Yeah, most I7's have a very good price/performance ratio. You can go with an I5 but you literally get what you pay for. Usually with CPUs there is an insane price curve but the mid-range I7's have been very good value for money lately. The high end I7's are another story though. The diff between an I5 and I7 is $100, and…
i think i finally have it working decently. im currently making a tester script to select those uvs in each catergory small, medium and large. but running into syntax problem //derived from texSortShellsByBounds, uses same idea of combining the shellarea into the shelllist somehow error says $testList hasn't been declared.…
Ok, so I'm new at taking the idea modeling to low poly in regard for use in a game engine. I'm starting out simple. I've done some research on mapping and such as I've really only focused on the modeling aspect itself in high poly. Right now I'm working on a Pick head Axe in 3Ds Max. From what I understood from various…
Hello builders and artists, I am simply a role-player looking for a builder. I used to own a sim on Second Life and I am now coming back to SL and looking for a builder to help fill out a city. For those of you not up to speed on Second Life, go to www.secondlife.com and browse around. I warn you that their website is…
Phew - that was quick! Hot off the press are the results from the judges at Havok on their Top 9 entries to the MINI-GOLF contest! For those who don't know, the MINI-GOLF! contest hosted by Polycount saw artists creating mini-golf holes, to be used in Havok's brand spanking new game engine, Project Anarchy™. When the…
Sounds like you just want to be with like minded people. Check out local meetsups. Not sure where you live but Check and see if you have any local community colleges in the area and attend a class that is relevant to the industry, you'll make friends etc.. I thought I really wanted to go to a college for this stuff but…
If you are thinking of putting down that much cash for something you might as well take the time to research part and put one together yourself. Once you do, you will know how to upgrade in chuncks and you will never have to put down that much cash again. Your system will slowly upgrade as you need it in much easier to…
It's good advice for some of the kanji, but you can't build a 100% logical system from it. Well you can, but it won't exactly be logical logical, just a messed up logical based on stories you made up :p And that's not a bad way of learning it, that's what the Heisig method teaches. A common type of example would be…
[ QUOTE ] Verm: Jeez, get sensitive or what? [/ QUOTE ] Not at all, mate - I was just being glib I think gauss pretty much makes the point I would have. America makes more movies than any other country and gets much wider distribution, so it stands to reason that there's more crap being spread about as well. Loads of…
Polyherts, I said what I said because I see the trend you described as well. I also see this very intrusive trend of ads in games getting worse, but the cost doesn't go down. You pay 50 bucks so you can sit your butt down and watch a few ads. Now I mind that I can't skip them, but they are more or less fun to watch at…