+1 for magic sugars last point: looking for ways in which your program knowledge extends too other industries (know 3ds max? look for CAD/Arch vis work, know PS? look for graphic/web design gigs) its a great option because there's lots of people looking for SUPER simple stuff that don't know their ass from the elbow when…
I'm trying not to bust $3k. We have to pay sales tax here in Washington state, so whatever it adds up to, I have to fork over another 10% of that to Uncle Sugar. I'm running a dual monitor setup, one 23.6" widescreen and a secondary 19" 4:3. Is SLI really not that much of a performance gain these days? The SLI setup with…
I knew someone would critique it like this at some point. I'm not really concerned about this aspect. The only area in which I feel I should go in and do this is at the Backhoe "armpit". The vent arm just bends. The legs just extend up into the barrel and waddle back and forth. To walk the robot would use his backhoe arm…
You should re-sentence your OP so it only says gameplay is more important than graphics. There is an argument to be made that video games should prioritize being fun and trying to push forward new innovative concepts, instead of being just showcases for graphics. If that is not your intent and you wanted to create a thread…
@Satoshi: Profile shot for you. The partition in the mouth is beacause the mouth is slightly open and there's two teeth meshes inside the mouth. I've yet to get AO and Cavity colored on it, though I'd imagine the mouth would be closed during animation. Update to the WIP final breakdowns at the moment. I extended the…
I'm pretty well experienced with both Photoshop and 3Ds max, what i used for this piece... i do have a high res version ofcourse... I'm familiar with Zbrush and Maya, but no expert in those atm, using XNormal for AOs/Normal bakes etc, can do in max but find it easier in XNormal... As for realistic texturing I guess that I…
If you want to make an actual game Unity is the way to go, but UDK will show off your work better. Commander_keen said it best: "UDK isnt really a game engine. Its UT3's modding tools without ut3 and a changed license. Unreal Engine was never designed for public use and has minimal access for modding, so using UDK for…
I have no idea what is going on, so was New Mombasa abandoned, so they shot a bunch of those recon troops and trashed their city right before the Covenant took over? Seems odd, especially when 2 showed the invasion and battle for Earth as being this huge battle for the city, while this seems like you're stealthily stalking…
The image is just double height with both states in it. In this example, it's side by side rather than stacked on top, but the principal's the same. http://www.hull-breach.com/Talon/img/menu_title.png The normal state sets the link to be 162px wide, so you can only see the first half of the image (the other half being…
I think it's a little bit pathetic to add plugins for source/ Unreal/ Crysis when the developers of those engines work internally with other tools anyway (except valve perhaps not sure though). For example crytek has a lot of custom maxscripts to export or prepare certain stuff for their engine because they added so much…