My PS3 died a few weeks back and I've always had the urge to build a mini-itx computer for about 14 years so I made the leap and built a mini-itx Home Theater PC. I got Kodi (formerly XBMC) set up on it expecting to have something comparable to a console's streaming experience but with the added bonus of ripping my dvd…
I was going to point this out, and also that streaming video has a couple built in hacks to ease bandwidth use. High action games with frequent user input can be bad for many people right now, before adding audio/video stream into the mix. I also think streamed games is in the future, but internet structure as a whole…
A few ideas from the Info sticky... * The Unofficial Polycount Slack Group! is where to find a live chat room for Polycount members. Anything goes! We used to do this in the IRC #model_design. * Google+ Hangouts thread for members put up their screenshares, chat to each other, see what each other are working on in…
Hello! In the coming couple of weeks Polycount is going to be receiving a much needed overhaul to its backend software, which means a number of things we think you'll find interesting. First off, we're no longer going to be using vBulletin. We've teamed up with Vanilla to bring the overhaul to our community. Using Vanilla…
I think alot of factors are playing into the phenom. Vass's point is certainly one, the advances put developers in new territory where working around unforeseen obstacles can create ad-hock systems not friendly to modding. The community itself is having to re-learn their craft to make current-gen mods. Production times…
Seeing as theres been some talk of people streaming in the past in the GD section I figured id try streaming myself. It'd be nice if other people that streamed could use this thread to announce that theyve started broadcasting and what have you, perhaps posting images from that session (although that veers a little close…
I digged more into the problem and solved it. I'm changing max file metadata streams to local texture paths before actual opening the max file. By this, I know the original network path and can copy all resources to local drive before actual loading the max file. After saving max file, I made a callback to change all…
Hi everyone havnt posted a new thread for a bit, mostly because of the holidays. what i am currently working on is a steampunk western version of the Gemini twins Castor and Pollux. I am starting out with Pollux( the pugalist). According to greek mythology Pollux was the immortal twin. who possessed incredible boxing and…