Valkyria Chronicles Skin Competition

#1
7 years ago
Kyle_REKyle_RE Posts: 484 admin
edited June 2016 in Skins

In celebration of the recent remastered release of Valkyria Chronicles on PS4, SEGA and Relic are happy to present the Valkyria Chronicles Skin Competition for Company of Heroes 2. This is a 3D texturing contest for the Steam Workshop of Company of Heroes 2;
creating skins for the iconic vehicles of World War 2 based on vehicles skins from that of Valkyria Chronicles. The contest will run from June 2nd to July 2nd, 2016. Winners will have their skins added to the game and be credited for their work. Skins will be eligible
for use by players in auto match (online ranked play). Additionally, if the winning item is sold in the in-game store, winners will receive a share of the revenue made from sales of the items.

Company of Heroes 2 uses Relic Entertainment’s Essence Engine 3. Its modding toolset and source art files are accessible via the STEAM client.

 

CONTEST THEME
Submitted skins must be themed after or inspired by vehicle skins from any of the Valkyria Chronicles games. Examples include but are not limited to:

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Full terms and conditions for the Competition are available here. The factions available to reskin in this competition include the following:

Entry Requirements: Participants must create a set of completely original patterns for one selected faction. A full set includes 1 texture for each vehicle in a faction, with winter skin variants. Factions contain as few as 11 and as many as 18 vehicles. Participants can create multiple sets for different factions, provided that each submission contains a full set for one selected faction and meets the technical requirements.

You must register on Steam and CoH2’s Official Forums to enter this contest.

You must create and maintain a Work-In-Progress (WIP) thread on CoH2’s Official Forums for your entry in the Modding - Skins section. Then you must submit the final version of the item through the Steam Workshop (curated pathway). All submissions to the Steam Workshop for this contest must be final version of the skins. You must link to your Official Forums thread in the Steam workshop description of your item(s), as in this example. There are no restrictions on the number of entries you can submit for this competition. If you create multiple sets of items, you must have multiple threads for each set. You must also submit each skin set to the Steam Workshop separately.

You will also need to own Company of Heroes 2 to upload and submit your entry to the Company of Heroes 2 Steam Workshop via the Curated Pathway. The game is available for purchase Here. If you do not own a copy of Company of Heroes 2 you can still participate in this competition. In order to do so, you will need to first create and have an active WIP thread as described above. Then you will need to request a Steam key by sending an email with a link to your thread to: valkyriaskins@relic.com and your Steam ID. If you do not show work in progress, or submit items by July 1st 2016, the Steam key will be deactivated. Anybody who submits a valid entry will get to retain their copy of the game even if their skin is not selected as a winning entry ☺.

For this competition, winning items will be sold in the in-game store with 35% of profits paid directly to the creators of those items. The remaining revenue will be split as follows: (a) 30% will be paid to Valve (Steam fixed revenue share), (b) the remaining 35% will be paid to SEGA / Relic. If you want to be eligible for revenue share should you win, then you will need to provide Valve with your banking and tax information. You can start this process by submitting a form on the Company of Heroes 2 Steam workshop page. There is an FAQ to answer your additional questions on how to go about completing this process.

Copyright: All submissions must be original and cannot contain elements from copyrighted works (including direct or indirect references to third party IP), or use of any images or material you do not own. The purpose of this competition is to make something entirely your own, completely new, and totally awesome!

Prize Awarding: Once the competition has ended, a jury consisting of artists, game designers and developers selected by Relic will gather to choose the winning skins. There is no restriction on the maximum number of winning entries: the better the content, the more winners there will be! The selection of the winners is entirely at the discretion of the jury however they will be influenced by factors such as the popularity of the skins in the Steam Workshop; so don’t forget to promote your work in the Steam Workshop in order to get people to up vote it! The jury will also check that content meets the technical requirements.

Winners will be announced in July 2016. Relic intends to make the winning skins available to buy in the in-game store from September 2016.

 

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
You can learn how to go about creating skin mods on the Essence Engine Wiki.  After reviewing the getting started section, you’ll be interested in the Vehicle Skin section. Here’s the section on how to use the Mod Builder – the toolset you’ll need.

You can watch some “how-to” videos as well as meet some fellow modders in the forums. The COH2 modding community is very friendly so you should be able to get help if you get stuck. Last but not least, we have created a dedicated Wiki page for the competition that contains or links to everything you should know.

 

PROMOTING YOU MOD
After you have published to the Steam Workshop, your mod will show up in the Curated section of the Company of Heroes 2 Workshop.

Other players can view and vote on your mod. You can visit your mods workshop page and add screenshots, movies and any descriptions you’d like to promote your skin. Although this is optional, gathering votes will help your chances of getting selected as this is a factor taken into account by the jury at Relic. The popularity of an item on the Steam Workshop will also be a factor the jury at Relic will be taking into account, as it is a clear indicator of how desirable the content is to the COH2 community.

 

FAQ

Q. Can I partner with other content creators to work on a skin set – and in that case, how does the revenue sharing system work?

A. You may team up with as many others as you like for this contest. If you do team up with others, please pay special attention to the following submission guidelines.  Prizes and/or Revenue share will be administered to the person who submitted it to the workshop, and it will be their responsibility to divide this amongst contributors. The workshop provides a way to set the revenue split up, but this can only be done by the person who submits the item. Read more about it here (section 4).

