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Re: Fetch and Organize ?
Ah, ok. Maya is stubborn, it won't render a scene if file textures are missing it doesn't seem to matter even if they appear not to be used in the scene. But destination does not exist; is the error I get with some file textures, but the destination does exist ? Do you know how, with MEL / Python I can quickly with the… -
Re: environment that needs feedback
i personally think this scene is lacking a lot of lighting. a cool idea but i think there should be really dramatic shadows in places. ambient occ pass would quickly start pulling everything together. also agree with taking another pass on the tanks. the texture on it seems scaled out of place. like it should be scaled… -
Re: More important issue than immigration.
Verm: The Gulf of Tonkin incident that provoked involvement in Vietnam was a lie and a deliberate cover-up. The war was not officially declared. We withdrew from the area before the end and it's considered a loss. Your view of "we killed more of them and quickly" scares me. Some wars will not be won with force. There's the… -
Re: Low Poly Texturing
You can try the trace function in Illustrator or Inkscape to see if they generate some nice vectors quickly. The other thing I do is use the alpha channel to generate a work path from my uvs and then resize to the correct size. Although it not as clean as doing it by hand but it's quick. For painting you just have to do… -
Re: Grenade - Normal Map issues
I exported the high and low as .fbx. As for the UVs they are not as packed as they could be. I just wanted to get the model unwrapped quickly while minimizing stretching. I have attached a photo of the UV layout. And lastly, I did use a cage. From what I have read the cage needs to have the same topology as the low poly… -
Re: Serious health problem
I did some chi kung (zhan zhuang) awhile ago, and sometimes get some pain in my hand when working away. Found that doing one of the positions while sitting quickly took away the pain. "The way of energy" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chi-Kung-Lam-Kam...5966&sr=8-1 is a book on this, worth a shot as it seems to help with many… -
Re: Small selection of enviro models
yeah, what steady and matt said. also, shouldnt the back part on the bench be angled a bit? it looks very uncomfortable at the moment im thinking that the side walk and wall were done very quickly just to show off the models, but the phone booth looks really wierd where it is. it should be up against the wall. nice work, i… -
Re: Identity Crisis
It's good to see you work through that quickly. ;-) Just kidding, some of those don't fit well/at all anyhow. Oh well, for the sake of the joke! My username on here is something I've used for a couple of years in a variety of things - but I've done the variant idea before (adding "monkey" to a descriptive word; i.e -… -
Re: Samurai (bored)
So retro. Working with hi poly all the time to normal map my 'skin' makes me nostalgiac for how quickly stuff can be knocked out on the old tech. Of course, it still requires a skilled driver behind the wheel to make it look good. I'm glad you're going to Blizzard Soul as I love the fantasy stuff much more than the Scifi.… -
Re: n00b mistakes you've made.
All of the above, lol. On thing that did help with the random names was when I used to have a shell extension that showed thumbs of formats like tif/targa/pcx, but I'll be buggered if I can find it again, post re-install. It certainly helped quickly view stuff, I don't want to load adobe bridge everytime I wanna see what…
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