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Re: New article - females and the industry
Funny thing is I work for Her Interactive. 50-60% of our staff is female so my slant on this rant is a bit skewed. I'm kind of tired of this male vs female games rant everyone gets stuck on. I look at it more of a "drunken frat brat game" Vs "a game with a good story or compelling game play". I guess I have to lump myself… -
Re: Guess who didn't play Bioshock?
In a essay he wrote back in 09 for the Cato Institute, he laid out his views. Giving disenfranchised people (women and poor people) the right to vote, ruined everything. The majority of welfare beneficiaries are black, so some people take that as a thinly veiled racist slam also, which he has never rebuffed. Either way he… -
Re: Learning modeling alone - Hard background path - Need guidance
So I'm a student myself. A knuckle head really.. Terrible artist to be down to earth with myself. but I'll try to give any information I can that I've collected from more experienced artists. Threads a little long and I'm busy with class so not going to take too much time with response. But these threads pop up a lot… -
Re: Amazing Renders: How?
Where do I find the render report window if it doesn't pop up? Or maybe it did and I just don't recognize it as such, but I didn't see anything with red text in it. I'll try adding a light though. Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't the HDR file thing cast some lights or something? If it doesn't, what purpose does it… -
Re: UDK/Ddo Lighting Problem
For those of you who are confused, here is a basic shader that you can use to get your foot in the door for physically based shading. As you can see, it doesn't even cost much more instruction count wise then the dreadful default phong shader. To make it easy to implement and re-use I suggest you do as I did and implement… -
Re: Deus Ex Human Revolution Lab
It's looking good but I think there's a few things you could probably do to take it one step further from where it is now. Overall the scene is kind of difficult to read or focus on any particular part. I think a large part has to do with the rather uniform lighting you have currently setup. Everything is lit in a very… -
Re: Faces vs Polys vs Tris
There is no discussion here. Only an inconsistency in terminology and functionality betweem separate applications that you seem unable to comprehend. In the context of games and any other realtime application...triangles are what count, and what is counted. I just so happens that a triangle falls under the definition of a… -
Re: Is my tangent basis un-synced?
Thank you, @musashidan! as well as everyone for all of their help up to this point. When we talk about smoothing the model in Maya, are we talking about setting soft edges on the whole model, or averaging normals and averaging vertices also? (I experimented with these options, but averaging normals made my mesh look like a… -
Re: Decal technique from Star Citizen
Thanks, it means a lot to hear this from you! Should be cheap and easy to include traditional parallax mapping (that is, UV distortion), yeah. Not sure what to use to drive it, though - I can't use normal map alpha because normals are compressed with DXTnm, and my main packed map is already using 4 channels for a variety… -
Re: Prop Model - Syringe
Overall the assets aren't bad, but just not enough to stand on their own as seperate portfolio pieces. The best thing to do with these smaller pieces is just make a small scene out of it, it doesn't have to be a large complex environment, you could just do something along the lines of these:…
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