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Sticky Information About Polycount & New Member Introductions Information You Should Know About the Polycount Forum Here are some things you should know about the Polycount Forum. New Members Welcome to Polycount! Please reply to this thread wi…	29.6K Last	AnimationAlerts Nov 2 2018
Sticky Bugs! We got 'em! Please post all your bug reports here. Anything wrong with the forums, we want to know about it. We think you want to be informed about what's going on with the forums. In that spirit, here's a …	257 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 20 2018
Sticky Polycount Discord and Slack We've set up a Polycount chat room[s] on the Discord service. Click the link here and you'll be taken there. This is a no-time limit invite.Check out more here for the service's info and stand a…	37 Last	carmyss Oct 18 2018
Sticky How to Post on the Internet I want to talk about the common questions and misconceptions inexperienced artists have, either when they start working towards becoming an artists or when they join Polycount. This is a culmination …	176 Last	Rnz May 16 2018
Promethean AI announcement trailer https://youtu.be/N5O-PDad2TsSeems pretty damn cool to me. What are your thoughts?	0 Last	Taylor Brown 12:34AM
Stan Lee dead at the age of 95 I just read the news that Stan Lee left us today at the age of 95: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/11/12/stan-lee-dead-at-95He was the best and his cameos were always funny in every Marvel mov…	2 Last	Sage Nov 12 2018
First game ever played? Hello guys! Today i ran across one of the first games i played and had alot of emotions coming back to me.... It was Krush kill 'N Destroy... Lol i loved those mutant scorpion-tanks, i just built tho…	79 Last	Neptunas123 Nov 12 2018
What made you feel good today? What made you feel good today? Tell us what us what made you feel happy today. Sister thread,[URL="http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116211"]What made you feel crap today?[/URL] I s…	910 Last	Neptunas123 Nov 12 2018
Mouse Recommendation Hi! Today my old Logitech G500 is failing me... :( It was the best mouse I found ergonomically for me. I'm wondering if it's worth to the upgrade to a new mouse, something you can recommend, or just …	15 Last	spacefrog Nov 12 2018
Oculus Quest Anyone excited to develop for Oculus Quest? I tried the Superhot game on it and it was amazing. I was able to walk around without wires tethered to me and the tracking was great! As for pipeline…	6 Last	serriffe Nov 10 2018
ZBrush license for sell [EU residents only] Hello guys! I want to sell my ZBrush license because I don't use it already for long time. It's fully legitimate BUT OFFER IS VALID ONLY FOR EU RESIDENTS. Pixologic help desk will take from me licens…	3 Last	AsicsoN Nov 8 2018
Music You've Made I'd like to mention that I created an cinematic ambient track. It's released under the basic attribution creative commons license so you're free to use it however you wish in whatever commercial or …	244 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Nov 7 2018
Turn based games suggestions.. I haven't played games in a long time so I am wondering if anyone here can suggest some good turn based rpgs preferably can play offline (no online gaming) for android or Pc.Also has anyone tried&nbs…	25 Last	throttlekitty Nov 7 2018
London Polycount Meetup nov. 24th Hey PC,I'm planning on taking a vaction in England (and I thiiink Amsterdam depending on where I'm feeling). Nov 20th to December 2ndAny PCers there who are down to [email protected]_gir Also will…	17 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Nov 6 2018
Tandent Lightbrush Do somebody know what happened with [url]http://www.fxguide.com/featured/tandent-lightbrush-engineering-an-image/[/url] It was a cool soft , although pretty slow and crashy from what I saw with dem…	4 Last	Kwramm Nov 6 2018
Forum Notifications Is it somehow possible to keep notifications BUT deactivate notification for one certain topic?I posted once in the What are you working on? 2018,and since than i always get notifications for it…	5 Last	goekbenjamin Nov 5 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2 Over 8 years of development. R* Games first's actual next-gen title. One week after it's realease it's being critically acclaimed for it's intricate sense of details, solid game play as well as one o…	8 Last	notman Nov 5 2018
