Some nice progress by alot of you already! So my first time doing a monthly noob contest, hav a few on going projects so didnt really want to start another, but couldnt resist this awesome concept! some early progress just trying to nail down initial proportions and structure, needs some cleaning and enlarging and…
CAT was initially a 3ds Max plugin long before XSI existed - introduced somewhen around 2003-2004 as far i remember, but developed by the Softimage team. AFAIK it never was available as a plugin for XSI directly. Later when Autodesk bought the whole Softimage company, CAT came also under the Autodesk umbrella and they…
Try backing off a few steps and just getting the initial colors set. Turn off your opacity and specular and just get the diffuse in. See if its still green. Then work in the opacity, probably a map will do better than a straight number, since you have a lot of bits that are not transparent. But speaking of green: The…
I think it's colored because NDO pretty much calls a standard PS Filter Gallery effect with some specific settings that was not initially intended for generating AO at all and just happens to produce strokes that look right. So it's a side effect of the source image being colored prior to filter being applied. Can easily…
if you're really going for a cartoon style, its time for a redo to be honest. But if you're going for that quasi-real pleasing art style you were initially executing pretty well, I'd make some minor changes, mainly to the diffuse. Here's my quick paint over. Let the engine do the shading, or do a good ambient occlusion…
Glad it eventually worked for you. You're right. That gap was there in Firefox too. I was thinking it was better to have a gap on the first page than having to use a scrollbar in the following pages. But I just switched it to better match the initial survey questions, and the subsequent pages of the survey don't seem so…
Amazing stuff! @Harford: As a beginner in highpoly modelling I am having some questions: - What were the initial sides of the cylinder(if you started from that) of the muzzle? Are you going to halve that amount in your lowpoly or do you keep it? - Do you chamfer your edges in your highpoly? If so, are you going for a…
HM well as my co-worker suggested, it seems likely this ramping is a result of compensation for the SRGB setting for the Albedo in marmoset. Honestly I am really surprised by the degree to which it's shifted. But initial review of my 3DO and DDO next to each other, they are not as far off as I assumed. Ultimate would be…
They've both definitely burnt bridges on selling initial/1st gen hardware. MS more than Sony, but both had issues. Hopefully this time, they've learned their lessons, but I can definitely sympathize with the reservation of buying the launch day models. Personally, I'm holding off to see if Sony offers a Vita bundle. There…
slight update: using hemispheric ambient is now just a checkbox in the ps3 technique, and used by default on the ps2 Nacire: CB just told that the problem is actually in the number of instructions your card supports in one shader. I'm sorry but actually won't go in trying to solve this since learning cg - for recent…