Quick question since I don't see any other thread on the board mentioning it right now: What is the Infinity Cup? Do we get to make a sports team? >Jamaica we have a bobsled team!

>>451 You make a soccer team together with customised players, uniforms, club logo and so on and then they do AI-vs-AI matches tournament style to determine which board’s team takes the cup.

>>452 Sounds like a challenge. A'ight, let's start with outfit colors. What fits this board the best?

Never thought I'd see the Infinity Cup back up, but it'd be great to join. >>453 Red, yellow, and white perhaps?

>>454 I get that those are LEGO colors, but if we're not the only team in this cup we probably need something a bit more 'anon.cafe/lego'. So far I've gotten used to the dark blue studded background.

>>451 >What is the Infinity Cup? Do we get to make a sports team? Good question! The Infinity Cup (or Inter-board Cup, or ex-8chan Cup, or I See You Pee) is a virtual tournament pitching teams made up of the lore and injokes of various boards across the webring. More specifically, we're having an AI run soccer tournament to determine which board is the superior one. Last cup saw /kind/ win against long-standing champions /christian/, but since we've seen a lot more boards pop up in and out of existence, we thought it fitting to revamp it for some fun times. In essence, some of you guys provide us with teams and kits and faces and funny names etc. and then we all join up in a chat on the day of the cup to shitpost about what's going on. It's very /comfy/. >>453 If I may suggest this (since I had that toy as a kid and it was THE SHIT), you could use the Lego Soccer kits as a basis.

>>456 I'm voting for pastel light green with pastel pink, to intimidate our opponents and the AI.

>>456 > you could use the Lego Soccer kits as a basis Good shout, that'd be great. >>457 Maybe the Paradisa kit could be our away kit?

>>460 >Paradisa as away kit Good idea, it'll be one big summer vacation for our players. But then we'll still need a home kit, right? I've really gotten a liking to the dark blue of this board.

How is this for a kit? Any suggestions for improvements? The main kit is one of the kits from the Sports line, while the goalkeeper kit is the goalie from the same team. Chose it because it still retains the dark blue of the board, and the red rectangle on his chest would have the Lego logo on it if we decide to use it. The away kit is based off Paradisa colours and a shirt that I thought was suitable.

>>476 Move the Paradisa graphic up a little bit and it all looks great!

>>476 Love the goalkeeper's outfit, nice job with the studs too. Kind of looks like a chain link armor (defense, defense!). For the Away kit I'd suggest the windsurfer logo, apparently it's so iconic that even real life shirts with it are shown as search results. The palm tree island looks fine too though, maybe expand it a little to avoid too much of a blank space on the shirts.

>>476 Looks fantastic, I'd love to have that gruff goalie on board. If we're talking roster, what would be your picks? I'd choose: >Orange Transparent Chainsaw An absolute classic from /toy/ >The Brickster Gotta have your bad boy on the team >Glows In The Dark! Because that was just too funny >LEGO Story Because of that God awful CGI >Brownie Points Living the Dream >Kathleen Enright ♫Brick by Brick♪

>>479 >Orange Transparent Chainsaw An iconic and worshipped LEGO item in general, /toy/ doesn't have shit. Every child back then saw the OTC as the most treasured weapon. >Brickster Definitely, he'll steal balls like he steals pizza pies. >Glows In The Dark You'll have to explain this one to me. >Brownie Points Better idea, we use the Millenium Falcon itself as part of the roster. It's THE most spammed Star Wars item on social media, and having a literal space ship on the roster for soccer is just too good. (Now imagine it dressed in team colors.) >LEGO Story Oof, I vaguely remember this nightmare. Let's make our opponents suffer it too, I approve. >Kathleen Enright Did you just pick the female vocalist for the LEGO Island songs as part of the roster? You absolute madman. >Mama papa Brickolini >Will not cook you no linguini >Don't you know we specialize >In one thing, that's the pizza pie >If you think the family's ready >For a plate of good spaghetti >Sorry if it makes you cry >But all we got is pizza pie

