First of all, a similar thread was posted not too long ago; http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87950 Not really sure if it's the same thing you're wondering but in my opinion you shouldn't just focus on characters. Your work looks ok but the gallery on that site is just horrible. Navigating is a pain.
a lot of people have been in the game industry for so long, and sacrificed so much for it, that they have lost objectivity. People would rather point fingers at someone else than admit that the suits they work for are the ones that are responsible for cutting jobs (while collecting even fatter paychecks). for example, this…
get a error when trying to stack shells in maya 2012 // Error: file: C:/Users/Chris/Documents/maya/2012-x64/scripts/textureWindowCreateToolBar.mel line 872: Cannot convert data of type string to type float[]. // this also uncovers something really bad when the program errors, when a operation starts you have the undo stack…
Here's a recent one that's progressed awesomely, worth a look: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87962 Aside from that, look at others work and tutorials here on this very site. The wiki also has some great reference. You should use wear and tear when and where it makes sense. It is something that is very…
It's not that unity doesn't have a solution built in, it's just kind of bad at it. It'll still batch meshes at runtime to reduce draw calls, but that doesn't do much at bake. We ended up getting that and one or two others - that particular one is the most powerful but really needs a script to handle selection and…
Ah, here you go... http://download.autodesk.com/us/3dsmax/2012help/index.html?url=files/GUID-7D42A8A7-6E39-4C94-87A5-5B32F665C6C-2524.htm,topicNumber=d28e490512
If your budget allows, you should look into PCI SSDs. They basically plug straight into your mobo so you don't have the SATA bottleneck. Their speeds are insane too, some surpassing 1000mb/s read/write. EG http://www.scan.co.uk/products/120gb-ocz-revodrive-3-25nm-mlc-flash-x4-slot-pci-e-read-975mb-s-write-875mb-s-120k-iops