About knowledge. When I've first started with this stuff something like 15-20 years ago, the internet was a desolate place. Videos were so big there was no chance to donwload anything even at 320*200 resolution. Any web tutorial with a single new idea on how to do something was worth solid gold. I mean I had this friend…
@Indi2410 Get Maya Indie. Its $300 a year (far more affordable than the other options) and shouldn't be too hard to set aside that much money for it if your not financially pressed. That eliminates potential problems with trying to get your hands on the program through 'other means'. About learning Maya, I get where your…
Interesting, I love MMOs personally especially grindfests Questions I have are to do with balancing 3 faction PVP, this in itself will be an enormous task, one thing that is prevalent in MMOs are whiney bitches that complain about one class or another s way too overpowered and the whole thing soon degenerates into a nerf…
[ QUOTE ] A mesh is pretty much free for the 1st 600 polys, beyond that its cost can be reduced dramatically by using lightmaps for generating self shadowing and so on rather than vertex lighting. [/ QUOTE ] do you mean a unique prebaked AO map?. In theory if you use a second UV for unique map, thats 2 shorts = 4 bytes,…
the funny thing is my instagram gets virtually zero views or likes, but when I replied in a thread about cats, I got 300 likes within 2 days and 1000's of views. Even making a silly comment on a thread gets at least 10 likes I think maybe giving your work a hashtag of #cutecats or #sexy ladies might help your get more…
Anandtech has a nice benchmark tool that makes comparing drive speeds for several different usage scenarios. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/65 Testing the Samsung 830 256 gb against the smaller 128 gb version is enough to show the signifigant performance the additional nand gives you with 256gb over 128gb. ( in most…