Hey, So I've started working on a new environment. I am going for an old dungeon/ransacked castle. I have a few concept ideas in mind, here is the inspiration: I will be going for a more Oblivion-ish style with this. I've currently started the block-out process. Please keep in mind this was done very quickly, and I'll be…
If youre looking for a career in online education, the International Academy of Design and Technology Online current has a full time position available in the Game Production program. The job responsibilities are: 1. Teaching online classes 2. Academic advising to students 3. Curriculum development 4. Administrative…
I've just started playing with substance painter and have very quickly run into an issue baking maps. I've been following the youtube videos put up by allegorithmic but everything just works for them and I haven't run across mention of what my problem could be. here are my meshes and settings. My google searches havee come…
I will soon be in the market for a portable computer on which I can make 3D Art, but I would also like to have it in a tablet form factor. I am planning to run software like Modo, 3ds Max, Zbrush, PS and perhaps some quixel plugins as well as Cry3 and UDK on this computer. The Surface Pro 2 (Specifically the 256gb/8GB-RAM…
I know there wa s adiscussion on the king kong game a while back, but I can't seem to find the thing. Anyway, I remember a number of people lamenting the lack of normal maps and fancy pants special effects. Well it would appear that if you've got the most powerful gaming machine money can buy, theres a PC version of the…
Hi all, I'm a third year Games Tech student and my current assignment is to create a high poly character using 3DS and Mudbox. I've chosen to do a Spartan (300-inspired) I'm a complete noob to Mudbox. Apart from a couple of sculpts I've done in practice, this is my first "big" application of it so I thought I'd post my…
Warning: Detailed response. All digitizers will have lag, the question is whether its noticeable or not. I have seen little to none, and many have shown the same. I dont know of any artist that wails their hands around as fast as they can for their cg art. The pen mechanism is springy, thats the only type of "feel" you get…
@Perna You make it sound like using face weighted normals shouldn't be as easy as ticking a box, if anything adding a "few more triangles" (which is about 300 triangles or 13% more in the case of my stormtrooper model) takes even longer. @Earthquake your examples showing perfect normals is also without using compressed…
This looks cool Kees! I'm just going to chime in with the others here, why is this not available for regular Maya? We have a game school with ~120 students and we're paying good money for the full Autodesk Entertainment Creative Suite Ultimate. Autodesk decides to add new features for working with real-time shaders (highly…
"the NRA is a gigantic lobbyist group that brought it up - I formed my opinion on what they said." Let's get our facts straight. There many larger lobbyist groups than the NRA. People that oppose the NRA like to make that claim. Emily's List (feminist organization), Attorney/Trial Lawyer's Lobby, Association of City,…