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Re: Able to draw, born talent or hard work
dll thats just not true mate. I know what i am good at and having worked in art for the past 20 years I know what I am good at and what my limitations are. you can't force yourself to be good at everything, I am quite happy being good at modelling texturing it not jut a question of technique, it's about how your mind… -
Re: Something about for profit schools
I hate to say Progg but degrees dont really seem to count for shit when applying for a job,a 4 year degree can be helpful when you are getting a work visa but aside from that i dont see that as a big factor in landing a job. So in your mock up scenerio you have a student just coming out of school versus someone with 3… -
Re: Making Friends
I had asked a question like this about 2 years ago. (TO myself though) And the only way i had answered it was buy being the best on my team :D we were Making a mod style mmo in our free time. I won everyone over with my ability to output a good model in fast time. It slowly began to get annoying with requests and people… -
Re: Registering your own domain, where to go?
It's really two things you are after - a web host, and a domain name. Most companies provide both. For RSART, I'm actually with a separate one for each. My domain name rsart.co.uk is now handled by 1&1. I pay them £12 every 2 years, so thats about $12 per year. My space is provided by Addaction.net for $6.95 per month. For… -
Re: 3dsmax 7 Normal Mapping Mini-tutorial!
Per: Why not expand the Projection modifier to take the parts of the high-poly mesh "outside" the low-poly cage into account? Does this produce different normal-map results to having rays cast both towards and away from the low-poly mesh? In the tutorial I posted there, the "nuts" on the wheel hub stick through the… -
Re: really cool explanation about piracy
Anyone here from Asia? Or even South East Asia? Well I am, and I live in a country where both western and eastern games are available, so we're blessed. Now, taking a look at strictly MMOs, East and West generally do this differently. (there are exceptions on both sides, so I don't mean this in the strictest sense) The… -
Effects based visibility optimization?
Hi, I'm not an expert in technical game artistry, but i got an idea lookin' at this screenshot from Watch Dogs: The question is, does modern rendering optimization softwares take account the huge amounts of bloom, depth of field, lens flares and other effects that games today have? As far as i know, lighting effects aren't… -
Environment Art & Props (Boombox, Cabinets, Coinmachine, Couches, Garbage Bin) - Free Download
Inspect & Download (Full interactive Materials Breakdown, Tri-counts, etc.) from our Sketchfab page or from our site's Downloads page. No accounts, user or payment needed whatsoever (might still need a Sketchfab account to access download from Sketchfab). Free for download with no catch. Use them in your personal,… -
Re: basic knowledge help
kanga - yeah, similarly for a bevel 'shader' workflow at material level if baked with hard edges as opposed too firstly projecting for example, your hard surface primary (quad topology) baked data onto the same correctly prepared proxy. An early bevel node baking series at 2048px * 2 texture resolution of a medium poly… -
Re: Oculante - Image viewer with rgba channels
Hey @jwoelper , great to see you here...welcome to Polycount! Thanks so much making this handy tool that makes it super convenient to inspect textures without having to load up a game engine. In lieu of a Git account, here are some issues I've come across after using it for a bit: -Drag and drop is broken for me. It will…
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