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Re: How do Americans reconcile the concept of bootstraps with being a nation of fatasses?
UK is getting bad as well. Like the kids here, its sugar. http://itn.co.uk/9ad80ee325a2cbaf213b740c2fa210f7.html Its actually a catch 22. There was a recent link to processed food possibly causing depression. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8334353.stm Poor people cannot afford to spend the money that less processed… -
Re: SATA HDD Failure... and its art freeze today...
Thanks guys =) Update: The day from hell... Our IT guy had a dentist app in the morning and he thought he would make it in but ended up calling in and not making it in. So his boss and I did our own trouble shooting we tried it in a few machines in every conceivable configuration and it was never picked up by the bios. We… -
Re: Traveling to Seattle
1.- depends on what kind of weather you like... washington has super mild seasons. Highs in summer generally dont go past 90, winter doesnt get below 30 99% of the time. If you like snowboarding or skiing, do winter. Otherwise do spring or summer. 2. - I grew up on the olympic peninsula... if you dont mind camping or… -
Darkest of Days - demo
A demo for Darkest of Days is out http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/49517/Darkest-of-Days-Demo-Now-Available Webpage http://www.darkestofdays.com -
"Rounded Corners" shader - shader authors help!
This is yet another shader I've been in the process if trying to figure out. Essentially what it does is average the normals on the edges of two adjacent faces to make it appear beveled or 'rounded'. There is a patent for it that goes into more detail on how it works, here:… -
Re: Nvidia Tesla - anyone used it?
iray supports distributed rendering on multiple tesla machines. iray is from mental images, who are owned by nvidia, so things are optimized well. there is even preconfigured hw for that case http://www.nvidia.com/object/realityserver_tesla.html thats probably the easiest way to get a distributed gpu renderer working. But… -
Re: standalone animation software for games question
for paid ones.. maybe akeytsu will be in the near future there as a lowcost alternative !? when you would choose Max or Maya then keep in mind one of those tools will be the next to get the EOL death. EOL= end of life like Softimage recently got officially killed besides the fact it was an Industry tool. Blender has of… -
The Six Commandments of Contracting
Hi guys! Long time no see. :) I still lurk, and wanted to come out of the shadows to post my first really big article since Your Portfolio Repels Jobs way back when. I'm really proud of it and was wondering what you guys thought. [size=+2]The Six Commandments of Contracting [/size] Permalink:… -
Re: Can you tell me what projection is this?
Every 3d package texture baker could bake from one UV to another or from one mesh to another. Could be done both ways actually. I don't use 3d max for a decade already but as far as I remember it could be perfectly done in render-to-texture dialog. Or any texture baker that support a texture on "hires" mesh. Substance… -
Re: Arizona's new immigration law
There will be elements of that I'm sure. It's virtually impossible to regulate every action a human can do so I just prefer ways of thinking that give the people more freedom and liberty to do what they want and opt for less market interference. With everything governments try to regulate an unintended consequence almost…
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