The joke going around is that Bin Laden put his information on the PSN network, when it was hacked the US was able to pinpoint his location and take him out, har har. It's a vicious cycle, in many ways we're paying for the "sins of our fathers", the middle east doesn't hate us for nothing that's for damned sure. The…
Hey EQ! Long time... =) how u been? Sorry for the late reply, yours got lost in a sea of notifications. 1. Awesome! good to hear =) 2. Aha, that explains it. Textures can get flagged according to their initial load and then get assigned an sRGB value. For sure I mis-loaded, I had to redo it so many times XD 3. OK, I need…
Hi guys, I'm writing this using windows in safe mode + networking, lately been having some problems with rendering using advanced lighting in scanline and some with mental ray. Scenes are around 500k tris, half way through 2nd render the cpu temp warning light comes on and then system freezes with no option but to reset.…
I went for a more airbrushed feel on this skin, soft graduated tone, to try and give it that comic book look that i sometimes see in some graphic novels, the model didn't come with a cape unfortunately, its just one of the standard ones that comes with ut2003k. The Altered State project is still going, I sent out to a few…
Haha fucking hell those Kotaku comments had me lol'ing pretty good. Some gems: "Splotch some red on her and take off a limb, and I couldn't tell her from a resident evil victim. Also, Haggar piledriving a shark has never looked so blatantly homosexual. And that Akuma. Yeesh. I didn't realize Azuma was a horrific undead…
hmm dunno. i guess we are more or less "silent" rockstars. I hate talking about my job since i everybody is bored when the chatting turns into somthing with more substance. Typical situation: Shim: "I am more or less in the gamebiz as an charcter artist, I do contract work next to school" chatpartner: "Wow thats sounds…
Check out this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=137206 Part of my reply in it, but there is lots of good info from others beyond me rambling. I think you'll find the industry all depends on people's history, path, expectations, and things like that. It's not cut and dry. There's good and bad and it's…
had to check for the project, switched machines in the meantime and didnt run it in ages. but regarding that rimlight. this is a 1 bit mask of the custom stencil buffer set to 12 (could be any number really, dont even ask why 12, dunno anymore :D ) here is the custom stencil mask applied per object (so it doesnt apply to…