i never have had a problem with a HD. I use WD since too many years, and i have some very very old WD external drives; they run as the first day :D A hard drive is sopposed to be static, if you move your HD you can have serious problems. Vibration is letal, so if you use external drives, plug them to your computer and…
I really like the lighting engine Cry have got going, nice soft shadows too though I wonder how much they can retain past the demo stage. Their foliage stuff is really nice too but theres some pretty big open levels in UT and theres a comparable what you see is what you get / ability to use old shaders to make new ones and…
A young girl once played in this pool. Crystal water lay still on tiles of gold and blue until, finally, it rippled. She stepped down into the water, clad in white silks. It brought relief to her aching bones. Golden hair had long since given way to gray, but blue eyes still burned under her aged brow. With a gesture, the…
If you're using Vray then you don't have to concern yourself with the metal/rough workflow. If creating your textures in a metal/rough environment like substance then you can use the Vray export preset which will convert your maps for use in Vray: diffuse/reflection/glossiness/etc. the roughness channel in Vray is to map…
Amazing! The UV map is so beautifully packed. Is it manual? I don't believe auto unwrap can do that well. The only comments I can make (just because critique usually has more value than compliments alone :) ) - a plastic looks too glossy to me, especially for how old and beaten the radio is. Because of that (or maybe…
@Eric Chadwick and @rollin Yeah, so true. Although to be honest had more than my fair share of the shitty ones, actually currently working for one of the shiftiest but nevertheless pays good so I'll grind through a further 12mths until such time I'm in a better financial position too weigh up my options without emotion…
I think the main problem here is scale, I think you have to slow down a little bit and make sure the scale is right. The doors are a bit too wide but also in most cases the first floor of NYC buildings are taller than the second, third and fourth floor. If your floors are the same height it quickly starts looking like…
Hehe, no worries, no offense taken! Other people are often better at judging one's skills. :) I'm a slow digital painter (only doing that since roughly a year at all and non-linearts since half a year maybe) so before I would have come up with something along the standards of this current concept, I would have probably…
I agree totally. I used a Cintiq for a few years and found I was better/faster with a regular old tablet after going back to the Monoprice. I guess all those years of practice as I saved money for a Cintiq on an Intuos translated into a heap of stored muscle memory on using regular tablets, hah! The lag is more noticeable…
20? Don't stop with that. I must have applied to over 100 places back when I was in school. Agree that you should lose the splash page. Your site is very nice in terms of prettyness, but a simple page with pictures gets the job done. I wouldn't spend too much time on a fancy, perty website. Focus on making more art and…