WOW... Thanks for all of the awesome feedback and coments everyone. @ SuperFranky : Thanks for the awesome ref. Wish I had of found that earlier. I totally get what you are saying and I agree...to a degree. but I also agree with ysalex. I am not really after a photo-realistic or a pretty woman but I would like her to…
Turns out that the Sony hack was likely done by someone inside of the company, considering that 100 Terabytes of data was stolen and there simply isn't any sort of internet infrastructure that exists that can transmit that amount of data. It would've taken more than 6 months to send that amount of data across the internet.…
Call me cheap, call me a stickler for details, but if I want only TF2, and it's advertised for $29.95 I should be able to pre-order/buy it for $29.95. Fine don't include a beta invite in the cheapo version, fine. But don't make the only way to get it (right now) as part of a bundle pack. Why haven't they made that an…
I am having a terrible time/experience trying to get specular maps to display correctly without a result like this: I am using the specular in the Normal map alpha channel and am using the $normalmapalphaenvmask to enable this. here is my vtf file contents: "VertexLitGeneric" { $model "1" $basetexturetransform "center 0.5…
Hi. I'm planning on working in the game industry as a 3D Character Artist (it could be AA, AAA or indie, though I'm focusing on stylized characters so maybe AAA is off limits). I'm currently on my way to finishing my first decent-quality character for my portfolio. My current specs are: - Motherboard: ASUS H170I-PRO - CPU:…
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Hello everyone, I am working on game based on hexagonal procedural world. As well as endless) Current result one can see on video. There was no way to mount video with sound, so, please, turn on subtitles and enjoy music from free YouTube music library)) https://youtu.be/XCdqQJr6PHY Video review: On the video you can see…
While it is true that it is indeed "just another tool", I feel like there are massive blind spots in people's appreciation of the consequences of all of this. Sure, the output of this or that AI algorithm isn't perfect or production ready, and artists are not going to lose jobs overnight because of it. And of course it's…
you don't need to rename the file - just select xml from the language menu ctrl+shift+alt+b should format the file with line breaks / indents so it's readable too (not 100% reliable) aliases work fine though - our substance library has been through 7 years, 6 projects and 10 material artists without any difficult…