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For Honor! Loving it so far! Much steeper learning curve than I expected. I thought it might be a dumbed down fighting system but its quite deep and requires some homework before jumping in and button mashing. …	23 Last	FullSynch Mar 2017
laptops... 4K or 1080p? So I finally have the funds to buy a work laptop, but one thing I can't seem to decide on is whether 4K is an asset that will be useful for doing game art, or if it's more superficial in terms of pra…	16 Last	Shrike Mar 2017
to delete to delete	12 Last	swann Mar 2017
happy birthday Sean Happy birthday @"Sean VanGorder" aka mister recap!	4 Last	JasonLavoie Mar 2017
Who's buying a Switch? This will be the first console I've bought since the gamecube/ps2 generation. For me gaming has become a bit stale in many respects so I'm looking forward to jumping into this blind and seeing …	17 Last	R3D Mar 2017
Polycount Meetup GDC 2017 Polycount Meetup GDC 2017Polycount and Marmoset join forces for the third straight year to bring you another magical evening of nerdtastic fun. Rub shoulders with some of the industry’s top talent, p…	41 Last	EarthQuake Mar 2017
A program for making good presentation pdf's? I have to make a presentation document in pdf format for an application to a school, it needs to have good visuals etc.. Problem i am having is i can't find a tool to make one of these that is free. …	4 Last	HashBrownHamish Mar 2017
Attn London Zbrush Artists I am organizing a London Zbrush meetup group and am looking for a skilled Zbrush Artist for our first Meetup on March 15th to do a demo for us. If you work professionally using Zbrush please send me …	3 Last	Brian "Panda" Choi Mar 2017
The Mill, UE4 Blackbird Project The Mill, UE4 Blackbird Project - https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-mills-incredible-blackbird-at-gdc-the-future-of-virtual-production/Today at GDC 2017 in San Francisco, Epic games and The M…	2 Last	Lt_Commander Mar 2017
Latest Post indicator has been added Two wishlist items have been added to the forum. Both in the forum root, and within each category.Show the latest poster's name.Show the latest post date.Clicking on the user name goes to their …	1 Last	Kevin Albers Mar 2017
Out of place ads on Polycount Recently I've noticed that there have been some ads that don't feel like they're supposed to be on Polycount. I know the 3ds Max/Maya etc. ads have been here forever, but these are most definitely ne…	37 Last	Spoon Mar 2017
Game/FX Art gallery, exhibits etc. Hello,Has anyone ever seen / heard of such exhibitions or galleries?Where like game artists expose their work?I know there are like game art museums and stuff, but I'm more talking about something wh…	9 Last	AdrienTriangles Mar 2017
Twitch Communities: Polycount? Anyone interested in creating a twitch community for PC? In moreover will the powers that be like R13 and Adam be Ok with it?https://www.twitch.tv/directory/communities	7 Last	DInusty Feb 2017
Merged: Xenko, new game engine. This discussion has been merged.	0 Last	rohMizuno Feb 2017
Saints Row IV Workshop Contest Hey Polycounters, this is flow754 from the Saints Row modding community and I'm here to spread some exciting news. After implementing Steam Workshop support to its latest title, developer Deep Silver…	0 Last	flow754 Feb 2017
Moved: What did it take for you to move from a small studio to AAA? This discussion has been moved.	0 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2017
Allegorithmic's Substance at GDC 17 Hey everyone, just wanted to announce that we will of course be at GDC this year.Apart from the Beer Bust we're hosting on Thursday at our booth with Sketchfab and Polycount, we'll have plenty of oth…	3 Last	PixelGoat Feb 2017
PC Forum Functionality - Subscribing to or receiving notification when a user posts The user and all related content has been deleted.	5 Last	[Deleted User] Feb 2017
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden Inspiration Day Hey guyswanted to let my DALLAS polycounters know that I am meeting with " a bunch of short guys" guild to put together and outing at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical GardenI plan for this to …	0 Last	Danielmn Feb 2017
Animal Fur Tracks? HiDoes anyone know where I can find information & reference images about fur tracks? I've tried a couple search engines with no luck. Maybe there is a different term I should be using?	2 Last	Norstu Feb 2017
Plano, Tx meetup a bunch of short guys 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…	1 Last	Danielmn Feb 2017
The Foundry to present at Reel FX Dallas Tx MUST REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT OR YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN. Date and Time Wed, February 22, 2017 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST …	1 Last	Danielmn Feb 2017
Animated Profile Picture/Avater Hey there,I'm searching for a while now, but i can't find how to use an animated GIF as profile picture/avatar.All posts I found where from 2013 and earlier and seems to be outdated. On some forum po…	5 Last	Eric Chadwick Feb 2017
to delete to delete	4 Last	Fifa Feb 2017
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 …	66 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