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Re: VFX in Los Angeles 100 hour weeks & homeless
Where do you get that from? It's the 21st century version of the nieve young hopefull moving to Hollywood hoping to become a star only to fall into ruin. I don't personally know anyone that pulled off the move first and find success route. If you honestly think being local is such a huge advantage, just pretend you're… -
Re: Going Indie
A lot of the major networking is done face-to-face. You can find out a lot about local group meet-ups on the TigSource forums. One of the UKs major events just happened ealier this month -- TigJam UK 5, but I think that group does meet-ups regularly? If nothing is happening in your area, you can always try to start… -
Re: 3DSM 9 [ERROR]
I've found another way; 1) open the "C:\Documents and Settings\XXX\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\2008 - 32bit\enu\3dsmax.ini" file. 2)Find the "[CustomMenus] FileName=C:\Documents and Settings\XXX\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\2008 - 32bit\enu\UI\MaxStartUI.mnu" line 3)Change… -
Re: How to estimate base color from photos?
If you know the local colour of an element of the photo, that is, what it should look like under a neutral light (no saturation), then you can colour-adjust the photo until that element goes from its "veiled colour" (affected by lighting) back to its "local colour" (unaffected). This process is called white balancing.… -
Re: What Are You Working On? 2010 Edition!
It's all about localizing textural details and avoiding visual noise. If you look closely at reference photos of something like a container in used but not rusted/damaged condition you will see that there isn't a ton of surface variation across the entire object but you will things like dirt, grime and drips tightly… -
Re: EricV's work thread
I think the building needs more oomph. Better transitions between the different brick colors and some localized dirt/drips around the structural elements would add a lot. Localized dirt could be done with decals. Also, your bricks are a little bit noisier than the reference, maybe smooth out the color variations for the… -
Sony Online Entertainment is hiring
Sony Online Entertainment is looking to fill some slots at a couple of our studios. If anyone is interested please feel free to drop me a line at my work email: arisch[at]soe.sony.com or ask questions in here. Position: Associate Game Designer Location: Austin Position: Senior Producer Location: Austin Position: Artist II… -
Joint orientation in Maya?
I'm working on setting up a rig for a robotic character, but orienting the joins has been an issue for me. For the root level joint at the hip bone I oriented it to the world, and moved down the joint chain to orient the child joints to their local axis. However, it seems that I am unable to locally orient the finger… -
Re: Going to Conventions worth it?
have you looked into local (or local-ish) game developer gatherings? I don't know how far away from NYC you are but there should be a few there. For example Austin, which isn't a big city, has the Juegos Rancheros indie dev meetup, an annual IGDA Austin picnic, the monthly game dev beer night and the occasional Polycount… -
Re: object space normal maps in 3DS max 2009
Yeh I think you are correct. When I go into the shader properties and change the "local xyz" back to "tangent" and render it off, it looks the same in render as in view port. When I set it to "local xyz" it looks correct in render, but like above in view port. I have a similar machine at work. Just for kicks im going to…
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