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Re: Asus Eee Slate
Jeremy-S: I took a quick look at your website and I think you could finish out a project with this, I would hesitate to say that if you were trying to rebuild texas in Unreal :) I did do a couple of initial test with DX shaders in max 2012, I had to revert to Direct 3d for the 3 point shader, and when using the 3point the… -
Re: Mudbox or ZBrush?
I would say ZBrush, that is the wise investment. Also, because you can prototype stuff for environment, plus Decimation master should generate so nice game level models for the trifle of assets. I was recently vouching for Mudbox, but had a change of heart, since Mudbox still is somewhat underwhelming. The UI customization… -
Re: Programming Windows
petzold's book is entirely useless for game programming. The only win32 based programming you will do in a native c/c++ environment is setting up a window and handling input events and a few others, which is not a lot, and petzold's book does not cover the many weird obscurities when working from scratch in win32 that you… -
Re: Is there any big different between photoshop cs6 and cc?
I recently had to shell out for the $10 a month CC subscription so I could bring my work home with me more effectively, after a few years of being very resistant to CC. CC just tries to come with so much other shit I don't care about, with its CC desktop service, library management/all kinds of other BS. That being said,… -
Re: Sci fi design - how to design that stuff ?
just treat sci-fi like current day architecture / industrial design and give it a stylistic touch. The most important aspect is making your design believable and theres no shortcut to that. Build things that would (more or less) work. Think about how things interact and operate. How would the floor be layered ? Are these… -
Re: Advice with Learning Shader Programming
Specular is a lot more open in how you calculate it. Try not to get lost in all the crazy models and functions out there at the start (like Cook-Torrance and so on), some people tend to obsess a bit over that, I think it doesn't matter as long as it looks good. Also, here's my function from my shader:… -
Re: Texturing theory problem that is kicking my butt
I think you're still missing quite a few thing that seem to give these things personality or life. Plants. Water Fountains. Electricity outlets. Posters on the wall. James Cameron is a MASTER of creating detail, and forcing it on the audience. When he has a can of soda, it's not just a can of Soda. It's a can of Diet… -
Re: Not combining the meshes but arranging UVs together on a single texture sheet.
Welcome! I recommend familiarizing yourself with the forums' search function to find similar threads, for example at-what-point-do-i-use-more-than-one-texture-set-for-a-weapon, texel-density-and-number-of-uv-sets-on-a-model, best-practice-for-modular-weapon-uv-textures, ...) And the wiki can be useful to read up on general… -
Trying to replicate a brushstroke mask for vertex paint in Unreal
Hi everyone! After learning the basics of the material editor in Unreal, I'm starting to replicate the mask shown in the Sunset Overdrive GDC talk. The issue I'm encountering is that my transition is not creating the complete shape, as you can see in the next image. In my case, I've tried adding an edge noise to the vertex… -
Photoshop Normal Map Action Set
Just added the rotate functions this morning and decided it might be worth sharing. http://www.dissidentlogic.com/sgfx/data/ps/sgfx_normal_map_actions.zip Cut and paste from my site: "Set of useful actions for working with normal maps in Photoshop. Overlay: Levels blue channel of current layer to 127 and sets the blend…
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