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UT3 Specs released
Figured some folks would be interested. "Midway and Epic Games have released the system requirements for Unreal Tournament III. According to an announcement made today, the multiplayer first-person shooter will run best on a machine with a 2.4+ GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of system RAM, an NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+… -
Hardware: The life of a Athlon XP system
I don't want Vista. I want to wait for at least direct x 11 before upgrading. Can I get by in the meantime with upgrading to 2 gigs and a 10.1 512 dx like a 3850 agp card for a total of about $250 to slug along with content creation and being able to experience new games (minus official dx10 support)? For the next year or… -
Stylized Hand Painted Chest
Hello PC! I've been trying to learn hand painted texturing. I have had a few fail starts in the past, so any hints, tips or bitch slaps are welcome. Very Work in Progress Made the base mesh in Max and sculpted it in Mudbox. Baked down the AO/normal map and have the lowpoly at 985 tris. Was shooting for 750-1000. Base… -
Russian T34 WW2 battletank hopefully for COH.
Hi Fellows. Yes,im acturally posting a pimp *shock*,first time in over a year. Anyway,this is a T34 Russian battletank that I want to try and get into the game Company of Heroes by Relic. For the life of me I can't figure out how there stuff works by looking at the textures,so im just hanging until they have released the… -
1 Large Texture or Few Small Textures?
Hey all, I just need to ask quick, I'm working on an iPhone game using most likely 'Shiva' or 'Unity' and I'm making some railings for snowboards ect to grind on and whatnot. I've modelled the railings into 2m long 'blocks' and each block has a different shape, this is so I can combine these different small blocks to get a… -
A mana well
I'm struggling with textures as these textures were from cg textures.com I think i'm rushing my work.I read what Vig said about 4:1 texture ratios and It's something i did not know what so ever.I really appreciate tips like that.So i'm posting this here in hopes of more advice.The texture I used was a 1024x1024… -
Using Absolute World Position to Tile Textures on all 3 Axis
Hi there. I've been trying to get this to work for a while now and so now I'm looking for help. My material uses 512 x 2048 textures to make rusted pipes with a lot of variation. With my current material setup, the Absolute World Position makes the textures seamlessly tile in the y and z vectors, but not the x vector. As… -
Show me some Love (from russia, that is) Big Post
It finally shipped, I can show some of my favorite work from this game. I was a vehicle modeler, and this was my first commercial foray into the world of video game development. I apologize for the large, sloppy, and inconsistent presentation. All textures were 256 or lower, but I posted them at 512 so the detail could be… -
The Witch WIP
I think I am ready to call Phoenix finished. She weights in at 14.700 triangles including the scythe. 2048 maps for model, 1024x512 for scythe and a separate 512 for hair. I decided that I'm gonna try out some different software to render Phoenix in realtime. First up is Marmoset Toolbag. Next is a screengrab directly in… -
portfolio piece, please crit
hey everyone, I posted this a while back as a WIP. I finally feel finished with this piece, a futuristic attack chopper I designed. I actually made a fiber glass speed form that was this basic shape for a shop class at Art Center. 1441 tris, 1 512 x 1024 map. This is one of the new pieces for my portfolio and some…
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