This is looking great! I love the imperfections in the fins, the bends in the metal and slight ill regularities you get when fabricating. All those little touches lead to the objects creditability and are oh-so-often over looked by 3D artists. For zero distortion, realistic bending and physics you can use Paul Hormis…
I'm pretty sure you could take them to court and prove they stole it, therefore they lose any protection from the orphan works legislation. This whole thing is a result of America's funny combination of lax copyright laws and draconian copyright laws. Here's a nice article from 2005 Copyright Reform to Free Orphans?…
the macro for bridge command is:macroScript bridge_cut_tool category:"renderhjs" toolTip:"shift+b bridge command on the edge selection"( --little help from --http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=880985&postcount=25 if (subobjectlevel==2) then --Edge SO ( if (((polyop.getEdgeSelection $.baseobject)as array).count ==…
If by "drawing from life" people mean copying what you see or copying a reference, I certainly don't think that is important. Out of all the time I have spent drawing, I have spent maybe 0.5% drawing from life in that sense. On another level, of course you have to have an idea of how things look. Sometimes a very specific…
Looking at a few of your posts it looks like you keep rendering using a skylight and light tracer (ambient occlusion). Now it does make renders look good that's why it is known as the sexy button. however it will tend to hide flaws in your geometry, like if something is wrong in a smoothing group ect. So while your…
meh, back in 2002 Everquest tried doing a "Premium" server service that cost an extra $20 a month or so for "Exclusive content" and GM support the regular paying customers on the other servers never got. http://afkgamer.com/archives/2005/12/12/legends/ It was basically labeled a "Pay extra and get free l3wt" sorta deal…
neo: As far as them not having a permit to do it on private property: [ QUOTE ] The police have publicly stated that only a permit from the health department was obtained, and that a Utah mass gathering permit was needed. The promoters have stated that they had the required permit, and have given a permit number (#…
Hey guys I've been using these since maya 7 when they first came without lag, I think the default load time for the context sensitive menu is about half a second. It would be great if there was no load time at all but I think all the menus in maya take half a second to load. If you're seeing a black mouse trail it's…
Hi! I made a simple animation for my vehicle in Blender. I have two main problems during import process: 1) The orientation of model is different than in animation. The animation is ok, but the model lays on the doors. Should I change something in export what is forward, or just rotate the model? 2) There's a scale…
Hey, everyone! I've put together a visualization of an image effect I've recently created for Unity3D that provides high quality bloom (done the right way) and a dirty lens effect. The effects are energy-conserving and highly optimized. The effect costs roughly twice as much as rendering Unity's optimized bloom effect (1.0…