Just to make this a little clearer, I am not looking to replace my aiptec with a wacom. I am looking to repace my no-screen tablet for one with screen, if the price tag is allright that is. I can't say wether my aiptek I got here is worse than a wacom, but the preasure sensety feels a bit strange and the whole hotkey…
OK so the SLI and crossfire are solely for gaming purposes and i dont need the mainboard to support either of them, if i just wanna use Multi GPU for graphic rendering? (GPU rendering?) Also when using multiple cards in other profesional work (like after effects, rendering videos or whatnot) it also works even if the…
To make it short, isometric perspective is a way of drawing perspective where a cube will be drawn with its 3 visible faces as 3 identical diamonds (with largest angle being 120°), assembled in a perfect hexagon. So all its lengths are the same, hence the isometric term. You'll find more on Wikipedia. IMO the contest is…
I like the quad sphere approach for most things although you should unwrap the box before turbo smoothing it, and you should run spherify on it after you turbosmooth. Quadspheres are great if your going to go sculpt, no poles and no tris, but I'm not sure a quad sphere is going to give you a nice crisp line. It will also…
Yeah same feelings here! I've spent around $900 on games this year... probably another $300 on movies (I am more the gamer type :poly142::D) I just can't see why people buy beer for example yet have NO or little appreciation for games, movies and even literature and thus are unwilling to pay for them. I mean come one, some…
Right, haven't spent a whole lot of time at home these past few days, so not much of a chance to work on this. I did a bit of optimising, taking the mesh down to 300 tris, and then spent a crapload of time putzing with the unwrap. I'm not at all used to dealing with pixel-perfect unwrapping for handheld/ds spec stuff (no…
Looks like great start so far. A few things though. At 500 triangles she would be 1/4 of the total triangles that could be drawn on the screen. So the first thing i would consider doing is bringing it down to around 300-400 depending on how many you want on the screen at once. For the texture the biggest you should ever go…
Thanks guys - I'm glad you all found it useful I get asked about joints a lot, and figured I'd compile what I tell others into a quick tutorial. Japhir - I always go for an odd number of sides with limbs. To tell you the truth, I'm not 100% why... it seems I've just been doing that for a while. If I had to guess, you get…
They weren't coasting with the N64, totally the opposite. Nintendo had far and away the most powerful fifth-gen console - the first 64-bit chip, the first with unified memory and I believe Super Mario 64 was the first true 3D game on a home console. Nintendo did then what people are complaining they won't do now, making…