Sorry for the delay on posting. Lots of stuff going on. Anyway, here's an update of what I've been doing. I discovered that UDK comes with speedtree in it. Which was an awesome revelation. My only issue is, the default settings for when the speedtrees become billboards were giving me an error, so I followed a tutorial. In…
A bit of ye ol' history: The demonification of the hard edge dates back to the dark ages of poor baking software and worse baking workflows. Basically, before we collectively figured out how this whole baking thing works. In the old days, baking software didn't have an option to bake with an averaged or smoothed cage (I…
If we assume a late 2019 release of a new console then whatever is considered on a level with a decent mid-range PC configuration one year before release would seem like what you could expect as the end result. 'Customized' in this context usually means 'cut-down' (clock, bandwidth, number of cores and so on). After all…
I'm saying that worrying about people extracting your assets is just OCD and over-possessive. Your art isn't your commodity, you are your commodity. Take stock in the fact that without you, that art wouldn't exist. People may copy your work, but that's only because they can't do the work themselves. You have the talent,…
Thanks Eric; I'm ok with Unity shaders but it'd definitely be a new challenge for me. I came across a similar issue with the UV1/2 limitation when I was wrote a decal shader which displays numbers on the back of a sports kit. Unfortunately that meant losing lightmap ability though the dynamic objects are currently lit with…
s1dK: Sorry for the delay but I ran into trouble trying to reactivate my max 2012 license. apparently the 2012 version removes the script from your local folder giving it the error when launched. Go to C: \Users\"your user name"\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2012 - 64bit\enu\UI\usermacros and drop the BendOfBrothers.mse…
(COPIED FROM MY BLOG) Another update. First pass on the materials There are few glaring issues that I've marked up. I'll go back and fix those this weekend. As far as the materials, I'm not sold on the blue just yet, I think i get the idea. I want to make it glow, but i'm not sure how to make a convincing glowing crystal…
@MiAlx : I don't expect the school to make me a professional, I know that I have to work hard during the course. I mainly see school as a controlled learning environment, in which I could make some contacts and get my hands on some tools and tech I normally couldn't. I'm definitely leaning towards the free school. Besides,…
@Dr Stench most of the tris go to the undercarriage, the cockpit has 1800 tris. You are right that I don't really have an idea what the model should be used for. I made this only as a portfolio piece but I agree that it would be better if I had an idea about how it could be used in a game. The right and left side of the…
Awesome, that proves.... what, exactly? That society thinks radio waves are harmless, because no real research has gone into determining their long term effects on biological organisms? Society doesn't have the general education to gauge how harmful something like radio waves can be. Just like how we found out, decades…