Hey thank you all for replying with all those great comments, I really like good feedbacks like this, it really helps to make a better game. KDR: yes we are very proud of our demo although it's obviously not all perfect! JKMakowka: It's true the buildings are quite large. Tokyo in the demo is something like the 10th…
Anandtech has a nice benchmark tool that makes comparing drive speeds for several different usage scenarios. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SSD/65 Testing the Samsung 830 256 gb against the smaller 128 gb version is enough to show the signifigant performance the additional nand gives you with 256gb over 128gb. ( in most…
first of all thanks guys :) @danshewan: i took the name from the youngster storm comic, i guess its somewhat like a origin comic but dunno its also missing a lot, the cover just made me want to attempt a younger version of storm http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/Ororo~colon~_Before_The_Storm.2005 i actually bought the…
I like it, there is a lot of promise coming from this scene. I think its great you're recreating an environment from BioShock. There is much to be learned from using such wonderful reference. Ok lets get down to what will sell this scene as BioShock box art. Table: - Its the center piece of the room yet is letting the…
this was posted on Newsarama and most of it seems relevant to us too. ONE STEP: PORTFOLIO HORROR by Jim Zubkavich This bi-weekly column is meant to give advice from me and eventually other people in the industry about how to break in as an artist. This will include tricks for the formal submission routes as well as a bunch…
The Photomerge tool in Photoshop is great for normal panoramas, but it cannot stitch fully spherical panoramas. (This will be added in CS4). Don't even spend time on the mirror ball technique, it's a lot of work and the results are not very good. You are very limited by the resolution of your camera, so at best you'll get…
I'm sorry I missed this discussion when it was started a decade ago, and I'm sorry that the links above are broken, but I'll add my comments now for the record. I published a paper about pie menus in the proceedings of 1988 ACM SIGCHI conference called “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”, in which we measured…