Thanks. I've read the gamesutra artical before, and the wages seemed alright going by it. I mean, 40k american starting wage I could live on I should think. However, lately I've been hearing it averages more around 25-25k cdn. Which is deffinatly not a fair wage, esspecially considering you'd be living in a large city to…
Think of it as screen-space displacement. The maps tells the renderer how many pixels to shift the background, red for left/right, green for up/down. It was also used in Doom 3 for stuff like hot gasses that warpedstuff when you look through it. You can simulate it in photoshop using the distort->displace filter. From the…
My laptop is my only machine, so I do need a good card. The Macbooks have ati x1600's that are underclocked from the standard 450 mhz down to 250 mhz. That pretty much blows, and sends performance back to the last generation of cards. My 1500m would stomp on it all day long in every possible scenario, I have a larger…
It loaded up fine for me. I'll just crit the presentation. - The thumbnails could be about twice as big without messing up the layout, and they would be easier to see. - The flash off to the right is constantly moving, which is sort of irritating, to me at least; but more importantly, it draws attention away from your…
I don't understand why you're using 9 sides and 4 segments, at least match those up with the amount of bumps to avoid weirdly smoothed bumps. In fact, using 8 instead of 9 sides would look better and reduce polies. You don't necessarily have to model in all the bumps, but I'd encourage you do to so. It'll take about 250 or…
Im almost done creating the detail mesh(high poly) that I will then use as a guide to build my render mesh (low poly). So I will be creating more geometry (while modeling the render mesh to fit the detail mesh) and increasing the scene polycount by another 8000 tri's and I am crashing like crazy with this 2.7 millon poly…
Haha no keep going! These should be great with that stick thing. I have most of the woodwork done now, hopefully the Happ parts are waiting for me in the mailbox. Funny how I discovered a noise-free hole dremelling technique ... just when I tackled the LAST TWO pushbuttons holes haha! As for diameter Notman I believe Happ…
I see that you are using extremely large texture sheets of 2k broken up for individual assets. So I would expect to see a level of detail, and resolution in your screen shots at least 10 x what you currently have. The screen resolution you are using currently to show off you work is something I would expect for ultra low…
Hi Mate Have alook here for the bus info - http://www.wymetro.com/BusTravel/BusTimetables/ I do know that buses to Ossett are regular, either every 10 or 20 minutes. Use Google to search for local amenities like supermarkets - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...p;z=11&om=0 and of course other places like Gym's etc. No…