If you have a US tax number or a Social Security Number, it goes pretty 'fast' with only about a month or so of waiting. But getting the tax numbers is the harder part, getting all that stuff took way longer
betablizk : I think so, or at least you can use as a base , and modify it here and there .
I-ninja : You gotta work on your folds , they don't have to be perfect ,but they have to make some sense
Try to make a sketch before making any items ; It saves you a lot of hassle and headache. You also need some distinctive details/shapes to make your set stand out.
Good luck:)
If you have a US tax number or a Social Security Number, it goes pretty 'fast' with only about a month or so of waiting. But getting the tax numbers is the harder part, getting all that stuff took way longer
That link just leads to an error page for me. I put in Vextrakt and tried my account name. Neither worked >.< is the steam ID something else? I tried the number in my profile URL as well.
Edit: Figured it out. For anyone having trouble, go to your steam profile, edit profile, and create a custom URL with your username. Not sure what the default ID would be, but here's a workaround.
Curious- I remember someone making a thread that had pictures of most of the dota 2 characters you could customize as just renders of the base. I can't seem to find that again- can anyone direct me? Seems like that kind of thing could benefit from being stickied
hmmm so i have a new weapon ready to test ingame, but i only can chose from a very limited selection since the last test. Only in store, not if i test with bots, but there i can't have my new weapon, so how do I test this stuff ingame now?
hmmm so i have a new weapon ready to test ingame, but i only can chose from a very limited selection since the last test. Only in store, not if i test with bots, but there i can't have my new weapon, so how do I test this stuff ingame now?
Unfortunately I live in the UK so I have none of these, I guess I'll try to get an EIN on Monday when their offices are open again.
Is anyone else here from the UK and gone through this process?
I think coming from the EU you'll only have to fill out the W 8BEN form, i mailed my tax consultant she should be around tomorrow, i'm pretty sure the US tax numbers do not apply to foreigners
I think coming from the EU you'll only have to fill out the W 8BEN form, i mailed my tax consultant she should be around tomorrow, i'm pretty sure the US tax numbers do not apply to foreigners
They do. You have to check if your country supports the tax returns.
In completing the W-8BEN, you must provide a U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) in order to claim benefits under an income tax treaty. If you are an individual and don't have a social security number (SSN) and are not eligible to get one, you must get an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN). To apply for an ITIN, file Form W-7 with the IRS. It usually takes 4-6 weeks to get an ITIN. If you are not an individual who is an employer, you must enter an employer idenfication number (EIN). If you do not have an EIN, you should apply for one on Form SS-4. See the FAQ for further details on how to apply for an ITIN.
@Neox There was an option to receive money from workshop without ITIN/EIN however you would only get 70% of revenue because Valve would have to pay TAX in US before transferring founds.
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That is so cartoony i can actually feel art direction digging it's grave. [/LEFT]
i really can't understand why some in the community dislike that so much, just look at slark and the fish on his arm, its not like he is all dead serious. I can understand that for the more humanoid characters but there are a cew that are whacky enough to do something funny with them.
Anyway guys if you don't mind I would like you to make an "clown/butterfly test" (don't know how we could call that) for my new QoP set. Idea behind this set was to create proper succubus with more daemon like wings (crippled - pointing finger is missing because it was removed so she would be not able to fly, and could not escape form her master - so in other words she is only capable of blinking). Also we added her a tail so she would be more succubish . Armor is also more heavy - similar to what she already has on her boots and knees.
Ad the end there will be some chains/decors/earrings added.
Anyway I hope you will like it, if something would look outside of character/lore please let me know
@Spudnik I used masking to make an shape. Than in tool-deformations made and inflate-ballon out of inverted mask selection. After that I flattened the sides with flatten/trim-dynamic brush. Not the best method but it works
@Spudnik I used masking to make an shape. Than in tool-deformations made and inflate-ballon out of inverted mask selection. After that I flattened the sides with flatten/trim-dynamic brush. Not the best method but it works
Thank's for the explanation.
Doing those trims has always been one of the things that eluded me in Zbrush.
That's pretty much what I've been doing for the entire past year. It would help if they commented more on what would help get stuff ingame.
Heh I dont even know the magic formula. Just keep making stuff, keep working hard. Make items for yourself, for your own progression and development as an artist and if it gets in, bonus.
I think coming from the EU you'll only have to fill out the W 8BEN form, i mailed my tax consultant she should be around tomorrow, i'm pretty sure the US tax numbers do not apply to foreigners
OK for everyone that is still figuring out to get an ITIN or EIN, GET AN EIN NUMBER!
An ITIN number is only available by mail response, so you need to fill in all kind of forms to wait at least 6 to 8 weeks. If everything is correct your lucky if not it's a nightmare.
An Ein can be requested by phone and only takes about 5 to 10min. Depends on your english and how hard everything is to spell Just mention you are a sole prioriter, and you are working on 3D modeling and your set.
@Konras: Looking great, I think that will be one of my favorites for QoP swso far!
Made some progress on my CK set, almost finished all high poly models, still need to make a concept for the head though.. comments are always welcome!
