I'll second Ryno's Hp vote. I bought it at Best Buy, which I never would do, but got a great deal. $550 bucks for this: Dual Core 2.0 GHZ AMD [cheaper and just as good. Fuck Intel] 2gigs of RAM 256mb dedicated graphics card [You want this. Don't get onboard video] 250GB Hard drive DVD burner with Lightscribe 15" Widescreen…
Well, I know what Kaskad is referring to. He's referring to the laws of supply and demand. If you've ever had any education in economics, supply and demand are typically two converging values at the point which they do converge, is the price the market will bear. The problem being with digital goods is the supply is…
I used to work in the biggest testing company the UK: Babel media. Although my department was entirely different (game marketing) to the 300 odd staff that tested games, I used to hang out down the pub with a lot of the QA guys. The guys there were just hearded into offices and set side-by-side in what must have been one…
All these (up) share the same 1024x2048 texture and material. (For the screenshots I used 2 cause I wanted to have some POM on some of the pieces, but it made some others look broken) The ceiling and floor tiles. The flytrap is around 300 verts. The leaves were at first just planes,now there's 4 faces in each but I think…
You're sacrificing some really important shapes while leaving hardly-noticable detail intact. For instance the guy's upper legs are extremely thin and he's lacking any hips, but you did leave in the slight indent on the inside of the feet. The wrists also need some thickness, and I'm not sure of having a separate…
Thanks... The compression flags seem to work however I am sure it is just not defer compression at this point :poly136:. I am trying the same but in udk engine .ini bUseMAXQUALITYMODE setting. Might try the streaming option as well but I want mip mapping... heck, I just want control over where and when and how much…
OK, many many thanks all! Lots of great crits and I really appreciate the nice comments. It's hard to judge where you're at when you've been in the same gig for as long as I have. After reading through all the feedback here's what I think I'll address: Connery is getting a major update. Lots of minor improvements but…
Imo the problem with art creation sofware is not that it's missing a few specific features but rather how monstrously inconvenient, unintuitive and tremendously artist unfriendly it is, even in cases of "flexible" ones like Houdini. And nothing have changed with that during last 30 years. We still wasting half of our life…
As far as texturing goes, I think your Jake Sully Hunting Knife is the best piece. That said as far as a portfolio for applying for jobs, there's still a lot more you could do. ~I would omit completely that you're making props in 2 days time. It's not so much you shouldn't make your models fast, but you're better off…
Not necessarily. The catch here is that when looking at these devices (big Cintiqs, this MS panel, and so on) we assume that it is indeed possible to work comfortably at a distance similar to what is shown in this picture above. But the fact is, Wacom tech is order of magnitude less precise than a physical pencil - because…