It depends on how you learn best. Personally I highly encourage you to reverse engineer a sample material that comes with your dcc app. Grab an hlsl reference to check what stuff is that you can't intuit. And or slog through building your own blinn material. :) Actually this reminds me. I wrote a tutorial like 5 years ago…
http://www.techspot.com/news/47849-ivy-bridge-e-delayed-until-second-half-of-2013.html Talking of Ivy Bridge i read it was delayed until second half of 2013. I think this happened because Intel has no competition right now.
I use 250gb for windows, programs and the working project and it's big enough for now. I think an X99 platform is overkill, a good old i7 4790 on 1150 socket has plenty of power. From my experience, the biggest downtimes were when accesing the hard drive for read/write. If you have a large .psd 4k document you'll wait a…
The butt topology is going to cause some problems. It is too concave and the loops aren't running in directions that will help support the shape when the leg lifts. You really want your loops to be more horizontal, be lower toward the bottom of the cheeks and a little more compact so that when the leg lifts you have polys…
Vertex color is interpolated in a linear way. The distance between two vertices directly controls the width of the gradient between them. You need to change the topology of the model to fix this. You can fix this by selecting an edge loop, turning on Edge Constraints, and moving it.…
Hmm, I do have this for you :) http://www.pinterest.com/pin/472033604665384404/ There were a few more, but now I have too many stuff on my pinterest, I can't find what I am looking for anymore.
metalliandy, out of curiostiy, could you do a benchmark with this .blend file ? Someone at BA is reporting bad performance with a GTX 470 and it would be interesting to see how your 460 performs.
oh shit I only just realised you were AUS. bros 4 lyf mang edit: to remedy "pointless-post" http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/4707/blackass.jpg EDIT2: don't wanna doublepost BTW the filenames are a reference to a Bernie Mac quote and thus NOT RACIST
Just spotted this. Might be useful to you: https://www.gametextures.com/creating-a-multi-purpose-glass-material-in-unreal-engine-4/#1468373573539-ec3c4c66-4710