[ QUOTE ] As for an engine, check out Ogre3D and Irrilicht. They are fairly new and free, utilizing a lot of the new technologies (Irrilicht has per-pixel lighting). [/ QUOTE ] Are these stand alone dev tools or do I need Visual Studio?
A lot of the screenshots for the Wii look like the are using pixel shaders, plus ATI is manufacturing their GPU, so it doesn't really make sense that they would make an effort to produce something worse than what they are already geared up for.
big thumbs up for not mirroring the chest! you don't have to follow my scratches to the letter, but I'm glad you got the over-all gist. now go in with the one pixel brush and tighten up those edges!
Yeah alpha test solves the sorting problem, but it's only on/off, no translucency. Can't use it for hair, for example. You can use both together at the same time. But it only reduces the sorting problems to a fringe of pixels, not really that helpful.
hmm photoshop?? Dunno for the first two but in the preference menu you can set up the scale of your "brush size slide". By default it scales the brush of one pixel, i personally set it up to 5. Hope that helps
Sweet work man :thumbup: Everyones opinion aside, I much prefer your version over the paintover :) Tiny crit, her lips look slightly too pixellated and so detract from the rest of her face.
A raycast selection system would be a BIG one - at the moment even if you click 'pixel perfect' on an edge you can still select the one behind for some reason. And what about a Connect tool ffs! It's not even in Maya2008!
Here's another example of what Layout UVs does now: It was set to 6 pixels gap between shells. And some of them have huge gap between them, and some are literally touching borders. :| Why? What happened?!
Avoid, or ignore? In the old days we were always taught to avoid them, mainly because they were a bugger when it came to lighting (either real time or vertex baking). These days, with per pixel lighting (or high end consoles and PCs), is it as important? Thoughts?
Nope, no need to get perfectly even pixel density. Although you do want to avoid major blurriness next to sharpness. You could use 1 sheet for all floors, another for walls columns and such.