Well, we all live and learn. The lesson to take away from this is that desktop systems are ALWAYS going to be more powerful and game-friendly than laptops. If you only want to play Angry Birds, than a laptop will probably suffice. If you want to play more advanced PC fare, you will eventually come back to the desktop. My…
Local X rotation on a biped finger twists the finger, Local Z curls and Local Y rotates it side to side. On a biped it will require a sub-animation controller, before you can wire anything to it. Without it you get "available". Even with the right sub anim controller it only works on the local axis there is no possible way…
Managed to get a few rounds in last night, and I've come away pretty impressed. It's changed the gameplay a lot more than the other sequels -- the pacing is definitely faster. There seem to be some balancing issues here and there, but it's hard to say with it being so unfamiliar. The armor abilities seem to make a few old…
You guys use to tell me Max 3 was better then MilkShape, yet the Mesh Edit system is all that Max 3 offered. And MilkShape uses a Mesh Edit system too. Although I agree you can get a better work flow with other softwares......but it'll drive you crazy trying to figure it out. MilkShape will help you learn the principles,…
i built a new system recently....but i work at a computer company and got quite a few parts for free. evga 680i - Free Intel E8500 - Free (enginering sample. really wanted a quad core but i couldn't argue with free) 8800gt. bought a while back. Think it was around christmas for $230. I wouldn't mind getting another one to…
I bet they are already taking pre-orders...(ps9)heh Went by Target this morning when they opened... They sold out of Wii in less than 10 minutes. Apparently some moms and grandmoms had been waiting outside since 4am this morning. I refuse to do that. My town isn't even more than 50k people strong. Guess I'll check BestBuy…
HL1 was built off a hybrid of Q1 and Q2 code. They licensed the Q1 code as Q2 wasn't finished yet, and part of their agreement was that they would also get the Q2 code. They had built a number of systems that worked off the Q1 code that was incompatible with the Q2 code, and so they cobbled parts of the stuff together,…
I don't use Maya, but I'm sure techniques could be carried across to a different modeling package. How one would go about doing it would vary depending on whether the scene they're for is low poly or high poly. If he's creating a low poly environment, I'd just create a two-sided plane, and apply a texture to it. The…
I'm definately going 360...the DVD drive on my XBox is on it's last legs...I keep getting dirty disc errors...it was particularly bad when I went back to playing Ninja Gaiden the other week, and with the 360 being confirmed as backward compatable, it'll save me having to pay £100 to get a new xbox to play all my current…
Good day/evening everyone, today I mustered enough motivation to chase an old dream of mine of making my own proper videogame calling it "project ALT" for now. but before even tackling the drawing board for that one I decided to start a small test project that in order to pickup any missing skills that i might need for the…