On a related note i actually went to GDC recently and Valve was by far the most accommodating booth to their fans. Really down to earth people, if not a little jaded by the conference but that's understandable. They let pretty much everyone at the conference come to their company party and get absolutely shit faced on…
When I was a small child I played Pong and Space Invaders. Now I jump into chaotic battle in a huge virtual world full of 63 other human opponents killing each other in all sorts of interesting and amusing ways. I can pilot ships, planes, tanks, jeeps and motorcycles. I can use my brain to figure out the most cunning ways…
I caught some vids on youtube last night that placed a lot of blame on AAA greedy investors. It seems they cause huge delays in approvals costing a veritable fortune, cause too much interference with art direction. Not being gamers the direction is often unwarranted or incorrect. There was even talk of huge budgets…
Harl I hadn't thought of it that way but you are right. I thk Ill work with that, as well as beef up the animation portfolio, but a vehicle modler seems abit specialized. I do have have the knowledge of vehicles, cars tanks aircraft, and I do have some industrial design education to use for the fancy shiny cars. Dax That I…
well it would depend on the title--you mentioned Dawn of War, which unlike your more traditional RTS does feature a very close-in camera angle, which is why the use of 512 maps and up would make more sense. i'm not really familiar with battle for middle earth, but i assume that at least some of the action is viewed close…
Hello! I really thank you for answering this question I had. I did what you mentioned as you can see in this screenshot, I hardened the edges with "Mark Sharp" and instead of applying "Shade Smooth" I applied the "Shade auto smooth" (I saw it in a video that talked about hardening the edges). When doing this, the strange…
[ QUOTE ] bottom line, no one gave a rats ass about working on your game for free and you got upset and made a scene. [/ QUOTE ] Argh I'm trying to step out of the conversation so you can talk amongst yourselves. Rhino you don't know me so it's understandable how you might think that but you couldn't be further from the…