[ QUOTE ] The main factor about any game is its "aura", the feeling I get when seeing or playing it. A depressing game like Half-Life 1 and 2 never gets finished. [/ QUOTE ] Exactly! I dont like to play in depressing worlds. Only if it is a tale of redemption. I played Psi ops, and though it was very fun I just stopped…
[ QUOTE ] I hate how all the high rez shots have them in these giant chimpanzee poses instead of anything that looks remotely cool. Having said that, Ironhide is pretty neat looking, and the new toys are looking cool. [/ QUOTE ] agreed with the monkeypose thing... i always loved how transformers have been posed for the…
As far as I understood and remember the announcement, the permission is granted indefinetly. The only thing I worry about is if I'll be able to access the models after the move to fab.com. Thats why I think its good to backup the models before its too late. I am happy to help as far as I can: 1.) The login combination was…
Renovation and recycling over innovation and rejuvenation?, not a good way to stay on top. If you hate the restrictions Nintendo puts on its developers, you should talk to people who work at and for MS. Talk to some of the Bungie guys, talk to just about anyone thats had to deal with MS while trying to retain creative…
for anyone who doesnt really now about the local Vancouver siggraph events, Ill give quicky breakdown: tickets are usually 15-20 bucks, or usually only 10 bucks if you have a membership. the membership is 35 bucks for a year so if you go to a lot you will save a shitload of money. the seminars themselves are usually 1-2…
hah, every game has a horse scene in it now :P apart from that, i agree Jfletcher, it does look uninspired, but this is where i get worried and reference the point Jesse brought up about the "business" side of things. This is what the business side of things inevitably leads to, a point where the creativity tank starts to…
i'd be careful with polys for characters. as i said, you have to skin all those vertices and if you have 3500 verts + 10*1500 verts for some enemies, you have 19k skinned verts. you need to process those every frame(and we love 60 frame games ;) ). i think your engine could get problems. mario in galaxy has about 5k polys,…
Rubber ducky, you're the ooooone! You make bath time LOTS of fun!! Rubber ducky I'm really fond of you... ! I have FINALLY gotten myself to model something again (After dragging myself out of photoshop/off the couch) Just gonna try to do some really small things for now. (Until Dom War anyway) I'm taking baby steps with…
Ok sorry for the vague thread title, I dont have a name for this app. So, one day Pior came up with this idea and I decided to start working on it. I am not sure If this is what pior was talking about, but basicly it is a small program that will run in the background and wait for you to press CTRL+F10. When you do this, it…
Hey everyone. I work for a studio that's been heavily reliant on outsourcing pretty much since the beginning. Now that the studio is working on growing its internal art team, we're talking about restructuring because the current format is not scalable. At the moment the art team is pretty flat, with the Art Director doing…