Take a look at the GoW cave level if you haven't already. This was by far one of the best looking cave levels I'd ever seen in a game. Here's a screenshot, but it doesn't really do the scene much justice. Nevertheless, there's a huge, factory-esque structure in it. You may notice when you play the game how it's constantly…
True. This is one of those things that are better off faked than accurate. Here's an attempt at it (in Blender :( but I'm sure you can translate the steps to Maya), still not fine tuned though. It's actually two separate strips crisscrossing on top of each other. I could adjust the edges so they weave over each other in…
Thanks guys, glad it's mostly working. Ya, Raul, I'm with you on that. I wasn't sure if it was worth putting in or not. . . I guess I'm still not sure. :/ Mark, I'll change those arrows to be border=0 and it should filx the blue/purple outlines. Good catch. And yes, I wish I had taken good shots without the characters…
having an individual asset textured in a way to convey a story works in your portfolio if the rest of what is in your portfolio encases that asset in the same theme, and ultimately, an entire environment. even then, this would be extremely difficult to pull off as an individual portfolio piece as there is not a single…
I mostly suggest starting over, because you made one thing that looked great and worked. Your AD (which sounds like he needs a kick to the balls) wanted you to take out the wood. I would have thickened the wood and dried the place out. Because wood that thin would have rotted away but thicker wood in a dry place would not…
I use it a bit. It gives me a bit of trouble, but that's because the interface is so crazy. I'm taking more of a liking to it over time. My usual apps of choice are DeleD and Fragmotion, but they have their limits that act as barriers to my work. It's certainly much better than Blender. They have some nice video tutorials…
Man a lot of awesome stuff on here. That jammer was pretty cool. I really need to get an xbox. Jason: yea I got off beat quite a bit. haha. Thanks though. MoP: Tool might not be the most challenging stuff on guitar but godamn I love the sounds they come up with. I like the precise delay stuff and alien like ambience and…
If they want the bad press and Jackson to go away just open the books and shut him up, that is of course if they are on the level which it sounds like they aren't. Yeah Bob Shaye sounds like a total dick in this interview. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/film.hobbit.reut/ How the interview reads to me; Bob…
downsizer, all your arguments seem to be based off the assumption that the average joe knows how (and cares enough) to do more than hit the big round "on" button. Network printers? Homebrew linux apps? Recompiling programs to run on the cell architecture? Dumb terminals? Most people have a hard enough time figuring out how…
All right, so I finished watching Empire last night. Holy crap, that was awesome. Within five minutes I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen to Luke and company. Everything seemed bumped up: the stakes were somehow higher, mostly due to a better focus on the characters' relationships with eachother,…