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Re: UV Coordinates in Shaders
It should be fairly obvious by the naming... It takes the world position of the vertices - where they are relative to (0,0,0) in the scene. World position is useful here because it means it's consistent no matter how the mesh is moved, rotated or scaled. Then divides it by 500 (to scale the result up a bit - so that in the… -
Re: Monthly Community Noob Challenge July 2015 (32)
Thank you both for the compliments.I really appreciate it. Mant1k0re-For the cushions i made them in blender using dynamic topology.It's nothing special actually,it's pretty easy to do and it doesn't take a lot of time. Here is an example: I start with SculptDraw brush in "Add" mode,and i just do quick strokes with the… -
Re: Spider Tank Crit
The most obvious target for optimization are the various hinges on the legs. You can probably reduce the number of sides on each of those cylinders by half without any appreciable loss in quality. You can easily save 4k polygons with the joints alone. (And really, why did you spend well over 10% of your total budget on leg… -
Re: Best unbiased rendering engine?
Take a look at gravity, its completely rendered with arnold (unbiased renderer). So you see that unbiased renderers are suitable for heavy scenes too :) We use arnold too for the rendering of tv spots. Its really fast and easy to set up and you don´t have artifacts which happen when you use final gathering or lightmaps… -
Re: Maya alternative bevel.
Actually it was Maya 4.5 I think. Originally BPT cost like $20 or something, and afaik their was never a non-encrypted version released so its functions never ended up in other scripts or part of Mayas core toolset. I think rebb is right about this, I've noticed that AD tends to convert and integrate alot of functions from… -
Re: Photoshop batch processing question
Starting with CS2 (I think) Photoshop included the ability to create very robust scripts using javascript -- think about anything where an action was not quite able to do what you wanted it to do, like conditional logic (if there is an alpha channel do this, if there isn't do this other thing). If this is just a one-time… -
Re: Laptop-o-rama
I think the cheapest best laptop u can get for modeling is probably the HEL80, the brand's called compal, kinda ghetto but the reviews are good. that same machine is also being sold by sager, don't remember what they call it. it runs i think just a little over 1k, it has a core2 duo and a 7600 card i believe, 15" screen,… -
Re: Buy an island of "the world"
I'm sure the scientists working on the Kansai International Airport knew it would sink 8 meters more than "predicted". They just like to pretend they didn't know it was going to happen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport [ QUOTE ] By then, the island had sunk 8 meters (far more than predicted) and… -
Re: LPC vol2 #3 - Time Machine!
I've been wanting to make a really really low res scene lately, so this is a good excuse. I'm gonna do Hot Tub Time Machine, Chibi-style. Basing the characters off the DVD cover, but I'll probably go off model a bit. I'd post the cover, but I can't find an image. IMDB has it, but i can't DL it, so here it is on IMDB:… -
Re: INTO THE 3RD DIMENSION!
I like the concepts. Anymore I don't think any specific polycount can be 'best' for a portfolio. I think it's more of what you're aiming at the piece being for. There are jaw dropping models in the low-poly thread at under 500. On the far end of the spectrum you could go 100,000 for a high poly to bake or for cinematics. I…
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