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Unity Connect and contest! Unity and Polycount are pleased to announce Unity Connect. Here's a bit of text from Unity on what Unity Connect is and what they hoping for with this free service:"Connect is Unity’s newest app in B…	32 Last	JohnJefferson Feb 2017
Moved: terrain method for UE4 This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2017
London Polycount meet: 11th February 2017 - The Parcel Yard, King's Cross - 4pm-11pm! **UPDATE: We have the room from 4pm until 11pm on the 11th February**http://www.parcelyard.co.uk/London/UK/EU Polycounters! After been reminded by a few people over the past couple of weeks that…	105 Last	TooLzor Feb 2017
Rant: No one understands 3D art I can't be the only one frustrated with this. You show someone your work and they say, "That's really good."Really good? Did you notice that I labeled every object, group, and joint in the scene? My …	34 Last	kwyjibo Feb 2017
Moved: First full-featured 3d-modeling software for Android tablets This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2017
What is up with those brutal challenges at Artstation? http://magazine.artstation.com/2017/02/challenge-ancient-civilizations/I haven't looked into other categories but4 weeks to concept 10 high quality charactersThen 4 weeks to model either a high quali…	10 Last	Autocon Feb 2017
Fantastic Reference - Manchester England's 1835-1979 Overflow Sewers Here is a fantastic reference of the many Manchester England's 1835-1975 Overflow Sewers.http://substormflow.com/location/manchester/	0 Last	[Deleted User] Feb 2017
Astroneer . . . And, blast off! Hey everyone!TL;DR: I've quit my job at Ubisoft, I am stepping away from my duties at Polycount indefinitely, and I am working on my game, Astroneer, full-time until it ships.A couple of years ago I …	112 Last	Eleszar1 Feb 2017
Mad Max: Fury Road The user and all related content has been deleted.	153 Last	Stinger88 Feb 2017
Forum font colors are washed out! Hello,Noticed the font colors are too washed out after a post is created. Same with signature. Makes it not nice to look at in my opinion. Comparison in editor and after post is submitted:Might be a …	6 Last	NoRank Feb 2017
Introducing Myself! Hi guys! I’m Alvin, a community manager for OnOff Gaming. Happy to be here and can’t wait to get to know everyone!	1 Last	kanga Feb 2017
where have all the plycounters gone you know the ones I mean like bobo, daz,Pior and the like. are you all hiding. we need you guys to counter the tide of noob snowflakes who are all depressed after working cg for 2 weeks:)I bet …	67 Last	sziada Feb 2017
Rant: It can't actaully be this hard to follow instructions Too Long, Didn't Read: If you want something done right, don't use freelancer.comI'm working on an erotic comic (none of it vanilla), and until I get a new laptop, I'm doing it on my weekends. I'm do…	31 Last	[Deleted User] Feb 2017
A bunch of Short guys meetting with M2 Studios 2/18/17 - Plano, Tx A bunch of Short guys meetting with M2 Studios 2/18/17 - Plano, Tx facebook linkhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1805862653010602/info:Room C-104This will be a “hands on” presentation of AR/VR i…	0 Last	Danielmn Feb 2017
Humble Freedom Bundle This weeks bundle is insane and for a good cause. Enjoy!https://www.humblebundle.com/freedom?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=Humble_Freedom_Bundle_Announce&utm_medium=Link	0 Last	Stinger88 Feb 2017
London "Unreal Engine" Meetup, Thu Feb 16, 6:45 PM Firefox/Mozilla London Unreal Engine Meetup #8.Thu Feb 16, 6:45 PM Firefox/MozillaMozilla, 30 Great Guildford St, London SE1 0HS, London (map)A friendly get-together for people interested in Epic's Unreal …	0 Last	littleclaude Feb 2017
BYOA - Bring Your Own Animation, The Lukin pub, 4 Conway Street in London 20th Feb, See you there! London Siggraph - https://london.siggraph.org/event/byoa-february-2017-edition/ Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/groups/417454175044/New Pub!!The Lukin pub, 4 Conway Street in…	7 Last	littleclaude Feb 2017
Carl Bass steps down as CEO of Autodesk Note of Interest: just saw this on Gamasutra - http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/291014/Carl_Bass_steps_down_as_CEO_of_Autodesk.php	20 Last	Bellsey Feb 2017
Houdini 16 Houdini 16 I watched this talk on Houdini 16 and there's a fair bit of stuff that is relevant to real time rendering so I just thought you might like to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…	1 Last	swann Feb 2017
Polycount smilies - need your help I really want to bring back the Polycount emoji set. But I'm kind of stuck, and wondering if anyone is interested in helping out?Vanilla (maker of the forum software) needs us to align our emoji with…	9 Last	Revolutionart Feb 2017
Stonequest game engine Hopefully this isn't inappropriate for this forum. I don't see this being discussed anywhere but since I know the guy who is building it I wanted to promote his work. He is building a game engine by …	0 Last	makit3d Feb 2017
What kind of artists do make all those adult-oriented CG stuff?! I wonder if this was discussed already. Probably a few times already. I don't know.Maybe it's just me, but I have a feeling that those kind of...works are done overseas, from US perspective. Maybe Ea…	19 Last	Mithdia Feb 2017
ZBrush Live Just spotted this. Probably worth a thread all of its own. Joseph Drust currently doing Q&Ahttp://pixologic.com/zbrushlive/Twitch for Q&A chat: https://www.twitch.tv/pixologicMonday Febr…	2 Last	JedTheKrampus Feb 2017
3D Offices from IT Crowd, Silicon Valley and Mad Men Now this is cool! I'm a big fan of most of these shows so I thought this was interesting. :)https://blog.drawbotics.com/2017/01/31/your-favorite-tv-shows-brought-to-life-with-amazing-3d-floor-plans/	0 Last	Daf57 Feb 2017
did HDR Shop get rid of their free-bee version? can't seem to find any mention of 1.0 on their site.	9 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2017
