Nice sculpt so far. How does the back look? IMHO, he could use some lat muscles. For example, the area behind the underarms, perhaps make it protrude slightly. :)
That's great, been searching for one cylinder-box intersection example inside countless pages of dem shapes thread, now there's all of them in one place. Thank you kind sir :)
I was planning on modeling a ufc/boxing gym. I was wondering if I model the whole gym in Max or for example, model ring and bring it to udk, model the bags and bring to udk, etc....
it is amaaaazing, I almost cried looking at the beauty of the character and environment. simply the best thing I've seen so far. its a perfect example how technology and creativity meet in balance.
you are thinking slideknit I asume? http://cghub.com/scripts/view/79/ theres an example of its use here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1115091&postcount=156
Sorry I may have phrased that badly. I would in no way be making a carbon copy of freelancer. That would definitely be pointless! Totally agree with you, especially on the point of leading by example!
If you've got a gaming keyboard (for example logitech G11) you could assign a shortkey to press P then Z. Wouldn't be a great solution but would save you a buttonpress each time.
Those categories sound fairly accurate to me; here's a good example of the "achiever" group. I look at something like that and shake my head, but apparently there's a lot of them and they take it seriously.
Have you looked at Shader Forge? It's not free, but it's well worth the price. Also a visual example or two would really help. What kind of situation is it? What shapes are the models? etc.