How long do you think it will be till price drops happen? Maybe on a GTX 550 ti or 560 ti model which i like either. Just wanting it for DX 11 so i mess around with it in UDK and maybe a little gaming. Also i read somewhere about DX 11.1, anyone know much about it?
Quadro/firegl cards are typically much slower at the same price point as consumer GPUs. To get a Quadro in the performance range of a GTX 980 you have to spend $5-6K, which is simply insane. A Quadro (K2200) at the same price point as a GTX 980 is roughly 3 times slower. For game dev work, there is essentially no reason to…
I'd start with more geometry. I did this starting with a cylinder with 60 sides. The extra geometry will help reduce any distortion. Also, check out this thread http://polycount.com/discussion/56014/faq-how-u-model-dem-shapes-subd-mini-tuts-aka-use-the-right-amount-of-geo#latest There's a lot of good info in there about…
Yeah plenty of great looking stuff in Unity. If you don't like the default shaders then have a look at the Strumpy shader editor http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/56180-Strumpy-Shader-Editor-Now-Open-Source (edit) Although it seems people are having trouble with it for the Unity 4 version.
For high end 3d, I wouldn't recommend any of the MBPs, the 750M in the 15 inch really isn't going to cut it, and you're not likely to find any laptop in the 13 inch range that will come anywhere close. You're probably going to need to look at 15-17 or bigger huge beefcake laptops, at which point I seriously question the…
For any modeling issues like that, I'd post in this thread http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56014&page=50 Basically since the mesh isn't flat and shaped like this _/ (less extreme but its visibly bent and not flat) there's a bunch of wires at either side its going to have a tight bend, if you want it to be a…
Uh, yeah it's that kind of information I kind of need, it sounds bad, but 400/500 is a large range of cards. :( Gonna limit my options. I was looking at this graphic card as well, which is around the same price range: Sapphire 11168-30-20G HD 5670 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card…