wahey taking things back to the start! I really enjoy ww1 games because of how stripped back and raw the combat is, no crazy machine guns unloading 30 shots in someones face and they just run off with half health, hopefully just a few shots with a slow loading rifle and they are down for sure :) and those old planes are…
The years and perseverance it took before an opportunity to actually work in games came my way. First I moved country then I did a degree for 3 years, then worked in marketing and design for 3 years while also improving my portfolio and skills, before I actually got a foot in the door. I took a chance on a little 4 man…
I think a big problem with the challenges (on every website including this one) are that the communities have gotten WAY TOO LARGE. It used to be there were about 30-40 entries in a cgchat or polycount competition, and everyone would look at and comment a bit on everyone else's work. Now there's 1000 entrants and it's such…
I watched a stream 5 minutes ago and the Z axis is still not used apart of from simple jumps, and the person was moving at a crawl, a speed that is easily lower than you would relatively move in Dota without purchased boots. I expect they increased the movementspeed by 10-30% but that will not do. Also its not only the…
Not sure; MagicSugar posted some unreal baking videos in this thread: http://polycount.com/discussion/167869/modo-10-live-plus-30-day-trial/p3 haven't watched them so not sure how relevant they are. If you want to stick with xNormal and export things manually, check out the pipelineIO script: you can export your lowpoly +…
Seems like dropbox drastically reduced prices, they were totally ridiculous before. https://www.sync.com/features/ Sync is pretty great, seemed to be the best cloud after my research. More features and less expensive and no 30 day version limit. We have everything on sync and turtoise SVN, works great. I also backup to a…
The best advice I've ever gotten was "spend more time." You're doing a ton of fast doodles but slow it down a bit and spend 30+ hours on one piece. Find 10 images online made by pros and try your hardest to hit that level of quality in your 1 image. Right now you're rushing and it shows which makes it hard to give detailed…
I tried out 2017 and used the parallel rig evaluation and gpu instancing...dramatic increase in performance from 2016 for animation playback, even using those features in 2016. I went from 10-12fps to 25-30 using one of the heaviest iAnimate rigs in viewport 2.0, and that was on my laptop. Couple of improved layouts for…
Using one texture is going to save memory but probably increase the chance of seeing popping between LOD levels. Mipmapping adds about 30% onto the size of the original texture so there may be no savings at all. You would save memory by using fewer LOD meshes. Overall performance depends on each game's hardware specs,…
At work everyone has one this model: APC - Back-UPS 1080VA UPS - Black They work great. It has a little LCD screen telling you the time remaining. Power went out durring a storm, and I lasted about an hour with two 30 inch monitors. The power came back before it was out. They are pretty large, but it's laying down under a…