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Re: iCores
Not quite. That's true afaik for the older generations, but the current sandy-bridge line of cpus goes the other way. ie they removed hyper threading from the lower models but added more physical cores. So the i5 2500 has 4 actual cores, but no virtual ones, and i7 2600 has 4 actual cores as well as an additional 4 virtual… -
Re: e6550 cpu upgrade ideas ?!
Well here's the passmark CPU benchmark numbers: e6550 - 1454 q6600 - 2966 - $190 new on ebay, ~$75 used on ebay I5 2500/K - 6745 - $210/$220 I7 2600/K - 9095 - $300/$325 So the Q6600 would be a decent upgrade if you're short on cash, but the 2500K at ~$200 plus a $100 mobo and $50 for 8gb of ram would be a much better… -
Re: Sculpt a day!
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Re: Hand-painted volcano castle
Guess it's more of a lava gate/cave and not a castle like the thread title say. Calling this scene done for the most part. Moving on to some smaller pieces for a while. 17,839 polys total though I wasn't really focusing on polygon count for this one. Textures are all 256x256 or 256x128. wires: -
Re: Buying a nice rig for 3d modeling and game engines
CPU, Ram and SSD are key. Video card is not as important but i would recommend a nvidia card so you can use CUDA. Processor - It comes down to budget, and how to maximize it. For example CPU the i5 has better gaming performance and will save 100 bucks but the i7 has better rendering ability. So you gotta decide if its… -
Re: Introducing Knald - Open Beta!
It easily takes me 2-3 hours to render out ao maps in xnormal using default renderer, 8192 map size, 2-4x anti-aliasing, 600+ rays and hp meshs with 10 million plus polies. That's with a i5 2500k unlocked cpu overclocked to 4.6, 8 gigs of ram, 660 gtx 2gigs vram on a asrock extreme6 mobo. Can't use the gpu renderer in… -
Re: Sd.Kfz.182 Pz.Kpfw.VI Ausf.B "Königstiger" (Henschel Turret)
Hi Sacboi Looking good! Quick question though, is this thus far just the high poly and you intend to bake down into a game ready version? If so, i have a couple of comments. Keep an eye on those edges, you may want to overemphasize them, so while not being as real world accurate, they will bake down in the normal map… -
Re: Vector Displacement Maps and Bit Depth
The colors represents directions. Positive and negative x,y and z. Not literally negative value in the texture itself but it describes positive and negative displacement on the 3 axes. The bit depth, imagine it like this: On this image, I'm showing how some wave displacement bake would look like on 16 and 32 bits bit… -
Re: Alien: Isolation
Yeah. This is my only real complaint at all, the levels got a little repetitive later on. Took me a whopping 24-25hrs to finish (might be a tad inaccurate, had it paused for a while one day D: ) I went back and retwatched the original Alien after completing the game. It's crazzzzzzzy how accurate all the tiny details are… -
Re: Shader FX - Partial recoloring of diffuse sheet
I did something similar in a past job, where we used the alpha channel to define masks for three team colors. Each mask used 1/3 of the range within the alpha: 0-85, 86-143, 144-255. Here's an example with just two ranges instead of three, made with the old Shader FX in 3ds Max. Might give you some ideas. I can probably…
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