wacom cintiq pro 16" - wavy/wobbly lines issues solved ? hey, question to anyone owning a cintiq pro 16" or 24"are the issues with the wavy or wobbly lines solved, or still there ?i read some stuff about that and watched some videos, but wasn't really sure…	1 Last	zachagreg Oct 31 2018
-- Toronto Polycount Meetup! -- Hey everyone!Its been a while since we've done this, but we're planning a Polycount meetup for next Friday the 14th!We are going to meet at our usual spot, The Scottland Yard at 7:00pm, but feel…	9 Last	TCarneiro Oct 31 2018
Poll Whats your IQ score...? Hello, have your ever taken an IQ test? At least some internet longer one that might have looked like it might have some information and value in it?What score did you got?Only "Graphic people" need …	140 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 31 2018
Shadow of the Tomb Raider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuemrb_ur2w	38 Last	Obscura Oct 28 2018
Capcom Shuts Down Vancouver Studio Resulting In Over 150 Layoffs A shame. Hopefully, most of the artists will succesfully relocate themselves in no time. And by the article, it seems a variety of artists are looking their way into another studios.There's a va…	13 Last	sacboi Oct 26 2018
Favorite Minimal Art (indie) games? I've been researching various indie games with notable minimalist art styles, but it's usually either 2d side scroller-ish (Limbo, Monument Valley) or 3d but feel lacking in the art department (…	8 Last	Ruflse Oct 25 2018
[Service/Volunteer] Gamers For Good: L.A./OC Area Events (For those in Los Angeles and Orange County)Gamers For Good's gonna be at Griffith Park this Saturday (August 19) to learn how to better serve the local homeless communities in LA, and help solv…	13 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Oct 24 2018
Poll Programming Sub-Forum? Should we add a new sub-forum in the Technical Forums section?We are generally hesitant to add new forum sections, as they tend to dilute discussion, and they require more moderation overhead. But ma…	34 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 22 2018
What made you feel crap today? What little thing has pissed you off/made you sad today? I feel so dirty after creating the "what made you feel good" thread, all those mopey and happy people covered in Disney love :) so I t…	568 Last	FULGORE Oct 21 2018
Character personality in first person games Hello polycounters!, I have opened this thread in order to talk about how the animation and the UI in a video game affects the way we perceive the personality of the character we are playi…	17 Last	Neox Oct 14 2018
Closed Screen Screenshotting App Can anyone recommend an app that'll take a screen shot at set intervals? Ideally something that can be locked to 3dsmax too so I don't end up with screenshots of me being distracted by Youtube inbetw…	12 Last	Eric Chadwick Oct 11 2018
Houdini 17 Preview Video Exciting times!https://vimeo.com/291934239 Curious how these optimizations and tools will impact character, FX, and games workflows.	15 Last	Aabel Oct 11 2018
Closed Because the group/polyginal fellows said so.... I have made a thread like this one in the past, but the tolerance for all of this has reached critical mass.From hearing certain things on the group chat, statements made at GDC, and that one f…	5 Last	Michael Knubben Oct 11 2018
Nintendo "Style" Rachet and clank "Style" what is it? Hey guys and gals,I'm wanting to start on my portfolio for environment/ prop/ level design. I can see what I want in my head... but I'm trying to figure out if this style has a name to it. I'd like t…	10 Last	CreativeSheep Oct 10 2018
Twitch Revenue should be shared with Game Devs? I was thinking about something that seemed unfair to me and i was wondering what you guys think about it. Do you think streamers/twitch should pay game developers for making a living off of playing t…	24 Last	notman Oct 9 2018
Help with my account please, my thread just disappeared- The title is self-explanatory...I tried to post a thread a few days ago asking for help with a Zbrush problem and after editing it, a message of "your message will be published if we aprove it" (or s…	2 Last	Duendornio Oct 5 2018