3d art ideas? Post them here! I had an idea to search the internet for ideas for some 3d art. And as per usual for me I searched around google images for a while without any inspiration. So that's where this idea came about. Not …	30 Last	odd_enough Feb 2017
Moving your PC to a New location Hey guys, most recent thread about this stuff I found was a bit old so I'm trying with a new one. Any suggestions for transfering your workstation to a new country? How do you deal with this? Do…	7 Last	Gilgamesh Feb 2017
What Book/TV series/movie/anime would you want to see be made into a game? READ BEFORE COMMEntiNG: I'm looking for a movie, or series that hasn't been made into a game yet, and people would love to see it be redone, It needs to be near future (Like 2025-2075) Or sci-fi, and…	5 Last	stickadtroja Feb 2017
═════ Toronto Meetup ═ Friday, Feb 3rd ═════ It's TIME! Toronto meetup! Come by yourself, or bring a friend. Industry or not, it doesn't matter. This is a social event to meet fellow polycounters. Let's put some faces to the names we see here. …	9 Last	slipsius Feb 2017
CGI short question Hi,I just recalled a cgi short I wantched back in the day, and I just cant find it anywhere partially because I dont remember the name or the author.Perhaps, someone here remembers it and can help :s…	0 Last	Starkist Feb 2017
ZeniMax may seek court order to halt sales of current Oculus Rift headsets! http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/1/14478258/zenimax-oculus-injunctionFor those that haven't heard. Zenimax has been going after Occulus, Carmack and Luckey for the past few years under the allegation th…	4 Last	thomasp Feb 2017
Square Enix - Avengers/Marvel Project (Eidos Montreal + Crystal Dynamics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq_V6WHSmQs&feature=youtu.be	12 Last	0xffff Feb 2017
Kojima's Death Stranding Studio Now, that looks like a interesting place to be at.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45MNFU5e8Hc	10 Last	onionhead_o Feb 2017
The Greentooth Awards Voting! The Greentooth Awards Voting has begun!CLICK HERE TO VOTEWe are using an external service for our voting as the built-in polls are not able to deal with this type of voting. It will shut down automat…	17 Last	EarthQuake Jan 2017
Poll Video uploads on Polycount? One of you asked for webm support here on Polycount. We can probably tweak the uploader to allow video formats.However you should know webm is not universal to all browsers yet. If you want everyone …	14 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2017
Memoirs of a Noobstick Hey, everyone!Name's Dace and I'm an alcoholi-- Whoops! I mean I'm Dace, nice to meet you. I have a 3-ish year background in software development. I love to code but have great interest in 3d modelin…	4 Last	xxdace69 Jan 2017
Fat distribution and deposit in human body Well today, as I was drawing and studying a lil bit my anatomy, after practicing the usual bones, muscles and silhouette stuff, I decided it was time for me to tackle on figures with chubbier and cur…	8 Last	Melazee Jan 2017
A place for those who render - Discord Tired of waiting for a reply on a forum regarding your rendering problems?Sick of not having an actual responsive and intuitive platform to seek for guidance?Want to connect with people who have the …	0 Last	Nerono Jan 2017
3D Printing in UK Anybody can give a good recommendation? I found a few services but not sure which to use. I want to print something out of metal, if that's possible. Design made in Zbrush.	8 Last	kabir.talib Jan 2017
Adobe sculpt software sauce[noparse]https://youtu.be/arpOCEoxvwg	21 Last	WaYWO Jan 2017
SuperMarioOdyssey looks like hot trash Is it good to have that many art styles in one game? I don't know about gameplay but the art looks bad to me. Just wanted to know what other artist think?	73 Last	[Deleted User] Jan 2017
FX Reference Video Collection I was recently lucky enough to do some travelling and have collected over 550 short FX reference videos, totalling 2 hours in length, covering Rain, Fire, Water, Cloth and more... https://vimeo.…	1 Last	slipsius Jan 2017
Anyone Interested in my Final Fantasy Petition? A few days ago I finished Final Fantasy 15 and found the story very dry and unoriginal. It definitely wasn't the game I expected since 2006-2007. I understand the game had gone through major changes …	14 Last	kasigawa Jan 2017
Sketchfab, Is it safe Hello, Is it safe to upload models to sketchfab? I have seen some forum threads which have information about ripping models. Is there are any functions to protect mod…	10 Last	Sketchfab Jan 2017
Freedom Locomotion VR Demo https://hugerobot.itch.io/freedom-locomotion-vrhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQJS8ir9sQOne of the bigger challenges so far in working with VR has been movement. These guys just dropped this and it…	4 Last	PeterK Jan 2017
dropbox removing the public folder got this in an email:Hi seth,We’re always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience. The Public folder was the first sharing method we introduced, and since then, we’ve built even better ways…	27 Last	Froyok Jan 2017
Maybe add a 3D printing subforum? One thing I see quite often nowadays in the 3D WAYWO thread is people 3D printing their creations. Perhaps a 3D printing subforum could be created, either in General or under the 3D game art headers?…	3 Last	Eric Chadwick Jan 2017
Where can I buy second hand Adobe PS CS6 and AI CS6? I no longer have access to the previous license I was using for PS CS6 and AI CS6. I still really want CS6 for backward compatibility (scripts/plugins/settings/workflow), and also a base version…	0 Last	OccultMonk Jan 2017
Any example(s) of good looking 2.5 D platformers? After seeing Mighty No 9 I kinda gave up finding one.Of course I'm talking about good looking ones, doesn't have to be one that plays good.	22 Last	Neox Jan 2017