Well said Kev. Rooster: There's a difference between getting your money back for a product you found defective and selling it second hand. And as for not doing your own research on a product you purchase, well, in that case it really is your own fault. Just because there are many people who don't read reviews or try demos…
Saying that this kind of thing happens at every studio doesn't make it right. I worked at a place where we were expected to work overtime like crazy. Their poor management and stubbornness affected the lives of the employees and really deteriorated the work quality and peoples moral. It was so bad, that i had to go in…
I've built several other Polycounters machines so I'll try and give some help. If going with Vista just purchase Vista Home Premium 64 bit. Between it and Vista Ultimate 64 bit there are not enough reasons or features that validate it's purchase at a higher price point. Since you live in Maynard, take a trip down to…
Shader Studio is a new (WIP) Unity editor extension that I am developing. It's purpose is to enable users to create custom shaders without the need to write any code through the visualization of a node-based graph. I have been developing it for a couple of weeks now and wanted to share what I have so far with others to…
after replying here people asked me if they could have that script with the spinner that lets me smooth surfaces without the usual hassle in 3dsmax. The picture I posted back then was: http://www.renderhjs.net/bbs/polycount/tips/quarantine_map_smoothing_groups.gif its a common task for me fixing the smoothing groups of…
As requested from Artquest (but i hope it will be usefull to many other people) i decided to do a mini tutorial (better to call it "a bunch of tips") to explain my baking workflow. There isn't really anything more than the things that someone who bake low poly models should already know. Anyway, let's get started. Image A:…
Now, the amount of time we dedicated to these vehicles to be modeled and uved was one and a half weeks. We kinda managed in time more or less but because we had some problems after two weeks (which I will bring up later) we decided to cut two models from the final game. Therefor at this moment, the game is supposed to have…
: shrugs : Bill Gate != Microsoft. He might be the chairman but if the companies direction was 100% up to him there would be no X-Box, no Mactopia, no Microsoft Game Studios, etc. He was a clever businessman in the the 80s, but now he's like the previous Nintendo CEO. A dinosaur unwilling to change his ways and views of…
ahahahah... oh man, if there's ANY game series that you can bank on getting the licensing rights to just about any music this side of the Beatles catalogue (and I wouldn't even put that out of range), it's GTA. ditto for big-name voice talent. people realize how big games are these days, and they don't get much bigger than…