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the ESCAPE: a Polycount Challenge.
Finally! We are extremely happy to announce to you our next video game art challenge here at Polycount: the Escape In many ways this challenge will be an experiment for us; Usually we have very tight-knit rules & specifications for our contests and a very specific theme. This time around we wanted to offer you guys a… -
Re: turboTools v1
I hope you don't mind but here are some code snippets for tools I use frequently and collected or wrote over the years. * single click turbo smooth swap (on \ off)function switch_turbosmooth obj=( for o in obj do if superclassof o == geometryClass do ( for mod in o.modifiers where classof mod == turbosmooth do( if… -
[MAX] VRay and Lightmap generation storing "Shadow info" on alpha channel
So this 3D engine I'm using(and I can't change the tech sadly) seems to use lightmaps(just simple 2D dds textures which are mapped to the second UV channel in geometry) in quite a particular way for large chunks of terrain. It seems to read the alpha channel from the lightmap and use it as a multiplier to the lighting… -
Gradient layer doesn't work
Hello! I have a problem with gradient from procedural layers. It doesn't work. When I am creating this layer I have an ERROR (Error: CPR ERROR: 000|#include <metal_stdlib> ). Marmoset Toolbag 4 v.4.02 (4020), macOS Big Sur 11.2.3 Message from console when I am creating procedural gradient: CPR ERROR: Compilation failed:… -
Informative Conversation about Landscapes and UE4
Hey everyone, the other day I had a really interesting and informative conversation with someone on the UE4 Devs facebook page about landscapes and I learned alot of things that I was pretty fuzzy about before that point, so I thought I'd share the conversation with you all to help spread some of this seemingly rare… -
Angels Fall First: Planetstorm
<u>Preamble:</u> Angels Fall First has existed for a few years now as a modification for Homeworld 2 and Nexus, and also has its own game engine in development. The end goal is to complete our own engine and publish the complete Angels Fall First game. The end product is anticipated to include both RTS and FPS elements,… -
Re: [MAYA HELP!!!] Rendering and Lights for Demo reel?
Ok, I'll do 2 posts here. This is a noobtastic GI light dome but it works. I've got another one on my work machine I can show you on Monday if this doesn't work. It's real similar though. Paste this in the script editor and hit enter: //PrerenderPyramid v0.7 - (c) Dmitry "Troydm" Geurkov int $lights; float $intensity;… -
SDK Master Thread
SDK Master Thread What this thread's for Over the years the Polycount community has created and released many SDKs for people to practice and enhance their skills through. But they have been spread out, thrown across many threads and posts, making it difficult to know what was available. This thread aims to amass them all… -
Re: Beefcake laptop?
Sorry for the huge post here, but I just wanted to share the Bioshock Benchmark utility. I ran it at max settings at 1080p. You can see the average frame rate sits between 35-55fps. It's awesome having a laptop that is more powerful than my desktop :P I can't recommend this laptop enough. During the benchmark I could… -
Trying to get vertical plane to work in max 2013
Would someone know how to get this working in max 2013? A variable has to be changed somewhere? Or does it just need to be resaved as unicode? Not familiar with either. This is what I'm refering to... http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/imageplane-v1-5 Although now it is called Vertical Plane 1.7.1 It's great for…
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