Update: I'm now publishing a free 16K HDRI every single Friday - see the latest posts for images or just head here for them all :) Original post below: For the past few months I've been working on a dedicated website for all my HDR panoramas called HDRI Haven. In preparation for its launch next week, I've got a little gift…
Foundry 42 (Cloud Imperium Games - Manchester) is looking to hire talent to support the growing Star Citizen Universe. Over two years ago we were just 9 people, now we are over 120 - we are looking to staff up in all art disciplines at most levels - interested? Fly by the company website and take a look for yourself! Hot…
Hello everyone and welcome to the Monthly Noob Challenge for the month of October. Welcome to the third installment of the Noob Challenge under new leadership. I've decided to fit this month's challenge to the match the holiday of Halloween that we celebrate this month! Join our Skype group if you want! Add me on Skype…
As someone who has been part of the SC2 modding community, I saw the news and just laughed loud and long. In case nobody remembers: Blizzard wanted to add paid maps to their Battle.net structure for SC2. The entire discussion about paid mods/maps happened back then too. And the overwhelming majority saw too many issue with…
To build on Eric's point and to confuse the issue further... Conductivity of iron oxides and iron phosphates: If we're speaking in general terms: rust is red iron oxide Fe₂O₃ (near non-conductive) and bluing is black iron oxide Fe₃O₄ (conductive). So (in broad terms) assigning a metallic value for bluing (magnetite) is…
sRGB isn't too hard, but most of the definitions are very technical.. because its a technical subject. Of course technical doesn't have to be dry and jargony, which is where they likely fall apart. The quick and dirty of it is: its an encoding scheme to make images look right on CRT monitors or old TVs. Its been around…
In my experience, you get what you pay for. I've been burned too often by AMD and ATI to really give them much consideration, now that they've teamed up I hear its gotten a little better but you should stay in "their family" and not mix and match Nvidia with AMD. I hear ATI driver support hasn't gotten much better since…