[2019] TennoGen Round 17 Deadline

Tenno,

The deadline for Round 17 is here: get your submissions in before August 26th at 2pm EDT to be considered!

We will be accepting new content and factions in this round, but we understand that there might be a bit of a learning curve before creators get a feel for these new items and styles. With that said, we'll be doing our best to offer feedback to Whip, Chest Armor, or Sentient / Solaris / Ostron-styled pieces that don't get in to the Round, in addition to our regular feedback processes. 

You can also use any of the official release threads for questions and advice:

• Whip Thread: 
• Chest Armor Thread: 
• Factions Thread: COMING FRIDAY, AUG 9

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All creations must be submitted with the following screenshot guidelines, so we can properly judge your creation. We reserve the right to reject items without proper screenshots, due to our inability to properly review your item.

• Please make sure to include a tint breakdown. 
• Have at least one well-lit screenshot on a 50% grey background and uncoloured lighting.
• For Skins and Syandanas, make sure the colouring in your screenshots matches the colouring in the files you uploaded.
• For Warframe Alt-Helmets, please be sure to match the base colours of the Warframe in your files and in one of the screenshots!
• Make sure your screenshots are all up to date! If you have comparison shots for previous versions, please indicate which screenshots are of the current iteration -- aka the ones we should be evaluating!
• Finally, provide both back, front and side views of your creation so we can see the whole picture. These views should not be partial -- we need to see the FULL item from all sides.

That's about it! Happy creating, Tenno!

1 hour ago, JorgeJoestar said:

What's up with the sudden ban on hoods and cloth? Faven's Wisp helmet was full of elements that are already commonly used in-game, a bunch of the skins are pretty hardcore fantasy, hoods are common, even in new concepts like Ash's second deluxe skin, and it was even explicitly stated that tennogen helmets for Wisp would be allowed to get rid of the scarf on the back.

There is no sudden ban on hoods, but they need to fit the Faction aesthetic, and still be abstracted for Warframe. Two very hood-like items exist in the program already and are rooted in the Grineer style, which makes sense for that Faction and also fit the Warframe's theme (Nekros and Harrow). Balancing between having the semblance of clothing while keeping in the Warframe style is tricky but doable, and is something we do work with creators on as much as we can.

Any in-house made items are not beholden to TennoGen rules -- TennoGen is an external program and has its own guidelines to reflect that. Both TennoGen and our own Deluxe Skins push the boundaries of the Warframe aesthetic in different ways.

I think this comment is referring to a now-deleted Tweet. The feedback that this Tweet was referring to was not official critique offered through our structured feedback rounds and thus isn't reflective of the TennoGen team. We have cleared up this misunderstanding with the creator already.

On 2019-08-24 at 4:36 PM, Cradicias said:

Any idea if we'll get Sword & Shield melee in the Tennogen? Would love to start seeing some skins for it.

We talked a little bit about this in our panel at TennoCon -- Sword & Shield skins are a little more complicated than regular melee skins because of their collapsible animation. Whips are the first time we've experimented with more complex skin meshes, and we'll be looking at other more complex weapon types once we've smoothed out any wrinkles (if there are any).