Its true that bolts are about 1k each but thats why you bake them. In your particular example this can be your high poly, and a simple cylinder as your low poly
The handle is still too small. It would be a nightmare to grip. Have a look at the proportions of this cutlass as an example. The handle is roughly a quarter of the sword's total length, as opposed to yours which is about a seventh.
Awesome stuff, looks very helpful. Do you think you could upload your example .qc and this upate.exe elsewhere? I'm having issues downloading from the Mega site.
More FX tutorials are always a good thing, will check it out. That quest is a good example too. I was especially impressed by the effects at the end of the quest, when she flies out of the cave.
My initial response is that you're sloppy. Not that you're lacking skill, but that you're rushing too much and aren't putting enough love into the pieces. This is very apparent in the mecha-cat texture for example.
Nice, buuut now it looks too dark. I know lightmass isn't the best, so you might have to hack it a bit. Here's an actual Italian street Here's an example
go for it, you can't really use macs you see in schools and libraries as an example, 9 times out of 10 the IT department does zero maintenance to their macs if it's a PC dominated environement.
I like to take celebrity names and insert my own name into them. For Example: * Glynnt Eastwood * Glynn Diesel * Arnold SchwarzGlynneggar Try it. It will improve your life by up to 50%.
With the optics in VR headsets your eyes adjust into a relaxed focus state, in theory it should be better for your eyes than staring at a screen. Example answer from the FAQ for the Oculus Rift:
You could try an annotation software like annotatepro for example. I admit it would be nice if pixologic included one directly in the next version of zbrush though. That would be quite useful!