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Re: Need Help With UV's & Texture Resolution
Yeah same deal, explode once done. You can keep a version exported with the meshes closer together for better Ambient occlusion but for Normal map baking, 100% explode the mesh. Your railing looks like it needs to be a bit beefed up, looks a tad thin. Those artifacts you have are most likely caused by severely tight edges… -
Re: Sketchbook: dii
It's just the default round brush at 100% hardness with shape dynamics set to size->pressure and smoothing turned on. That's it. If I want a softer line I usually take the flow down to 30%, other than that it's usually set to 100. Occasionally when I'm doing loose sketches I use one of the chalk brushes (theres like 3, I… -
Re: Hard drive shortage
So this is it. The reason people will start buying SSD drives is because the other products has become expensive, not because it's better. Human nature is so fickle. EDIT: Just looked up some numbers on the cheap, and bloody hell: A 100GB SSD for around 169$ A 100GB HDD for around 100$ I bought a 1TB external HDD for under… -
Re: Resources for building a file server?
AFAIK they bill you monthly, and you can cancel any time. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en The prices are really good, literally 10x cheaper than dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/upgrade Carbonite personal plans look ok, but they don't support NAS. Cheapest Carbonite plan with NAS is 250GB at $260 a… -
Re: Normal map baking, horrid smoothing...
If its set to 80 it's 20% wrong. You need to set it to 100 to get the same effect as a real time shader, full normal replacement. You could still have smoothing errors at 100 but they'll never be completely fixed if you leave it at 80, I also would not recommend mental ray. It's not designed for normal maps. Even the max… -
Re: Please little help for buying a new config?
yeah sure, arround 100 000 yen will help me to buy a second screen... Because I planned to use my dual of my laptop... then single screen for yet... But 6go of RAM (DDR3 ? ) with a 1Go GeForce, under 100 000 this is probably pretty difficult, isn't it? One of my hope will also go in the Aeration system... because as you… -
Re: Textures, feedback and coffee.
Nope.. Colored specular fresenel is almost always reserved for metallic materials. Most materials that's not metallic by nature should use a gray-scale or very very close to gray-scale spec. As for your texture Maximum, you should have the same spec value for both the water and the sand. The water should have a gloss value… -
Re: Should companies figure out a different approach to the MMO?
Wizard 101 hit 20 million registered subs last year, we're pretty successful and since it's a kid game we seem to have more forgiving and loyal fans. Yes, that doesn't convert directly to 20 million people paying monthly subscription but it still isn't too shabby. It might be too kiddy for most of polycount but I think you… -
Re: re going rate for outsourcing in china/india
The day rate for decent outsource studios in China and India is not below the 100 pounds you mention. As an outsource manager, my guess is that people are mostly looking for groups of people (i.e. outsource studios) to do work, as opposed to individual contractors. Therefore I don't think you need to lower your prices to… -
Re: Is it really worth persuing a career in Art/CG?
I wouldn't compare art outsourcing to call center outsourcing if you want to calm people's fears - outsourcing to India had a big impact. I'd say unlike manufacturing and call center outsourcing, studios have found it difficult to outsource 100% of their art. As games grow more complex it's going to take a larger workforce…
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