Hi guys, I need your help! I am gonna do a freelance commission where I do a moon, probably one high poly version and one in lower resolution. The customer wants me to give her a price estimate and I have literally no clue. What is fair to ask? I have looked at turbosquid to see what similar objects costs there, and the…
It would be good to know which software you are using... As for retopology: There are several plugins/stand-alone programs to do that. Like Graphite Tools(included in max2010+, or als plugin called polyboost for older Versions) WrapIt awesome retopology plugin for max but not free Max Retopo little free script like the…
oobersli: You made it sound like there was an alternative to it being a free event. I was pointing out that there isn't. It being free is not some great feature that makes up for all other shortcomings. It's mainly the prestige that gives Unearthly more of a draw than other equally free competitions, and the apparent lack…
Richard: The infrastructure for online distribution is already being put into place with consoles. I wouldn't be surprised if within the next generation or two of console hardware you'll even see a dvd or blu-ray drive as part of the system. Purchasing content on any physical media is on its way out. My biggest worry with…
absolutely, get a cheaper case! sort on newegg by FREE SHIPPING on cases as it will cost $40+ to ship your case, look in the $50-80 range there are very good cases out there if you dont want 12,000 led fans or water cooling or whatever else the cool kids have these days. You can also get away with a cheaper PSU, you can…
Here are some things aurick mentioned on the Zbrush forums, some information might be a bit out of context but you can get the gist of the points he's making regarding performance. On a 64-bit machine with 4 GB of RAM, you can set the Compact Mem value at 4096. Actually, if you have 4 GB of RAM you should go about 512…
Set your pivot gizmo to local and "use pivot point center" (Max defaults to this when you turn on autokey). Then select the bones and rotate them. Each one will rotate from it's own pivot, they will do this: If both sides don't rotate the right way, they where not mirrored correctly. You can remirror them using bone tools,…
This project has slowed down during the last few weeks again, partly due to my "internship" (I put the word in citation because I'm not happy at all about how it turned out to be more "plz work for free and fix out game, because we won't pay anyone to do it"-type of deal rather than having a mentor and get a chance to…