So this 3D engine I'm using(and I can't change the tech sadly) seems to use lightmaps(just simple 2D dds textures which are mapped to the second UV channel in geometry) in quite a particular way for large chunks of terrain. It seems to read the alpha channel from the lightmap and use it as a multiplier to the lighting…
Unreal Engine 4 I'm proud to announce that the NDA has finally been loosened by Epic Games, we have unreal engine 4. Having said that, Network is currently in the process of being ported and developed in unreal engine 4. We've had the engine for quite some time now and have made significant progress in-engine which will be…
<u>Preamble:</u> Angels Fall First has existed for a few years now as a modification for Homeworld 2 and Nexus, and also has its own game engine in development. The end goal is to complete our own engine and publish the complete Angels Fall First game. The end product is anticipated to include both RTS and FPS elements,…
Unreal Engine 4 I'm proud to announce that the NDA has finally been loosened by Epic Games, we have unreal engine 4. Having said that, Network is currently in the process of being ported and developed in unreal engine 4. We've had the engine for quite some time now and have made significant progress in-engine which will be…
Here follows a list of UK Developers, mostly console and mobile games but theres a few interactive tv and slot machine companies as well. I've left out audio companies and places that produce tools etc as Im trying to list places for Polycounters to get work. So I'd like your help in filling in the gaps. If you know of any…
Ok, I'll do 2 posts here. This is a noobtastic GI light dome but it works. I've got another one on my work machine I can show you on Monday if this doesn't work. It's real similar though. Paste this in the script editor and hit enter: //PrerenderPyramid v0.7 - (c) Dmitry "Troydm" Geurkov int $lights; float $intensity;…
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Polycount I go there and the links on the left and the background loads but theres no links to 3D modeling and texturing guides and info anymore. Instead in the centre of the page I get the attached wall of text. Sorry but there doesn't seem to be a forum section for this xD <<<<<<<QuickBooks…
As it has gone public finally, here's the according Master Thread for technical questions and tips for the CryEngine 3. Edit (end of 2014): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AluGdTlI1oueUQlkaUnTdfVUzci0FSm Thanks to TAN of reminding me of this - Free3Dee guys have done an awesome job in covering a lot of CryEngine…
Phung Nhat Huy shares
tips on how to rig a character that he created during his CGMA /CG Society workshop
courses Character Facial Rigging for Production by
Wade Ryer and Rigging Techniques: Cartoon to Realistic by
Nico Sanghrajka. Could you introduce yourself? Where are you from and what do you do? How did you get into…
I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it was started a decade ago, and I'm sorry that the links above are broken, but I'll add my comments now for the record. I published a paper about pie menus in the proceedings of 1988 ACM SIGCHI conference called “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”, in which we measured…