Not everyone can afford the latest and greatest. There have been several times that I've walked into Fry's Electronics, and walked out with enough components to build a capable rig for $400-$500 USD. Those rigs were never cutting edge. But they were solid, stable, and would let me run a lot of games at decent settings. In…
I continued working with my sword for WKing. I thought it was 350 tris maximum, but it is only 300 in that particular case. I am preserving my old lowpoly (348tris) for doing the LOD0, upgrading it to 500 or 550 (max 600). This is my progress. I do almost all the work yesterday but I need to finish the color map, repair…
Looks pretty sweet man. I think you are on the right track with this. Really just push the polish, details. I'd say try and push the material definition, but also try and think about adding a bit more interest to the image. Right now it's just a demon with a big sword. The wings are a pretty simple shape, and really could…
I was very disappointed in this showing. Nvidia was talking big shit about their new cards and how they were going to mop the floor with ATI, but the best card Nvidia now offers still doesn't perform nearly as well as the best card ATI released six months ago. The 480 is a bit cheaper, but frankly, if I was spending in the…
loving it. Holy fucking fuck. Its at number 2 in australia with its $8 price tag. Everything else up there is $1. Us other iphone devs just got pwned. MOTHER FUCKETY FUCKERS. Its at number one in america. Im estimating over 50,000 sales for their first day, and with the 70% profit sharing and price tag thats about a…
Yeah, there's so much to do it is retarded. Just whatever you do, avoid staying at the Hotel Pennsylvania! I can not stress this enough! Superb location (right across from Madison Square Garden), but OMG, I felt like I got lead poisoning from walking down the halls. The doors to the rooms LITERALLY look like coffins. I was…
Alright, here's the low poly model ( the previous one posted is a bit weird looking because I added a smoothing group the whole thing, It wasn't baked either ) with a wireframe. No smoothing group. No normals baked. Just as is. The low poly still has a really high poly count overall though, so if you can see anything I can…
Wow. It was in april. Last two months I had some time to make justice to her. Can't leave that character unfinished. Thought it will be nice to make from her an asset, not a single render, anyway I wanted to play with animation. First I am fully switched into modo. Despite its slow viewport it is a beast piece of…
Heres two renders as updates. Scene is at 50k tris and still in 3ds max. soon as I'm done with the major architectural assets I'll start moving this scene into UDK. At the moment, mostly the roof and some wall pieces needs more work both mesh and texture wise.
It depends on what type of bricks/pavers you use. If you use square bricks you get a big gap at the outer ring and they touch at the inner part. If he's willing to warp bricks with polar coordinates then I don't think wedge shaped bricks are all that bad... Cut to fit or custom brick shapes are pretty common and in a lot…