turn splines into planes? sounds fishy to me. from reading their PDF it seems more like they are using the guide splines that the hair solution produces to align a number of textured polygons to, so that would probably be the interesting bit - which tool in max can be used to ensure these poly strips end up with a nice…
Thank you for the critique - the comment on hard knocks to the wood made it 'click' in my head ;) As for the heat guard on the silencer, well it hasn't been sculpted at all to be honest, just a little vertex pushin' and pullin', since it seemed to be fairly streched and taut from my other reference pics. A few (broad?)…
Of course I read books. But books are a very different experience to playing a videogame. In a book Im imagining the world in my head, and if it's a good book the characters feel very real. In a game everything is visualized for me, and in most cases it's unconvincing. I do play some single player games, but for the most…
I had played with that idea, which I think can be seen in one of the WIP's. In the end I left it out as to not distract but it was something I thought was neat. I may add them back in before I upload all of this stuff to my portfolio. As for the head, I read it as being a nice marble, rather than stone, and went with that.…
He makes some good points in the Guardian article. I think it's a matter of personal horror preference and 9 times out of 10 I'd pick the slow-moving zombie movie. I'm glad Ogle mentioned the Dawn of the Dead remake, that movie made good use of the running zombie. That said, if a real dawn of the dead were to happen today…
Absolutely I would love to talk some about it! I was hoping someone would ask :) Ideation & Pre-Production So about a year and a half ago I saw an awesome water simulation by Grant Kot ( www.grantkot.com/MPM/Liquid.html ) And I was looking for a challenge outside of work and the water simulation inspired me to do something…
Hmmmmm interesting read here.. As always LOST is at the top of my TV viewing list each week, in fact, its about the only hour of TV a watch per week.. I see lots of theories and "guesses" as to whats going on, many of which have already been disproved or shot down by the shows producers.. (For example the purgatory…
[ QUOTE ] The biggest thing that bugs me about playing the game, is people WITHOUT VoiP! God damnit, these people piss me off. It's 2005 for christ sake, buy a $10 mic! Almost every new game coming out has VoiP, so USE IT. Communication is a KEY element in winning every single time. [/ QUOTE ] I am one of those guys that…
One thing I'm going to go ahead and add on to this, as I haven't seen it mentioned (though it's in the same vein as Alemja's advice) - not all work-related pain can be solved by adjusting your work-related routine. It will remain true that repetitive motions or held positions, whether your arm is rotated this way or that,…
Hello all, I am interested in hiring 3D modelers who have experience with Team Fortress 2 Modeling and are interested in doing some freelance work on a piece by piece basis creating high-quality, detailed 3D models for TF2. Specifically, I have a list of holiday-themed models that I would like to get created for use on a…