 

Q. Will you be selling winning items individually or in a pack? If so, how will that impact revenue share?

A. The revenue share of 35% will change if your item is bundled with other items. For example, should your skin be bundled with 1 other skin to make a skin bundle, you will receive a share of the revenue from the bundle as a whole. In this case the likely revenue share would be 17.5% of the bundle’s total sales. Relic retains sole discretion to set the revenue share, how your item will be sold, and the price of the item sold. Relic maintains the right to change this at any time including offering any contributed items for free at any point in the future.

 

Q. It takes too long to have to play the game to test out my skins. Can I just spawn the vehicles I want to test?

A. There’s a very useful cheat mod you may want to use to spawn vehicles so you don’t need to play the game to test your work.

 

Q. How can I get rid of the team color decals and stripes so I can see my skin without them?

A. You can subscribe to a Decal Remover mod in the workshop that will remove these. You’ll need to equip this decal in your inventory like so.

 

Relic developers and artists will review the forum threads every day once the competition has begun to answer as many questions from entrants as possible; but don’t forget to check the resources which will provide you with additional information.

FULL LEGAL DETAILS: http://legal.relic.com/valkyria-chronicles-competition

Comments

  • #2
    7 years ago
    captainjordycaptainjo… Posts: 498

    Wehrmacht not getting any love, first they get only one skin set from the War Paint event and now they're not getting any Valkyria Chronicles skins.

    1 upvote = 1 prayer

  • #3
    7 years ago
    RabbitKingRabbitKing Posts: 20

    exciting news i've been waiting for another skin competition, i think i'll be making a skin for the okw based on valkyrias 422 squad

    i'll be posting a WIP soon

  • #4
    7 years ago

    Fantasy Skins in CoH2 :s hate it

  • #5
    7 years ago
    Emperor2000Emperor20… Posts: 122

    @FearTheBeard said:
    Fantasy Skins in CoH2 :s hate it

    yes

  • #6
    7 years ago

    OMG guys this is a WW2 game! NOT Need For Speed!!! Pls stop this!

  • #7
    7 years ago

    Pls stop Lelic!..... :s

  • #8
    7 years ago
    Emperor2000Emperor20… Posts: 122

    yes stop

  • #9
    7 years ago
    RadecRadec Posts: 1

    Really hate that the game has become to this, whenever i see HelpingHans playing i hate all his anime decals. This was a very good game serie about ww2. Now its just beeing exploited for money, creators of content only get 33% seems like a very good example

  • #10
    7 years ago

    Really hate that the game has become to this, whenever i see HelpingHans playing i hate all his anime decals. This was a very good game serie about ww2. Now its just beeing exploited for money, creators of content only get 33% seems like a very good example

    i totally agree with you!

  • #11
    7 years ago
    captainjordycaptainjo… Posts: 498

    Ya'll acting like this is CoD Infinite Warfare. It's not that bad. First off there's setting where you can choose to only see official historical skins that Relic made, plus saying that Relic is only doing this for more money is like saying Wal-Mart is only selling food to get money, they're both companies.

  • #12
    7 years ago
    JoeyMcJoeJoeJoeyMcJoe… Posts: 63
    edited June 2016

    Ask SEGA to sell a new WW2 game, then we'll probably get a WW2 themed competition. Just be thankful they aren't releasing any new Sonic games any time soon!

    I wonder if they'll do one when DOW3 is released...

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  • #13
    7 years ago

    Is there no one capable to make camouflages according to the time period ?!?!? Does it have to be all fantasy,children mentality ?

  • #14
    7 years ago
    Kyle_REKyle_RE Posts: 484 admin

    This is a co-promotion with fellow Sega game Valkyria Chronicles. As Aus Askar mentioned, for those who do not want to see these types of skin in automatch or custom games you don't have to, simply select Historical Skins Only in Menu > Options > Graphics and they will never appear in-game. There will be numerous integrations and competitions for historical skins in the future for players who are looking for new content that keeps the immersion. For everyone else, there will also be additional fantasy themed skins integrated in the future as well.

    Regardless if you like fantasy themed skins or not, this type of activity supports the community, their modding efforts and their passion for the game.

  • #15
    7 years ago
    omar_empomar_emp United Arab EmiratesPosts: 533

    @.☠. oOIYvYIOo said:
    Is there no one capable to make camouflages according to the time period ?!?!? Does it have to be all fantasy,children mentality ?

    you can turn it off in setting btw 2nd option in graphics

  • #16
    7 years ago
    omar_empomar_emp United Arab EmiratesPosts: 533

    @Kyle_RE said:
    This is a co-promotion with fellow Sega game Valkyria Chronicles. As Aus Askar mentioned, for those who do not want to see these types of skin in automatch or custom games you don't have to, simply select Historical Skins Only in Menu > Options > Graphics and they will never appear in-game. There will be numerous integrations and competitions for historical skins in the future for players who are looking for new content that keeps the immersion. For everyone else, there will also be additional fantasy themed skins integrated in the future as well.

    Regardless if you like fantasy themed skins or not, this type of activity supports the community, their modding efforts and their passion for the game.

    plz if u can fix custom skins in custom game

  • #17
    7 years ago
    Kyle_REKyle_RE Posts: 484 admin
    edited July 2016

    Thank you all for your great submissions. We are currently reviewing all submitted skins and will announce the winner(s) in the coming weeks. Thank you again for the hard work you put into making this amazing content for CoH2's community.

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