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Durham College - Questions

Hello Everyone, My name is Riley, I'm 23 and live in Saskatchewan, Canada. In Saskatchewan there is no (or very little) educational programs relating in any way to the Game Industry. There are als…
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RileyL

Closed Seals punished for role in Medal of Honor

[url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/09/navy-seals-disciplined-for-medal-of-honor-warfighter-consulting[/url] I totally agree with this, as an avid gamer myself, I also come from a military fami…
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Justin Meisse

Farm For Your Life - Indie Game

Hello folks, support the indie game farm for your life. It's a mixture of farming, resource management and zombie apocalypse game. It is developed independently by a former colleague of mine and its…
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hamzaaa

Side-by-side configuration is incorrect

I'm trying use the marmoset toolbag in windows 7 x64 but this error appears "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event …
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ljsketch

Shellrazer!

[CENTER][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/MVrm3.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] ---------- Hey Polycounters! So I've been working over at [URL="http://www.slickentertainment.com/"]Slick Entertainment[/URL] for about …
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rooster

Texture organisation

Hi All, I recall a thread about texture management a very long time ago but can't seem to find it in the search. Does anyone know of any solutions for organizing textures? Im looking at both softw…
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frubes

Bullet casings in games?

I don't know if this is really the right place to put this thread but I have to ask; How do guns expel casings in games? Do they spawn a separate object every time the weapon fires or are the guns a…
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Lawrence760

International Stout Day

[center][img]https://untappd.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/badges/bdg_stoutDay2012_lg.png[/img][/center] Today is [url=http://www.stoutday.com/]International Stout Day![/url] Let's commemorate this day b…
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Geezus

UDK November 2012 Beta Released

Landscape on Mobile... and not too much else. [QUOTE] [B]Featured Updates[/B] The November 2012 UDK release provides many new bells and whistles for mobile developers. Stay on the cutting edge with…
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Ace-Angel

The algorithm New song/video

For any one who is into metal or djent or electronica or just any thing creative the algorithms new song is awesome and it features the drummer from monuments :D [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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TehSplatt

Are we 'anchored' to our desks?

I just had a meetup with some friends. Some of them are in digital media/web design/graphic design fields. One of the topics that came up was mobile working experience: 'co-working', nomad-style, cof…
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glottis8

Montreal IGDA Student Roundtable for Artists

[quote] [img]http://www.igda.org/sites/all/themes/igda_group/logo.png[/img] "Student Topic: Career Prep for Game Artists" Sub-Topics: How far does formal education get you? Your expectations versus…
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d1ver

Dragonborn!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmdXDH9b1s"]The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim: Dragonborn - Official Trailer - YouTube[/ame] I'm so giddy!
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Ace-Angel

Dishonored

OK I know it's not yet out for most of the world, but since i've almost completed it (first run, probably one of many). I can say it: GOTY. Gorgeous art direction, nice story telling, tons of alterna…
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dtschultz

Descent in UDK

I played the hell out of the original descent back in the day. Here's a guy remaking it in UDK [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OxOxiOQ4sXU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?f…
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DavePhipps

Some stuff from the website I've been helping develop [Minds.com]

So I've been doing a bit of motion graphics and general media production stuff for a website called minds.com. We are an open source social video archive and are finally starting to go live for Alph…
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BCos

Fully Realtime 3d portfolio yay or nay?

So with services like p3d.in and 3d in general becoming more accessible on the web would it be a good idea to have a 3d character/assets portfolio that displays the models themselves instead of scree…
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leslievdb

Question Abouts Freelancing from Student.

Hello, Im a student from the UK aged 18. Im doing a graphical art course, I have chosen to focus around game design and 2D graphical design. Im coming closer toward the end of my education (unless I …
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imyj

Closed Changing Maya Shortcuts?

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ostevex

Bioware Character Contest

For you character artists out there, here's a contest going on over at CGHub. [url]http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139688[/url]
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Justin Meisse

Giving back to Polycount (27" 2560x1440) $400

So here's the deal. I live in Korea and as I was looking up parts for my new computer rig, I found a killer display for super cheap. They are under a few different names but basically(from my researc…
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monkeyscience

Forum Suggestion - Sticky Threads

Hey all, So I know there are plans for big changes to the forum eventually, with this Dota2 contest to help pay for it all (Kudos Valve!), so I thought I might add a suggestion for the sticky thread…
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Ace-Angel

Mon Kittah Cat Maxine

She followed us home one day. She will steal your heart, while attacking toes wiggling under the blanket. Here she is about to attack said toes. [IMG]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/310/9/1/ma…
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cptSwing

Cloud Atlas anyone?

I really enjoyed this film. The acting, scenario, directing, just everything was spot on. As someone said- you feel that movie with a guts.
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HitmonInfinity

Windows 8

Is anyone using this? I was going to download it but watched some youtube videos first and that changed my mind. They seem to want to coerce users into the metro/tablet interface, which seems like an…
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Kwramm

Off-topic: Roleplay in games

[IMG]http://www.iol.ie/~fcorp/gta/iv/fpd1.jpg[/IMG] If its cool with everyone, I thought once-in-a-while I'd post discussion topics about videogames that are somewhat unrelated to game art. The firs…
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Noodle!

Looking for a Polish translator!

