I just wanted to let you know that 3D Coat is now available at discount. You can get the professional license for 235 $ instead of 349 $ The educational license is also affected and can be bought for 99 $ This discount is only available until October 15'th So everyone who considered buying a liense should probably do so,…
hmm well i thought i posted this a bit earlier but for some reason.. i can't seem to find it. I recently purchased me a cintiq 21ux and after waiting aobut a month it arrieve, i'm loving this ting and its inspired me to pick up zbrush again, i started on this last nite, made completely from scratch in zbrush, i'm starting…
The 2nd through 3rd pieces and the last one in the first list were the ones I liked th least, as they felt unfinished. I can see through the thread that you're coming along in some of them. I do the same thing with my work, as I get excited about a piece and then later look at it and realize it needs work. This is great…
I think ASUS is also releasing compatible Motherboards for the new Sandy Bridge CPU's. The H67 and th P8P67's. They have all the good stuff you want! edit: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131685&cm_re=h67-_-13-131-685-_-Product I have never used gigabyte, but I know Asus provides a good mobo.
well cheers for all th crits and ideas guys really good stuff! but i only have till the 3rd may so i have to get cracking with the texture.. ok managed to dedicate some time to this tonight got it all unwrapped, might add a few more polies as i still have a few left.. well see. Jody
Kodde: DXT compression is a fixed size, a 24bit compressed image is always going to be 1/4th the size of an uncompressed TGA. I see what you're saying about overlaying etc, however i dont know that i would often do it the way you mention, as even if my lowpoly normals match the high very well, i'm likely to have some areas…
Thanks for the kind words! I kind of browsed through a bunch of different style's while trying to get some sort of inspiration kickstart for shapes and such: a little bit of WoW of course, kingdoms of kingdoms of amalur, skyrim (mostly for shapes and their visual language, not really the textures for this), dishonored, and…
Just use another packed texture in the same way for additional layers, and plug them into the additional sockets of the Layer Blend node as before. So two textures for your overlay materials, you can use six layers (R+G+B+R+G+B) if you don't use the alpha of those textures. The hard limit is the texture sampler limit,…
The easiest way to do this is to set your camera into Shutter Prority(TV) mode on the mode dial, then you can set your desired shutter speed with the dial. You may also want to use TV to help you get the right settings, and then go to M and set your Shutter and Aperture settings manually to fine tweak it. As others have…
Melissa ... don't know if you've made plans for AFTER graduation from UNT, but you might want to consider stopping by Guildhall at SMU on Dec. 9th. ( There will be a show of games from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, showing off recent student work. There will also be some folks from the industry there. You also might want to…