I understand where you're coming from, because I feel it is fairly similar to where I'm working at the moment. Chris pretty much nailed it with his post, its something I'm looking at doing as well. Moving to bigger and better studios where I can be pushed, where I can learn more and not just repeat the same old stuff over…
This is where your argument falls down somewhat. It is not easy to come up with a simple model to predict ("anticipate") what a player is going to do and how to appropriately react, let alone across a variety of different environmental and non-environmental conditions. Players are by their nature very unpredictable, which…
Thought I'd just post here instead of starting a new thread. Quick and Easy: Computer was shutting off while playing L4D (hasn't ever had a problem with any other game til now), and would shut off seconds into boot afterwards. Pulled computer apart, put back together, runs fine now, except no signal to the monitor.…
Nicely put snowfly! Few other comments: Being a UI artist is a unique beast, and subset of talents. A few things that I'd look for in a ui artist: Be and avid gamer This doesnt mean you need to play world of warcraft 80 hours a week, but instead enjoy all types of games. Study all types of methods of interaction, inventory…
i wouldn't go for a 775 system nowdays, amd phenom 2 are a bit cheaper and generally faster than any core 2 duo/quad on the market nowday's, not to mention 775 have all the nail well planted on the coffin (intel core i5 coming around september or so, called i5 because they are stripped version of the more expensive corei7…
Hey thanks for the help! How does one put the pivot in component mode? I have heard of "pivot in object space" and "pivot in world space" but have not heard of pivot in componenet mode, I searched around but have turned up with nothing, also what is tranform component here?
that's the stockholm syndrome thing. for the employer who follows psychopathic model of business it's good if labor is competing with each other over stupid shit. Doesn't matter what it is, the effect is that employer gains leverage. The more desperate employees get the more wages will drive down, and then those "rock…