>>480 >>Glows In The Dark You'll have to explain this one to me. One of the first threads on /lego/ was about finding out how minifigures are designed, some based anon replied with pages out of a very exclusive interview with Lego Imagineers and since Glows-In-The-Dark CIAPirakas was a relevant topic back then someone made an edit out of the pages being shown in the thread. >Better idea, we use the Millenium Falcon itself as part of the roster. It's THE most spammed Star Wars item on social media, and having a literal space ship on the roster for soccer is just too good. (Now imagine it dressed in team colors.) That's cool too, as long as the base model is that of a bearded fatso and from his eyes upwards it's just the lego model itself. >Oof, I vaguely remember this nightmare. Let's make our opponents suffer it too, I approve. Why does it have millions of views though? It still puzzles me. I'd add the Broken Bionicle and That One Piece to the roster but I don't want to make it look like it's just generic LEGO memes.

>>479 >>481 Good list, I'd also suggest: -Jack Stone -Alfred Legosen >I don't want to make it look like it's just generic LEGO memes I think that's just what all team rosters are, they're just board in-jokes and whatnot.

>>481 >I'd add the Broken Bionicle How about The Good Guy?? It's probably the most infamous bonkle. Wojtus deffinitely needs to be added in his full glory. It will be hilarious to see a brick with a face on legs running around playing soccer.

>>481 >was <3 successive major IB takedowns, all due to false-flags, all within less than a year you don't really think all this was just the work of amateur shitposting goons, do you anon?

>>479 >brownie points Why would you put some random faggot instead of keeping to LEGO characters?

>>506 Not him but relax anon, the roster isn't finished yet. Right now we're just suggesting players but nothing is solid yet.

Finished the kits and moving on to our badge. Before I start, what should our slogan/motto be?

>>521 I'm tempted to suggest just "HEY!" as slogan, with the LEGO City commercials and all.

>>521 Beautiful in its minimalism. >>522 I more like wanted to have the Man Who Has Fallen In The River In Lego City be a rep rather than a logo

>>523 >the Man Who Has Fallen In The River In Lego City be a rep rather than a logo We can have a slogan AND a mascot, you know. Hell, we could have our 'national anthem' even be "A Man Has Fallen Into The River In LEGO City". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ral62vDVVCo

>>521 "It's Zack the Lego maniac!"

>>524 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_UZ2967_gU How about using a compilation of heys as the goal horn?

How's this for a badge? Seen as we're using the old sports kits I thought it would be fitting to use the old badge as well. Thought the "Play On" slogan from the 2000s was appropriate too. Don't know whether the badge would look better with just a plain Lego logo and just leave the slogan out. Still need: -name for our stadium -anthem -goal horn -victory song For the victory song I'd recommend this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhq-TbGJ5B8

>>528 Looks so good!

>>528 Goal horn could be an obnoxiously loud HEY.

Lego Yoda Needs to be in the team, maybe even as a medalled player and this should be his goal horn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKWVNeDYZmU

>>531 Seconding CBT goal horn

We need a minimum of 18 players and up to 23, so far we have 16: Orange Transparent Chainsaw The Brickster Glows In The Dark! LEGO Story Kathleen Enright Broken Bionicle That One Piece Jack Stone Alfred Legosen The Good Guy Wojtuś Zack Punished Yoda Bear Gold Nephilim LEGO® Millennium Falcon™ We also need to assign positions to players, as well as medals to players - 1 gold player, 1 silver, and 2 bronze players, and a name for our stadium. How would everyone feel if the grass of the stadium was replaced with pic related? Don't know if its possible but it would personalise the stadium a bit more. Suggesting the Island theme tune for our anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6cJbs3lm8

>>533 The stadium obviously should be called Lego City Stadium

>>533 Cheeky Croc Sad Clown Craig 31014

We're in >>>/icup/472

>>537 Guess now's a good excuse to make a soccer-themed display with fans to cheer on our team.

