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Lighting dissertation

Hi, I'm currently in my final year of my university degree. The degree is a computer games modelling and animation BA (Hons) degree and I've been working on my dissertation for a while, I'm already f…
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Jenny

Boston booze!

[IMG]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRQHkNvFpCsbZN6TkC_BCQQr3-DwwbHGj_oRXrqFE8PvtIvwdzRRKmAO9vVhw[/IMG] We're hosting this month's Boston Postmortem, with free drinks for all. This is comin…
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Parnell

Polycount Randomly Logs in to any user

I discovered that always when I enter "www.polycount.com" it is logged in as random user and when I press on the user it logs off. It does not happen anywhere else, just at school.
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dempolys

Closed Rob Ram Z's work

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RobertRamsay

RED SAND: a Mass Effect fan film - starring MARK MEER

RED SAND: a Mass Effect fan film - starring MARK MEER [url]http://http://redsand.uat.edu/[/url] Check out the Website [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8vY3IbB6B4"]RED SAND: a Mass Effect fan …
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arinavar

Scared To Post Work

Is it natural to be afraid to show my work to you guys? i mean, obviously i have the same fear as every other artist, that someone will see what you see which is what's wrong with the work but i just…
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dpaynter26

The best of Polycount (or suggestions for PC Showcase gallery)

I believe Polycount mods are busy guys, and this way there´s some threads that deserves to be highlighted in PC showcase, but are missed, simply because the right people doesn't see them in time. So…
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doc rob

JPEGmini

[url]http://www.jpegmini.com/main/home[/url] After reading Del's response below and doing some testing, PS is def better - esp. at high res tex ignore & delete!
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Del

Darkness II 30 minute preview!!

Hey guys! Here's a preview of the game "The Darkness II" that myself and fellow polycounters have been working on for the past 2 years. I'm excited to get my hands on the release build of the game m…
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glottis8

I want to throw my desk out the window

This probably falls under the category of stupid threads I can't believe I'm writing, but I'm tired of fighting my workspace at home. It's cramped, messy, and uncomfortable, especially because I'm ru…
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fearian

Bethesda's Adam Adamowicz passed away :(

Maybe someone can formulate a main News entry out of this, didn't see a Thread for this yet. As several major Gaming Sites Report Adam Adamowicz, Bethesdas main Concept Artist for Fallout 3 passed aw…
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littleclaude

Physically-based rendering in commercial projects

A little bit of a poll, would be interested if your studio works with shading models that go beyond phong. [url]http://renderwonk.com/publications/s2010-shading-course/[/url]
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CrazyButcher

Any artists looking for a playground?

I recently got my developers license for HeroEngine's HeroCloud and have something like 99 Developer licesnes. Of course I'd like to create my own MMORPG, but I have zero artistic abilities and am f…
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jeramy79

want md2 format models

Where do I get md2 format models on this site ? Is this format for Quake or Quake2 ? I need the following: 1. "sexy" or "futuristic" lady armed with a gun or weapon with animation cycles for shootin…
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djmrgb

Modeling without exact images

I've always up until now have used front and side image planes when modeling. Like when taking off the training wheels on a bike, I've decided to model for the first time with images, but not in my v…
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thepapercut

High end tech, need some use ideas.

Just been granted access to some high end tech at uni and I'm interested if anyone has some ideas to use it for. Tommorow ill finish setting up a Dell PowerEdge R710 (24core, 288Gb) and a Nvidia T…
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VPrime

Getting Started!

[COLOR="Purple"]Hello, I'm Jesse, I'm sixteen and in high-school. I haven't taken an art class since eighth grade. I can some what draw but not the best. I was curious if i should an art class or doe…
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Mcejn

University this September - questions!

Hi all, Firstly, sorry if this Question has been posted before, I'm sure it has! I will be starting a Games Design bachelors of science degree this September. It's a very good course according to m…
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imyj

How to disabel/enabel unpnp on router bf3 problem

Hey I bought Batlefield 3 recently but i cant play Multiplayer, cant get into any server. This is some of the error message it get: Game disconnected: could not join server. Singelplayer works j…
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S_ource

Artistically Challenged

Hi guys, If any of you guys have read any of my previous posts you'll know that I have absolutely zero artistic abilities at all. I've tried my hand at Maya and 3DS, but I really suck! With that be…
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Anchang-Style

POLL: 1st Industry Job in Last 2 Yrs, do you hold a Degree?

Simply curious to see the results.
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Farfarer

anyone in New York?

hi guys! so i'm coming to new york for three days starting april 15th, and I was thinking it might be cool to hang out with a bunch or like-minded guys from the industry. so, if anyone is in new yor…
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Eric B.

Favorite Demo Reel?

I enjoy good demo reels for inspiration and just generally getting pumped up to create art, Post your favorite demo reels, environments, characters, riggers, anything you want to post that's a cool d…
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Oniram

Where can i go with 3D max, plus have other questions

Well sorry, i know i have mess up the topic, but i have no idea what to put on. If you want, read this message, and i hope you can give me a little more professional advice. So i know 3D max, not in…
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Noodle!

