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Gun Knowledge So, thought just occured to me a minute ago.... I see a lot of people on the forums able to very acurately pick apart exactly whats wrong with a work in progress gun model, and they seem to be very k…	23 Last	skylebones Sep 2009
TopoGun 1.05 released [B]Changelog:[/B] [LIST] [*][B]TopoGun[/B] and [B]TopoGun License Server[/B] now work fine under limited accounts on [B]Vista[/B]. The installer should be launched from the user account you want to…	6 Last	Frump Sep 2009
TOPOGUN 1.0 just wanted to let everyone here know that Topogun is officially out and available for purchase. [url]http://www.topogun.com/[/url] if you already dont know what it does then be sure to check out t…	34 Last	pixelmachine Sep 2009
Art Instruction Schools Hmm, does anyone know anything about this school? I have read good and bad things about it. The bad things are mostly people that didn't read the contract, or their kid didn't want to finish the cour…	14 Last	Disco Stu Sep 2009
What's a good PC rig for UV mapping? Cause its too slow on this comp. Okay I'm joking, if you didn't realize it already. BUT can we get one PC building thread and just sticky it somewhere? Its annoying seeing multi…	14 Last	ZacD Sep 2009
What's a good PC rig for modelling? Hey, my laptop's on a bit of a downward spiral so I'm looking for a new desktop. I was hoping someone with some experience in the matter could inform me on what an ideal rig would be for someone who …	18 Last	IronicallyMaiden Sep 2009
Closed Driving License (Question) Hi & is there any software that helps me with the driving ? (Question) driving simulation or something , today is the first time i ever drive a car , it was a lesson :) . here we have 40 lessons …	17 Last	Emil Mujanovic Sep 2009
UT3 PS3 mods now can have sound (but does anyone care anymore?) they finally allow you import custom sounds into ps3 mods. [url]http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12962[/url] if your too lazy to click [i]Epic Games has great news for mod developers:…	2 Last	Entity Sep 2009
Need some advice... Hey guys, I'm looking for some advice/opinions on a current issue I'm having. For the last 8 months I've been on this path to try to break into the industry and become a 3d character artist. I drop…	11 Last	chademond Sep 2009
Odosketch. Neat lil' app. I didn't see a thread for this yet, which is kinda surprising. Noel was on #md the other night linking sketches from this app: [url]http://sketch.odopod.com/[/url] It's a very simple little web-ba…	45 Last	Murdoc Sep 2009
Nice virus alert... A nice trojan to hijack anyone's machine who visits. iFrames are nice, but a huge security risk to the site. Below is a trojan injected into a PC members site, which is linked from his sig0. Names ha…	23 Last	Blaizer Sep 2009
Blog cataloguing digital art comps? I hate coming across peoples awesome entries for online challenges that end the day after I find out about them :poly117: So I was thinking, is there a blog that catalogues every challenge related to…	5 Last	Andreas Sep 2009
Closed annoying team-mate --- please lock this thread :) ---	60 Last	Belias Sep 2009
killer iPhone painting app! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY5Q-0cuBOM&feature=channel_page[/ame] Makes me finally want one!	22 Last	[MILES] Sep 2009
Speed Hi guys, I'm a bit worried about my speed in completing assets/objects, comparatively the high poly side doesn't seem to be a problem but the rest is long winded. For example this [URL="http://boards…	30 Last	mLichy Sep 2009
Video Game Addiction Saw this on rockpapershotgun.com. [URL]http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/Video/default.html?ViewType=5&Filter=102272[/URL] [quote] Linda Duberley catches up with young video game fanatics she first met …	8 Last	crazyfingers Sep 2009
defiantly? Did you install a word-filter that changes every instance of 'definately' into 'defiantly'? I just ran across five separate posts that get this wrong, it's beginning to look suspicious!	45 Last	Frump Sep 2009
Personal Anthems We all have favorite songs, but what are your personal anthems? Songs that draw you in and feel personal to you. Songs that make you crank up the volume to decibel levels not yet recorded by man ki…	43 Last	crazyfingers Sep 2009
DW4 results [url]http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/dw/4/finals/main1.html[/url] FINALLY!!! Congrats, lots of polycounters in the top25!!!	93 Last	kanga Sep 2009
The making of Borderlands 1st part in a series about the making of Borderlands: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2gceJ2lzYk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=876X30YznqE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.polycount.net%2Fshowthread…	46 Last	Vrav Sep 2009
Closed Games Industry Mentor: Episode 3 - Gaining Experience The new episode is up! This time we talk about that classic catch 22. How do you get experience when no one will hire without experience? We talk about mods, internships, & contract work and how t…	0 Last	acanaday Sep 2009
career stuff It been an odd few months. Work has been scarce as my games work tailed off to zero. Started casually picking up some production work and now I am starting work on monday at a production company as …	5 Last	Ruz Sep 2009
microsoft courier= cool so the creator of the xbox is working on a ds like tablet thing for microsoft, and looks promising, if it has pressure sensitivity i can see this being a neat little sketchbook.. [url]http://gizmodo…	18 Last	Firebert Sep 2009
protecting Wireless internet Hi & it seems that one of my neighbours < which is a f***ing criminal teenager > , is trying to hack my wireless internet , i have disabled the wireless internet because of him and working on normal …	37 Last	Quokimbo Sep 2009
