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Re: HELP!!! Considering a new PC
So this is a system I'm lookin at: Apologies for the layout it's from the shopping cart: So my question is this...the CPU is a FSB of 1333, yet the RAM is 800...the price for DDR3 1333 is PRICEY right now...so is it better to bite the bullet and get the better ram? or just go 8 gigs of the DDR2 800? I also plan to buy the… -
Re: Work PC Questions
dude, that is out. i feel your pain. i recently had to sell the idea of getting upgrades to my boss. making that sale can be difficult, especially in the economy. now keep in mind the rig is mostly used for photo real rendering and custom shading networks. render times can get high and eat up the machine leaving me unable… -
Re: n88tr's basic textured things
Hey n88tr, mistakes are progress because you'll learn what not to do lol. For doing foliage that is one way you can do it. To make the material have transparency you'll need an alpha mask or an opacity mask it depends on what the shaders in the game engine support. In the engines i've used you can have a alpha mask in the… -
Re: Baking Spec Maps Via Max
Adding light color to your spec can be really helpful if you know exactly what kind of lights are all around your object keeping in mind that light, bounces off objects and that spec is reflection, it can help you color a jumble of UV pieces quickly. It's not so helpful for characters because they encounter a bunch of… -
Re: So how much DO you know about your programs?
[ QUOTE ] Or the alternative, have two perspective windows, one with High Quality Display on, the other with it off, and just switch between the two. Or (even better). Make a camera, aim it at your subdiv proxy, create a tear-off window of that view, isolate select the subdiv proxy, then throw that window onto another… -
Re: Roman Ballista (prop)
Thoughts on improving texturing Starting with the UVs; many sections of the UV layout are the same. So you could have reused those sections of the material instead of giving it all unique space so that overall you'd have higher pixel density. On the other hand, had you uniquely painted the texture, this wouldn't be the… -
Re: Normal mapping polycounts and texture res
[ QUOTE ] For example, could I make a bunch of big square template shapes in high res, like a brick wall or gravel, then render then onto a long thin low poly object? In this case its sqaure to rectangle, but it could be sqaure to round circular or whatever. [/ QUOTE ] The normal map extracting tools all work basically the… -
Re: Portfolio site updated.
Did a bit of pruning and grammar pass. Changed the resume a bit and changed the front page to having fishy loaded. I also did a render of her as opposed to the max viewport shader and did a bunch of cleanup on her textures. Sa74n(for the record, i type your name 30 times before i got it right and i had to look at it on the… -
Re: [DONE] Ancient Greek House [UE4]
Hey, good work! I am from Greece so prepare to be critiqued by culture inaccuracies :) Your 3d work is nice but the overall feel of it for me does not really say "Greek". In a nutshell I would say that you took care of your props but not your reference which is equally important, as I can see you have the technical skills!… -
Re: Thinking of switching from 3DSMax. Maya or Blender?
Interesting discussion. I have smaller scope of experience than most but for Indie dev I think Maya LT is good choice largely because of the rigging and animation tools. Especially with plugin like advanced skeleton I am able to make complex rigs and animations in just a few days with minimal experience there. I don't do a…
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