So I've seen a lot of posts regarding physically based rendering around lately, and one of the things I commonly see discussed is "metalness" and how to use it appropriately. Firstly I'd like to preface this post with my own personal opinion. I do not like the metallic workflow, I believe that there are too many semantics…
Kevin's post pretty much sums it up but I'll share anyway. I have to say though, I wish I had the kind of time he does to spend on assets at work. No doubt they crank out an amazing amount of content at such a high quality bar, but the LD's there are masters of reuse and repurposing assets! The workflow and process of…
some pretty interesting specs that were released about the revolutions specs.. they are from the same guy that leaked the Xbox 360 specs and he was 100%right with those(Han_solo).. who know if these are close.. but if so.. nintendo dosent look like its going to be that much behind the competition.. [ QUOTE ] Nintendo…
OK as for 41 k triangles i don't work in the game industry yet. so I just do what i want thus far, learning on my own. its 41K polies for BOTH sides of teh gun/scope/clip fully mirrored from left to right. If i planned it to be fps only model in a particular game engine with solved animations, i could delete many faces…
I am still in the learning phase, or at least I havent got a job yet so im not 'professional'. I stayed at school for 2 years on top of college and then went to uni so I am 2 years older than other people at the same level. Getting down like this kills me, especially when life gets in the way of main goals. After leaving…
The industry is its called Outsourcing to China or maybe India, Poland or Indonesia. But whatever you want to call it - thousands of game development jobs are going overseas. If anything the industry is getting harder to break into because theres fewer jobs available onsite at most Game Companies. You have compete for…
Oh man the best firefight I have ever been a part of... in any game... Story: My friend and I both had an m16, pistol, and a shotgun in our backpacks and we were just leaving the airstrip we turned around and checked to see if anybody was behind us with our binoculars and saw 4 bandits come from behind just leaving the…
I apologize for posting this late, but I felt really burned out, needed a break and started working on other projects just so I won`t lose my mind. With these being said, I will post the extremely important things I learned over the last few weeks. 1.Don`t be greedy with the low poly geometry. I know for some it sounds…
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