I think one of the main things affecting what card you go for now is if you want to play Crysis when it's out, and if so if you want to play it at it's higher settings. I've heard that crysis multiplayer servers will be divided into dx9 and dx10 servers (dx10 will have more physics stuff going and things), so keep that in…
Sure thing. Its rendered in max using 2 photometric target lights 1 blue pointing at about 45 degrees from below (ray traced shadows) 1 orange pointing at about 45 degrees from above (ray traced shadows) (use the filter colour to tint the lights) That gives a hot/cold colour gradient, rather than just light and dark you…
no hard feelings lets make love. i didnt mean to sound rude and it was really just my lack of subtile vocabular that made me say words like shit and fuck (lol). okay well ... im my oppinion the tattos could be a lil more fine have tinier elements to it that are more artfull that the standart 0815 tattoo is that u get in…
The PRC includes Hong Kong (which is listed separately), so it was actually only a $14 billion difference. Japan bought 22.1% of the treasury securities sold that month ($593.4 billion), and China bought 21.6% ($518.7 billion for mainland China + $60.6 billion for Hong Kong). So buying 0.5% less than Japan qualifies as a…
I figured it out for the most part. Could still use some work on the blending procedure. The masks don't quite work the way I want them to but it's good enough for now. I want a height blend effect on things lower than the brick surface but also I want plaster to cover the bricks at a certain point. And where there's a…
Can you post a screenshot of the issue next time it occurs? At my workplace we saw a strange bug in maya 2015 yesterday where after cutting a mesh an unselectable vertex jumped to a spiky position somewhere of the model. I am curious if this is the same issue ( if it is i still got no solution sorry ^^ ) Or if it looks…
Oh ok that makes more sense. Yeah just mask the padding or do the padding all at once in post with the photoshop filter. If you're adding in extra elements the photoshop filter is probably best. There is no magic ratio of spacing to padding, this isn't really how it works. The problem is not a particular amount of spacing…
I skipped sleep sometimes. This doesn't surprise anyone in the slightest. The longest was about 115-120 hours (almost 5 days) because I had a LOT of work to do before several very short-following deadlines. I actually commuted to school each day and that was my half hour of rest (no sleep because of changing trains) and…
I have run into a lot of problems with the apex plug-in for Maya. I'm surprised you managed to get it installed and that it kind of works. I managed to get it working with Maya 2015 and an older version of the plug-in but that is a tough combo to recreate. Any time I try to install the latest of both, it crashes, hard.…
Upgrading your CPU without upgrading your motherboard is almost always a futile process. You'll pay $1-300 for a cpu that is 10% faster. If you really want to upgrade you cpu, SAVE that money and put it into a new CPU/Mobo/Ram combo when you can afford it. In this case you could buy a AMD 5000+ off ebay for $100 and get a…