I have a Intel core 2 guad 2.4 ghz, 4 gb ddr2 800mhz ram, nividia 8600Gt with vista home basic 64-bit. I want to improve the framerate for navigating in max2009 and also amount of polys it can handle. I would assume to upgrade the ram to 8gb (its the max for my motherboard) to solve this. but im not sure if anything else…
My map was 340mb using my own lights. I then decided to copy and paste someone else's light and fog (deleting mine). After I build lighting my map is now 800mb. Is there a process I have missed? Is it somehow saving the old shadow info for the previous map? (I just copied the fog and light icon, nothing else). I haven't…
Hey guys, i've been struggling over the past couple of hours to create a custom color grading shader that I can inject into my post processing chain as a material effect. For reference, this is what i'm trying to accomplish: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ColorGrading.html Now many of you are going to ask me why i dont use…
Hello , I want to make some leather seams ... last time I did them I used the following technique ... Manually painted masks all around the places where needed to be the seams , then I used deformation to extrude parts of them ... the result wasn't really trasheable so I used , but I am sure there is a much better and much…
Hi all, There is a seller with a very high positive rating that is selling Maya 2010 Suite (Maya, motionbuilder, mudbox, softimage) for around 800 bucks or so or at least to the highest bidder that is. I asked him how he was able to sell something thats around 5k for 800 bucks and he stated back that his company bought in…
http://www.shacknews.com/article/80498/crytek-sites-hacked-user-information-possibly-compromised doh, got this email The sites listed below are currently offline: Crytek.com Mycryengine.com Crydev.net MyCrysis.com The following Crytek sites remain online and are not affected by these issues: GFACE.com Crysis.com…
http://hk3f.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html Hi all, been adjusting my blog and online resume for quite some time now. Got caught up in a situation where as an Artist and Designer I strongly feel to make a creative style resume / CV yet some people are suggesting me to make it like the example below. I have received examples…
okay, I admit it I fail at life. How do I get that animated gif of the techno viking to play as my avatar? I've been trying to get it to work off and on for days. I understand that I'm officially the lamest person on polycount. I can live with that. its 80X80 pixels, should work fine right?
Hello, i´ve done a low-ploy character to get it in a 3d-engine for mobile devices like iphone or android ones. This character has aprx. 800 tris. 512k color map. Thats ist. Now i want to build up the enviroment. What i read is, that for an iphone 3g i can have totaly 7000tris simultanly on the screen, right? My idea is to…