Congratulations /lego/, your board is now officially entered into the 6th Infinity Cup, a competition dedicated to crowning the divegrass champion of the webring! The defending champion and host for this Cup is /kind/, who defeated /co/ in the final, via a nailbiting penalty shootout. We will be following a similar tournament structure this Cup, with a Group Stage, guaranteeing your board at least 3 games, and a final Knockout Stage to determine the sole champion. The tentative schedule for the tournament is as follows: >July 31 Second Deadline, for tactics and Player Cards (explained below) >August 1st Draw Stream on the Infinity Cup Cytube, determining which teams your board will face in the Group Stage >August 7th, 8th, 9th First, second, and third Day of competition >August 14th, 15th, 16th Fourth, fifth, sixth day of competition, completion of Group Stage >August 22nd First day of Knockout Stage >August 23rd Final day of Knockout Stage, and the champion is crowned So what's the deal with this second deadline? This is for the strategy your team will run during the games, and it's the alternative to live managing. It's a simple text document that the rigger follows during the game that outlines offensive and defensive tactics, as well as substitutes. As for Player Cards, these are the special abilities your players will carry into the game. >Alright, I think I can handle that Perfect. The page explaining Team Strategies and how to select them is here: http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Team_Strategies And the page for Player Cards that does the same is here: http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Player_Cards You can send your strategies and player cards to me (SKF@8chan.co or SKF@cock.li) until July 31st, which gives me ample time to actually put them into the game. If you have any trouble with this as well, reach out. I've tried to make those two pages as accessible as possible, but I know there's still going to be issues for those putting it together. >I want to help but not do that Not a problem. Most teams don't have their roster pages filled out, and it's likely yours is one of them. Head to the wiki and fill in your team's roster page with images and brief profiles on your players. It really helps the commentators with their shitposts in-game. (Exemplar roster pages: http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki//ita//Roster http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki//loomis//Roster http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki//otter//Roster) We're always looking for 3D models of players on teams, so if you happen to know how to use Blender or have access to MMDs or similar 3D models, pass them along and we'll work on getting them into PES. We're also opening up submissions for adboards for this Cup, the field advertisements the scroll through during play. To submit them, simply post in your respective thread on /icup/, the only requirement is that the images be scaleable to 512x64, as that's the dimensions that PES needs for them to work. And as always, there's also room for any OC you guys want to put together for the tournament. t. SKF

Shit, who's going to take the lead and actually submit/write things for the second deadline? 'Cause I'm fresh out of ideas.

>>590 Sorry to get back to you so late, but thanks. Good to know the cup will soon be underway, I'm looking forward to it! >>594 I'll get on it when I have some spare time, I've already started editing the roster but it isn't finished yet.

Hey /lego/, I'll be running a test stream this Saturday the 18th on https://cytu.be/r/8cup. The whole thing kicks off at 3 EDT, 2CST, 19:00 UTC. We'll be playing some friendlies, having a bit of banter, and just shitposting on our merry ways. Tune in!

Ok, so I was thinking of 'borrowing' the model for OTC and replacing the face with a generic smiley face as the standard model for all players. How would everyone feel about that? Found some Bionicle models which could be used https://www.deviantart.com/sab64/art/MMD-XPS-Model-Matoran-Builder-s-Kit-Download-744952851 https://www.deviantart.com/oscarthechinchilla/art/MMD-Bionicle-Heroes-Piraka-Pack-DL-794709832 There's also a Unikitty model https://www.deviantart.com/mrwhitefolks/art/MMD-Unikitty-DL-739138391 and there's still spaces on the roster, should she be added?

