01 - The Navigation Key In Maya the easiest way to remember navigation is always hold Alt. If you're holding Alt then you're navigating. So, while holding Alt: left click and drag to tumble, middle click and drag to pan and right click and drag to dolly (or scroll wheel). I'm not sure whether it's possible to change this…
Kevin's post pretty much sums it up but I'll share anyway. I have to say though, I wish I had the kind of time he does to spend on assets at work. No doubt they crank out an amazing amount of content at such a high quality bar, but the LD's there are masters of reuse and repurposing assets! The workflow and process of…
Off the top of my head, this is assuming you're comparing lightmaps to a real time shadow map solution. LIGHTMAPS pros: 1.quality of the light rig is unlimited as it is baked, so you can do whatever you want global illumination and all that magic 2.saves a lot of frame rate, our real time shadows costs about 4ms which is…
Just as an FYI, this is a construction thread. I've decided to go back to looking for a job as a character artist in the coming new year. Even though freelancing is going well, I would love the opportunity to work in a studio. To that end, I've decided to revamp my portfolio and update it at the same time. This is dual…
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In this brief tutorial, I'll show you how to start setting up Landscape for use as terrain for environments. Before I start, though, I'd like to point out that there is a ton of useful info on the UDK help pages. Here are some relevant links: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/Landscape.html…
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ErichWK on 09-13-2011 11:00 AM 26,000 tris for your Pod....................... So now that I'm on lunch I can critique this fer realz. Here's the biggest problem that bugs me. Your renders are really noises and jaggy and just hard to look at. I can't tell whether it's the anti Aliasing that is making it hard to focus or…
Thank you guys :) I haven't updated this thread for a bit I've been taking a break from this concept so to speak. Even though I feel like I may have jumped the shark, I'm still hacking away at it. "Many changes" is what seems to happen every day I work on this concept, maybe I should just call it that *shrug* Instead…
Team name: Gnomes^Nth Studios (Not registered or anything, just the name of the website) Project name: Imperiums Brief description: A sci-fi tick-based Browser based game with a simple graphical map in very, very early production. I've been mainly doing back end things like code to generate the map database, game database,…