become more clear. I will write something more on this topic shortly.

In brief:
For 3dtotal, characters should possess more than 80% cybernetics.

For all other teams, they should have no more than 20% of cybernetics.

About nudity, I don't think it would be a good idea to go overboard on this. If you should win, your interviews and such will be limited because of your character's subject matter. Try to keep things at a decent level that is not to embarrassing for US customs.

[pimeto]

http://www.dominancewar.com/2/readbrief/index.htm
Polycount, CCSociety, CGChat: Humans or Aliens (only moderate mechanics is allowed). Basically, your character should have no more than 20% cybernetics. So two hands are fine or half an arm is fine or both feet are fine etc.

;) this is a minor mistake ;)

[FredH]

Fixed. Thanks:thumb:

[brome]

Fred from what I can see the only forums link directly linking to a communities DomWar forum is Polycount., The others just seem to link to the main forum hub... Having trouble navigating certain boards to find others WIP's.

[FredH]

I verified it myself just now. the join page leads to all the correct forums except for cgsociety. CGSociety has temporarily banned people from starting wip's until they have decided where the domwar forum will be located.

For the other 3 forums, feel free to start a w.i.p thread where the join page leads you:)

[TryForce]

Are Cartoon/Anime/B&W style tolerated?
just if you look up the older entries you see no stylized entry.

[FredH]

I removed the realism theme for this year. If people want to do a stylized entry, it's alright.

[brome]

Erm, I guess what I meant was that if you go to DominanceWar.com > Forums > Click a link, it goes to the main forum hub. I guess thats right then as you want to show the communities main forum. When I did it though I thought it was going to take me to the communities forum on the contest.

[FredH]

oh. Good point. I will fix this in a little while. Thanks for letting me know about this:cool:

[ctrl+awesome]

The model specs give examples that don't add up. 1024x4 does not = 2048, 512x4 does not = 1024. Changing this may clear up some confusion for people that believe they can get away with double the amount of texture map resolutions allowed.

Small grammer error on one of the red text quotes:
- One Entry per person max. If you are in a team of two, than you can't be part of another team.

"than" should be "then" afte the comma.

[FredH]

Put 4 1024 sheets together and you will see that the length of each side equals 2048. This question comes up a lot hehe

I fixed the spelling. Thanks:thumb:

[timothyd]

Hey Fred. I joined the wrong team by accident - the page reloaded and polycount was selected instead of cgsociety. Any way I can get out of this without making a new account?

Thanks.

[FredH]

timothyd, submit a thread url, title, and thumbnail, than after you are in, only then can I delete you. You can then start all over:)

[Jackablade]

The entry text seems to be far more limited than is indicated by the "Maximum of 3000 characters". I believe its actually 250. It'd be good if you could change the text so more people don't go writing long descriptions only to find that most of it doesn't get added to their entry page.

[FredH]

Good point. Save your story and this will be fixed sometime in the next five weeks. It will difinately be done before the deadline:)

[monsitj]

from the brief , it said , vichicle is not allow , but pet is ok , how about the polygon budget of pet? is it addition or use the budget of charactor and weapon ?

[Asmuel]

Yea I was wondering about that too, I PM'd you about another issue also :)

[MM]

hey Fred, i noticed that few thumbnails changed positions in all four pages. is that a technical problem?

anyways, i would like to suggest that the thumbs be randomized in every refresh/page load. it would give good exposure to everyone's work in random and would be more fair i think.

[FredH]

mashru --> thumbnails changes spots because some people were quicker in pressing the join button. It is not based on thumbnail submissions, it's based on when you hit the join button. If you look at mine, mine is locked in first because I was the first one testing it. It will never move.

I understand your concern about the exposure, if there is a dominancewar 3, I'll be sure to put in some different viewing features. Right now though, this will have to make do for the time. But, it's not that bad though because since the thumbnails don't move that much, people can easily find who they are looking for when they come back.

monsitj --> Polygon budget for the pet comes out of the character or the weapon. not both.

[CreesyComplex]

1st - this is my first time ever in a forum... with that said, how come my thumbnail link doesnt go to my thread? it just goes to an error page? im probably not doing something right. any suggestions?

[FredH]

you have to submit the url to your w.i.p page in the long empty box on top of your entry page.

When done, let me know if it works:thumb:

[CreesyComplex]

ok. when i initially filled out the EntryForm, i had no thread at cgsociety so i just put in (what i thought was) a default link. i have since tried to create a thread at cgsociety but they havnt approved it yet (takes up to 24 hours because its my first post) When i eventually get the thread at cgsociety, how can i update the url for my thumbnail link? There doesnt seem to be an option for that in the EditEntry Page.