I was working on my masks for my set today, and when I uploaded them to see how they looked, I noticed they caused weird shadows on my model. Does anyone know what would have caused this or how to fix it? The model on the left just has a 50% gray plane (with a spot of white and black in it) as the masks, and the one on the right has my custom masks.
Guys, quick question: is it possible to do custom anims ? not custom trigger anims like my last question, but any custom anims at all. Like i want some part of my model to be constantly rotating. Is it possible even if i dont use the main rig and add bones of my own ?
This is very important to me and any answers are appreciated.
Im losing my mind; im trying to attach a head object to Broodmother.
In Maya main brood file im smooth binding the object to Hair_R1C0 and it is not appearing in the right position. I try attaching it to joints further up the heirarchy and same deal, it either doesn't attach or gets stuck somewhere strange where I can't see it in-game. When I can see it the textures are fine so its not invis.
And yes I center pivot, freeze transforms, delete all deformer/history.
The skeletal structure does seem to function differently to many of the other character models; though im still learning so have tried hours of testing and can't seem to isolate the issue other then its 'horribly flaky'.
Has anyone worked with Brood that can help me out with this one?
i really can't understand why some in the community dislike that so much, just look at slark and the fish on his arm, its not like he is all dead serious. I can understand that for the more humanoid characters but there are a cew that are whacky enough to do something funny with them.
It's not so much as the fish, but the style it's executed. While slark has fish armor on him it has painterly, bot cartoony look. The eyes look somewhat realistic, the details are actual geometry and the maks are slimy and shiny.
The armor bits look more like slardar, and go perfectly with the default slark, who's while a fish, feels pretty realistic with his sharp teeth, slimy stuff coming out and eye that actually works.
TL;DR Slark items look like actual fish in color and structure.
if you compare, you can see that daggers fish eye is not working (with the painterly look, i mean) at all, even if it was the eye like the Slark got, it's still deformed and fish can't look around.
The teeth are coming out of nowhere, if that's a jaw, there should be more volume, right now it's not clear what it actually is, a dagger that looks like a fish or a dagger-fish, if it's the later, then it makes no sense.
The actual body lack any scales or fish qualities, compare to the default slark, where each piece got some coloring or scales that actually mimic some fish.
The bottom jaw is painted on and if the creature tries to open it's mouth, it'll break in half.
Not to say that Slark uses shivs, not fish as his weapon. It would've been okay to use shiv made out of dead fish, but using the dagger-fish hybrid that somehow has character with all the smirking and funny eyes seems innappropriate to me.
At first i thought it was a courier, which would've been fine, courier got their own style, but as a Slark, i think it clashes with his overall style too much.
I made this crappy comparison from two famous animations
I like it, Dan likes it and we're both proud of it as a piece of art and an item for Dota 2 - everything more than that is just gravy.
If you don't like it or don't think it fits into the realm of Dota 2 that's totally fine and I respect your opinion.
I personally feel there's more to be gained from pushing the boundaries of what could work within Dota 2 and what I'm capable of as an artist rather than constantly playing it safe and producing underwhelming items.
There's no need to get your manifesto hat on unless it gets into the game.
BrontoThunder I like the idea and the execution , the only thing I would do is desaturate it alittle ( feels way more intense than slark himself ) and maybe make the eyes (pupils) round and to the center to be more vissible from ingame .
@Robobobo I hope having custom music for the item videos is not getting the new standard
Nice work on the set!
Oh god never saw that USSR Pudge before, I hope i never have to see that one ingame, or EU servers will be flooded by even more angry (russian) pudge players haha!
I like it, Dan likes it and we're both proud of it as a piece of art and an item for Dota 2 - everything more than that is just gravy.
If you don't like it or don't think it fits into the realm of Dota 2 that's totally fine and I respect your opinion.
I could swear i've seen that fish in some cartoon before. this or similar. anyways, I totally understand vlads opinion on this, still its up to valve to decide if this fits their idea of dota2 style. so i'm looking forward to see if it gets into the store.
@Robo I really love your Nyx set. Best set ever for me! However I do see that one does not simply walk into Reddit with anything outside of the box ; ). In my opinion Nyx is all about spikes, fear, danger, etc. Sadly people catch on one critical opinion and repeat the same thing over and over again.
I like it, Dan likes it and we're both proud of it as a piece of art and an item for Dota 2 - everything more than that is just gravy.
If you don't like it or don't think it fits into the realm of Dota 2 that's totally fine and I respect your opinion.
I personally feel there's more to be gained from pushing the boundaries of what could work within Dota 2 and what I'm capable of as an artist rather than constantly playing it safe and producing underwhelming items.
There's no need to get your manifesto hat on unless it gets into the game.
I'm not saying it's bad or anything, theconcept is nice and execution is superb, i just think it's too cartoony for D2 look and explained that to Neox.
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ITIN or an EIN.
If you're eligible get an EIN, apparently they're a lot easier/quicker to obtain.
If not... hope you like waiting.
And seems to work for me
thank you i will learn how to do folds at once
That link just leads to an error page for me. I put in Vextrakt and tried my account name. Neither worked >.< is the steam ID something else? I tried the number in my profile URL as well.
