I have no objection to Steam banning games if Steam doesn't want the games on it's platform. I do however have a pretty visceral objection to payment providers imposing their will on their customers businesses - this is gross and shit and makes all the right-wing conspiracy theorists sound a bit less like the ranting loons…
I'm seeing this situation being complicated by the recent conflict between gamers, game devs, community managers and game journalists around DEI in videogames https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/sweet-baby-inc-detected-controversy The impact so far - Around 360,000 gamers will be boycotting star wars outlaws once its…
Hey polycount! I've been working recently on making myself an all purpose "stone carver" node in Substance Designer. This was originally inspired by the work done on Uncharted 4 by Jonathan Schmidt and Jose Vega as well as all the other great artists there. Basically the node takes several inputs for height outline, height…
snowfly: from reading that article. it makes me want to stick with XP even more. At least until all the hacks that get rid of half the crap in there. I don't want my OS being able to access my motherboard bios. I want to be able to use openGL. I hope Alias, Softimage and all the other developers give microsoft hell for…
Mentioned this on IRC but I'll repost it here for some permanence: For the docs, have a way to also go to a wiki website for the nodes, so people can like share tips'n'tricks for using them: i.e. fresnel for water, here are some common examples here's how to make a simple cel-shader, etc. I'm sure there are examples to be…
Hahaha, first 3d Model (by myself, I was doing shit/editing with milkshape before this however). Skinned before the model was UV mapped (I was confused). Still quite proud of him. As you can see dated 7/7/01 making me 13. My first skin (none edited, again I was editing before with The Sims) and again, skinned before the…
Thanks, doc and per. Yeah, the textures are I think in place for now. I pinched the eyeball detail closer to the center, so there's more veins coming closer to the iris. But from here on it is up to making good render and messing with shaders, and hopefully do a render with high quality raytraced soft shadows, which I'll…
Hi Micro, yeah those exist. We have them at the office, they work quite well but they look dead ugly with their bright wood finish! They are L desks, with the deep part of the corner on the user side carved in as an arc (not just a rounded corner. The arc is 'inside' the L) It does help the elbow position, but I feel like…
(This is not a double-post, but a different question.) I am facing a problem which, after transferring normal, I want to edit split vertex normal to fix shading on a particular face, but avoid modifying other normals on the same vertex. To illustrate the issue: step 1: I transferred normal from this cylinder onto an arc of…
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