Get a Sandisk. I bought two of these refurbished from woot.com for about $40 total. http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-512-MP3-Pl...5692328-0797438 Around $50 new. Good sound. Plays mp3's, and can switch to FM radio. Comes with an arm strap. After buying it, I noticed many people at my gym have these. The voice recorder isn't…
Hello :) . Is there anyone here, who uses the textool plugin and can explain some option in this plugin? I don't understand, how texel density works, or rather the units that are given in textool. I have an object and when I click to have the program take texel desnity from my model, I get the following numbers: texture…
I'm arguing the case for something I'm about to work on, and I'd like to make sure I have my facts straight beforehand. As I think I understand it, game engines generally store blendshapes as an offset delta for vertices that are affected. So a vertex will have a vector and a magnitude if it contributes to the blendshape.…
Space is infinite, or something ;P So is the supply of spaceships ;D Anyway, It's for our second game project at school and this thing is supposed to be around 40m in length. And it's supposed to be a support class ship, so not that many fancy guns. The two at the front of the ship are the bad guns, shooting some beams.…
I'm just starting school for general Game Art and Design, and I was talking to one of my teachers today about equipment. I told him I planned on investing in a tablet of some sort over winter break, he suggested the Intuos 3 and to look up the suggested size for my screen resolution. So I was wondering, what are some of…
Hey guys, I was wondering if it would be viable to use Unreal 4 as a renderer? I've got Substance Designer and Painter and those are super cool, but I've got no way to set up a scene and render it using pbr shaders. As far as I know you can't plug in metalness and roughness maps in Maya. I considered Marmoset Toolbag 2 to…
Hi guys, I am a 17 year old 3D artist who's currently teaching myself game art with help from a few buddies and I have been working on this piece for quite a while and wanted to post on here to get any constructive criticism, it would be greatly appreciated, I am hoping that one day I can land a job in the industry…
Hey guys, trying to decide between getting an intuos 3 9x12, an intuos 4 Large, or a cintiq 13hd. Right now I have an intuos 4 medium, but feel like I've outgrown it. My main focus at this point is 2D which is why I want the upgrade. I use my intuos 4 medium on mouse mode on a low sensitivity so I can use my shoulder to…
Hi i have a little problem, can you help me?... i was updating my WIP from here, and and error code block me out, and my thread was deleted or not found http://polycount.com/discussion/170846/pc-csgo-mp9-no-name-yet-wip#latest this was my topic, for the Mp9-Incursis i did it in Terms of the contest... and now it's gone,…
I dunno if this is allowed or not but figured I'd give it a go and if the Mods want to remove so be it. Anyways.... I recently won an i7 2600k unlocked at 3.4ghz up to 3.8ghz and a matching Gigabyte z77x-ud5h. http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4139#ov http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/ They are brand…