epic marketing fail - it just hurts even more with the medals on the left, closed the tab. Anyway you can do all that with just windows itself, I am surprised that so many people (including the guy who wrote the software on the flashy website) don't know their windows that well: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569 its…
if thats the case and you really have tried everything. Uh upgrade drivers again to be sure, then if you need to swap in a different card to see if it still happens. Maybe your card is fd up. and curious have your tried with v-sync off or triple buffering off. I honestly only use them when im playing certain games, 95% of…
I realize I am in the minority here, but I've enjoyed all the Alien films on some level, even the AVP films. I think its obvious that 1 & 2 were the best, but the other 4 (including the AVP's) were better than a good 95% of the sci-horror films out there. You guys are doing some stunning work on this scene. I cannot wait…
Maybe I'll start a poll, but it seems to me that there's generally a lot more environment/prop art than there is character art for most games. I mean, out of the teams that I've dealt with and games that I've worked on, it isn't uncommon to see only 2 or 3 character artists/animators, and 10+ environment/prop guys on a…
hehehe. it used to be true though. While Mac OS was crap it still beat Win 95 every day for video editing or print or anything else that wasn't Maya or Max. I really miss the old Macs. Back then they were all about usability and not just looks. My Powerbook beat the crap out of every PC save some Thinkpads in usability and…
I ran into this problem quite a bit and wanted to pull my hair out. The fix (or at least for me) was so easy I wanted to scream. Instead of hitting Ctrl+s hit the [Save Tool] button on the tool menu to save. In my case, this seriously cut down on crashes by about 95%. I've completed entire pieces with no crashes whereas…
i was lifting up old carpets today in my new house and there was a newspaper form 1982 and my god things have changed, but even since 1995 when i got my first pc things have moved on. my first pc was a dotlink and was win 95 16 mb and 1gb of ram. it was pretty much a decent computer at the time.I must say I do prefer those…
Well I was able to put some time in last night since the windows reinstall. I tweaked the grafitti and did the normal maps on the props in the first image. Keep in mind I have only done the diffuse and spec on the front of the dumpster ONLY. Every other piece only has a normal map on it. There really isnt much to crit on…
Now this got my attention. Even though it'd make me feel like an ass, I know of a few places that have never even seen a legit dev tool. As for my stance on the whole piracy deal, I think it's ok for students (who're broke 95% of the time anyway) to use, but not so once its intended to be used for profit. Games I wont get…
Regardless of what you texture this in, 95% of the quality of the texturing will come from the clean separation of materials - either per model chunks, or by texture masking. So instead of wondering about using Substance tools, you should first worry and research how you will create these separations. Cart before the…