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how to disable pen feedback display in win 7 home premium? Is there a way to turn off the pen display feedback in windows 7 home premium,? Everytime I press with the pen a blue circle appears , and also it appears the key I press(CTRL, SHIFT, ALT). [img]htt…	2 Last	iatriki Feb 2010
Looking for good 3d mag... Hey folks, I'm looking to subscribe to a good 3d art magazine. I'm mostly looking for good articles on technique, applications, tutorials, etc. I saw 3dCreative Magazine, which sounds interesting a…	1 Last	Rufuss Feb 2010
2010 Winter Olympics Anyone interested in these? It seems like half the city is in favour, while the other half is not. I know I'll be watching hockey and skiing for sure. Amazing city, if you guys ever get the chance …	54 Last	Microneezia Feb 2010
Halo Reach - technical video from the team I've always loved these sorts of videos so I thought I'd share this one. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_jiB2hqeQ[/ame]	30 Last	metalliandy Feb 2010
Dreamcast Hey guys, I was never able to own a dreamcast when it came out, but i recently acquired one off my boss, but the only game he had was tony hawk 2 (which is awesome!) anyone know what games i should …	48 Last	PolyHertz Feb 2010
Red Octane and Underground Development shut down Developers of Guitar Hero branded games. To be expected, coming from the cold-hearted bastards at Activision (after having already closed Luxoflux and culled staff at FreeRadical and Neversoft..). S…	28 Last	ElysiumGX Feb 2010
Latest XP patches (2/11/10) may cause BSOD on boot [url]http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9155419/Windows_patch_cripples_XP_with_blue_screen_users_claim[/url] If this is happening to you, the fix is in that article. If you can't be arsed to …	14 Last	pestibug Feb 2010
Jack Monahan Presents: Darkest of Days, The movie. [url]http://kotaku.com/5470589/darkest-of-days-to-become-darkest-of-movies[/url] [url]http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/02/11/darkest-of-days-time-travel-game-headed-to-the-big-screen/[/url] [url]htt…	14 Last	achmedthesnake Feb 2010
EDGE Magazine Article on Texas Game Devs. [url]http://texas.edge-online.com/[/url] It's a bit of a marketing fluff piece, but I'm sure that a few of you will find it interesting.	7 Last	r13 Feb 2010
Final Fantasy Character Stuff Cool Stuff (Starts around 4:00 in this movie) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhfHFnwGzQ&feature=player_embedded[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BMi8w21Ps&feature=related[/ame] …	78 Last	toren3d Feb 2010
Parnell Ver. 2.0 So after 9 months of waiting I finally got my version 2.0 of myself. He's a little smaller and has been causing me to crash a lot. However, I think he'll be worth it in the long run. [IMG]http://w…	45 Last	DLoud Feb 2010
CG Cutscenes in Dante's Inferno ? Does anyone know which outfit did the CG cutscenes ? some of that stuff is just beautiful, paticularly Beatrices hair!	9 Last	JimeeB Feb 2010
So yeah.....lego mmo Ok I loved lego growing up.....but is anyone else not extremely impressed with the released photos so far? I mean I'll let you guys judge. I know some people here are working on that project, So is…	44 Last	dejawolf Feb 2010
Trine Time Hey, I figure with all this sad news as of late (rip Adam) I thought it would be cool to brighten our spirits up with a fricken awesome game, Trine. They released their demo (i believe) today, and I …	45 Last	Emil Mujanovic Feb 2010
TERMINATOR VS ROBOCOP I dunno if you guys watched the 1 and 2 episodes to this but this last one is absolute badassary! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGLYTFXowc[/ame]	12 Last	Slum Feb 2010
Giacometti sculpture fetches £65 million at Sotheby's auction [IMG]http://i49.tinypic.com/2wcjtc0.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8497370.stm[/URL] "A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been …	74 Last	Disco Stu Feb 2010
Auto rescan disks on startup For some reason everytime I restart one of my hard drives isn't detected and requires me to go to disk management and click 'rescan disks' for it to display/be detected properly. This is a proper bal…	3 Last	Psyk0 Feb 2010
