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[Help] Does anyone know James Green's email?
I want to use his great model "PKnight" as an example of a soft shadow algorithm in my article. I want to get his permission before I use it. I have tried to send an email to "james@perilith.com". But I got error message immediately. It seems this address is not valid. Can anyone tell me his email? Thanks! -
Re: Showing Small, Looping Animations online?
I agree with Eric, you can get pretty good quality out of gifs. I used gifs to showcase animations in my portfolio using photoshop. It allows you to set the lossy, transparency other pattern algorithms to reduce size. Depending on the dimensions, you can get great quality with reasonable file sizes. -
Re: Problem with HLSL Terrain Shader(Texture 2D Array)
We were messing around with some materials that stepped the UVs to make blocky surfaces and saw the exact same thing. It's caused by the mipmap algorithm spotting that the UVs jump a long way at the border and using a lower mipmap level on it. I don't think there's a huge amount you can do other than hard splitting the… -
Re: Support
@Eric Alas, I have pointed out the reason. 1.4 can not cope. However, since some time has passed and I can show you the best results. I think it says it all! I would like to Quixel also able to make at least one algorithm that does not consider light and shadow. -
Re: Flood Fill Failing?
In the past I had some problems with the flood fill node too. Cheese is right, you need complete black and white values. Also if you are working with tiles it is best, when they are "closed". The flood fill Algorithm is filling out every closed form on its own. Maybe this helps you to understand the way it works: -
Re: MINECRAFT
Since he batches it together, I'm not even sure how much you would gain in performance by running expensive algorithms to lod terrain, if anything at all. I do wonder how much his texture-plotting routines cost though, since he seems to draw directly to textures with the fire, water, and compass for example. -
Re: Multiple Unwrap UV coords on diff shaped objects
If you delete the back faces of the blocks/stones, then planar map from the front using a small gizmo size, then select all the UVs in the editor and simply Relax them.. then you should get decent UVs because the back faces aren't getting in the way of the Relax algorithm. The small gizmo would help because the texture is… -
Re: Graduate School?
Computer science is the last thing you want to study in. Many programmers don't even do computer science, that field is more for people who want to study algorithms, driver design, OS design, etc. Consider what Paul said, as Dallas and the surrounding area is a great place to go to school especially if you are a liberal . -
Re: Best techniques for packing UVs
Yeah, when it comes to uv packing, you can have good, or you can have automatic, but not both. I've yet see see an auto pack algorithm that can fill complex shapes the way I can manually. Plus, I like to group similar objects in the same area, auto packs have the tendency to scatter everything. -
Re: What do you model with?
Maya's a pretty complete package, and 2016.5 and 2017 were huge updates, compared to the same updates for Max. New UV packing algorithm, for instance, is a god send. I'd personally recommend that. Just because it's more common still than Modo. If you hate Maya even after trying it for a while, maybe try modo or even…
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