I don't have any critique on the shape, but the designs on the top look a bit busy, maybe move some of the busyness to the sides? Gamer-mind tells me that the crate contains: Nades, ammo, health and shield recharges though.
Gotta love valve for that shipment container. I hope the official released version steambox version looks a bit more unique though. It should have the wow factor that makes console players want to consider going with the SteamBox.
So you randomly received a private message on Facebook, from an unnamed Facebook user, and this private message contained this concept? That's the story on how you found it? Why not cite where its from and/or take ownership in it if its yours?
I'm guessing these are from Nvidias Photoshop plugin? There are other options you could try if the Nvidia Photoshop plugin is borked. I think ATI's Compressonator is quite nice. Unfortunately not contained within Photoshop, but nice none the less.
It is not :o i never used them in production but if i'm not mistaken, the bent normalmap contains occlusion information. okay from what i could gather bent normals in xnormal are just faulty and are identical to object space maps?
I though the point of handpainted textures is that they already contain light information.. That's why I think your earlier screenshots were better when it comes to lighting.. just my humble opinion. great work nonetheless! :thumbup:
Kinda feels like a stationary stomp more then something that would contain alot of forward momentum. Offsetting the hands/feet would really help to break this up. I love the general idea of the thing however, keep it up.
Sarcastic about what part? The fact part that a calorie from beer and a calorie from an apple is still a calorie, a measure of energy? The part about sweets and fruit both containing sugars? Or sarcastic about asking which is healthier?
With your glows make sure your using an alpha, it currently looks like just a polygon glowing. By using an alpha and gradient out the edges you will get a more realistic effect and more of an illusion of the glass containing a bulb.
You could go to your HDD manufacturer's website and download the bootable tools to repair the sectors, or download the Ultimate Boot CD at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html which contains every HDD tool for every company and burn it to a CD.