>>601 Actual link not messed up by punctuation: https://cytu.be/r/8cup >>602 >Ok, so I was thinking of 'borrowing' the model for OTC Way ahead of you

Stream today 2 CDT 3 EDT 19:00 UTC https://cytu.be/r/8cup

Thank you to all who tuned in to the /test/ stream today. If you missed it, the matches will be up on the archive soon (https://pt.neko.bar/video-channels/icuparchive/video-playlists). We are officially two weeks away from the Group Draw to see who your team will compete against in the first stage of the Cup. If your team does not have their tactics sorted out yet, feel free to chip in by working on Team Strategies (http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Team_Strategies) or Player Cards (http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Player_Cards). I know this is complicated, so swing by your thread on /icup/ and I can answer any questions you might have. The deadline is July 31st. If you're not tactically inclined, you can still help out by creating adboards specific to your board. Adboards, like /japan/'s here, pic #2 related, are the little signs that cycle through on the sidelines during games. Post a board-related ad as a PNG in the same dimensions as /japan/'s and I'll be able to use it during the Cup. Any other OC for your team or roster you'd like to contribute is always appreciated as well.

Lego Yoda model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lego-yoda-5f0ecb7487a44550a0bf7e4962b37b48 What about this model being used for regular players instead of reusing OTC in >>603 ? https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lego-minifigure-rigged-42612b64a3004d3c97872c4c444f9544 Millenium Falcon model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lego-millennium-falcon-microfighter-aad3cd2307a34c9cb6e059da5e39a5c9 Bear Gold model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lego-bearfig-bendy-standard-showcase-ff2273eba9c54219ba7bf71186003f66 31014 model: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/lego-digger-5d2b324bff3f4d53aa5f36c1a0ac89b9 Also how about adding this to the roster: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/moon-buggy-d9019e6bd2e34614842db512096248d9 ?

Just a reminder you have less than a week to finish up tactics and player cards. If you are having any difficulties or are worried no one will step up, leave a post here or in your thread on /icup/. I have an anon on standby willing to put something together for teams who need help. If you're a team who has participated in a previous Cup and you have not explicitly let me know you're sticking with your strats from last time, do so ASAP, as it cuts down on the work I'll have to do in the week after the Draw Stream. If you've already done so, kick back, take it easy and wait for the draw stream. Draw Stream is August 1st, 2PM PDT, 4PM CDT, 5PM EDT, 21:00 UTC. Mark that calendar. As well, we're still accepting adboards for use during the tournament, visit the dedicated adboard thread on /icup/ and post them there.

>>621 I've been busy recently and haven't had the time, I will get on it if I can find the time for it. Made 2 adboards, does anyone have any objections to these being used?

>>623 I love the adboards, perfect references.

Just under an hour away, Draw Stream, be there! https://cytu.be/r/8cup

The Draw Stream is complete, and with only minor technical difficulties! You guys will play in Group B with /wooo/, /sw/, and /bane/! I'll be by again later with official game times for your board.

Took a little longer than I thought to get it finished, but here's the schedule for your Group.

>>627 >Star Wars >Baneposting >King of Shitposting At the very least I want us to kick /sw/'s ass. As revenge for all the goddamned SW lego that spreads like a disease.

>>629 Indeed, justice for Space!

Hello, Lego anons. Less than 70 minutes until today's matches begin. /lego/ is playing its first match against /woo/ in about two hours. https://cytu.be/r/8cup

Nice, we're kicking off our Infinity Cup debut with a 1-0 victory against /wooo/. The game itself was very close with both teams having a strong defence, but Alfred Legosen was able to score a goal in the second half. Full stream can be found at: https://bitwave.tv/Oxford8cup/replay/u9NU1gTNd4mLQPWkWWDs 1:02:23 For the beginning of the match 1:11:00 For the build-up to the goal

Thanks to all who tuned in this weekend. The current Cup standings are as follows. For a slightly more detailed look please see http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Infinity_Cup_6

>>634 >/sw/ and /bane/ in a draw Hah! Nice. /lego/ ftw!

