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Re: Help! 3ds Max Simple Particle "Line" Smoke
The easy way I can think of is with particles, but standard particles tend to spread out more than you want, like physical smoke does. So... Create a spline path for the smoke to follow. Create a super-spray about the size of your smoke stream. Create a "Path Follow" force and bind your super spray to it. Now you're… -
Re: Making sense of hard edges, uvs, normal maps and vertex counts
I remember having issues with Crysis 2's tangent basis, although perhaps the latest CE3 SDK is synced with the qualified Max normals, thanks for the info Racer445. Either way, if the xNormal plugin works with the latest version, I think i'll have to try that out. I've been avoiding xNormal, perhaps it's time to start using… -
Re: iPad - recommended apps?
if you like to read technical documents and ebooks, CHMate (windows help file reader) and FastPdf+ are good buys. FastPdf is really fast, especially on older iPads. I got a couple of Maya books as PDFs, which I can read that way. If you want to practice programming, Pythonista gives you a Python interpreter on your iPad.… -
Re: Unrealscript Help. Holding data over multiple levels.
Depends on what you want : saving data for loading it when you relaunch the game later or just keeping the data across level at runtime. In the firts case you will have to save the data on the HDD, there is plenty of tutorial about that. For the second case, you need to use the Replication and maybe store some values in… -
Re: Questions about Materials/Shaders and Textures
Performance and memory are two different issues. Sharing textures reduces memory as only one texture asset needs to be stored on disk. Instanced draws increase performance as those meshes can be dispatched at the same time. Instanced draws require the same mesh data, meaning the tri order and count cannot change. Therefore… -
Re: VR Experience Based on Various Films
Okay do you think I should level stream from pod to pod with contained lighting inside each one? Then a player location teleport seems to do the trick with a fade to black. When I tried load screens we found it a bit jarring! so if this is the case then its going to time to chop and LOD the hell out of everything. Or is it… -
Re: Elium - Prison Escape - Trailer
Hey nice work - looking pretty good. Visually a bit monotone though, perhaps adding a yellow/orange flickering torchlight to add a little colour might help. Some other light sources such as pale volumetric moonlight streaming through a window would also be a welcome touch - depends what you're aiming for though. Also… -
Re: [PORTFOLIO] Emma Smith
I use carbonmade and like it tbh:S (http://ikosan.carbonmade.com/) You are very limited with what you can do with it, i pay the $12 cause i wanted video streaming from it for turn arounds. I've run websites through wordpress and my own domains and carbon made was just a relief, its all drag and drop and very artist… -
Re: What is working freelance like?
this... is really subjective to be honest. I become a worn-out permanently depressed mess when I have to interact with too many people at once (by some reason, this issue surfaced pretty awfully since moving to North America); in my experience, if one can get a decent stream of clients to cover costs of living and have an… -
Re: Adver-games... interesting.
Can't get to the article in Firefox because of the ad! Probably an issue with Adblock, so I had to use IE. Anyhow, as I see it, ads are another revenue stream for a game. AAA games are becoming increasingly more expensive to create, so the added revenue is a big win for a publisher, which then makes it easier for them to…
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