Official Community Texture Contest 1

[Nikodemus]

I was really positively suprised that people did the skins with 3 eyes \o/. I was wondering many times how the rats are able to distinguish distances beatwe different objects. Because with one eye, it is rather hard. Especialy when the rat want to move fast, having not enough time, to look at the same objects from different angles.
Three winning entries. My personal thoughts.
Moogie's entry: It looks like undead. A creation of some mage, which used shinned rats parts for his/her purposes and then left without master, or whatever.
Induane-Minetus: A normal rat. I only can't understand why the eyes have these orange reflections.
Venae Rell's: A deseased rat. Poor thing's days are probably already counted, but before it die, it may infect other living beings. Bad fate, or intention of someone with evil plan

I don't know original stories of these rats. It are just my feeings from looking at these rats

EDIT

I really hope they continue these contests. 

I want tree contest ;P

[josephoenix]

Just to clarify, the winners on the page are the top three that Karyuu and I liked. The final decision of which (if any) will go ingame is up to Talad.

@LigH: Unfortunately I can't just take all the textures and put them up at PS-MC without asking. However, if people would like to make their submission available as a mod, drop by #ps-mc on irc.freenode.net or post on our forums (our forums have been acting a bit weird and being mobbed by bots though).

@Nikodemus: Are you SURE you didn't read Moogie's backstory? That's pretty much what it is I think xD

josePhoenix

[Nikodemus]

@Nikodemus: Are you SURE you didn't read Moogie's backstory? That's pretty much what it is I think xD

josePhoenix

No, i don't even know where to find it ;P I suppose in this thread, but i don't know if i look for it x)

[ThomPhoenix]

Great job everyone, all the textures look really good!
I hope Talad will just take them all 

[Moogie]

I never posted it, I might aswell though. Here you go, the origins of the Stitch Rats:

Many years ago, a worshipper of Laanx isolated himself deep within the sewers of Hydlaa, where he spent a life of solitude in the dank, wet labyrinths, conducting experimentations with Dark Way magics. One of his most successful endeavors was in controlling the minds of beasts by embedding a specially prepared glyph into the brain of his subjects, using it to channel a pattern of Dark Way energy straight into their minds. When this energy was steadily maintained, the mage could give basic commands to his new minions with subtle alterations in the energy pattern. After much testing, he concluded that rodents were the most versatile and abundant creatures he had at his disposal this far under the surface. After this breakthrough, the mage spent many years utilizing rats as obedient servants, using them for everything from waste disposal to scavenging supplies to be used in his latest experiments. Over time he had created a veritable army of vermin, and old folks tell tales of the noise that could be heard filtering through the street pavings of the thousands of scuttering feet below.

Legend has it that the mage's body was eventually found dead by a party of adventurers who happened to stumble across his lair. His flesh had been shredded away to the bone by the oldest of his rodent minions, whose decomposing brains eventually drove them to no longer heed his commands. Unable to fully die, and lacking intelligence enough to understand their existence free from magical bondage, the rats would attack and feed on anything that moved. When the man perished, his link with all other minions was severed, leaving them to wander aimlessly through the dark tunnels.


Stitch Rats are often wrongly refered to as a species. Their main defining characteristic is the state of their body, which is often covered in scars, scratches, or lesions. Sections of skin may (often tenuously) be held together by thick metal stitchings, evidence that their creation had not been natural. They are usually in poor physical health, and their mental state leaves them vicious and easily provoked into attack. Stitch Rats are relentless in their pursuit of sustainence; this is thought to be an undying echo of the last command ever sent through the glyphs before the magical link to their master was finally cut.

[Venae Rell]

  I won! Wowsers!

*looks at the stitch-rat's ears* Ooohhhh...

I totally didn't think of using transparency to deal with the rat's clunky-pointy ears and now I want to fix my texture up more!
 *grins*

If Talad wants to use the moldy-glowy-RellRat in-game, I'd be happy to make some improvements!

-Psyched Venae

[Akaye]

Oh WOW Congratulations Venae Rell. 

All of you did a wonderful job and I am green with envy. This is just a skill I don't yet possess but all who entered the contest have mad skills! Way to go and I applaud you all for entering!

[josephoenix]

Oh WOW Congratulations Venae Rell. 

All of you did a wonderful job and I am green with envy. This is just a skill I don't yet possess but all who entered the contest have mad skills! Way to go and I applaud you all for entering!

* josephoenix applies venae's skin to Akaye

Now you really are green ;]

Shameless PS-MC plug (no thread is complete without it!): PS-MC is happy to accept submissions for mods, be they from this contest or elsewhere :]

josePhoenix

[LARAGORN]

My congrats to the winners

I too admire Wired-Crawlers entry. The eyes are awsome

[Wired_Crawler]

Wow! So many different rats . Now every map in PS can have it's own unique species Congratulations go to winners and all contestants. We all did a good job, I think.
I'm looking forward to more opportunities to train new skills (I am starting to like texturing too).

P.S. Karyuu, You needn't have worried so much .

[Peacer]

congratulations to you moogie, induane+mineteus and venae

* Peacer offers them a hug

* Peacer offers another hug to thoose competing

[Kerol]

A GREAT  to ALL participants!!!

You made this contest a real success and showed that we can count on you and the great skill present in this wonderful community!

After this I'm sure that more contests and alike will follow 

Congratulations to the winners and another big THANK YOU to everyone!

[Karyuu]

I'd like to say something, because some people are evidently jumping to conclusions.

Jose and Xordan and I picked what we considered the top 3-4 contest entries. These along with all the rest were sent to Talad, and he still has the final word.

<josePhoenix> So, Talad, will any of these make it ingame?
<Talad> don’t know yet
<Talad> but can be
<Talad> I have to check it more closely

So for those who think that Jose and I judged the entire thing and that's it, you're really off.

Also, we are not replacing the old textures. The old textures will still be there - the new are just additions. Thank you again.

[Haanz]

YESSS!!!!   The black rats are safe for another day!!!... but their existence seems threatened by the rumors of more texturing competitions to come...

[LigH]

Just what I already expected:

The contest is the contest. Contest winners won the contest.

The game is the game. Contest contributions might become game contributions, but don't need to be contest winning entries to be chosen.