Welcome Me Hello everyone newbie and new to joining forums too.Is there a possibility to ask questions here?	10 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Oct 3 2018
October art challenges! #Inktober2018 and #Blocktober are things... is anyone doing a #Proptober other than Liam Pickford?Who's participating in any of the above? Looking for inspiration to keep me going and folks to …	2 Last	Ged Oct 1 2018
Vancouver meetup? Hello people of Polycount! I'll be returning to Vancouver this September to finally return to school, and I was wondering if there's any polycounter who lives in Vancouver and would like to casually …	10 Last	garcellano Oct 1 2018
Telltale Game Studio's Closure. The Walking Dead studio Telltale Games is shutting its doors – reportTelltale Games is closing its doors, according to reports.Reports today state The Walking Dead developer Telltale Games is shuttin…	34 Last	fdfxd2 Oct 1 2018
Star Citizen Offering A $27,000 Add-On Pack Star Citizen Offering A $27,000 Add-On Pack. I am really looking forward to playing this and flying around all the super expensive real estate. It will be like when I go window shopping in Bond …	22 Last	Amsterdam Hilton Hotel Sep 30 2018
Polycounter, Kris Lee needs help from you, Hey ya'll,Good friend to the Polycount community and to many who've learned and grown here has been seriously injured, and could use all the medical expense help he can get at this time. And an…	3 Last	jStins Sep 26 2018
Can anyone explain how the Artstation contests work? i saw Artstation have a new contest, and I thought I would like to try entering this one.I dont do 2d stuff only 3d stuff, and I assume for the first month its only 2d submissions then after th…	21 Last	zachagreg Sep 25 2018
3D Scanning Technology shows it's potential The future is coming along great boys.https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a47vMep_460svvp9.webmThere was also this video feature that was shown months ago about actually scanning live action MOIVIN…	22 Last	Eric Chadwick Sep 24 2018
Abosg - Industry Giants 2018 - DFW - Sept 22nd That's right Ron Clements - Writer, Director and Animator from Moana, Aladdin, Treasure Planet and The Princess and the frog will be at this years Industry Giants.Get you EARLY BIRD Tickets while the…	5 Last	ABOSG Sep 21 2018
Ignore This	27 Last	Ashervisalis Sep 21 2018
CGMood 3D Challenge - The Autumn Colors Dear Polycount users,In collaboration with V-Ray Chaos Group, FStormRender, Corona Renderer, RebusFarm and Centro Stile Milano Architetti, we are happy to announce our f…	1 Last	MassimoG Sep 17 2018
Animated Feature Film entirely done with Blender ..and rendered using Blender's Cycles.Looks great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf3ALGKgpGUIt's a mid-budget Chinese production supported and hosted by Netlfix.Some info on the Rigging here:h…	1 Last	sacboi Sep 14 2018
Zbrush 2018 commercial license for sale After quit my jobs, i decide sold all my personal 3D software license.Zbrush 2018 commercial Locked Node Window able to activate 2 computer with lifetime update.Market price = 895 USDMy price = 700 U…	0 Last	KenjiOkumaru Sep 12 2018
V&A GAMES EXHIBITION - LONDON, from the 8th Sep 2018 V&A GAMES EXHIBITION - LONDONVideogames: Design/Play/Disrupt*LINK to V&A* Opening on Saturday, 8 September 2018 Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt Explore the design and culture of contempor…	1 Last	littleclaude Sep 11 2018
GOD OF WAR (Art, Impressions, Thoughts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7IX5RTPPA&t=48sMust be a good time for this guy. He's the director of the game and here is he, reacting to the critical acclaim the game is currently receiving.L…	30 Last	Barbanegra Sep 10 2018
Greentooth Sightings in Videogames If you spot a surreptitiously placed Greentooth in a videogame, take a screen shot and share it here.Please only post legit videogame screenshots.Please only post legit Greentooth's. Similar or …	37 Last	DallanP Sep 9 2018
Username? Is it possible to have my username changed to my real name? Thank you.	3 Last	Greg DAlessandro Sep 8 2018
DOOM Eternal What id and Bethesda is doing with Doom is so cool.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGq8Ee2gOe4	1 Last	ShaneP Sep 8 2018