It shouldn't be too hard to get a new card. I'm running maya, max, mudbox, and zbrush perfectly fine on a Radeon 5770, which goes for between $120 and $140 now days.
kurt_hectic, there are several things that may cause issues, but yes 16-bit normal map may help. See: http://polycount.com/discussion/148303/of-bit-depths-banding-and-normal-maps I'm not a mod but you'll get a better response if you start your own thread instead of replying to a 9-month-old post. Good luck.
I have a 4gb 760gtx that I used this last year for my uni assignments. The vram was a huge upgrade from my 1gb 6850 and I'm more then satisfied with the card so far. I used 15 4k UDIMS with multiple layers for texturing and never had a problem so far. I had the same amount (or even more) textures in Maya viewport with…
It's a cool idea, and there's no reason you can't go through with it, just be aware that you aren't alone! http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=142404
Hmm what are you having trouble understanding? I'll see if i can explain it better. I work with RGB everyday so I'm not sure what parts are hard to understand. Edit: Actually might as well link the source from why i use RGB sliders, though there is the added benefit of it actually being effective in working around…
The drawing of the engie is actually not too bad. He's got a nice pose going on, and has good weight to him, but as others have mentioned, the line work is what's bringing it down. One of the biggest things to think about with anything of this nature is varying line width. At the moment, the majority of your lines are all…
Are you using zBrush? I have a tool I made for working on tilable sculpts like that. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1482056/TexturePlane.ZTL There's a second "centering" subtool in there that you can use for centering/framing the mesh. Then you can hide it and start sculpting. You will need to set WrapMode 1 on your…
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