hey guys, just thought I would give a heads up to any Canadians that Best buy is having a sale on some decent titles. Bioshock 2 - 34.99 down from 69 Splinter cell Conviction - 49.99 down from 65 Assassins Creed 2 - 19.99 down from 39 or 49, im sure most of you have it but its a steal at 20 bucks. I grabbed bioshock and…
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity! Now that it has your attention, it is released today! Dejabaan Games first person base jumper. Not sure if any of you played this but it really gets the adrenaline pumping, and they have pretty full versions of the alpha and beta out there to play which have…
I'm using Maya 2013 64 bit (the free student version) and every 20-30 seconds my viewport flickers white. It's driving me nuts! This started when I added a second monitor to my setup. I've checked and the flicker happens on both screens. I've updated my GPU drivers to the latest (I have an nVidia 9800 GTX), and my monitor…
Hey folks, I've got some free time and looking to get into some fun projects. Skills - In-game asset creation, mostly weapons and hard surface. - High poly modeling for baking. - PBR materials, both Specular and Metalness workflow. Software Proficiencies - 3DS Max - ZBrush - Photoshop - Substance Painter - Quixel Suite 1/2…
Check out the 80 Level article here: https://80.lv/articles/procedural-artcit-forest-environment-production/ This is a summer project I started a few weeks ago, the goal was to find out if tessellating foliage would kill performance on a modern midrange PC. Most of the R&D is done at this point and with just rudimentary…
Picked up Episode one last week, seems pretty cool so far, except that it keeps crashing. There was a point on the elevator part where stuff falling down on ya where everytime I got there everything would freeze. Managed to get past that by turning the graphics all the way down (left them at the recommended settings), but…
I've got a number of assets I'm working on that use emissives either for minor detailing or as fully diegetic light fixtures. I've been reading the lightmass documentation and it mentions that using emissives for lightmass should be about as expensive as a point light, but when I toggle even just ONE mesh with emissive to…
Heres a model I have been working on for the past 4 or 5 days. Its not done yet, I wanted to get some feed back on its design. To me it looks to plain, I was thinking about giving it a vampire touch to it. Like a bit of blood running down her mouth, maybe more belts.... Iam not quite sure. What do you guys think?…
I'm getting this variance with color and light/contrast level in the diffuse in UE4 with the default scene and having turned off most or all of the post processing stuff in the viewer already. Turning off the spherical reflection thing helps but only pushes it about 10% to 20% of the way. Disabling all the lighting doesn't…
3dmotive has just released one of their most highly requested tutorials yet. Our friends at 3dmotive, with the help of instructor and polycounter Damian Lazarski, have put together a tutorial covering everything you need to know about creating custom foliage and setting it up in UDK. Read more about it here:…