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Re: Blizzard siggraph seminar nov 19th vancouver
for anyone who doesnt really now about the local Vancouver siggraph events, Ill give quicky breakdown: tickets are usually 15-20 bucks, or usually only 10 bucks if you have a membership. the membership is 35 bucks for a year so if you go to a lot you will save a shitload of money. the seminars themselves are usually 1-2… -
Re: sleep paralysis
Sleep paralysis sounds awful. Dont think I've experience full on sleep paralysis but some similar incidents. But I often have these dreams where I'm usually somewhere in my basement and nasty things happen. My room is located in the basement along with a laundry room, spare room, and a bathroom. Things get really weird,… -
Re: Sketchbook: Celosia
This page is the one that first introduced me to the technique. I keep returning it once in a while to refresh my memory. 😌 For people randomly stumbling on this thread in the future, two related sections on alpha: http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Transparency_map#Sorting_Problems… -
Re: TOPOLOGY - Solving Triangles on Curved Surfaces in Sub-D?
@*Sebastian Here's some topology routing solutions for slots that run across curved surfaces and need to resolve to quad geometry. Support loops and shapes that cross perpendicular to the edges of the underlying curve typically won't disrupt the segment spacing in a way that could cause residual triangles or undesired… -
Re: Objects vanishes in Maya.
with Maya it's usually either the material or something getting disconnected / bent out of shape in the history and causing the link between a shape node and material to get borked. Sacrificing your first-born (or deleting history every third operation) generally helps to avoid this sort of bullshit. -
Combining textures together versus combining materials together for landscape texturing
Hi guys! I am learning about 2 ways to texture large landscapes. Mask creating and terrain creation not a problem. I am more interested in texturing workflows. If someone who is pro can gave some good tips, pros cons what is usually for both terrains for games or in 3ds max, Blender. If I have 5 masks and textures for… -
Re: any good wood material tutorials
Have you googled, or looked on youtube? There are a bunch of very respectable ones, and usually the proof will be in how good their final material looks, etc, which makes sorting through the chaff not too difficult. Do you have a particular style of wood you're looking to replicate? You also got some good feedback in a… -
Starting indie game company, how to start, how to progress and how to launch?
Does indie companies are like software startups? I really want some day to start my own indie game company, when i get some proper experience. And i can't imagine how hard is to make a game that people will want and love to play. My only concern is funding. Software startups get funding from VC, usually it started by one… -
Re: Normal Map issue
Hey Earthquake, when i bake I usually remove all smoothing groups from my low poly, usually it works, but is it generally bad? Also is it the best anywhere there is a hard edge to uv that seperately? I usually always try to make it contiguous in the unwrap when possible. -
Blender Texture Coordinates, is this even possible?
[short version] Hi all, not sure if this is even possible, but is there a way to keep the Texture Coordinates from a Procedural material, yet have them apply to a model using a different Texture Coordinates method? Possibly via Mixing or Math? [long version] I have a Procedural material which was made on a Plane using UV…
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