Played with Jordan W & Kevin J for a bit. Then animatr, I and a bunch of his friends went until 7:44am and my wife made me coffee in the morning so we could finish all 50 waves of enemies on Horde. Wave 45 kicked our asses bad!
Looks cool, kind of like something from Final Fantasy. 4470 tri's? Seems kind of high? Can we see some wire views along with texture/uv layouts? Might be some room to optimize.
I cannot believe there is no out-of-the-box align tool, especially considering how essential it is for animation. It would take literally a few hours to create and test something like that... You can try this script, supposed to be like Max's align tool:…
Did some more searching(really cant wait) and found the model numbers: (http://ec.synnex.ca/vendors/WACOM_TECHNOLOGY.html) 4417285 INTUOS4 SMALL BI-LINGUAL PTK440M 4417286 INTUOS4 MEDIUM BI-LINGUAL PTK640M 4417287 INTUOS4 LARGE ENGLISH ONLY PTK840 4417288 INTUOS4 EXTRA LARGE ENGLISH ONLY PTK1240 4421085 INTUOS4 SML PEN…
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=441407 its because of the logarithmic expore control and the daylight - in Max2009 it´s supposed to better handle such issues. Also check that you use the alpha mask as specular mask so that the planes dont get shaded as a flat rectangular mesh but instead get filtered.