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Re: Dragon Ball Fighters Z - effects, sw00shes and visual fx
The guy mentioned in the GDC talk, that they used 'particle systems' for the 3d flipbooks as well. So my guess is that they are just playing a particle system on an animation event. In UE4 you create a socket on a bone. In whatever animation, you can either set the particle effect to play in the animation itself using an… -
Re: Intel plans to make your motherboard and CPU a into single part.
This is counterproductive to having systems with longer life. Its environmentaly unsustainable. Throw away electronics like cell phones are part of the problem of planned obsolescence. At least with the current computer setup you had longer lives. And no EQ, its still cheaper to upgrade your cpu than buy a new system to… -
Re: Next-gen rendering trends
I had seen that, it's definitely very exciting for sure because ray-tracing is definitely the best way to get realistic lighting. It's very close but still not there yet but I think it's naturally the next step. As far as the normal map VR thing, I understand the mechanics of it and why it still works as it should, I was… -
Re: Sunday Spammin' - Explosions?
It's mostly about using particle systems, so you should learn all you can about them. Explosions can be very complex systems, with camera-facing particles, mesh-chunk particles, intricate timing, lights cued by particles, collision-spawned particles, etc. etc. Depends highly on your game engine though, as to what particle… -
Re: Maya .obj import/export scale?
zbrush is 1 unit cubed, not 1 cm cubed - an important distinction in this context. To use max terminology I believe Maya has a fixed "system" unit size equivalent to 1 cm - the units option in the settings window appear to be equivalent to the UI units setting in max. obj import/export appears to work on the "system" unit… -
Re: XBOX ONE Release Date Announced:
As tempted as I am to get wrapped up in all of the launch excitement, I may not get either system this year. It's just a matter of cost. Both systems would set me back a considerable amount, they're both only going to get cheaper down the line, and neither of them is backwards compatible with their predecessors. I'm… -
Re: toolbag contest + wish list
Ah cool, there is an alpha in the targa. I guess the only thing it lacks is that the alpha doesn't include the bloom effect, which looks slightly odd since it is glowy but the edge is clean. I've also noticed that the lighting system for normal maps isn't optimal, perhaps due to the lightcubes? Smoothing errors will show… -
Re: Final Fantasy XIV yey or ney?
sub-par is an understatement when talking about the UI. It's downright terrible. It feels so dated that it's almost unbelievable to me. What sucks is I really like the class system, the cut scenes, the crafting system. If you can get over the terrible terrible UI and the insane lag (could be beta, i've heard the UI is… -
Re: Jack Thompson is blasted by pro-family group
It's US centric in places, with the ESRB, Walmart and Best Buys. In the UK the BBFC rates games with ages if they are required (just 15 and 18 as far as I know), and PEGI gives iconic descriptions of the content. From ELPSA: In the UK, age ratings for computer and video games are determined by a two-tier system that works… -
Re: Baking Hair & Fur for Games MiniTutorial
Ornatrix, though it costs, is a far superior hair system, and has a "convert to mesh" modifier, that doesn't kill the hair system, so you can still fully style it, but it converts it to regular tubes that you can do anything you want to, like any other geometry. Vig's process is exactly what we were using for some Tony…
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