LET MY NAME ENVELOP YOU. SEEK NO SHELTER FROM THE FLAME OR THE TEETH OF THE BEAST. CLOAK YOURSELF IN THE FIRE OF MY WORD AND CAST BACK TO YOUR ENEMIES THAT WHICH WOULD BLACKEN YOUR FORM. This is a process thread for my current project, the manticore mecha from the tabletop rpg LANCER. Current status: Based on the designs…
Howdy. I wonder if any of you are using compressed normal maps? We're about to start supporting it in our engine. For a 256x256 map, it's a filesize savings of like 55%... 192Kb for 24bit TGA vs. 86Kb for DXT5. So I've been talking with Doug Rogers, developer relations guy at Nvidia, about how the DXT5 format is used for…
Hey Guys, First time posting in tech talk, cool. So I'm using biped for the first time, and coincidently it's also one of the first times I've used Max from start to finish on a piece so I'm in need of some assisstance. I'm getting the hang of animation with biped, but the thing that has me hung up is the curve…
SizeAjustor plugin : Adjust draw size / focal shift ( and more ) by simply moving X and Y mouse axis while holding down a hotkey. Don't interrupt your workflow anymore when adjusting brush size or focal shift, instead smoothly adjust it with visual feedback, just like in mudbox, photoshop, etc... !!! > Description : I was…
The purpose of the Sweep Toolkit is to provide you the better way to Sweep a Profile along a Path than the default Blender Curve to Mesh. The Toolkit consist of 2 GN Modifiers Sweep and Pipe, 8 GN Tools to assign Attributes that are used by the Sweep, 50 Architectural Profiles. Features: * Even Thickness on each Point *…
Yes and No, mostly no though. They tell people things like that mostly because it rakes in cash monies for them. For example, "Course X" could have "Student Y" who was blisteringly amazing, and worked his ass off in and out of classes, and then went on to work for "Company Z"... Course X can now legitimately claim that…