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Re: What kind of machine are you running on?
my older PC had a bout same specs as yours, just a bit worse (no 8x AGP and less RAM), still a GeForce6600 GT did work well for it. Similar as Ryan I'd suggest the system is still good enough and can be upgraded relatively cheaply. We live in days where lots of people have insane surplus of hardware capability, and unless… -
Re: Who Works On A Laptop / Recommendations?
Dell XPS system is used by a couple people here as a portable workstation, they all seem to like it. I've owned a few high-end HP Pavilions in the past and I was very happy with those. Biggest things I can say when choosing a laptop: - widescreen is a must... not because of the screen, but because you get a full… -
Re: Some environment texturing technical Q's
Hey rhumba, got a chance to play with your shader. Works great! Specular's a bit hot, and max tends to slow way down when I tesselate my mesh then try to paint the vert colors. But it's real nice being able to bake vert color from another material (like a top/bottom or a falloff or whatever), then swap to yours and edit… -
Re: Bannerman's Arsenal
Arrangemonk: He's following the reference. Did you miss the picture up top? Not to say he couldn't scale them up a little bit to match the ref better - at the same time making it more visually interesting.Personally, I'd suggest taking this model much further in max, and leaving only the detailing to Zbrush, as you're… -
Re: Headus UV layout/Max Bridge
yes. the modifiers hold the previous unwraps and can be safely removed if you want. Its my plan to allow the user to delete these automatically or keep them. I'm also planning on adding multiple uv channel support and copy/paste/swapping between them. so these are a nice visual cue of what uvs you have. The geometry… -
Re: 3Ds Max 8 Not saving Files at Render To Texure
Okay I am up to SP 3 in Max8. I down'oaded the demop version of Max 9 (good sign I can't tell by the interface that it is different, hot keys are all the same), but even in Max 9 the file still won't bake. I sent it to a friend, anim8or76, over at Sway, and He could not get the file to bake. Maybe something wrong with the… -
Re: XCOM
At first, I was thinking that this was another obvious attempt to bring a PC strategy game to consoles. PC strategy games have never really worked well on consoles. So it makes business sense to take the strategy X-Com franchise and make it a FPS instead. A new strategy title wouldn't go over very well (on consoles), but… -
Re: Penn & Teller BS - Video Game Violence tonight at 10PM
Are they really, though? Their show "Bullshit" is broadcast on Showtime. So the only people who regularly watch that show... 1. Subscribe to a cable service. (since Showtime is a cable network) 2. Subscribe to Showtime. (Showtime doesn't come free with most cable packages) 3. Download television illegally from the… -
Re: hair techniques
I don't understand why we aren't making a clear distinction in this thread between pre-rendered and realtime hair? Two very, very different things. There is really only one way to make hair for realtime ( and yes, that includes next gen consoles ) , and that's alpha'd poly strips. Hair that's pre-rendered is generally… -
Re: Gears of War gone gold
I'm not slamming you on this, Marcus, but why would you want to see that trailer with a heavy metal soundtrack? If you don't dig 'Mad World', I understand, but what you're describing has been done a hundred times now. I remember Quake2 opening up with the Sonic Mayhem tracks and being impressed, but that was almost 9 years…
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