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Re: Lighting issues
Does udk have a setting for shadow bias? At low angles, that sort of shimmering is inherent, but you can avoid it by raising the bias. This introduces another problem where shadows "start" a little past the shadow occluding object, but it's a lesser evil than shimmering -
Re: Normal Baking Issue
Ok, so it looks fine in Marmoset when I have a 16bit TIFF normal map applied, with Scale & Bias un-checked. Then, when I convert it down to an 8bit TIFF, I need to turn Scale & Bias back on to make it look right, and the artifacts/distortion is showing up again. Any idea what's going on there? -
Re: misc. maxscript UV scripts/tools
Render, that shell scaling parameter for stitching you are looking for is most likely the <float>bias parameter. As I understand, it works as a slider determining the weighting for the scale averaging, i.e. at 0.5 it's the average of both shells, at 0.0 it's 100% weighted to the source and 1.0 is 100% weighted to the… -
Re: Realtime VFX Demo Reel
Valdis, gotta say it's a pretty impressive reel--especially from someone just trying to get in doing this work! Lee brought up a lot of good points above here, it's a little too long a reel...like he said, 2-2.5 minutes is a good sweet spot. Think of it like a trailer for a film, where you're trying to keep your viewer (in… -
Re: Monthly Noob Challenge 6
Hey Nick, The side facing up closest is totally flat, it's the normal map doing the work there. There's a drawback to it though, when it look at it from the side you can notice that it's flat, it's really just a balancing act of how many polys it's gonna cost to put in that bevel against just putting into the map. It… -
Re: Darksouls : Prepare to Die Edition
I picked this up last night and been having a blast. Having played the holy hell out of the xbox version it is exciting to get a chance to play through as a noob again. So I think alot of the comments about being a not so great port are fair but honestly blown a little out of proportion. Some of my personal notes: -Yes it… -
Re: does voting matter in the US?
Back when America was founded they didn't think the "people" were smart enough to vote for themselves on issues, but would instead vote for whoever they knew. So they came up with this electoral thing to insure some bonehead didn't win the election. They would consider how the populace voted but didn't have to adhere to… -
Re: Article: Game Art Art
This happens because the alpha is tested for every screen pixel. When the AA'd alpha is filtered, you get a nice blobby shape. Then it's clipped using a bias value... screen pixels that have an alpha value that is darker than the bias value are clipped, the rest are not. We have some good links for graphics/rendering… -
Re: conservapedia
[ QUOTE ] Conservapedia founder Andy Schlafly says the new site is an alternative to Wikipedia and what he deems to be a liberal bias. [/ QUOTE ] But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality," and reality has… -
Re: Gnomon
No problem! Salary for FX or Modeling/Texturing as far as I know common case is median $70,000 but my closest friends are hard workers as well (I grabbed this number from my own sample size, I didn't even look at Gnomon's or have official knowledge of that till now). Out of those that, weren't as focused, I really don't…
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