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Re: 3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
Not new,no. This tech goes back to 1994 at least. This one is neat though, and its texture approximation for the backfaces is pretty good. The biggest integrated feature I can see in that demo video is the automatic image background patching ala Photoshop's Content Aware Fill. Fuzzy_Bison: Tools for this sorta thing:… -
Re: Game engines and IOR
The metalness workflow replaces a constant IOR for nonmetals (usually 1.5, aka 4% reflection) with whatever you put in the Albedo map. So if you have a metalness map where a spot is pure metal it is going to use the Albedo as an IOR (its actually a reflection coefficient, but basically IOR) instead. No tweaking should be… -
Re: Dominance War VI
Oh god. This is literally right in the 3D childhood for me. I followed JFletcher with a religious passion for his V'HULCREM-KR entry into Dom war 4, 7 years ago now. Makes me sad at how shit stained a once bright beacon for new artists can get. Alas Viva la Polycount! -
Re: Obama signs the NDAA into law
Aka France, where they do peaceful demonstrations all the friggin time and get what they want way more than over here. better health care? they demonstrate, they get it. Affordable housing, the demonstrate, they get it. More vacation time, they demonstrate, they get it. Governments will hear what you say, if your voice in… -
Re: Webcams for LHC operations are up and running
http://boards.polycount.net/showpost.php?p=845785&postcount=1103 An hour before you posted. n00b. ;D In reality, the black hole would not sit in one spot like that though. It would either sink to the center of the earth before consuming it, or it's velocity would fling it into space, where it would then consume the earth… -
Re: Christian Bale's Apocalyptic 'Terminator Salvation' Meltdown
Director of Photography AKA: DP, DoP A cinematographer who is ultimately responsible for the process of recording a scene in the manner desired by the director. The Director of Photography has a number of possible duties: selection of film stock, cameras, and lenses; designing and selecting lighting, directing the gaffer's… -
Re: Unofficial Character Mini-Challenge and Community Skill-Building Activity
AWWW, hell. Haven't done any kind of challenge... or even any kind of low poly... since I almost finished my Dom War IV entry. And this way my old character, Oni No Tsumaru (aka "Three Horn") will get a pic, finally! Be prepared - for the motorcycle ridin' troll sumo wrestler physad! -
Re: 3D Trees----Tutorials?
Tree with sprite foliage (ala SpeedTree) http://learnfobia.com/category-Maya-129/tutorial-Sprite-Based-Particle-Trees-2259.html Tree with crossing-plane foliage http://www.andyzibits.com/tut_particle_tree_generation.html Tree with planar foliage… -
Re: Fantasy Sword WIP
one of the main reasons people use to make a full solid mesh, other then animation purposes, was that there game engine required it. but now there a plenty of next gen aka current gen engines that dont require this. its a great way to save polys, there are some problems you could run into by doing this but for a sword… -
Re: GTA San Andreas is being investigated in the US
Hahaha, "fully detailed nudity"... Yes, if you download a patch for that, the included Sims are as detailled as a Barbie doll. Perhaps he's confusing that with Singles which is already rated AO. Rhinokey: There's aan official uncensored version out there:…
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