In the year 2000 my geeky friend from the graphics lab in college was always touting the supposed superiority of Macs. (We were working with Maya pre-Windows on SGI 02s) We had some PC video editing suites with Premiere, and my friend decided to show us all how the Mac was so much faster at rendering the same Premiere…
I think you've got this misconception that modeling solid, seamless meshes without loads of intersections somehow saves you a lot of tris. In reality, thats not so much the case. Here are a couple areas: A: This whole area is a mess, you've got what, 4 or 5 chunks intersecting here? If you merge this together and got rid…
Thanks for the replies while i've been away guys, been on a little jaunt over to sunny Belfast. Really enjoyed it, both the holiday and the break in general. Visited the game of thrones sights and got my nerd on, but i'm back now and i've been cracking on. Here's the current status of the head, been working hard to try and…
run this script in your maxscript listener (F11 - > new script -> paste -> file -> evaluate script ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fix MAX's window positions-- version 2.0-- max version 6, 7, 8, 2008, 2009-- written by Joshua Newman-- www.joshuanewman.net-- written…
PredatorGSR: OK, you're right, that greyscale texture you've got from the XNormal plugins really doesn't look all that useful. I dunno if there's some settings you haven't got right (maybe invert green channel and see if it comes out better?) but here's the results I'd expect generated from CrazyBump: Hope you don't mind…
My god lets see. 1999 - Wrapped up my freshman year of college. - Worried more about playing baseball, partying and chicks then my studies. Didn't enroll for the fall semester. - Broke up with girlfriend of 3 years. Went on to bang lots of chicks. - Left Maine for the summer and spent most of it between Fayetteville, NC…
I'm not sure if you're asking for acknowledgement or criticism but my thoughts are pretty much the same for both... If you want acknowledgement then you should make a tumblr account (or any social site with tons of amateur artists, meaning not ArtStation), follow some artists and like/comment on their work. Make friends…
here's my thoughts: 1: the environments are nice, but they're really being bottlenecked by source at this point and it shows. full BSP just doesn't cut it anymore. 2: the weapon models have the typical valve problem of being mismatched due to them letting anybody in the studio do anything. some weapons are fully dynamic…
CryENGINE is less flexible than UDK, giving you no option to make custom shaders/material types and having a pretty limited terrain editor (FP16 point precision, compressed texturing, fixed layer setup without any option to adjust how terrain rendering works). But then again, if you want a flexible engine where you can…
if they were investors he wouldn't be thrown in jail because he failed to meet his proposed goals. he would be sacked, the project shut down and the assets sold off - and all the investors would take a financial loss. that's how it works - you don't invest in a startup tech company then arrest the guy who founded it…