Hay Karyn! Lovely work on the textures, I love howtexturing brings a model together, I hope you don't mind me noting a few things. Ofcourse, I don't know how far along this is to being 'complete' for you, but as it stands I shall try and provide a little bit of feedback :) 1. Flora: My personal target this year is to bring…
Hey KKVALENTIN, No real idea of how to break in into the industry as a vfx artist, I started of as a 3D artist. My general advice is to start with pick an engine and learning the basics of several fields. I'm biased but I would (as you seem to have done) start with the Unreal Engine. Download the Unreal Tournament version…
sorry this is so out of context but it was too aberrant to let it go. (also never heard of that meme and no one i know know about it either) First Kotaku ISN'T a good source for anything that doesn't concern the release of something, most of their opinion is freaking biased and invented from what they think, not what's…
Hi everyone! I have written a post some hours ago to get help but...no replies for the moment. So I now try here, with a new topic, hoping in better luck. This is my original message : I'm a newcomer and I kindly ask you some help to solve a strange issue that I'm experimenting with Toolbag 3. I must admit that I'm not…
There is a thought experiment done by a philosopher named John Searle to demonstrate the difference between a conscious being and a computer. He places a man in a room and has him follow a long list of instructions for converting the English language into Chinese. He can convert Chinese, but he doesn't truly understand…
I never said you need a expensive i7 - if you upgrade your PC right now, first third of 2014 then you want it to last I suppose, and getting a 4 threaded system when you can have a 8 threaded one from AMD for about 180 is something you very likely will regret. I guess my view is biased since I do offline rendering aswell,…
switched a few years ago to mac when i got a macbook pro, now i have a mac pro and have had zero problems doing game art, there is usually a ton of misinformation in the mac/pc threds based mostly on the fact people want to comment about a platform they dont use everyday. most mac users dont use windows, most windows users…
[ QUOTE ] Gordon Freeman's lines are pretty profound if I may say so myself. [/ QUOTE ] For a guy that never says anything, he speaks volumes... Half-Life has great interactive story but dialog with NPC's is always your standard, "ouch! quit it" "pick that up" or long explanations that ended with "no time! Here take this…
Obviously I'm biased, but #2 isn't really true. The shaders in Toolbag 2 are actually very close to UE4 (not by default but can be setup that way, by swapping the specular map model for metalness maps, and hitting the invert check on the gloss map so it uses the "roughness" mapping), we're adding GGX specular in the next…
To re-examine my late-night sake fueled post. To me, someone without a lot of excess cash to spend on games, when I go to a game store to browse some games, it's like walking into a library where all the books are sealed up. You can't read the first little bit to tell if the writing is good or that you might like the story…