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Help a noob at Texturing a wall with meshes UDK

so im trying to cover up a wall exterior of a building by applying a texture to flat plane mesh then copying that many times to fill the desired area. But im running into many problems. i need window…
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Ben Apuna

looking for a project to work on.(includes attachments)

hey poly counters,im just looking for a cool game dev team to join. ive been a modeler for around two years and have worked on a couple other projects,but none of them went anywhere. anyways,heres so…
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Cheathem

Pixologic User Group Meeting, March 22nd

come out to Gnomon and see Bryan Wynia, Danny Williams, and myself try to make something in an hour, should be fun. Schedule 6:30 pm — 7:00 pm: Meet and Greet 7:00 pm — 8:00 pm: Lunch Crunch (Bryan…
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arshlevon

Spartacus : Vengeance

Episode 1 Online Now [URL]http://www.starz.com/originals/spartacus/videos/#/episode-201[/URL] Enjoy! Keep the Spoilers out of sight. Thanks To Rens for the heads up!
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Oniram

weird bios reset thingy

so yeah I set up and old pc for internet browsing and it works fine, BUT the bios keeps on resetting itself when turn it on in the morning. It says that the cpu speed caused the system to hang, but …
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Ruz

Spotted some Fallout concept work being used probably without permission

So I was watching Discovery channel earlier because I was feelin' kinda ill and was on the couch. I started watching this show about Doomsday Preppers and they featured some company called Deep Eart…
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Ace-Angel

sculpting trees in zbrush

Hi,I am having problems sculpting the tree bark details,can someone show me how?The final output should look spooky and twirly.:(
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Jonas Ronnegard

Moebius / Giraud has passed away

[url]http://io9.com/5892148/legendary-french-artist-moebius-the-man-who-made-the-abyss-alien-and-tron-even-weirder-is-dead-at-74[/url] Giraud has passed away. :( Can't think of many other artists w…
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Muzzoid

SO I have decided to learn how to EVERYTHING. Advice Needed!

A fiend and myself are making an indie game project and we've elected to use the Unity Game Engine. It's going to take about three or so months to get the technology we've built so far up and running…
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Stinkhorse

The International - DOTA 2 Championship

[quote] Valve today announced The International. This tournament will be the first time Dota 2 is shown in public, and will take place August 17th -21st at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. [URL="h…
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Zipfinator

stupid things you HAVE to do at work

anyone have some odd/outdated/annoying workflow or whatever that you HAVE to do at work? I have a couple that really blow my mind. Also Im listing a bunch of just pure oddness that Ive tried to educa…
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Muzzoid

Aura Tactics RPG

So hello polycounters. Little project i jumped onto a couple weeks ago just launched our kickstarter. [url]http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1432779589/aura-tactics[/url] Its a tactics RPG for…
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BCos

testing BayImg

I am not even sure if the image will post. test 1: edit: this link first tried failed: [quote][URL]http://image.bayimg.com/oanbgaadd.jpg[/URL][URL="http://image.bayimg.com/oanbgaadd.jpg"] [/URL][…
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dr jekyll

set windows task scheduler to mount/unmount a hard drive?

Does anyone know if it is possible to set windows task scheduler to mount and unmount a external hard drive? I have this USB hard drive that does an automatic nightly backups of my work files but it…
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Alberto Rdrgz

Where to begin modeling?

I'm new here and pretty green to 3D modeling and have been wanting to model different things. I'm not sure where to start, however. I've been doing tutorials from Autodesk but those have not been hel…
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sirkibble2

Gala Fund-"their small investment for your big games"

Not exactly sure how things would work,maybe like Kickstarter only this time its specifically for games? An option to support charity would be nice too.. Anyway here's the info from the site,what do …
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PeterK

Street Fighter X Tekken

[url]http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/24/first-street-fighter-x-tekken-screens.aspx[/url] My two favorite fighting franchises together at last!
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thatanimator

I hate boss fights...

..Why? Because with boss fights all the rules you have played with thoughout the game, gets thrown out. With this I especially mean the sniper-1-shot-kill-you-dead-like-shit, because apparently when …
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arrangemonk

Media and SVN

I don't know. Is there any better solution to an online repository for media? SVN seems kind of bloated for this stuff. I was thinking Git but the whole inheritance thing makes it worse. I'm asking…
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equil

Unity Mobile Basic FREE! until April 8th

I didn't see this mentioned anywhere. The title says it all. Until April 8th you can save yourself $800 by grabbing the basic versions of Unity Android and iOS for free :D [URL="https://store.unity3…
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Denny

So the new iPad..

So with the new screen res, think it will be better for drawing apps?
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Ben Apuna

Freelancing, being overseas

Hello people, I would like to gather information if I could from all of you about the international aspects of freelancing. I heard that companies from the US don't like to hire remote work from over…
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MikeF

What is the secure job in CG? VFX or gaming

Sorry if this question was posted before, i couldn't find nothing similar. I am kind of the middle to choose for CG film or gaming? Mostly, i am interest in modeling, and texturing, realistic charac…
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Justin Meisse

New on Polycount

'Ello! Just wanted to say hey to anyone listening out there! I've been encouraged by quite a few people to join this community so I look forward to participating in future discussions. Quick bit a…
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Alberto Rdrgz

Introduction Thread/What in God's name am I supposed to do?

Hello, Someone told me that I need to have my account activated by an administrator before I can romp about in here. In General Discussion it said that new users should "check out the sticky thread."…
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shamanyouranus

MakerBot Thing -O- Matic

The user and all related content has been deleted.
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slipsius

So, who lives in Montreal?

