depending how he wants to use it, the "yellow thing" will probably need to stay as a separate mesh, maybe alpha plane? I'm assuming it's a slide lock which prevents the slide from snapping back and making sound during firing, as with suppressed weapons the movement of the slide can sometimes be as loud as the sound from…
Hey guys, I'm new here. I've been working with Maya on and off for about a year. I've worked on some mid-range poly stuff, but recently after being inspired by this thread I wanted to sort of start over. Someone in this thread said at some point that you need to learn to walk before you run. I've heard that before, but I…
There is a DISCARD shader instruction to just drop the current fragment/texel/pixel if need be, so it never has to be written to begin with! Transparency is a type of blend. In order to do any type of blending, you have to read and write to a pixel's location in video memory, instead of just writing The instructions for…
JadeEyePanda - Sorry it took a while, I had to do some personal things first, but here's how I'd handle your concept (plus *.max file with 10 progress steps): At almost 1250 triangles it's a bit higher poly than I'd set out for, but still a fair reduction. Here's the main differences: -focus more on global shapes and…