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Re: Hobbyist Game Maker
Lighting: Depends on how you're handling your shape rendering. Most often I've found that freestanding, non-bsp structures have lighting information baked into either the model, as vertex colors, or into a set of lightmap textures which are blended with the diffuse at render time. Also, If this is going to be something the… -
Re: real-time vehicles : normal maps or lots of poly ?
Yeah first off let me just say that i don't have much exp. doing vehicles, so i'm going look at this from a different viewpoint, more of a general asset creation viewpoint you could say. Its worth bringing up that most car games do things a certain way, however i think its also good to look at issues like this with a fresh… -
GTA IV
From SA Goons: It's been three years since an original GTA title has hit the consoles (unless you want to count the ports of Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories.) Well all that's about to change with GTA IV. It's coming out on the PS3 and 360 at the same time some time in early 2008. The story involves an "Eastern… -
The Witcher 2 Combat Rebalance mod
For all the those with TW2, some CDpjkt Red guys have (in their free time) made this unofficial rebalance mod. http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/index.php?c=mod&m=show&p=77 Sounds rather awesome (And I coincidentally just reinstalled tw2 the other night). Thought I'd share because it's something people would probably love but… -
Re: University of Hertfordshire (BA & MA Games Art, 2D & 3D Animation & VFX, Comics & Concept Art)
I am really happy for BA Games Art alumni Scott Homer who has now taken a post at Epic Games in Raleigh, North Carolina. [ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=APSaMCcb-aM[/ame] I will add that to the list of companies our Alumni now work or have worked, "gotta collect them all", I knew my Pokemon skills would come in handy one day.… -
Re: Textures - Specular Level vs Glossiness - What What?
Hey Eric, I'm using ShaderFX for Max, and after I finish the material, I will most likely recreate it in UDK (if I don't become overly lazy that is) and maybe release that also publicly. It's nothing special mind you, it's a Master Shader of sorts, Oren-Nayar-Phong, although friends of mine told me to switch to Ward-Anti,… -
Re: M4A1 Carbine W.I.P
Couldn't disagree more. This is an art forum where people come to hone their craft. If you don't want to listen to people who know better than I don't know what to say, other than it's good to keep an open mind and remain humble. Yeah a lot of this stuff is very different in a production environment, but it's important… -
Re: My Struggles As A 3D Artist
Harsh but true. Keep in mind anything on your website can be held against you. Also think more from the perspective of the user/viewer Programming is a valuable skill, but more so for smaller companies. Decide what you absolutely want to show and what might be better mentioned in your CV. If you include a game, make sure… -
Re: Wakko's Poly Disaster
Well its been quite a while! The 3D visual team at work has been pushing towards getting into more interactive projects. I have been leading the charge since I have always found interactive media interesting. Back in collage I took a few courses learning Macromedia's Director and learning the Lingo scripting language that… -
Re: Boss characters: your thoughts?
whats your favourite game boss and why? As mentioned before, Devil Hand from God Hand was a great fight. He DID have a pattern though, which made it a little less awesome, but none the less ridiculous. Honestly all the bosses and minibosses in God Hand were great because of their personality, and execution. Some of them…
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