Drawing Stuff ... Dose anyon have the link to that website, where you could do the 60 second drawings of people in different poses, it was basically a 3d modeling of a man or woman, which you could choose to pose, or …	12 Last	ZacD Feb 2010
Blizzard Employee Statue for Sale... Never thought I'd see one of these for sale anywhere, but today I was in Austin, TX and as I'm pulling through the parking lot of the shopping mall to leave I see a store in the back corner. I stop…	31 Last	Pandaren Feb 2010
Signals Without Sound - Music Hey all, inspired by Rhinokey's post on his new band Battery Dog ([url]http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=56462[/url]) I thought I would post something I've been working on. [url]http://si…	69 Last	JasonLavoie Feb 2010
Gimp 2.8 preview/review - Now with single window! [url]http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/02/hands-on-new-single-window-mode-makes-gimp-less-gimpy.ars[/url] FINALLY a UI overhaul with a single-window design. 'Bout time!	10 Last	anoon Feb 2010
graphics card recommendations? well I got my shiny new pc last summer and already i feel the graphics card is not performing that well and off late I am getting weird corruption, invisible menus etc so think i will get a new one. …	26 Last	Gilgamesh Feb 2010
The degree poll! because this comes up a lot, I figure it'd be nice to have some numbers and figures to through around even if they are rough. "Yes and I'm working in videos games or CG, BUT I didn't get a job righ…	64 Last	ZacD Feb 2010
How effective are game design courses? Hi there guys. I am currently a game design student writing my dissertation on the rise of game design degrees and their impact on the industry, and the students who take them. I have a great deal…	48 Last	DarthNater Feb 2010
does a degree make a difference? So I've been learning 3d on my own slowly for the past few years. I haven't gone to school for it or anything but my questions come down to this, does a degree in something relative to 3d or going to…	23 Last	solytaire Feb 2010
Smudge Guard Suggestions Looking for one to use with the wacom so I can "slide" around a bit better. Anyone have links to decent ones?	7 Last	pior Feb 2010
Moddb like sites. Anyone have suggestions for other sites like Moddb focused on a game and company database/social network like option. Possibly leaning towards indies especially. I got stuck being the PR dude (for …	3 Last	Elhrrah Feb 2010
A small introduction. Vocari This is a small introduction to Polycount, this community seems to have a very constructive attitude towards others and thier work and I am glad to be a part of it! I am an aspiring level/…	8 Last	Sean VanGorder Feb 2010
Games Grads 2010 (career fair in the UK) [url]http://www.gamesgrads.co.uk/[/url] Just received a email from them, figured it'd be useful for some of you graduates out there. Oh and its free to attend.	0 Last	Yozora Feb 2010
Free student versions from autodesk! Hey everyone just stumbled across this little bit of news, Autodesk is now offering a free 6 month liicense's for Maya, and 3Ds Max, and others. Only draw back I can see its just for students not for…	10 Last	bearkub Feb 2010
Uh oh more zombies came across this the other day and thought i'd share. A teaser trailer they are sending around hopeing it gets picked up and turned into a feature i do believe. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=…	0 Last	sub_roland Feb 2010
Wow, Im nominated for an Autdoesk Masters Award for 3ds Max! I cant believe this but I was nominated for the autodesk masters award for 3ds Max!!! Id love it if some of you would log into the area and give me a 5 star vote! [url]http://area.autodesk.com/mas…	51 Last	sampson Feb 2010
Good Idea / Bad Idea? Hey Guys, Just tryin to get some input on something. Currently I'm trying to beef up my portfolio, and cater it a bit to the companies / games that I'd really enjoy working on. On that note, I was wo…	7 Last	shinobix Feb 2010
