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To make a long story short. What are all your opinions on testing Betas? I make no qualms it leads to a better product if developers listen. However. At what point does it leap from the tedious bug testing of a professional, who isn't payed enough, and has to deal with crap from others higher up. To the fanboys getting…
Just saw this posted at another forum: http://twitter.com/#!/taswell/statuses/4593477140619264 someone from www.giantbomb.com apparently saying that Bizarre Creations is being closed down? Sucks! condolences if you were there. I was actually thinking of applying in the new year!
I use AC3D to create content for a game I play, or at least I used to before they changed their system. They are terrible at providing documentation so there is no hope of getting any answers from them. Here are samples. These aren't the same models but they show the differences in the structure. 1st is the previous way i…
As it has gone public finally, here's the according Master Thread for technical questions and tips for the CryEngine 3. Edit (end of 2014): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AluGdTlI1oueUQlkaUnTdfVUzci0FSm Thanks to TAN of reminding me of this - Free3Dee guys have done an awesome job in covering a lot of CryEngine…
Okay, so I dug an old PII 450 box out of my room and it is now taking up permanent residence in my TV room. This is good, because I no longer have to hook the TV up to my laptop every time I want to watch a video clip or access my .mp3 server on my stereo. Eventually I even plan to set up some older games (probably Quake…
I finished this shotgun just the other day, but there is still lots of work to be done to make it game ready. It is currently sitting at around 450k tris. What do you think? I need to make a normal map and other maps for it, but I cannot figure out how to make decent maps in Blender if my life depended on it. You see the…
So in an attempt to bulk up my portfolio, i'm starting multiple projects with every intention of finishing them all. So when im at home, i'm working on my escape vessell that you can see in my signature.....and when im on my lunchbreaks at work, im working' on shockwave. Here's where i am so far. Making him a game rez…
So I have no problem hooking up 6 textures into a maya environment cube node and then plugging that into whatever part of the shader I want it to render on, let's say the diffuse. But the mental ray environment cube doesn't seem to work at all, I put my 6 textures in, plug its out colour in the diffuse colour and it…