I re-discovered this excellent set of tutorials in my inspiration folder, from a mod of the sim Mount & Blade. [url]http://max3d.pl/forum/showthread.php?p=813527#post813527[/url] There are a few in…
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Chase

video sharing sites

Hello, does anyone here knows any foreign video sharing sites in south korea, japan, asia, europe etc..
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imk

Dead Light

Anybody here been playing...? Aside from some odd glitches and laggy control, this games fantastic. Bit on the short side it seems, been playing well under two hours and nearly done sadly :( But I l…
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glottis8

Simple hardware for digital photo frame?

Alright so, most digital photo frames you can buy have horrible TN panels with bad-average viewing angles, and are fairly small. I can pick up a *VA panel 15" or 17" Dell Ultrasharp for like $10-20 f…
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Margaret123

Computer Chair

Mine fell apart... Literally. Back fell off while I was sitting in it. I'm by no means fat so I'm okay admitting this. I'm 6'3 150lbs. A couple screws fell out of it a while back from... erm... playi…
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purehilarity

LucasFilm sold to Disney

[url]http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/30/disney-buying-tar-wars-maker-lucasfilm-for-405b/[/url]
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Steve Schulze

Halo 4:Forward unto dawn

If any of you are halo fans,you gotta watch these!! Im not sure if its just because of how big of a fan i am of the halo series or what,but these live actions are amazing. part 1: [ame="http://www.…
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Brygelsmack

So, whats everybody doing for Halloween?

So what is everything up to this year? I always try and dress up in some way, its one of the only times of the year where you can get away with looking like a fool :) I've been Shaun of the Dead and …
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Steve Schulze

Rant TIME!

Why do developers put out so much crap software? Every year it's the same old crap with the same old bugs. This isn't just in this field, in music production same thing - Sonar 8 this year, next year…
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Paradan

DIY 3D printer, anyone?

Has anyone else jumped on the DIY 3D printer bandwagon yet? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GQm33.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/706pK.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VojvB.jpg[/IMG]
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ScoobyDoofus

Dealing with canned games

OK so the project I was working on has been canned, 6 months work frozen up, was a big license and all. Just wondering what you guys do when your games get canned at the last minute? Drinking? (BT…
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McGreed

Modern Worflow? I have no clue :(

Hi Guys. As some of you know I was out of 3d for quite some time. When I stopped making models the common workflow was Model/UV/texture/rig. Most everything was done in Max/Maya and texturing in PS…
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DavePhipps

Question Before I Buy Zbrush

After years of practicing in other apps, I'm ready to buy Zbrush and get serious with Zbrush. So I have question: Where can I go in order to get the best price I can for an academic license? Any sp…
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Andreas

Guilldwars 2

So the trailer for the game i have been working on went live at gamescom last night at like 3 am. GOGOGOGGO [url]www.guildwars2.com[/url]
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Rwolf

Need Help Choosing A Concentration for My BFA

Hey guys, so I just started the process of applying to the BFA program at my university. I'm stuck between 3 concentrations now: Drawing, Painting, and New Media. Drawing is the usual go to, but I re…
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Tairii

Learning Zbrush is driving me nuts!

God, I couldn't figure it out. I had to go through all the digital tutors starter videos step by step just to figure out the wonky UI. I know it has powerful tools and I've seen amazing things creat…
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DavePhipps

Motorcycles/Scooters, who here rides? Post a pic of your ride

I've got a 90 FZR600 and a 1972 CB500 [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/46492_148200111867944_188263_n.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/183445_19439958058133…
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StephenVyas

Is post-secondary education necessary to get a job in the industry?

I am currently a 2nd year Game Development student at Durham College, and am interested in becoming either an environment artist, level designer, or 3D generalist. With the amount of time this progra…
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sprunghunt

Let the long road of improvement begin!

Hello Polycount! My name is Ryan, and I have just recently joined your ranks. I'm SO glad that I did. I'm completely amazed and inspired at all of the talent I see here, and I have only been a memb…
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o2_is_alright

Blender 2.6 Modeling Tools. What's missing and what do you want?

Hey guys, I wanted to make a thread about the current state of the modelling tools in Blender 2.6+ and what everyone thinks is missing and why X missing feature is really needed. I cant make any pr…
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metalliandy

Please help me with Maya normal map Error.

Hi everybody. I'm using Maya 2013 x64 on Win7 x64. And when i assign zBrush genreated normal map to my model i see strange artifacts. I.m not sure that it;s seams but look very alike. I tried to reve…
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valurik

Rocketbirds Revolution (aka I can haz shipped title?)

Oo-rah! [url=http://www.rocketbirds.com/][img]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/778345/rbr-pc-splash.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.rocketbirds.com/]Rocketbirds Revolution[/url] So for the past 10ish m…
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Lamont

New Truebones Pro-Bones 8,000 BVH Pak. The Worlds Largest Mocap Library

TrueBones Motions Animation Studio's is Proud to Present, The Pro-Bones 8,000 BVH Motion Capture Library. New Features, *Over 8,000 professional high quality BVH motions. *Cross compatible skeleta…
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ProMotions

Dota 2 Diretide Mode

With all of the polycount Dota2 entries I can't find the discussion thread for Dota 2, so sorry for the duplicate. Check out the Halloween Diretide Mode. You have to feed Roshan candy. Looks soo …
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Justin Meisse

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