The reason Mac's has very rare instances of malware and virus' is very simple. The OS is NOT POPULAR in a large scale. PC's and Windows comprise of such a huge portion of the market share, why the hell would hackers bother with the little guy? If Mac's and OSX where as widespread and popular as Windows, I gaurantee 100%…
Not really a music person. With iTunes and other radio capable apps, there's no need to buy music. And with Pandora, just type what you like. I think I spend like $20~$30 a year on music, $300~$400 a year on software like Artrage (the odd year of upgrades will spike to $1200). Netflix is fine for movies, but Netflix/Hulu…
My first guess would be that it IS the vertex normals getting messed up by Modo. It's one of the few things that I dislike about Modo is that it handles smoothing groups very poorly. Are you using obj to move your models back and forth between Max and Modo? And if so, when you import your model into Modo are you deleting…
I have been using a Lenovo y510p (2xGeforce in SLI) for about a year (cutting down on electricity cost) and its been a great workstation. Its small enough where its not in the way, light enough where its not too heavy, quiet enough to the point I dont even know its running...and It was cheap, around $950 when I got it.…
That isn't very true. The size of a studio doesn't indicate they have weak or strong people working there. AAA is such a shitty term to use, because everyone has a different definition for it. Smaller teams kick ass. There is a powerful illusion about what the industry is really like, or what it's like to work at certain…
Spending $200 on a new cpu to get a 10% boost in performance is simply not economical. Upgrading your ram/cpu/mobo for $400-500(and keeping the rest of your system) while getting a significant boost in performance makes a whole lot more sense. Unless of course you buy low end at the beginning of a product cycle and then…
i appreciate what you wrote matt. I understand alot of the work will come after graduating, unless you are lucky and or pro at what you do. Part of my issue, that I am just now theorizing, is that I worry too much about the money. My GPA is important to me because of the scholarships I get. Because I am paying 40k a year…
Hey guys! Today is the last day of the challenge so i'm calling it done! I will make a Artstation post probably on monday with it since i'm happy how it turned out. I've seen some cool progress here, great job everyone! High poly - 3ds Max. Low Poly - 3ds Max. Unwrap and UVs - 3ds Max. Baking Maps (normal, ao, id) -…
Thanks guys. Extremely useful information here. I may also explain that for the grenade, we had to meet a 400 tri-limit. Which I met exactly. So many things simply weren't modeled. The textures however, can be done properly regardless of polycount. Our instructor also said it was called a baseball grenade, and we're…
Just taking in consideration the wrong examples is not good... While applying there are companies which are gonna give you an answer and some that won't. And sometimes there are a lot of reasons behind no getting an answer (bigger issues). A lot of companies use actually software for this kind of stuff, so you know how the…