I guess it depends on your budget but i would have picked different hardware for a gaming rig. For CPU choice it's ok, but you could have gotten more power at least for gaming. A duo 8600 3Ghz outperforms any quad on crysis @ 1680x1050, except the QX9770 which is a real bargain at 1319$! ;)…
Every time I start texturing something huge and very detailed I always run into questions of how to approach it. I just Googled this image to use as an example. So let's say I have it all modeled and UV unwrapped. I want to render it from various angles at 3500 pixel by 3000 pixel size. This will include close up shots of…
The data in that chart is from Quixel's older gen scanner, which wasn't perfect, but is still perfectly valid for basic comparison purposes, which was the intent of that chart. Take note of the next accompanying that chart from the tutorial it came from: http://www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-practice "Material values…
d1ver say: If you compare to how the film shipped in this aspect ratio you'll see that the framing is quite different. It uses a longer lens which results in a tighter crop on your focal point:…
Nice excessive. This is a great way to practice animation First and foremost, you should definitely get some reference. I will give you my opinion of your shot, but remember that this is just how I feel about it, and you should check what I'm saying against actual reference footage, that's where the money is. -I think the…
Rock band Rage Against The Machine has won the most competitive battle in years for the Christmas number one. The band's single, Killing In The Name, sold 500,000 downloads beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry's The Climb by 50,000 copies to clinch the top spot. Their success followed a Facebook campaign designed to…
Rendering Baked GI in Unity 5 happens in two phases. The Precompute and the Bake. The Precompute phase happens with both Realtime GI and Baked GI, but the Bake phase only happens with Baked GI. The only way to see the complete render time is to open the Unity Editor log file and look for both the Bake time and the…
I dunno if this is a good idea for a thread but its seems like a fun idea at this time. Make you own L4D scenarios you think would be fun. You first need to start the wheel up, (because everything is broken when zombies come ) and defend the base of the wheel until it's all good and ready. Only two people can fit in each…
I wouldn't call it elitism either - Unity is almost certainly one of the most common choices of engine for mobile games - but people will call out bad data when it's presented to them. In this case it really is bad; it almost feels like it's deliberately presenting Unity as a wider used choice than it really is for the…
What version of the beta are you running - that one looks quite old now? The default Standard shader should look like this now - http://grab.by/DuWK For best results, make sure you're working in linear colour space (Edit > Project Settings > Player > Color Space) and set the camera to HDR in the inspector. As for…