Found this again today, featuring some of the old crowd, and a bit of what Polycount used to look like, back in 2002 when we were all trying to figure out how to make normal maps https://ericchadwick.com/examples/files/polycount_2002_messageboard.html
Thanks for taking me back Eric. I was just finishing up high school and working on getting into the game industry around that time :) It was really exciting to watch the community figure out workflows for normal mapping, as resources were pretty limited back then. I think it was basically Crytek's MAX plug-in, Nvidia's…
Nice! Yeah, those were formative years for me as well. I jumped onto Polycount sometime around 2001/2002. We were all dealing with normal mapping, trying to handle skin with blue-colored specular maps, and learning about subdivision surface modeling. Heady days!
Digging around here's a 2004 WAYWO https://web.archive.org/web/20070329212104/http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=82&an=0&page=0 Max plugins 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20050511085733/http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=4518&an=0&page=0 Head SDKs 2004…
A couple of the few domwar wips to have been slurped! killingpeople https://web.archive.org/web/20070214010301/http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=179366&an=0&page=0 JFletcher https://web.archive.org/web/20070420120123/http://boards.polycount.net/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=188931&an=0&page=0