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Re: The modern business model doesn't give a shit about you.
I actually completely agree with Rob. I've had meetings about this with my former project Manager. I asked him to quantify "Quality" for me (he couldn't). Then I asked him to quantify Morale for me (he couldn't), but also defended that morale is "completely irrelevant" in a business model. I explained to him morale is the… -
Re: PC upgrade time!
I agree with Roffotron's choice of the i5-750, assuming you want to go with Intel and don't have $1000 to spend. This is the build I just put together to replace my nearly 5 year-old machine: (CPU) Intel i5-750 ... $200 (CASE) Antec Sonata III ATX ... $110 (MOBO) Gigabyte P55A-UD3 ... $135 (RAM) Corsair 2x2GB DDR3 1333 ...… -
3D World 3dsmax skinning tutorial
So issue #114 (March) of 3D World magazine has just come out, and I had a 6-page tutorial in that explaining the basics of skinning a character and exporting it into Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. The nice folks over at Future Publishing have put up the video tutorials I recorded, they're available here:… -
Re: Lightmass problems: artifacts/stains
Indeed, I personally would go with much lower res lightmaps and higher settings. In your scene I would do this: - Set everything to vertex baked. - Do a bake and see how the assets look. - Good looking models I leave to vertex, bad ones I use lightmaps for( i never really go back to add more vertices, too tedious, but I do… -
Re: THRONE ROOM - Iron Forge Clan - Xit Woundz
Howdy Howdy, Good news, I finished up the statue dude, all the uv's and light map stuff! So for now the only thing that stands in my way to scene population is the throne itself, which is what I will be dealing with tomorrow. quick note, I tried brightening up the texture for the statue itself to try to have it be more… -
Re: 3DSMax - Terrain texturing?
Basically, the colors are all values; using Red to mask Grass, for example, doesn't look up a color, specifically, but the value of Red you're applying; if you tell it you want 128 of Red, you're saying you want to see 50% of your grass map. Because of this, yes, you're pretty much limited to 4 mixed maps this way (AFAIK).… -
Re: GDC 2015: Next Gen Pipelines Presentation
This is something that we coded, but we're transitioning to a convention on sticking to 255s and 128s. So red, green, blue, yellow, magenta, cyan, etc etc Then the way we setup our material graphs in Substance is in order of importance on the material pallete. So if you have a scientific faction, your most important (red)… -
Re: Mass Effect Andromeda
Yeah, that's one thing that surprised me as well. ME franches seems to have been selling like crazy, Some numbers i found for ME:A Full game PC and console downloads generated net sales of $111 million,https://www.pcgamesn.com/mass-effect-andromeda/mass-effect-andromeda-sales-numbers And for ME3: Despite (or perhaps in… -
Re: Simplest way to create specular map
That's the old school method for me too, flatten diffuse and save as spec, adjust levels etc. Now the psd's are kept in layers, once a good diffuse is made it's saved as a specular and then every individual layer is adjusted (levels, contrast, curves, blending modes and opacity) Most layers are desaturated except those… -
Re: How Many AAA Character Artist Positions Are There in our Industry?
www.Gamedevmap.com would probably be a better place to start than wikipedia. But it lists a lot of media companies and very small developers that do things like mobile puzzle game clones. So not all places listed would have full time character artists and a large number of them probably contract characters or have artists…
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