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Re: Getting used to Max from Maya
hahaha Rob. Maxscript is waiting for yOOoooOOouuu... With all of its deliciously nasty outdated and redundant code... Its calling to you: ROOOoooOoob... come baaaaAAaahhcck. Please try to script something for biped, we dare yoooouuu... Ahem. Yep if you hover your mouse over the center yellow line it will highlight a… -
Re: Laptop-o-rama
Depends what you want/need. I just got my wife a Gateway for $600. Dual core Intel, and an ultra-brite screen. It works great for her and looks great. The battery life is also supposed to be really good on it. She hasn't ran it dead yet, so I don't know how long it will actually last. According to CNet, it will go 4 hours.… -
Re: Lets talk middle generation console upgrades
Couple points. 1. PC's are better than consoles. 2. The difference between the two is more than the actual hardware, its the mentality. 3. Getting rid of a segment of the market is not as ideal as helping it evolve. One of the reasons for mobile success is what? A shared operating system/platform. You can have a hundred… -
Re: help , new computer !
don't blow your savings... hehe in a few months quad core xeon CPUs will be out but if you're impatient ... vassago is right about the cpu, a 6600 or 6700 is all u need, hell you can OC a 6400 to almost the 6800's specs with just aircooling, so yeah, don't spent $1000 on a cpu. as for video cards... i guess the 7950 does… -
Re: Maya or Max?
Ah yes like mac's vs pc's. :) I've taken a similar route. I did my first serious work on lightwave actually, and I still keep some of its workflow and shortcuts in my max and maya hotkeys. From my experience Max and Maya are both very powerful programs, and both are can turn out absolutely stellar work. Max's largest… -
Re: Doom 3 character model tutorials
I'm interested in having characters that can customise their character, adding armour to a standard model. adding armour on top of the model, diffuse map over the normal map? how one could do it in the old engines one can buy or steal armour and place the armour on target areas of the character- arms and shoulders, body… -
Re: Derivative Normal Maps - What are they?
Hey Talon, I can definitely help you out but before I hand you code did you look at listing 1 in the paper that is referenced from the blog post? When using the derivative map variant you simply replace the dBs and dBt in listing 1 with the code from the blog post -->… -
Re: Why am I seeing so many Technical Artist jobs that want python / animation pipeline scripting?
Go look in the coding and scripting bit ( https://polycount.com/categories/coding-scripting-shader-writing ) for an idea of the sort of things TAs deal with - I'm going to assume you're fairly new and I think you're lacking a little context. It's difficult to give a practical example because what you're asking for an… -
Re: Sketchbook: Abhishek Chaudhry
Saidin: Fyi the vanishing points of objects aren't always the exact same unless you are doing an orthographic projection, or they are all in the same plane and at the same orientation. So the vanishing points of the road and the chair should generally line up, but everything else is pretty well on its own. Indian Boy:… -
Re: is there situations where you need to concept as a 3d character artist?
Outside of some very specific scenearios when a studio lets their 3d artists design their own gear sets or items, such 2d skills are not so much listed as a requirement for the expected day to day tasks (besides maybe paintovers, as stated above) but rather as a clue that such skills will play a part and potentially tip…
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