This might not be the most practical solution for you, but this is what I did: When I graduated from College and got my first job in the industry, I moved in with my parents (ack!). Not every 22 year old's dream, but I had a free roof over my head and free food. During this time I put probably 90% of my salary toward my…
Here is a Farcry 2 tech demo of growing: [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHjmYowv8Y[/ame] [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7uK_YmnlZY[/ame] I wasn't aware that was a feature thanks for pointing that out. It seams like they may just have a parent child setup where smaller limbs are children of larger limbs which…
This is so true. Feels like you read my mind. My dad tells all of my friends that I'm a computer programmer. He is absolutely embarassed about my job. He truly believes that being a 3D artist is the lowest form of employment on the planet (He's Korean, and feels that what I do belongs in a sweatshop next to WoW gold…
Wire Parameters are what we used in GTA4, but lately I've been experimenting with Float Expression controllers instead - they allow easy clamping, so you can say rotate this bone at 50% of its parents rotation, but only between here and here. You can set up float expression controllers for objects to control their position…
Yes that's what makes patent trolls so effective, you can patent abstract ideas that have no real merit and will be violated constantly giving you plenty of people to sue. Patent trolls are basically every tech startups worst nightmare... What's even more fun is that companies like Microsoft started building massive patent…
Hello guys! I'm Peter Kyuyoung Lee, an environment artist for games. This is my thesis project I'm working on. I want to make a cinematic video in Unreal Development Kit. The story is about 10 year-old girl who has lived in a noble family at 19th Century. Her parents are very strict people. They always decide what the girl…
I have had both a positive and negative experience with people effecting my art. For the negative, I have had to pretty much drop all of my friends from high school because they are going nowhere with their life. Most of them had kids too young and are just happy living off their parents. Hell even some of my "Friends" in…
Yea that's the wall of ramble I'm talking about the last 24% is just more rambling. I ignored the first 75% as per instructions. I think the very last paragraph cuts to the core question but to really know I would have to read the rest... Only you can answer that. It's probably going to be disappointing for your parents if…
Obscura : Ok so just trying this now. Basically the tri-planar thing has to be taking place both within the Parent material and the Decal material, correct? In the 'base' material you posted, it looked like it also had that setup, rather than being simple texture/constant inputs, meaning that both the 'base' mat. and the…
Kids that are encouraged by an adult to throw litter out of a car window. "ERE, chuck that oot window, ahm not avin that rollin around int back o my fookin car". It's just ... christ ... of all the things in the world, this is the most incomprehensible to me, and something absolutely guaranteed to make me utterly…