I was chatting with one of our programmers yesterday and he was telling me about his setup. He has a Mac Mini as a media center, and it hooks into a HP media server. The media sever backs up every machine connected to it as well as stores ghost images and all of the actual media. The HP server also has a feature to allow…
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050517/latu045.html -- Freedom of design: A dynamic development architecture equally accommodates both big-budget, high-profile game "masterpieces" as well as indie games conceived by individual developers equipped with only a big idea. This is interesting (although it's probably just management…
Thanks guys for backing me up on this situation. After reading everything it gives hope to say suck on these nuts. I am going to release these models under creative common licence. http://g.imagehost.org/view/0991/6_3 http://f.imagehost.org/view/0551/8_12 http://g.imagehost.org/view/0819/7_7…
Nice! Like the metal shader :) However there are a few inaccuracies as I used to own a real Katana myself and not a cheap one either... Tsuba (hilt) - Is too thin and flimsy making it look like a replica. The edges of this are always bevelled slightly for two handed comfort and usually they have some shape and decoration…
My problem is I don't know where to start. Is the grainyness due to a low amount of photons, or a high amount of photons, or perhaps caustics need to be enabled, do I need a dedicated caustic emitter? Once I get something close to what I want I'm happy to play with the parameters and learn what does what, but right now I…
Like Vig said, go get yourself a copy of [ame="https://www.amazon.com/Animators-Survival-Kit-Revised-Principles-Classical/dp/0571238343/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255149952&sr=8-1"]The Animator's Survival Kit[/ame]. It explains the basic principles and terms with really great examples.
Hey Divine Rage, Just a couple questions regarding the scene if you dont mind me asking. How much thought have you put inot the level itself? looking at the screen shots you posted it seems to be a lot of trial and error which is a good learning experience but wastes a lot of your time which could be better used on making…