Hey, wow I'm actually posting on this board for once instead of lurking. I just felt I should really emphasize how important "environment" artists are really becoming. I'm going to use myself for example, I got hired pretty randomly to an independent game / technology studio last September that was expanding. I wasn't…
Sorry to clutter up your thread with this, maybe we should move this discussion to another thread? http://www.wunderboy.org/blog/175 I use the 3dsMax smd exporter, it works in 3dsMax 2k8 just fine, the importer does not. Milkshape3D's smd decompiler still works if you want to get models out of Source but it triangulates…
Environments for architecture and games share many common workflow operations but they are also vastly different. It's more than just knowing Max/Maya or having photo real renders on your portfolio. Do you know how to optimize your objects? Do you know how to bake high to low poly? Do you know how to layout a proper UV…
And now you know why I'm so skeptical that Detroit will use that money wisely or even be able to pay it back. If they're just looking to make their payroll and the money won't actually cover or come close to being spent on retooling, then its money down the tubes. The way I see it: 60% chance we can spend the cash and lose…
not a co-worker but some who needs to be removed from existence. i had a college roommate that one first impressions was a really nice guy and all. then he moves in.. CONSTANTLY smelled of dried semen. he wore the same pair of nasty boxers 24/7. never washed them as far as i could tell. his showers lasted a whole 2.5…
I am the one who wrote my view on the EaaS over on the Unreal Engine forums. The way you phrased your response to what I wrote is typical of what I mentioned about the, "culture" of your company. I cannot believe that you could honestly sit there, and have to give more than a moment's thought about how the overall general…
Choosing a project isn't easy, but if you treat it like a job it isn't hard either. For personal projects for fun it absolutely doesn't matter what you do or if you finish it, so meh. Its your time, your gain/loss what you do with it. For portfolio pieces things are quite different. A portfolio isn't anything else than…
So I'm not going to get into the conversation of whether you should or should not get a loan. Instead I am going to lay some other things out that a lender will look for in determining whether your credit worthiness is good enough to suggest repayment of the loan will occur instead of default. The 5 C's of Credit:…
cheaply like runtime cheap or cheaply manpower? fast on the cpu or a quick turnaround time? There's no bible to this stuff because you need to define the edges for youself, the basic premise is For paint: you'll want your shaders to have a base colour, then you apply dirt maps to that to make it look like a standard…
Heya - the distortion I was talking about earlier is unavoidable, because a sphere object cannot be made flat without either distorting it or slicing it up - that's just the reality of geometry and math :). Some of my earlier comments were also related to the flame example, which indeed doesn't require to edit the UVs at…