my older PC had a bout same specs as yours, just a bit worse (no 8x AGP and less RAM), still a GeForce6600 GT did work well for it. Similar as Ryan I'd suggest the system is still good enough and can be upgraded relatively cheaply. We live in days where lots of people have insane surplus of hardware capability, and unless…
Sending them the invoice doesn't automatically mean they'll pay you the same day. Usual arrangements are "net 15" or "net 30", i.e. payment within 15 days or 30 days. No time indicated means they'll pay whenever they feel like paying you....if at all. I accepted a gig with full payment after invoice but no time indicated.…
"I guess I'll just keep on going then, this being my dream job, I can put up with some not so great pay I suppose." Don't assume that you can't make good money in this industry. There are seasoned vets in the studio Im at making well into 6 figures. However, dont expect to get to that place without a lot of hard work.…
I should have also gotten it for free but they want me to pay for it. I'm thinkin I'm not going to do that. I never really trusted steam to keep my unback upable copies of software safe for me. At least if I pre-order something in the store they are less likely to come back later and say "oh yeah that, well you need to pay…
I meant that AO is usually done as a separate texture or texture channel. Because you shouldn't see any AO on pixels illuminated by direct sun light for example , only in shades . So it's not included into base color texture usually. Cycles , same as any ray tracer in general doesn't need AO because same effect occurs by…
First, great job on painting the texture, looks really cool. The loop you've added between crystal and pendant on the end of the chain may use some rotation... like select the loop and rotate it 30-45 degrees so it looks like its ray being cast from the crystal.... don't know if i'm making sense with this sentence but i…
If you're using Vray then you don't have to concern yourself with the metal/rough workflow. If creating your textures in a metal/rough environment like substance then you can use the Vray export preset which will convert your maps for use in Vray: diffuse/reflection/glossiness/etc. the roughness channel in Vray is to map…
I laid on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico after swimming and totally baked the back half of my body. I was only laying down for about 10 minutes. Prior to that I was swimming in the Gulf. I too refused sunscreen. The next day, we had to drive back from Florida to Michigan in a car that had no A/C. So I had the windows…
Hey guys, I figured now was as good a time as any to start posting my work on polycount so here it goes! I've been working on a day/night cycle in UDK for a project I'm working on and this is the progress so far. If anyone's got any crit and feedback I'd greatly appreciate it, I'm always looking to improve :) Anyway,…