/lego/ is playing again today. Good luck!

Quick recap of the scores from today. The full image with an update on Golden Boot will come tomorrow. /kind/ 1-2 /v/ /japan/ 1-2 /librejp/ /wooo/ 1-0 /sw/ /lego/ 0-1 /bane/ /co/ 1-2 /monster/ /late/ & /comfy 1-2 /cuckquean/ /bmn/ 2-1 /2hu/ If you don't see your team listed above, it means you're playing tomorrow. Matches kick off at the usual time (18:00 UTC). For a more detailed breakdown see: http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Infinity_Cup_6

Matchday 2 of the Cup is now complete. Congratulations to all teams who have thus far punched their ticket to the Knockout Stage. As usual, you can get a more in-depth look at http://infinitycup.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Infinity_Cup_6 Matchday 3 begins next Saturday, same time, same place.

Just a quick update: All matches played in the Cup so far are now viewable on NekoBar. The ICUP 6 playlist can be found at: https://pt.neko.bar/videos/watch/playlist/8d9881ff-e2f4-4335-8fa7-897c5219f8ea Additionally, the last set of Group Stage matches are to be held this Saturday and Sunday, usual time, usual place. Group winners and other teams advancing to the Knockout Stage will be determined through these matches, including the pair of rivalry matches in Group B, to be collectively referred to as "Grudgement Day". Be sure to tune in for these games and more this weekend!

>>643 Seeing the Lego Yoda model dwarf the other players on the pitch is funny and scary as fuck.

>>643 D E S T R O Y E D

The Group Stage of the Cup is now complete! Congratulations to the teams that advanced, the Cup continues with the Round of 16, beginning and ending on Saturday the 29th, and the final day, Sunday August 30th. The champion will be crowned this coming weekend, will you be there?

The Knockout Stage begins tomorrow afternoon. Join us for what could be the only sport running in North America! First match kicks off at the usual time: 11:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM CDT / 2:00 PM EDT / 18:00 UTC

Today is the day! A new divegrass champion will be crowned! The final matches of the tournament begin at 11:00 AM PDT, 1:00 PM CDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 18:00 UTC https://cytu.be/r/8cup BE THERE

Infinity Cup 6 is now complete! Congratulations to /fascist/ who join the ranks of champions as they defeated /bane/ 2-1 in the Final! In an unprecedented turn of events, the Golden Boot will be shared by not 2, but 3 players: Alfred Legosen (/lego/), Ammit (/monster/), and Cuckquean-tan (/cuckquean/). Each player scored 6 goals officially through the Cup, fitting, giving it was the 6th edition. Thank you to every anon who chipped in throughout the Cup, and thank you especially to all the anons who took the time to tune in. We'll see you for ICUP 7!

'Two weeks' turned into a few months, but I started remaking the Lego model to allow you to change the colors. This is a quick and early draft. This post is just for fun. It will be changed massively: >the arms' UV maps are currently messed and would be a pain to do anything more than a basic color. I literally did them in a minute. >the draft UV layout gives too much space to stuff that isn't important and not enough to the stuff like the face and shirt. In fact, in the end, the head and clothes may be split into two meshes, so you can have more detail on each. If you really want, I can experiment with having home-away kits be automatically put on the models. >In the videos, the animation is messed, mainly the arms. This can be improved a little but I doubt it will ever be great, since the animations are made for humans with shoulders and thin chests and stuff. Nevertheless, as you can see in the bottom left, the face can just be put on as a picture. Send me a face (or better yet, try and figure out the UVLayout.png and submit a full texture) and I'll show you what it looks like in-game. Again, these were all rushed, it will be less nonsensical in the end and have actual labels. Don't put actual effort into a texture yet. Bottom left: circle for top of head, rectangle for middle of head, circle for bottom of head Bottom middle: shirt (top row is [bottom side, front, top side (right is forward on the top side)] then bottom row is [right side, left side, back side] ) Bottom right: leg-to-torso connector Middle: their left leg then their right leg Top left: hands Rest of top: their left arm then their right arm

In the video, there are small specks of the wrong color in the middle of a color, this is an easily fixed issue so don't worry.