Marko Djurdjevic Live!!!- Two Part Program on Comic Covers and Illustration Sep 26-27 The one and only Marko Djurdjevic will be joining us for a very special presentation and LIVE DEMONSTRATION on his astonishing working methods for creating dynamic, and incredible Comic Book Cove…	0 Last	Massive Black Sep 2009
someone is selling my modeler on TS! [URL]http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/arctic-sniper-rifle-3d-3ds/487387[/URL] thats mine what should i do?	65 Last	conte Sep 2009
Uni or Job? \	15 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2009
Cool new GPU tech. Some seriously cool new technology that's able to take the load off a main GPU and spread it evenly over any number and types of GPU's in your comp: [URL]http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?…	4 Last	mLichy Sep 2009
Purchasing Software off Ebay--Question Hi all, There is a seller with a very high positive rating that is selling Maya 2010 Suite (Maya, motionbuilder, mudbox, softimage) for around 800 bucks or so or at least to the highest bidder that …	17 Last	D4V1DC Sep 2009
ZBrush 3.5 Announced So I was just browsing Zbrush Central and I see an announcement for Zbrush 3.5. Apparently ZB 4 is now delayed, but they are including a lot of the shown off features. Take a look. [URL]http://www.z…	222 Last	Disco Stu Sep 2009
What inspires you and makes you :) Hey guys, I was just thinking about what inspires myself and how some of the stuff I see and practice really gets me so excited. Do you guys love that feeling when you've just figured out something n…	37 Last	Lonewolf Sep 2009
I need your wisdumb! so i've been doing ui the past year at a nice studio, working on an online game that's pretty much guaranteed to rake in some good money. i'm learning a lot, the atmosphere at work is nice, the ui wo…	21 Last	bounchfx Sep 2009
Environment/Hardsurfice Art - Self made maps a plus? Hey guys I've decided to focus in the area of Environment and hardsurface prop work. I'm going to keep this short and simple as we all know what happened last time. I'm also not going to mention a ce…	8 Last	Taylor Hood Sep 2009
D9 mech maquette that was on ebay Crazy final bid. Hope it's made up of more than just cardboard. More views here in case you want to ref it: [URL]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300341614844[/URL] [IMG]http:…	6 Last	mikezoo Sep 2009
Eat 3D Classical Sculpting DVD Looks like this dvd will get released. Looking forward to it! [url]http://eat3d.com/blog/eat-3d/new-dvd-release-classical-sculpting-anatomy-and-figurative-art-digital-sculptors[/url]	4 Last	crazyfingers Sep 2009
I hate macs Friend of mine was using a mac and he had his external hard drive connect to it. The computer freezes on him so he pulls his drive out and now his hard drive is going super slow and he can't open his…	32 Last	PfhorRunner Sep 2009
Broadband Tax for fuck sake, they really just wanna stick tax on everything now a days, why not just implement an oxygen tax why don't you [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8270772.stm[/url] rage	9 Last	Ark Sep 2009
exploding computer, any ideas here about a week ago i went to reboot my computer, it gets right to the login and then mem dump, so reboot.. again and again, try the recovery options nothing works, finaly format and reinstall …	3 Last	EarthQuake Sep 2009
Office Chair??? Hey I'm in the market to buy a new office chair and was wondering if anybody has a preference as to what a good model or company would be, thanks.	16 Last	MartinH Sep 2009
Unearthly Challenge Anyone have any insider information on when unearthly challenge starts?	54 Last	Lamont Sep 2009
Second Skin: Documentary I recently found out about this documentary on MMORPGs, which apparently has been out for a while now. If you've never seen it, I'd recommend getting it somehow and checking it out, I rather enjoyed …	14 Last	Gav Sep 2009
A book you need to read! even if only to make fun of :D I mean.. it's The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem... What more can i say. [ame]http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultr…	10 Last	Wells Sep 2009
Heavy weapons I see a lot of games on the internet like this, but I think this is a lot of fun and it owuld be nice to see this game come from the flash realm into a more indepth arcade game or 3d. [url]http://www…	11 Last	achillesian Sep 2009
Monkey Island Cryengine (To awesome to not have a thread) [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bInZ7_y4Lw[/ame] Anyone knows who made it?	27 Last	soulstice Sep 2009
Closed See you later guys, it's been real! Apparently the world is ending today. Sweet! [url]http://home.flash.net/~evt/rapture.htm[/url]	67 Last	adam Sep 2009
Biggest Hole in Star wars I was watching star wars sunday and I realised something, THeres a huge hole in the star wars fiction. Supposedly c-3p0 was built by anakin skywalker who is darth vader. C3p0 is around luke skywalker…	29 Last	Ott Sep 2009
Prepare to drop. [center][size=6]Lets do this boys! Go! Go! Go![/size] [size=4] Few moments away from some unscaled asswhopn! Let them have it! and cheers to Bungie, and the guys who worked on it! [/size] [img]ht…	21 Last	Xenobond Sep 2009
Zoe Ray Harrison Born: 9/21/09 10:30pm 5lbs 8oz 19" :) my second...(and my second girl)	20 Last	Swizzle Sep 2009
Just when you thought crysis couldn't get any better... Hey guys, Take a look at this crysis fix. Known as Real Life-sis mod. Not exactly a mod but just some ToD tweaks and updates. My jaw totally dropped when I saw this. The graphics are insane. I can…	30 Last	motives Sep 2009
Introduction, Advice appreciated Hi there! I am new to polycount and have had a look around for half an hour or so and I can say I really like the look of the community and the work that is being shown here. I have had a brief sea…	11 Last	Tumerboy Sep 2009