Spartacus: Blood and Sand Saw a preview for this today on Starz, figure I'll watch the 1st eps on Friday to see if it's any good. Can't help but complain about the blatant "borrowing" of [I]300[/I]'s art style, though. The c…	22 Last	skylebones Feb 2010
Tracker? Taking a risk of getting flammed here, but my curious nature is too much for me to handle.... Why does it sometimes say tracker at the bottom of pages? It's completely random, but it's there...	3 Last	Racer445 Feb 2010
Pimping and Previews/ Finished work. Would be really cool if we had a forum for finished work. It's exhausting going through all the half-finished hand models and "what do you think of my first draft of my first concept that is clearly…	156 Last	BoBo_the_seal Feb 2010
SUPER BAWLS Alright, who do you guys like for the superbowl? I'de like to see the Saints take it, Brees is awesome and i like the way they play D. However, if they can't pressure Manning like they did Favre, I …	53 Last	skankerzero Feb 2010
research Disertation Questionair - Looking for a moment of your time Well im currently working on a research disertation project and i would like any kind folks with game model construction to take a few moments and fill out my questionair below. The research is askin…	11 Last	Megabiv Feb 2010
Future Poly 3d Art Program and Seminars A friend from work has started a school I'll be teaching at. All of the instructors are currently working at a studio(and will continue to do so), hence the night school aspect of it. We're sort of s…	20 Last	stoofoo Feb 2010
Who would like BioShock 1 for free?? so i pre ordered Bioshock 2 which comes with 1 for free. I already own 1 so I have to option to send Bioshock 1 as a gift to someone with a steam account. -Bioshock for free!!! PM me - first come f…	9 Last	Disco Stu Feb 2010
GO max for z3.5 r3 dont know if anybody found this yet, so ima share it [url]http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=81506&page=1&pp=15[/url]	14 Last	Norman3D Feb 2010
ゲームグラフィックス 2009 - Game Graphic I bought this book 2 days ago and this is very interesting. They are some technical description about Tenchu 4, Gundam, Naruto, Basara, SoulCalibur , etc/// this is not a tutorial book but sometime…	25 Last	Lamont Feb 2010
Lights Fall From Behind EP [center] [img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs50/o/2009/338/f/2/f293c21ccfbfff1ad08809d4d57d4e6a.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.myspace.com/lightsfallfrombehind[/url] Just give it a try.[/center]	7 Last	d1ver Feb 2010
Nice little browser based painter for Chrome [url]http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/sketchpad/[/url] It MIGHT work in Safari and Firefox, some of the chrome experiments do. From the Author: Sketchpad is a drawing/painting application …	2 Last	LoTekK Feb 2010
searching thread hello, i am searching for a thread. i think it was on this forum. somebody showed a male to beast transformation... same base mesh with different displacement maps... kinda important	7 Last	JohnnySix Feb 2010
Game Haiku Thread Write some game related haikus. Let others try to guess them. Stick to the five-seven-five syllable pattern, or be creative. Extra credit for using words associated with a season. I'll start with…	32 Last	Soft_Hands Feb 2010
blade runner stiletto interesting use of 3D! by a guy called Tim Cooper [url]http://www.behance.net/timcooper3D[/url] [img]http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/020310_rg_StilettoPolice_01.jpg[/img] [img]…	9 Last	Andreas Feb 2010
Any Advice or Tips to get into the Game Industry Hi, I am new here and also new to animation, anyways I am at age early enough to kind of steer myself towards a field I like. Animation has for years made me curious on whats behind it. I want to b…	21 Last	hawken Feb 2010
Some Common Things. I am going to [COLOR=DarkRed]GDC[/COLOR] this march, and I'd like to take something with me. That thing is a [COLOR=DarkRed]list of common 3dsmax problems[/COLOR], which I will [COLOR=DarkRed]present…	57 Last	Junkie_XL Feb 2010
t-shirts? are there any polycount t-shirts? i can imagine there would be a shit ton of design from all the polycounters here	3 Last	konstruct Feb 2010