[FredH]

you can't update your thread on your entry page. It said in red that once you write in a url, it can never be changed. You will hae to fill in the 3 required field and once your thumbnail is approved, you will be shown on the veiw entries page. At this time, I will be able to delete you so that you can start all over again.

This is the only way I am afraid.

pm me when you are up on the view entries page and let me know which team you are on.

[CreesyComplex]

ok. i finally got my cgsociety thread started. and my thumbnail has been approved. (gulp) go'head and erase me please lol i guess its off to page 2 for me
I was part of the cgsociety team

[CreesyComplex]

oh. and what is a "pm" ? (with that question i think i just figured out what a noob is) :)

[FredH]

You have been deleted. On the plus side, I just talked it over with my programmer, and we will add additional viewing options:) This will come into effect in one or two days.

Cheers

[Imagus]

Hey, Fred. Something odd regarding logins...

On the Dominance War front page, there's a "Login" area. However, if you log in, then view your team's entries, the button still says "Join Now!".

If you go to these forums and log in, making sure "Remember me" is checked, then go to the team's page, the button reads "Edit Entry".

If you log out of the forums, the Dominance War login still shows you as logged in. (and, of course, the team page button reads "Join Now!"

I'm not sure if the two are supposed to tie together, but it would make sense that the login on the Dominance War front page should log you into the competition and forums. At present, it seems that it and the forum login aren't cross-relating.

[Obumbrata]

Hi!

I made a mistake while entering my WIP, I joined the wrong team! Can you delete my enrty in CGChat so i can create a new one for CGS?

Thanks!

[avengerninja]

Hi again!
I'm afraid I need to restart my entry too cause I had the thread wrong and I can't seem to edit the other parts too... :( help

[FredH]

Obumbrata --> please fill in the three required things, url, title, thumbnail. When your thumbnail is approved, please pm me. We will get you up and running soon:thumb:

Avengerninja --> I can edit your thread url. Please pm me the details (your new url)

Imagus --> Yeah, you are right. They are not linked yet. This will be fixed in a little while:) (3-5 days)

[Imagus]

I believe that entries are being bumped one place down on team pages whenever the thumbnail image is updated. Since registering, my entry has moved down one space on the team page twice. I have updated the thumbnail twice, and I noticed the second shift right after my most recent thumbnail image appeared on the team page.

[FredH]

there are different viewing options. You are probably on "recent update" mode.

All viewing options are being worked on and should be finished tomorrow. Thank you for your patience.

_FreD_

[Imagus]

Just noticed the viewing options - nicely done. :)

However, the issue was with the "Date Started" viewing option. It looks like the entry just slipped another place, this time without an update to the thumbnail or any other information. Actually, upon returning to the "Date Started" option, it looks like the order of all entries has been changed. Not sure exactly what's happening...

[FredH]

Glad you like the new options. Date started will be worked on today. There will be a "Date Started New" and a "Date Started Old." Right now, it's date started new, so anyone new who joins shows up first.

At least now, people won't be stuck on the second page:approve:

[mim]

Hey :guns:fred! :D
_______
ok, I have some truble with thambnail uploading; I upload several times my new thambnails! exactly four time! one time it says "rejected! for reason [Inappropriate image]"! n three times say accepted n your url blahblah!
but my thambnail didn't changed atall yet after 8 hours or so! :brick: :uhh:
whats wrong?! what I have to do?!:think:
btw even when it says your thambnail isn't appropriate, it was really! but I changed it for next three times n now I wonna do fifth n last try till monday that I'll back from alil trip! :_( so my thamb probably remain in old look for 3 days! OMG! :(
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anyway tnx dude for your efforts really, mim

[FredH]

dude... refresh the view entries page and you will see that your latest model thumbnail is in. I rejected your thumbnails a few times because it didn't change. It was exactly the same.

btw.. I am going to reject your thumbnail again right now, it's still the same as the one on the view entries page:inocent:

[edit: I approved it:p]

[mim]

Ahh! Tnx fred, ;) it's now on it! :)
:D ,mim

[TryForce]

Uhm fred, if we want to create a scene for the beauty pose, do them scene models have to be done by ouw own, i mean can i use models from turbosquid?