Edit: Figured it out. For anyone having trouble, go to your steam profile, edit profile, and create a custom URL with your username. Not sure what the default ID would be, but here's a workaround.
I'm in the same boat right now. It'll be interested to see how long it actually takes. :poly117:
And decided to change the illustration to go with our Luna set =p
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=153130073
hmmm so i have a new weapon ready to test ingame, but i only can chose from a very limited selection since the last test. Only in store, not if i test with bots, but there i can't have my new weapon, so how do I test this stuff ingame now?
i've checked on two computers and i'm okay so far. no idea what the cause might be
I'm having the same problem since the last update
Same here. I can't test my set because Medusa isn't available in the test game.
That'll be me :shifty:
I think coming from the EU you'll only have to fill out the W 8BEN form, i mailed my tax consultant she should be around tomorrow, i'm pretty sure the US tax numbers do not apply to foreigners
That is so cartoony i can actually feel art direction digging it's grave.
i really can't understand why some in the community dislike that so much, just look at slark and the fish on his arm, its not like he is all dead serious. I can understand that for the more humanoid characters but there are a cew that are whacky enough to do something funny with them.
Ad the end there will be some chains/decors/earrings added.
Anyway I hope you will like it, if something would look outside of character/lore please let me know
Please rate and critique it.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=153351804
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=121758
zaphk - all of your promotion artwork
Thank's for the explanation.
Doing those trims has always been one of the things that eluded me in Zbrush.
Hi everybody!
Here's mine and Crowntail new set for Nyx, also check out video with custom music
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I know my ingleeesh is very lackey, but is that an actual mean comment ? if so, coming from such a figure from vlad, is very disappointing.
Heh I dont even know the magic formula. Just keep making stuff, keep working hard. Make items for yourself, for your own progression and development as an artist and if it gets in, bonus.
OK for everyone that is still figuring out to get an ITIN or EIN, GET AN EIN NUMBER!
An ITIN number is only available by mail response, so you need to fill in all kind of forms to wait at least 6 to 8 weeks. If everything is correct your lucky if not it's a nightmare.
An Ein can be requested by phone and only takes about 5 to 10min. Depends on your english and how hard everything is to spell
@Konras: Looking great, I think that will be one of my favorites for QoP swso far!
Made some progress on my CK set, almost finished all high poly models, still need to make a concept for the head though.. comments are always welcome!
hoooooly crap robo you're on a roll.
reminds me of those new zerg from HotS. that looks really cool
This is very important to me and any answers are appreciated.
you will never get the badge "vlad´s approved this one" =]
In Maya main brood file im smooth binding the object to Hair_R1C0 and it is not appearing in the right position. I try attaching it to joints further up the heirarchy and same deal, it either doesn't attach or gets stuck somewhere strange where I can't see it in-game. When I can see it the textures are fine so its not invis.
And yes I center pivot, freeze transforms, delete all deformer/history.
The skeletal structure does seem to function differently to many of the other character models; though im still learning so have tried hours of testing and can't seem to isolate the issue other then its 'horribly flaky'.
Has anyone worked with Brood that can help me out with this one?
The armor bits look more like slardar, and go perfectly with the default slark, who's while a fish, feels pretty realistic with his sharp teeth, slimy stuff coming out and eye that actually works.
TL;DR Slark items look like actual fish in color and structure.
if you compare, you can see that daggers fish eye is not working (with the painterly look, i mean) at all, even if it was the eye like the Slark got, it's still deformed and fish can't look around.
The teeth are coming out of nowhere, if that's a jaw, there should be more volume, right now it's not clear what it actually is, a dagger that looks like a fish or a dagger-fish, if it's the later, then it makes no sense.
The actual body lack any scales or fish qualities, compare to the default slark, where each piece got some coloring or scales that actually mimic some fish.
The bottom jaw is painted on and if the creature tries to open it's mouth, it'll break in half.
Not to say that Slark uses shivs, not fish as his weapon. It would've been okay to use shiv made out of dead fish, but using the dagger-fish hybrid that somehow has character with all the smirking and funny eyes seems innappropriate to me.
At first i thought it was a courier, which would've been fine, courier got their own style, but as a Slark, i think it clashes with his overall style too much.
I made this crappy comparison from two famous animations
And why is that? Tell me what you think about my figure?
Yeah, and it looks so good!
10/10
If you don't like it or don't think it fits into the realm of Dota 2 that's totally fine and I respect your opinion.
I personally feel there's more to be gained from pushing the boundaries of what could work within Dota 2 and what I'm capable of as an artist rather than constantly playing it safe and producing underwhelming items.
There's no need to get your manifesto hat on unless it gets into the game.
hahahaha that USSR pudge is so bawss
Nice work on the set!
Oh god never saw that USSR Pudge before, I hope i never have to see that one ingame, or EU servers will be flooded by even more angry (russian) pudge players haha!
I could swear i've seen that fish in some cartoon before. this or similar. anyways, I totally understand vlads opinion on this, still its up to valve to decide if this fits their idea of dota2 style. so i'm looking forward to see if it gets into the store.