Hey man, sorry didn't get back to you for a bit. I totally understand not wanting to form bad habits, I get caught up in it too sometimes. Its definitely a balance of spending time trying to figure out how to 'do it right' and just doing it. But as long as you're learning its all to the good! For the material questions you…
Really? You don't think BF3 was forced to sway towards MW3's gameplay style in order to try and steal COD's customers rather than keeping it its own style of gameplay like BF2 or BC2? You don't think EA saw financial opportunity in this and told DICE to focus more on CQB rather than an all out war? EA also ruined Ultima…
Overall, it's a nice improvement, but some parts still need fixing. Here are the main areas that I've noticed and think could use some further improvement. 1. The extrusion looks really weird - it should be much shorter. Example : http://www.rusmilitary.com/images/akm_3pcs.jpg 2. The stock too looks strange, almost as if…
The rail is actually a piece of the barrel i just painted it a bit differently so its not everything the same color. I watched a lot modeling tuts and in most if not all they keep saying that having squares that are equal is a must.But than i see some of the weapon models and they dont have that at all! so if anybody can…
3Do is based on Marmoset Skyshop, which is our shader pack for Unity. Its not quite the same thing but there are many similarities. Quixel have also altered the shaders quite a bit so its not really exactly like Skyshop or Toolbag at this point. To me, it looks like the biggest difference is the lighting. 3Do has a dynamic…
@Toafaloaf - Thanks! I want to see it with water too! T.T I'm downloading the newest Unity right now, hoping its new shader builder thing will let me do what I want. I like your model, too. Your vines feel more "alive", especially at the back where they're wrapping around the wing. Very cool. I think the biggest thing…
I had a Google+ Hangout with Chris Holden yesterday and it was pretty fun, a mini work session where we both had screen share on and just did our own thing and hung out. Pretty fun. I wanna do more of that stuff with the polycount people who are interested. I mostly watched him work so I can't really call this an update. I…
Better support for taking images: - Define export image size in a text box, not through console command - Define shadows resolution in a text box, not through console command - Define background color by RGB numbers in a text box, not only by eyedropper - Alpha support, possibly for post effects too like bloom - Anti…
I built a Raspberry Pi streaming box that can stream via some misc apps and hack-y setups on the Pi itself. Cost me $20 for the B+ model Pi (new one just came out with more RAM and a quad core ARM proc, which is $35 and allowed me to get the older model for cheaper), then matched it up with like $40 worth of more parts…
There isn't much that will be captured on the AO and normal passes. You have a lot of long flat surfaces so not much AO or normal detail to capture. AO is calculated when two pieces of geometry have a difference in angles, such as indented corners (like the inside of a box), indents and extrudes. Aside from the edge…