Are you hosting the sites on your own broadband or something? They are abysmally slow to load. Sometimes they don't even resolve for a whole minute, but generally they take about 5, even 10 seconds according to http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt. Here's something for a friends birthday(mind you, still kinda rough)…
The whole "over 30" thing is based on a series of assumptions and stereotypes, most of which can be shot down with an interview. "People over 30 want higher pay." If you're starting in an industry, you should expect starting salary. It's not rocket science. It's exactly like a fresh grad with an inflated ego asking more…
It's not that we are forced to outsource because of money, you may notice that we are actively hunting for people inhouse to give more money to, but we can't find enough that are good enough so we're setting up a studio that we'll train up rather than deal piecemeal with individual contractors who vary between being fast…
back onto the pirating business, Norway has plans to release 50.000 books digitally, from the national libraries. the final material will be available at bokhylla.no article in norwegian: http://www.bokogbibliotek.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1042 translation: Bokhylla.no project was presented by the…
You can use deferred decals for those chipped paint on the walls. There's also a guide in Substance Academy on how to create such an effect in Substance Painter.
You probably want to create a tiling texture and tile it in Unreal, then maybe add decals or vertex color transitions in Unreal to break up the tiling.