If you have any 90 degree corners then they should be hard edged. This also means you will need to split your UVs at these areas and move them away from each other in UV space. Next, set each UV island to its own smoothing group. Then watch xNormal bake a perfect normal map. Just to expand on what ZacD said: setting your…
Have fun, I've got work conflicts this year so I can't go, but last year was my first and it was amazing. ZacD basically summed up what I'd have said. Aside on Tenderloin: Last year at GDC I tried walking up to Union Square and went down Ellis St instead of Stockton (they had that construction going on there). This was at…
@ZacD: If I'm not mistaken, Adam said the mouseover image thumbnails are planned. The list is a great idea, the question is how to determine what's 'active'. It'd be cool for the user to have (easy) control over the displayed threads...things like only display before a certain date, only posted in in the last 12 hours,…
Hair, I figure I could go one of three ways: 1 - Inline with the concept. Obvious pro is that it helps deliver the look of the concept easier. Con is that the hair works in the concept because the woman has darker features and a more ethnic look, so the dark contrast and straight hair works well for her. On my model it…
A portion of the original idea of the scouts was to teach self sufficiency, which is also a major portion of being a Mormon, part of the reason that in being a Mormon, you'd still be on the governments watch list. You can't be a good sheep if you can go play by yourself so to speak. The other parts of the list go back to a…
RexM - What trailer were you watching? :poly115: The visuals are killer.. aesir - HAHAHAHAHA I about died laughing when I read that, I'm right with you on how "serious and non-angsty" the old Dante looked. I feel like some people are wearing blinders, and they won't like DmC until Dante looks nearly identical. That is why…
What bothers me, is seeing people on the news this morning, talking about all the things they are doing to raise money for this. The money isn't going to do shit. They need to spread the awareness. Sending money to an organization, that will only use a small percentage of that money to raise awareness, is only a waste.…
Well it really depends what your goals are. I can see 3 scenarios. - High end cinematic animation. In that case you want to generate displacement maps to be applied at render time. They can be generated in Mud, in Maya, and other programs too. However the mesh receiving the disp map must be very close in silhouette to the…
xaltar: thanks for the paintover, I really appreciate you taking the time to do it. zacd: workin on it :) attackattack: thanks mop: solid points all around, I'll continue to keep it in mind. silhouettes... you're kinda right, so we'll see if I come up some interesting gear to break it up some more. I changed the shirt…
@"Jonas Ronnegard" You should write a biography. I'd actually buy and read it. @gsokol How did you end up getting job for the military sim company??? That sounds hella intriguing! @PyrZern So are you currently working as a ballroom part time instructor? Retails must have been tough, dealing with masses of people just kills…