>>785 nice work anon.

>>784 Very impressive anon. Please post the finalised texture when you have it done so I can start creating custom textures for all the players.

>>791 Done, changes can be made if needed. Do a sketch or test before putting in any serious effort, just so we can make sure things line up as you expect.

By the way, I suggest using an editing tool with layers and adding the layout image as a top layer with blending mode Multiply or Darken, so you can see the UV faces and edit the colors below it easily.

Hello /lego/, I arrive at your humble board to officially announce the GCUP! The GCUP will be an exhibition tournament between boards of the webring that represent nations of the world, and will be contested under usual ICUP rules. In addition, we'll also be hosting friendlies for non-national boards/teams as part of the festivites. Friendlies can be played under normal rules, or, if you choose, under alternate (meme) rulesets that will be decided closer to the Cup's kickoff. If you would like to participate, head on over to the pinned thread at our board on Cafe. The event is set to begin February 13th, 2021. Look forward to having you there! Someone's already come on over and agreed to join up, but I have to post this for both posterity and to make sure I got to everyone

Heads up for anyone wanting to see updates on the team should check out >>>/icup/472

Hey /lego/, an update after some radio silence. With /christian/'s voluntary recusal from the GCUP proper, we have 12 teams set to compete for the GCUP. As for the friendlies, the move by /christian/ gives us at least 10 willing participants, with a few more I'm waiting on for confirmation. I've decided to move entirely to joke/meme friendlies, since there wasn't interest in ones played under ICUP rules. We'll be determining the draw for the tournament before the end of this week. Since we have 12 teams, I've decided to move forward with 4 groups of 3 teams, with the top team in each advancing to the Knockout Bracket. This guarantees each team at least two games, and keeps the main tournament at a brief 16 games. We'll be padding the days out with the friendlies whose gimmicks will be determined at the same time as the GCUP draw. I doubt I'll be streaming it live, but I will at least record and post it on the match archive as soon as it's ready. Stay tuned!

Reposting from the /icup/ thread since I was also directed here. Hey guys, aesthetics guy for /toy/'s 4cc team here. I got sent here from our thread. Any chance you could post the full body model/boots model for the minifig players you guys are using? Here's how our OTC is looking now on PES19. If you guys want anything from us I'd be happy to provide. I found our old PES17 files on my computer.

>>918 The guy working on the models for /lego/ has responded over on /icup/ >>>/icup/2197 . I'd respond to your original post on 4chan but my posts are getting automatically filtered again.

The groups have been drawn and are shown in pic related. You have been drawn into Group C with /argentina/ and /britfeel/. Your matches are as follows: vs. /britfeel/ - https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-02-14T21:00:00 vs. /argentina/ - https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2021-02-20T21:00:00 The top two teams from each group advance to the Knockout Stage, to be played on February 21st. We'll be showing these matches on the 8cup cytube as usual. Tune in!

>>933 It's time for your match against /britfeel/ https://cytu.be/r/8cup

Your match against britfeel ended 0 - 0, though you did field the first fully modeled team in Cup history. I staged this image after the match. Since you were the "away" team for this one, you wouldn't have seen it in the stream

>>937 A disappointing result but fun nonetheless. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Your match today against /argentina/ is happening now https://cytube.xyz/r/ICUP

>>937 Here's the version you got in your last match. Someone had rightly pointed out that The Good Guy and Glows In The Dark! had their models imported incorrectly, so that was fixed in time. A full roster of minifigures, Bonkles, Wojtus, and THAT ONE FUCKING PIECE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU PIECE OF SHIT.

>>947 Haha thanks anon.