@Kwramm - So, I still need to do the Transaction stuff yet, and maybe some other optomizations. I'd like to thread creating thumbs, but still not sure if I will do that or not. But in any case, after testing between both methods I have, it seems like the DB method is faster overall. If I load the images from the DB…
A few months ago I started building myself a 3D engine from scratch, geared 100% towards making games. Well - the engine is almost complete, and this thread would be a good place to post some demos. I joined polycount to learn more about the level design and modelling side of game development by the way. My engine has been…
Simple Flash panel guide for PS CS5: Get Flash Develop 4.0.4 (only need to check the Flash plugin when installing), Adobe Photoshop CS5 SDK, Adobe Creative Suite SDK (the CS6 version is ok - this includes Flex 3.4, which we'll need) and of course Photoshop CS5 (x86/x64 doesn't matter). Start a new "Flex 3 Project". Edit…
Cheers. Oh, the extra 1 (361, 1001) is actually the debug grid itself, a 5000 triangle plane. e-freak - Finding which grid node you're on is ridiculously simple, that's one of the reasons I like grids. You already have the grid segment size (gridSize / gridSegments) - so you simply find out which column and row you're on…
I made a simple Maya script for a very particular situation tonight :P Something like this might be floating around somewhere but I wasn't able to find anything. The script reads the current scenes grid, and saves it to user prefs. It also let's you see the changes immediately in the viewport and grid options box. This gif…
A few weeks ago I was working on a "double tap" script for max. It is a way to reuse keybinds, press the key once one thing happens, press it again quickly within a narrow window of time and it triggers something else. But I hit a snag with tracking time, but the guys over at TechArtist.org and their knowledge of some…