So... I'm moving to Montreal on wednesday. Are there any polycounters around there? You don't count B1ll!
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Crash

Tutorials 2.0

I'm suppose to be practicing with speed modeling right now but my brain just found a way to slack off! Some of these tutorials, sites and Maya's documentation are where I learned the most. Link some …
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MadnessImport

Stan Winston School of Character Arts [paid streaming & subscriptions available]

[URL]https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/[/URL] Just found out that the online school is already live and offering video-on-demand and subscriptions. I'm not connected to this school so if this is to…
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MagicSugar

TORONTO IGDA - GDC Encore

Hey all you Toronto folks. If you havent seen this, check it out! [url]http://www.facebook.com/events/337426099633616/[/url] two presenters from the GDC are doing talks for the IGDA crowd. [QUOTE]…
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slipsius

Closed KARA - prototype by QuanticDream

:poly127: crap
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Alberto Rdrgz

Shanghai'd!

I'm heading to Shanghai soon, for a 3-week business trip. Any recommendations of cool things to see? I've never been, but am looking forward to it. The studio here is sending me out mid-August to h…
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Eric Chadwick

Peter Molyneux Is Leaving Lionhead Studios and Microsoft, Will Finish Kinect Fable

[B]Peter Molyneux Is Leaving Lionhead Studios and Microsoft.[/B] [URL]http://kotaku.com/5890594/peter-molyneux-is-leaving-lionhead-studios-and-microsoft-will-finish-kinect-fable[/URL] His new comp…
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Skillmister

Book of old mugshots?

I remember quite a while back, there was a discussion here about reference books of portraits or something along those lines. Someone had recommended a book of mugshots from the early 1900's. I check…
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RyanB

Need extra buttons? (hardware for shortcut keys)

Hey guys! I just stumbled upon another cool use for a piece of hardware I've had for awhile and thought I'd share. I've had a cheap [b]$60[/b] mini drum pad [b][u](you can get a cheaper one for $35…
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Fingus

Making a Trip to Akihabara today!

So I've been in Japan for about 4 days and still got a week left.. I'm going to do some vintage game shopping. SO far I bought a Famicom with Kirby's Adventure (boxed !), Rockman 3, Gradius II (boxed…
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ErichWK

Mobile Shooters; RTS Cam or TPS Cam?

Hey guys [COLOR=SeaGreen][---Information not really needed if you want to skip---][/COLOR] So I work for a mobile game studio, and a co-worker and myself are going to make a pretty cool dungeon crawl…
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[SF]Three9

Polycount Broke A Million Posts (NSFW)

I just noticed that we've recently broken 1,000,000 posts, which is pretty damn impressive, even if half of them were pictures of cats. Almost everything I know about game art and penis tanks I can …
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Jungsik

The Ramifications of not learning Sculpting Programs?

I have been studying how to model things for at least 6 years, I do all my modeling in 3Ds Max. Max is a program I know very well and I would rather not change all though I'm sure I could to similar …
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1magus

Infinity Blade: Dungeons!

[url]http://infinitybladegame.com/dungeons/[/url] Still can't get over how amazing it looks for IOS I'll be surely picking this up when its out!
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System

Where to find Source SDK answers?

Does anyone know of a good, active editing forum where I get answers to questions about Source SDK? I'm trying to build an honest-to-god Half-Life 2 level, and I'm having some fundamental problems w…
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zakhar2

Eat3d's Character Production By Michael Pavolvich

Greetings! Surprisingly, no one made a thread about Eat 3d's new DVD (which you guys usually do as soon as it is released.) [url]http://eat3d.com/blog/eat-3d/new-dvd-release-zbrush-4-character-prod…
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metalliandy

Pixel Sand Game Project, Kickstarter

Awhile ago I had the chance to work on a game with Trevor Sundburg. He's a great guy and a brilliant programmer. He put this game on Kickstarter and I contributed at the time what I could. He made hi…
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SiegePerilous

Thought SOPA was bad? Try NDAA bill and FEMA Camps

good thing it didnt go through.
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Bibendum

Shadows and alpha-test in Alternativa3D 8

We have released a new 8.27.0 version of the [URL="http://alternativaplatform.com/en/technologies/alternativa3d"]Alternativa3D[/URL] engine. Due to multiple requests we added shadows of the direction…
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AlternativaPlatform

Texturing advice needed.

Hey doing computer game in Torque for my final year project in university, well im making the models and texturing them etc. Doing it in Lightwave 9.6 and export to COLLADA. All I feel like i'm doin…
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Ghostscape

Ralph McQuarrie has passed away

The man was a legend in his own time and created some of the most iconic visual concepts in film history (and, for that matter, game history). May the Force be with you, Ralph. [URL]http://www.cnn.…
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PogoP

Maya shift 90 degree rotation?

Is there a maya tool/plugin/script out there that enables a shift+rotate gizmo that behaves likes max? I swear I spend an hour a day typing 90 into the channel box.
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MadnessImport

Activation new ZBrush 4R3 w/ ZSwitcher Conflict?

Never had enough misery to have to submit a ticket before... But, I gotta praise the Pixologic Support staff. Over the past days they were very responsive thourough and professional. I have never …
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claydough

Camera for Making Textures and more...

So I recently purchased a camera in order to take photos of buildings or objects that I need to model. I figured it can also be used to make texture assets as well, I know that most textures for game…
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1magus

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