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I am hangun..I am an product design graduate, 3D artist an game designer enthusiast and a former professional gamer on the moba game Infinite Crisis. After the game was closed around 8 months ago due to different reasons me and some friends of mine also former IC players decided to gather up put a team together and remake…
Yes sir! First of all, read Ben Cloward's site, www.bencloward.com . Then, get a copy of ShaderFX for 3dsmax to fool around in, or alternatively you could probably mess around in the UE3 shader node tool. But I would recommend ShaderFX. This will allow you to get the hang of building shaders without actually coding and you…
Damn dude, thank you. Made my day. I was hesitant to do get involved in this thread because I didnt' want it to seem like I'm showing who my favourites are here at Polycount. The truth is I think there's a metric shit ton of talent here, but when it comes down to individuals I think are invaluable in their skillset and…
19. Baking: Cleanup Before getting stuck into the texturing stage you may want to tidy up some of your bakes. When you dilate your textures (dilation expands the borders of your textures, Ill mention more on this below) you may notice streaks around the edges which look like artefacts. These are very common so dont…
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] 1499 Canadian at Futureshop. May have dropped in price by now. I researched this shit for a long time too and Aqous seemed the best for games, if you're looking at LCD tv's for games make sure you buy 37" or above. The smaller sets generally have lower responce times which means ghosting in…
Cool beans, we are up to N64, I'm an old Rareware boy from the Golden Eye days so its a number close to my heart :) 1. 24caretgames - opened in the summer of '08. 2. 2D Boy (World of Goo) 3. 2XL Games Phoenix, Arizona USA 2006 4. 343 Studios Kirkland, Washington USA 2009 5. 4A Games Kiev Ukraine 2006 6. ACE Team (Zeno…
I see you're rant and I'll add one of my own... I agree, for modeling it doesn't make much of a difference, when you get a little deeper into the pipeline like animation or scene building it starts to get a bit more important. The axis orientation is a pain for modelers because they have to rotate their model, its a…
[ QUOTE ] Oh and with regards to managing large complicated scenes, as far as I can tell, Max is just as capable as Maya? Is there anything in particular you're referring to here? [/ QUOTE ] The rock solid referencing system for one, especially in regards to characters. On the project I'm currently working on I've made…
I'm afraid they still have teeth and clout. Consider this as the opening salvo against the "liberal media" specifically the Pulbic Broadcasting act of 1967. Come next congressional cycle they'll be debating deep and meaningful cuts to the government. First on the chopping block? Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS,…