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Re: 3DS Price Drop from $249.99 to $169.99.
OOOOOH, sorry Rich. Hmm, I just bought mine in GAME, I reckon they'll be wise to that :( So after reading about this Ambassador scheme I immediately went out and bought a 3DS :D I initially planned to wait for a second gen 3DS, but to hell with it. I picked mine up for 249 in GAME with Ocarina of Time included in the… -
Re: MAX mental ray lighting rig
Simple solution: - Create -> Skylight. - Press "9" - turn on "Use Advanced Lighting". - Press "8" - set background colour to something like light blue or grey. - Create a plane for a floor, apply a default Matte/Shadow material to it. - Render. No need for mental ray, Max's renderer is fine for standard global… -
Re: Tablets
If you've got the cash go with the Intuos otherwise get the Bamboo. Used Intuoses are pretty easy to find on ebay that's another option if you want to save some cash. I bought a big 9x12 Intuos 3 in back 2005 and still consider it to be the best value for the money piece of hardware that I've ever purchased. I'm such a… -
Re: The worst time to graduate?
Like everyone has said. It is always a bad time to graduate lol. Was the same when I graduated in 2005. I landed a job quick just by luck. Company folded was out of work again. Found another one. All you have to do really is eat, sleep, play 3d/2d/Art if it is your passion. If it is not your passion. Then yes it is a bad… -
Re: SVD Dragunov - First Bake - Excited :)
Hey absolutely right about the geo used for the handgrip, this is a bit high compared to the rest of the gun. For the receiver though I guess it's ok. If I had time I would simplify the handgrip a bit. as It's my first real time asset I was so impatient to go for the next part : texturing, that I surely went a bit generous… -
Re: Student Portfolio (Sophomore)
Your robot is spinning a little too quickly to clearly look at the details. Your portfolio seems to be a generalist type affair, but if you were wanting to get into games, you may want to create something more specialised when applying for jobs, unless they're generalist ones of course. What you have now is cool for… -
Re: Help with making a stair case using Duplicate multiple command using Softimage
I think the scale is always a multiplication to be honest. If you enter a formula like +1 it seems to do the math first and then use the resulting number as the value. A simple script could probably get around it, but it would be one of those things where creating it would take longer than the alternative method. The… -
Re: 3dsmax 2018, I am afraid Max demise will accelerate.
i think i have heard this one since about the year 2005 ... every year. the big one in my opinion was simply that they took the shortcut and bought NEX. insta-poly-tool-upgrade. it all still feels so really slow to work with though, you can almost follow any input on it's journey from keystroke through layers of scripting… -
Re: Animating a Snake in 3ds Max - Spline IK
If you search CG Society you'll find a bug from ~2005 where they explain a bug in Spline IK. It's still around. The workaround is 1. Create a duplicate dummy bone chain. 2. Apply Spline IK to the duplicate. 3. Position constrain your orginal bone chain to each duplicate. 4. LookAt constrain each orginal bone to the child… -
Re: UV Packing problems
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think i got an idea. when im finished with my texel denstity voodoo im creating a polygon (quad) this quad i add to my object with power of 2 texture. in uv space im stretching the new quad from u 0 to 1 the v starts from 0 to 0,5 then i start to pack without rotating. if the resulting boundig box is from 0 to 1 its a…
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