They are most likely using a command buffer or direct memory address to speed up drawcall performance, it's very common these days. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569747%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb172234%28v=vs.85%29.aspx…
Not sure if you plan on keeping the pillar you have now, but I highly suggest matching the one from the screenshot. It takes up a 1/6th of the screen space roughly, and helps start identifying the story of the piece. Nice proportions work so far! The lighting is definitely getting there as well. For the UDK scene, I…
Done a bit more work on him...having trouble finding timee lately http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/SpartnII/1-18.jpg http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/SpartnII/2-17.jpg http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/SpartnII/3-10.jpg Renders have been updated since previous post Also just realized the red on the thigh is…
I use Pack UV's and then adjust the UV islands manually. You can also set your UV Editor grid to match the resolution of your lightmap. Lets say you will use a 64 res lightmap on the model, then set your grid accordingly, that way every grid cell is a pixel in the lightnap, and you have an idea on the edge padding. Just…
Totally agreed with Overlord. Art theft like this is rare, and in all likelihood it's only the top 1% of artists that will ever have this happen. People that steal other peoples' work always get weeded out eventually. I've heard fun stories of art directors interviewing guys that stole work from that AD's own portfolio,…
#1 See a doctor #2 Do all these exercises, once or twice a week. Deadlift and bridge always make my back feel SO good. (with all that use weights, don't worry about moving massive amounts of weight around. Start with none) Deadlift http://youtube.com/watch?v=61nY5Sr-LfM Good Morning http://youtube.com/watch?v=BHxtscXb6MA…
Torch: the biggest power of this is mass production. You can simply tweak a node and the effects will propagate across all of the project (whether that is 1 character or 100), and every node can be tweaked individually. You can get some optimization when using automation in Photoshop, but you have to build an entirely new…
What he said. Plus antichrist was not that hard to understand :D (and not at all apocalyptic) On to the list : Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is one of the good ones. Pitch Black maybe ? Children of Men Last Night ( didn't get to see this one) The Fifth Element War of the Worlds (which i enjoyed) 12 Monkeys Akira ( if in the…
ArchNacho do other cgfx shaders work for you. there is this problem with maya not letting them work on some hardware, not sure why but ive run into this a few times. what works for me is to add this to my maya env file, MAYA_ENABLE_HWR_CG_PROGRAMS = 1 ive had to do this in many versions of maya on different machines to get…
could you please illustrate your idea ? other than that, trial and error rules =) the good thing is that shaders are typically not too long, ie not insane amount of work to just experiment with it. I found that most solutions come up as hack/mix of other solutions... wishes, well dynamic fur =), although you cannot…