Alright people, I've got textures in my UDK environment that I was not sure were displaying normal maps properly. I use Xnormal for the majority of my baking, which by default (for me at least) is set to X+ Y+ Z+. I always import my normal maps into UDK as TC_Normalmap for compression settings. I tried re-importing one of…
Shit :( Just hoping that from the ashes of all these companies going down some start ups can emerge- let's face it, the whole boom/bust situation happens a lot in our industry. When I started at Mobius, quite a few UK teams had gone under, was pretty lucky to get my break. Then suddenly it took off again, and so forth. It…
I've never actually been anything other than "staff." Like I've taken on lead roles and senior roles, but I've never been formally a senior or lead. At the same time, I've never been a junior artist either. Honestly, I find people get caught up on job titles a lot and I wouldn't let a non-junior job description stop you…
Player to player collision is always a bit tricky. Handling collisions purely server side will result in being able to walk through another player for a second so I dont think thats a valid solution. In a lot of games you have problems when 2 players run close to each other in a line. The one in the back kind of jerks…
I enjoyed the movie. I liked that it was fasted paced like the original trilogy. I watched them recently, saw the pacing of the prequels and compared them to the original trilogy. The pacing was really different. Prequels were fairly slow. I liked that a lot was left to the viewer's interpretation and not everything was…
I think it's a typo on the wiki when it says it prioritizes "Cavity" first. I believe they mean Curvature. As I understand it, Cavity is supposed to represent small light occlusion (AO for small details) whereas Curvature represents convex detail like protruding edges as well as concave depressions. xNormal has options for…
Yeah at this point, i'm not bothering with Crysis 2. The demo left a pretty bad taste in my mouth after playing it a few hours. Let me say this though, Environments and sounds are great. Graphics were never a problem with Crysis, but here's my beef. #1) Start Screen - Press to Start.... #2) Graphic Settings -…
Back again with another update. I spent a lot of time messing around with various ways to create foliage and this is where I'm at after a lot of experimentation. I still want to create a few more foliage pieces to add a little more variety, but for now I'm satisfied with what I have. I figured out where my performance…
Email pax_registration with concern, get forwarded to pax_questions. Get same copy/paste answer from same guy in every email response. Send entire thread of 10 emails with pax_registration CC'd. Win. Sounds like I'm going now. I was prepared to drive to Penny Arcade myself if I had to. I haven't been there since last…
Swampbug: Yeah. The guys who host the video/did the music are big Mac guys. About the fade; It is a straight fade but because of the colors it really does look that way. I thought it looked kind of cool, so I left it in. That and it was easier not to mess with it once it was done. Tulkamir: Yes. It was a massive amount of…