That's what I was hoping. The work plane seems to automatically have the right answer, I just need to access it somehow. I thought of that but I don't necessarily want it aligned to the screen ... I just want to know which of the major axis ... X or Z ... is most parallel to the screen. I still want to move in cardinal…
Yes sorry for the light, screen capture issue there bacause of old screen :/ continuing working with the pillars,stairrails and the throne statue :) Time for texture work and to add some foliage and work with vertex blending ALOT!;) Please tell me what you think: should i create the 4 statues or should there be something…
Hey, this is lookin' pretty cool so far. I think what gsokol was referring to was the cast shadows. I can only spot a couple here and there, and they seem pretty weak. It looks like there's a lot of ambient light bouncing around the scene, but I'd still fake in some darker cast shadows if you can. It'll definitely help…
These Art and Texture guides are great! I learned loads just by reading them. Sirdelita, I think they have put a 90 90 90 grey layer set to screen on top of the point light map, group that and then set the layer group to Soft Light. Setting the grey layer to screen causes all values darker than that 90 90 90 layer to the…
Hmm, game looks really nice, but I'm not sure about that gameplay video. Kind of agree with shotgun. I really don't need the game to tell me that the massively obvious trail of blood is a blood trail and I certainly don't need the words to swirl around the screen for several seconds. Also not a fan of the whole, posing…
Flow up questions. Is it the CPU and GPU that run into the most problems when working with graphics related content? To my understanding GPU may be limited by something called the fill rate, which is the rate per second that the GPU can render the pixels on screen or send pixels to the memory? This means that the more the…
Yeah, the skylight should only be used as a fill light, helping to get rid of strong black shadows and help fill out darker areas. A strong key light with mapped shadows of tree's leaves would look great in this scene I reckon. In Jeremy Birn's Lighting and Rendering book he talks about this...off screen space and how…
if you need to save cash and a used tablet is fine, you can even go with an intuos1 if you can find one in a nice condition. apart from small tweaks and a different finish these are identical to the intuos2. personally prefer them over the intuos3 which seems a bit flimsy in comparison but ymmv. just don't buy a tablet…
I picked up my Asus VivoTab note 8 64gb for $375 (CAN) after tax and I can't say I regret that purchase at all. It has a Wacom digitizer. The tracking gets a bit funky around the borders of the screen, but that doesn't bother me cause that's just where menu items are and I don't actually paint there. It can Zbrush like a…
For the in-editor navigation issues, you *might* be able to remap things to something less stressfu through AutoHotkey scripts. It's worth trying, and maybe your tech/tools guy could help you settings this up ? As for typing, I found a strange but very smooth solution : I put an extra, low profile (apple) keyboard ... on…