@Busterizer While I agree and encourage games that are not made from the traditional western perspective for an increased cultural awareness, and the fact that even a game not made with any political agenda still will feel "different" because of said developer's differences in social and cultural roots (aka I fucking loved…
The following movies scared the living soul out of me at one point or another (most when I was younger): The Blair Witch Project The Sixth Sense Ringu; The Ring (or any Asian horror movie to speak of - nightmares for weeks guaranteed) Hellraiser Zombi 2 Movies I didn't find scary but enjoyed a lot: The Thing (1982) The…
Here are my thoughts about dDo and SD. I played around with both of them but in the end I bought just one. 1. dDo: I liked the presets it came with. You can just apply them and get good looking results without much tweaking. Most of the tweaking I had to do is turn down each effect to avoid too much noise. Having two types…
You could also set your directional light to moveable so you don't need to bake lighting after a scene adjustment. This is easier if you're constantly making small tweaks just for an image. If you're intent is to show a baked light scene of course you could just switch it back at the end. For screenshots I like to enter a…
http://i.neoseeker.com/neo_image/191966/article/deus_ex_human_revolution/dxhr%202011-08-28%2019-00-44-21.jpg Deus Ex:HR has a nice cloaking effect with geometric grid + Fresnel in the player character body (some refraction too). His right hand is overlapping the right thigh, you can see it occluding leg, and still…
Going to school is a great decision to make, but you have to go to the right school. Just keep in mind that the piece of paper doesn't get you the job, your reel and and attitude does. I went to school from 1995 to 2000. I transferred from a degree in Fine Arts to Graphic Design... 3D is a lot easier to do and learn these…
I've been around the modding/indie scene long enough to know it's not a question of if you'll get shut down but when. 1997 Alien Quake shut down letter Here's something to consider from that letter: " Therefore, you are hereby ordered to remove all your Alien Quake files from your computer storage. You must also remove all…
If in typical usage it does not fall below the actual display resolution. So if a 3rd person character's torso takes up 500 pixels of space vertically you have that amount of resolution in that UV shell, same for other objects. A FPS gun is a smaller object, but it usually takes up a large part of the screen relative to…