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UT3 Demo question when entering one's email address to create a profile, how the hells do i get the @ to come up when it opens the console, even when pressing shift and '?	3 Last	Mongrelman Mar 2008
very important matter if you could replace your face with one other thing, what would it be? please use pictures and graphs to illustrate your point.	30 Last	Cody Mar 2008
Polyfrag!!! alright, boys and girls, i'm back with a broadband connection. who wants a frag-match saturday 7PM GMT/2PM Eastern? Name the game Q3A or UT2004! BRING IT!	15 Last	sundance Mar 2008
3dsmax 2009 and 3dsmax Design 2009 feature list(s) [url="http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_ken/blog_detail/3ds_max_design_and_3ds_max_2009_announced/"]http://area.autodesk.com/index.php/blogs_ken/blog_detail/3ds_max_design_and_3ds_max_2009_ann…	4 Last	Michael Knubben Mar 2008
Doomsday! zomg best move ever imo... 0 new ideas, every theme they stuck in there is just such a tried and true cliche, with a few laughs here and there, it actually became a rather enjoyable little 5 dollar…	5 Last	Steve Schulze Mar 2008
Video Trace Making models using video as the reference. ======================================================================== [url="http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/"]VideoTrace: Rapid interacti…	16 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2008
Frontlines Fuel of War anyone else play it? just wondering if anyone else has played Frontlines Fuel of War, i was thinking about getting it sometime soon, it just came out on pc and xbox 360, notice it uses the ue3 engine, wonder if there is …	13 Last	Armanguy Mar 2008
Being a "cyber" camp instructor... So I got hired as an instructor for this camp called iD tech camps and this is the first year they are in my area, figured it would be a good way to build leadership skills while waiting to hear back…	3 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2008
Sakson & Taylor? Have any of you heard of [url="http://www.sakson.com/"]this place[/url] before? They seem to be a consulting firm of some kind, like a pseudo-head hunter. They contacted me in regards to a contract a…	11 Last	Psychon Mar 2008
Striving for perfection As my post count indicates, I do not participate too terribly much on these forums. It's not for lack of wanting to, and it's not because I feel superior in any way. It's because when I am home, I te…	13 Last	Rick Stirling Mar 2008
Your Workspace Pictures!! Statement on re-thread: So I know there was a thread already on this... But it was 4 month old and in the title said "2007". So I wanted to start a new thread non date specific. Anyways The point of…	35 Last	flaagan Mar 2008
Army of Two I guess it comes out today. Gonna pick it up. It looks pretty sexy so hopefully everything I heard about it is true. Anyone here play it yet? Work on it?	35 Last	Ott Mar 2008
Photoshop CS2/3 on Linux I know this was discussed/asked earlier by MightPea, but I thought others might be interested also. This article showed up on Digg today, and apparently someone was successful at running Photoshop CS…	0 Last	notman Mar 2008
Dyslexia sucks First off dyslexia sucks, its genetic and untreatable. Thankfully for me I only have a mild case, saving me from having to be in the "short bus" classes back in high school. Being a dyslexic I have …	15 Last	hawken Mar 2008
Environments and stuff Hey guys, I want more environments in my portfolio, but when it comes to concepting and making color schemes etc. I go realllly slow. So I want to use professional concept art to work from so I c…	7 Last	Phobos Mar 2008
Rens cake! Happy birthday, bro-ham. Have a good one. ;D	13 Last	Thegodzero Mar 2008
IT CAME IT CAME, HOLY CRAP ITS HUGE! HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/DSC05033.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v61/seforin/DSC05034.jpg[/img] [img]/images/graeml…	20 Last	notman Mar 2008
CAKE for arsh [img]http://www.vigville.com/forum_images/_Birthday/HappyBirthday_00.jpg[/img] Here's to many more years of awesome art out of you! Happy Birthday!	29 Last	Asmuel Mar 2008
Nice feature update in Maya 2008 extension 2 I'm still watching what it offers but already am very happy with the new polygon tools. Soft selection that built right into translate tools with visual size adjustment! Symmetry that's pretty smart,…	9 Last	Illusions Mar 2008
Heading out to intern at Garage Games... Sweet, heading out in a couple weeks to Oregon, I have been interning doing video editing locally here in Tampa for the last couple months and fixing PCs, not really anything to do with my degree, bu…	8 Last	Jeremy Lindstrom Mar 2008
oh boy oh boy cake for b1ll Happy Birthday you bastard [url="http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2121/25sep26lostmyappetitenn0.jpg"]goatse cake for you[/url]	29 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2008
Show your love of Uwe Boll... [url="http://kotaku.com/363872/uwe-hates-on-spielberg-harrison-ford-sir-ben-kingsley"]...go watch the new Indiana Jones film.[/url] [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]	20 Last	killingpeople Mar 2008
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Got mine last night. It's really great so far, so nice to be playing a Smash Bros. game again. My only real complaint is a lot of the new levels are extremely busy visually and it's much harder to …	5 Last	acc Mar 2008
Using someone else's shader So say you download a shader someone made from a place like highend 3d, and on there they have "license type: Freeware." Can that be used in professional work? Are you required to say "shader creat…	29 Last	pliang Mar 2008
Level designer vs. Enviro artist This might be a pretty silly question, but I'm just wondering if these are two separate jobs, and if so, what kind of things carry over onto the other. What are the specific skills that a level desig…	37 Last	rooster Mar 2008