[FredH]

No... you can't use any pre-made models for this. Everything needs to be made by you:)

_FreD_

[MM]

Hi Fred, i was recently trying to update my thumbnail but even after loggin in with "remember me" checked, it didnt give me the edit option. i keep seeing the join now button.

[FredH]

ok.

hmmm, are you using the same computer you started your entry with? If not, perhaps your cookies are somehow being blocked.

If you are still using the same computer, try the following:
1. Don't use the login on dominancewar.com. Dominancewar.com is not properly linked to the war pages yet. You must use Gameartisans.org

2. Trying logging out and then back in. After you are logged in again with remember me, trying using the same page to go here:
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/events/1/team3/competition_cat_1.html

Let me know if this helps:)
_FreD_

[MM]

ok, problem fixed.

somehow this domain got added to cookies exceptions list. i removed it from list and logged in again. now it works, thanks. :)

[FredH]

No problem. Glad to hear it's working for you :)

_FreD_

[rollin]

i see dead people.. no not realy.. but some php code on the frontpage..

:)

[FredH]

I am going to need a little more, which page exactly?:doh:

Edit: Nevermind, I found it. It will be fixed in a little while:)

[rollin]

http://www.dominancewar.com/ .. as far as you can do something there looks like php code is echod instead of include .. don´t know why this should happen.. but it looks like

[indian_boy]

it seems as though changes for occupation and employment status done in the User CP here doesn't affect the fields in the "edit entry" page...

or has this not be implemented to entirety yet?

[FredH]

:eek: Really? It works for me. If I change the fields here and hit save, these two fields change on my entry page and even preview finals page.

Can you try again? Please let me know if they work for you because this is important.

[indian_boy]

srry it took me so long to check! i forgot i posted here lol...

okay, its confirmed, i couldn't get it to change using either Opera 9.x nor IE, even after removing cookies and trying again or anything...

[FredH]

hmm, curious, you are trying to edit these two fields here on gameartisans.org in your "usercp -> Edit Profile," right?

You can't change them on your entry pages. You can only edit them here.

[indian_boy]

yep... i logged in to gameartisans.org, with "remember me" on... then i went to User CP and changed my profile. Then clicked save changes (or submit?). The thing is that, now, everytime i go to sheck my User CP, the changes i made are saved, but the changes aren't implemented in my "Edit Entry" page.

[FredH]

Ok, I'll see what can be done. Thanks for letting me know about this.

[FredH]

After extensive testing, I found the problem:) For some reason, the new employment status and occupation fields are linked to your avatar:doh: People who don't submit an avatar can't use these fields.

This will be fixed by the programmer. Thanks again indian_boy:thumb:

[indian_boy]

no probs.... :D

[EricElwell]

Thumbnails not refreshing (after the 19th, original end date) ??

I submitted my new thumbnail, received a message that it had been approved, yet it has not been changed. I assume that there is a script on the site to show the last thumbnail before March 19th, the original finish date, as there is a clause about that. Hope you can get that fixed :)

[FredH]

If you are using firefox, it's take several refreshes before it shows. Have you tried this?

Let me know if this works. If not, I will look into it:)

[EricElwell]

aha! silly me! That was an easy fix :)

[FredH]

ahh, easy fix. I like em hehe. glad I could help:p

_Fred_

[rollin]

edit entry page
left block

msg:

Warning: getimagesize(../../forums/customavatars/poly_avatar.gif) [function.getimagesize]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/artisan/public_html/contests/events/1/team1/competition.php on line 239

Warning: Division by zero in /home/artisan/public_html/contests/include/functions.php on line 18
width="0" height="0" style="padding-top:1px;" />

[FredH]

Thanks for this info, it will be fixed in less than 24 hours.

[rollin]

if you upload a pic the "You have x/5 final images loaded" counter doesnt coun.. you have to reload the page to get the right count

:p

just being mean ;)

[FredH]

:p Well, there are still a few bugs here and there hehe

Rollin, has your previous bug been fixed?

[rollin]

jap.. works fine now :)

[Alexander_T]

I submitted my finals yesturday before the wars has ended, then today came to the http://www.dominancewar.com and clicked on the "click here to view your submitted entry" when I came there there was nothing, just my forum name end all the fields is empty, should it be so?
I surely submitted my finals end there was congratulations message!

[FredH]

Really? You don't see anything:eek: I checked, and your entry is in, so you are fine. However, I am surprised to hear you can't view your personal finals.

[Alexander_T]

Never mind that anyways. Im glad to hear that everything fine. Thanx for quick answer.

[FredH]

No problem:) congrats on finishing!