Long-Running Technical Talk Threads
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We un-stuck many of your favorite long-time Sticky threads, to unclutter the forum and hopefully improve your browsing experience.
- A Practical Guide On Normal Mapping For Games
- Article: Game Art Art
- Become more efficient: Free or nearly free app's & websites to help us do our jobs...
- Blender Mega Thread
- FAQ: How u make dem mats? Hands-on mini-tuts for making materials and texturing
- How The F*#% Do I Model This? - Reply for help with specific shapes
- Introducing Handplane Baker
- Knald - Master Thread
- Of Bit Depths, Banding and Normal Maps
- Skew you buddy! Making sense of skewed normal map details.
- Tech Artist - What are you working on: FOREVER Edition!
- Understanding averaged normals and ray projection/Who put waviness in my normal map?
- Upgrading or building a new PC? This is the thread for you!
- xNormal - MASTER THREAD
- You're making me hard. Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
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Do you have a specific criteria for what threads get stuck? In honesty, I think a couple of those should be reconsidered as ones which stayed. I think it's great having a Stick thread Dedicated to specific Shapes/Modelling (maybe a revamped version?).
It's helpful having it all contained in one thread which is easy to find at the top of the board, rather than everyone creating separate threads for individual shapes. Maybe it should just have a more blunt title such as "How Do I Model this Shape? - Post for help with specific shapes."
Basically anything which is comes up frequently I think it'd be a great idea to keep stickied, though I thoroughly appreciate that 10000 stickies per section is too many. :P
It's then up to those in the know to redirect them to the established threads or to the wiki or to post a solution, whatever they think fits best.
I don't think another sticky is going to solve basic human nature. But I could be wrong!
http://polycount.com/discussion/148303/of-bit-depths-banding-and-normal-maps/p1
http://polycount.com/discussion/147227/skew-you-buddy-making-sense-of-skewed-normal-map-details/p1
If we're embracing that mentality anyway, then clutter isn't relevant either, because by that logic there will be a new thread for every time someone has a problem (which admittedly happens a lot now). At that point though, I'd rather have a clutter of valuable sticky threads taking up half the page, than a new topic for every time someone has a topology issue. (I see Dem Shapes is back, which I recognize and appreciate! I'm just using it as an example).
I can see the benefit in consolidating some of them into groups, like the several normal ripping related topics, or the pipeline/technique related topics.
This just doesn't really seem like a solution to a problem to me personally. But maybe i'm misunderstanding what the problem was/is.
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Which ones would you like stickied vs. not? We can re-sticky all or some.
We're willing to do what helps you the most. This is after all, your forum!