Resending Validation Mail Hi, i had a problem while registering, i never got the email validation, is it possible to resend it? this is wierd because i succeeded to resent the password (lost password), but when logging the …	11 Last	koubis Mar 2008
Paradise Burnout Paradise that is. Anyone else playing it? I've been meaning to post about it for a while, and didn't get around to it, but I just did a massive stuntrun and figured I'd find out how others …	3 Last	Xenobond Mar 2008
I'll order one of these to go [img]http://www.autoblog.nl/images/wp2007/Bugatti%20Veyron%203e%20in%20Nederland%20%289%29.jpg[/img] Bugatti Veyron - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhgSV0w1wLg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…	7 Last	notman Mar 2008
Contract Work I was wondering if anyone has any advice on doing contract work. I'm probably going to be doing some work for Sakson and Taylor, and I want to make sure I do everything correct as far as pay, hours a…	5 Last	Jeff Parrott Mar 2008
Gary Gygax has passed. [url="http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/gygax.dungeons.dragons.2.669157.html"]http://wcbstv.com/entertainment/gygax.dungeons.dragons.2.669157.html[/url] Thanks for everything, gary.	14 Last	Paul_C Mar 2008
The new Battlefield, from EA Just saw this now. Apparently free for download (expect insane amount of ads). And it looks like they've completely ripped the TF2-esque style for the game: [img]http://www.battlefield-heroes.com/si…	63 Last	SuperOstrich Mar 2008
Cake for Tulkamir Happy birthday sir	12 Last	Psyk0 Mar 2008
God of War PSP Just picked up God of war for PSP, OMG my thumb is killing me. If your psp has been collecting dust you need to buy this game its awesome! If anyone on PC works at Ready at Dawn Studios, you guys m…	5 Last	Jeff Parrott Mar 2008
Mirror's Edge I thought after GDC we'd be hearing more about this game. I've been dying for info after seeing some of the enticing concept art. [img]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/321/edgeuw0.jpg[/img] Scree…	19 Last	Cody Mar 2008
News Flash, Intel Extreme Graphics not so extreme [url="http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9883439-37.html"]http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9883439-37.html[/url] Looks like game developer's aren't the only ones fed up with Intel's crappy chipsets po…	19 Last	Robert Headley Mar 2008
Is it time to make the change to Vista? I've heard from quite a few people that they enjoy it. But I figured you guys could lend some helpful advice. I am getting a new computer soon hopefully, I can either stick with my windows XP, or put…	82 Last	Entity Mar 2008
Brett Favre walks away from the NFL... I'm sure a lot of you guys already saw this but Brett Favre announced his plans to retire. I hate to see him go. To me he is one of the last great quarterbacks to play the game. A true gunslinger and…	4 Last	super_villain Mar 2008
Nearly complete... she said yes :) About 4 days ago my best-friend did something for me no one else has.. made me feel complete. I got on one knee, right on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, and she said yes [img]/images/graemlins/smile…	36 Last	Joshua Stubbles Mar 2008
A Great Day I've been working a lot lately. I enjoy my work immensely, doing all kinds of 3d game art. But today was a wonderful Sunday because I took off completely; which is very rare for me. I enjoyed the w…	17 Last	ebagg Mar 2008
West Coast entry level artist salary? Hi guys, Any one would be kind enough to give me a hint of the number? I know the average is about 30k to 40k, but that includes East coast. Thank you.	60 Last	Xena Mar 2008
17" Cintiq Wannabe for < £700 Hi Folks I noticed that some of you have been looking for Cintique's recently and I just noticed this in this months Painter magazine - [url="http://www.xernon.co.uk/products/xpc1700b.html"]http://w…	13 Last	Cody Mar 2008
A quest for improvement? (Warning long and wordy) hey this is something thats flown through my head lately, just wanted to see what others have to say. After coming back from GDC and speaking to many people from here in real life and such, ive com…	26 Last	seforin Mar 2008
Difference btw job offers and employment contract? Bit confused here. Back in China, we sign contract every year and have to give notice 2 weeks ahead before leaving. Here u just sign offers (can terminate any time without reason by either party) and…	5 Last	Rob Galanakis Mar 2008
Model Viewer Thread [url="http://javaview.de/cgi-bin/model_upload.cgi"]Java Web Model Viewer[/url] Pretty neat. I think we need a thread that has all kinds of links to sweet real time model viewers. post some links p…	6 Last	Psyk0 Mar 2008
problems with my wacom i ordered an intuos3 a4 wacom like two weeks ago, and i finaly recieved it a couple days ago. very happy and proud to own and i finaly could get to work on the dominance war. untill.. i notices my c…	5 Last	Rens Mar 2008
Motor scooters So I think I will need to purchase some motorized transportation soon, whether I stay in Redmond or move to Austin. I moved right close to work and the town center so I could just walk, but they goi…	8 Last	notman Mar 2008
Devil May Cry 4 Anyone else tried the Demo ? you can chose 2 different "level" that are made of different portions of the game so you can have a good panel of the moves and stuff. the use of the lateral buttons on …	67 Last	SouL Mar 2008
IronLore Closes [url="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17661"]http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17661[/url] did a few of you guys work there? Sad day [img]/images/graemlins…	91 Last	Emil Mujanovic Mar 2008
question for anyone in the army I'm in the Marines and when I was in Iraq I noticed that the soldiers, when kneeling weren't really supporting themselves as a firing position. The position was similar to our "high kneel" but they w…	2 Last	DerekB525 Mar 2008
What's this stupid circle every time I push CTRL? Any idea? Somehow something got turned on in Windows (or another program that I've installed, but I think it's a Windows thing) and now everytime I push and release CTRL I get this annoying shrinkin…	3 Last	rube Mar 2008