Game Conventions

Hi, I'm headed to a game convention for my first time, in a few months, and I was wondering, especially if you've been to a convention before, how can I maximize my exposure and get my name out there…
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BradleyWascher

Any tutorials for creating an environment for a game engine

I'm looking for a tutorial (a free one, I've been burned too much on tutorial dvds that are way too fast) (video or text) that shows exactly what to do in creating an environment or scene in 3DS Max …
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Dazz3r

Dare to be Digital 2012

I'm in the process of getting a team together for this year's Dare to be Digital :) [URL="http://www.daretobedigital.com/"]for those who don't know, it's a 10-week game dev competition held over sum…
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imyj

Learning 2D Art - first steps?

Hi everyone, I started a drawing class at a local college I attend. The problem is this class assumes that since your major is Fine Arts, you already possess a drawing ability which isn't true in my…
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Rockley Bonner

How much is my old workstation worth?

Im in the process of buying my parts for my new updated workstation and would like to know what some people think the old one is worth. I built this cpu almost 10 years ago and its still running grea…
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Two Listen

Loss of Motivation

Hey all, I am posting this in hopes that somebody will talk some sense into me and get me out of this funk I am in. I recently graduated from college in December, the first few weeks were fine. I sat…
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Snacuum

UDK January Beta Released

Some cool new features :) [QUOTE] [B]January UDK Beta Upgrade Notes[/B] [B][/B] [B]Simplygon Mesh Proxy Tool[/B] [LIST] [*]New [B]Simplygon Merge Tool[/B] for combining static meshes [/LIST][CENTE…
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Computron

Broken Handed Enviro Artist

Hey there Polycount! As an environment artist who has recently broken his hand snowboarding (my keyboard hand) i was wondering if you guys would have thoughts on how to work best with just one hand,…
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eyo

Education in the industry.

My assumtion was that if your work was better than the guy with the degree you would get picked. How true is this? And do you see degrees being more nessisary in this feild in the future?
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Rockley Bonner

Vigil Nights live streaming 2-9-12*6pm CT 20mins away!!*

Hi everyone I figured I would give the polycount community a heads up on a live stream speedpainting session I am doing on behalf of vigil games. Feel free to come watch at: [url]http://www.livestrea…
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Joshflighter

Particles???

Alright.. so i need you guys to help me up with some stuff here.. Below is a screen shot from the movie "wrath of the titans" [IMG]http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s396/jeffzach20/particles.png[…
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Alberto Rdrgz

Anyone else worried about SOPA?

[url]http://lifehacker.com/5860205/all-about-sopa-the-bill-thats-going-to-cripple-your-internet[/url] All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet Any one else been worried about this…
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JFletcher

POLL: 1st industry job within the last 2 years? Do you have a degree?

EDIT: iPhone post fail... battery ran out whilst creating poll... please delete.
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System

Closed Is this legal? (3d model ripping - distributing)

I was looking in the 3d game art section of deviantart and I noticed some nice models, I went for a quick look and I noticed that this user was ripping ([I]I think, correct me if I'm wrong[/I]) model…
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r_fletch_r

WTF Nvidia!

I was having problems getting games to use my graphics card instead of my i5's, so I did some searching, and found this. [url]http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=201764&st=20[/url] WTF? Wh…
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System

New Iron Sky teaser

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80[/ame]
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rolfness

Compensation for crunch in the games industry?

Hey guys! Since you Polycounters always gave me good advice and helped me out many times before (for which i am very grateful), I wanted to share my situation with you and ask you for your opinion. …
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MiAlx

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

Got linked to this game earlier, and it doesn't look too bad actually. I can see what people mean when they compare it to a mix of fable and oblivion/skyrim, it definitely feels like it's how I want…
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Sean VanGorder

Closed Warhead dropped by "unknown" attackers destroys parts of St. Petersburg, Russia

(pictures taken from very far away) [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/08/article-2098164-11A345EA000005DC-11_634x443.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/02/08/article-20981…
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adam

Top three real time games artists in the world 2012

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=3]Now that I have your attention with the title. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=3] The point of this thread is to showcase the artistry of real time artists out side of character …
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The Mad Artist

Reasonable Scene Polycount

Well, hi people! this is my first post here! I'm have some questions about the poly size used this days in games such as "Skyrim" and "The Witcher 2" for exemple. whats the average triangulations in …
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PixelMasher

any mobile game developers here?

just wanted to have an idea, who here makes mobile games iOS, Android,... like to see what people makes.
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Tigerfeet

Explosions & Rainbows

2012 side project has begun! [IMG]http://3dwasabi.com/raindows/marketing/expnrain_banner.jpg[/IMG] I did some tutorials back in 2009 on YouTube, a fire & destruction tutorial which was pre-fractu…
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Avanthera

Classic replays

so i was just putting up a new shelf going through my game boxes and got to thinking about the fantastic games that i've played through at least once a year every year since they came out. so what's …
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brandoom

Need some help picking out a new tablet...

Hi all, I am thinking of getting a new tablet. I have read some articles and reviews and stuff, but none of them mention the most important thing for me. The feel of the pen touching the surface of t…
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adio38

Buying from EBGames.com

Greetings; I have a quick question to you guys if anyone of you is a bit more familiar with the EB game system. Usually for pre-releases they would charge you the entire product cost and put it und…
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slipsius

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