Thanks guys! I was able to bring down the polycount by about 40% thanks to those tips :D I decided to stick with 4 instanced stones but much more decimated. I also decimated the dirt a bit, in the reference image you can see that there is coal and other stuff that stacks up and since I am not going to use normal maps I…
Looking pretty cool based on the gif, but here it just didn't work when I tried it. The free BoxCutter demo (or the paid version, which is 15USD for polyline and circle operations) seem much more stable and will probably receive better support in the long run. https://gumroad.com/l/BoxCutter# That said, the fact that it…
We added instructions here for how to embed Youtube in your posts. http://polycount.com/discussion/150407/animation-forum-posting-tips-tricks-and-resources
Something like Synctoy can be pretty useful for making backups: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=15155 All you need to do is run a windows scheduler to run a command line version of synctoy and it will check for any folder or file modifications and only update what is needed. EDIT: It's also useful if…
@belkun: thanks! I did a new retopo in zbrush for lod0 (had 150 tris too much..) then went to Max and used the optimize modifier and some manual tweaking to create lod0. smacked that on a uv map and used optimize again creating lod1 and then I repaired the uv mapping. Is there a simpler way? because repairing the uv map…
Hi! sorry if I haven't able to update this thread for awhile... busy with other stuff. anyway here's my updates: I've been working on fixing my main female base mesh and reducing poly count to fit the 15k tris limit, and then working on the parts of her Armor... I'm still in the blocking stage for designing my character...
Remember on top of your regular income tax....Self employment tax is 15.3%..also need to take into account cost of opperating...Software..Hardware..etc....also, as a freelancer, you are not always going to be working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (or however many weeks are in a year).... 20$ isnt going to add up to 45k a…
It's coming from the following post: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1596640&postcount=6 It's a link to an image, and the image is requiring login to be viewed, interesting that the login box is popping up on a site other than the image's origin
that was fun :D 2nd attempt: finally on my 3rd attempt i ended up just dragging the image around the screen :p here's probably my 15th attempt at a sculpt XD many redos