Hey Folks, I've been putting this thread off for a while as I've been busy with my newest addition to the family ... Nuala Johnstone was born 8 pounds 7 ounces at 3.34pm on September 10th and really, thats where the majority of my time has been spent lately :) She's doing great, growing very fast, freakishly attentive to…
your website makes my face hurt because everything is moving... everything should be static until it is responding to input from the user... like, pushing play on the video... or mousing over a link... slide shows and scrolling stuff are annoying... also, the white background is icky... white backgrounds make art harder to…
If I had left it up to my schooling, I would have turned out a lot differently. We had the special class in fifth grade, but all that did was explain periods to us. Didn't have an "official" sex ed class until I was in 10th grade. I'd already been dating a guy for a year by that point that pressured me daily to have sex…
Don't do it. Lets say school will cost 100K total. Spend like 1/10th of that on some good classes/tutorials/computer and you'll be way ahead. I am taking a Digital Arts degree right now. There is 1 other student that is somewhat interested in game art out of the 30. Most of the students don't even take art seriously…
@Ashervisalis I'm from that part of the world, So this isn't some example of an outsider getting worked up over something they have no real stake in. And if this was the first , or 10th thread I'd seen like this, you would not see abrasive words from me. Being that this same kind of thing has been posted to the point where…
Cool stuff, I love the art style. Those screenshots look great. I wish the advert showed some proper gameplay though. I was a big fan of Settlers back in the day, I played Settlers 1 and 2 to death, got Settlers 3 and 4 too but decided after those I wasn't gonna get any more of the games, since they were becoming less and…
I don't think Autodesk supports Maya PLE anymore, it went the same way as GMax. Other free options are Softimage Mod Tool which is up to version 7.5. Or Houdini which also offers a free learning edition, though it's not used much for game development afaik. I'm not sure if Autodesk allows a user to sell a license, a lot of…
Many thanks for your feedback and the link. I will read through that page carefully. I've updated the gif images, and dropped every 10th frame. You are completely right in him feeling drowsy/lethargic. I think that was mostly caused by the slow down of the animation. It should be a little better now. Perhaps I've overdone…
What a fantastic sense of entitlement the lad has! Being so touchy that you take offense even when none is offered is a great way to get started in an artistic field. I have advice to offer, DaFuture - you need an attitude adjustment. If you want help or insight or whatever, don't complain that replies aren't served to you…
A few points: * A lightmap is a black and white image. All the areas around your UV islands are black. If you have large black areas when you downsample the image you get a darker result. It's better to completely cover the image as much as possible. This way you eliminate as much black space as possible. * Also what grid…