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Re: Answered: Quixel DDO 3DO increase performance
Disabling the AA,AF in Nvidia Control Panel don't work, the AA is still visible in 3DO. I adjusted the Nvidia image settings to Performance and noticed slight fps increase. Also overclocked my card by 10-15% and fps increased by 3,4 frames. I made a test with a object around 5000 tris and 1x 8192x8192 Ambient Occlusion… -
Re: PSN down. lol?
Don't you know? The 360 has the RRoD!!!1!! It is the first console in history to have hardware problems! Nevermind the dvd drive fails of the PS2, or having to turn your PS1 upside down so it wouldn't overheat, or the drivefails of the PS3, or having the UMD shoot out while playing, or having dead pixels on the PSP or DS,… -
Re: Normal maps, Engines and dull colour palettes!
I find it hilarious that people think there is somehow a direct correlation between technology an skill, as if somehow and artist can only be technically skilled, or artistically skilled, but never both. Like there is some sort of shity RPG system where you have to dump your points into one category or another. Also, that… -
Re: Jaxon Keller's Portfolio
Work looks pretty good. Lots of tiny, not-so-well-lite images though. Difficult to judge use of 2048 materials in 100 pixel tall presentations. Normally, we leave those images to be the thumbnails. Also, color is available in specular now. The background texture is very noisy. It detracts from your thumbnails by generating… -
Re: Questions forTexture artists
The chances of you needing to learn HLSL of CG FX thoroughly to get your foot in the door is slim. Focus on art creation process as opposed to shader creation, because it's mostly programming. This is a fairly new concept for us in games so, there is going to be multiple ownership for shader creation for some time. In many… -
Re: New Mass Effect Video
Looks great to me. Excellent job Tim and crew. Certainly looks to be a fun game to work on. Personally, I don't really understand the lighting complaints. The lighting model is arguably as sophisticated as anything currently out there, and looks great in screenshots. I suspect that by the time you are viewing it on a TV… -
Re: Interior Mapping - New Next Gen Tech in the making?
LOL! I saw this thread 2 years ago on the OGRE forums. AstroZombie is right though. The pixel shader is very often the bottleneck on the GPU, and extra geometry costs are on the vertex shader (meaning: to do this technique you need resources on a pipeline piece that is already usually the hardest working). I can't see this… -
Re: Spacewrinkle (wip)
Yes, 2048 texture is needed. In some spots there could be more pixels, in others more polies. So it grabed details rather optimally. I didn't mirror main body armor part nor the head. He is massive. 1024 texture is not gonna be enough when screenshot has 960 in height. Besides, better be safe than sorry. Alright, I started… -
Re: Yay, I have a website
If you haven't tested your page with IE, you should do that soon. Your pages take almost a minute just to get drawn on the screen. I don't mean the page loading, I mean rendering, like when I switch back to that window, it has to re-draw the whole window. The problem is that your background image is a 1 x 2 pixel GIF, and… -
Re: Painting a "flow" normalmap?
Well if you are talking a regular normal map integration your typical range will be from -1 to +1 on the channels, so length is a little issue. What I would suggest is to leverage the blue channel as a multiplier for the length. ie L[r+g] = 1 B = 0-1 * MaxRiverFlowSpeed So the force or speed of the river at any given pixel…
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