LET MY NAME ENVELOP YOU. SEEK NO SHELTER FROM THE FLAME OR THE TEETH OF THE BEAST. CLOAK YOURSELF IN THE FIRE OF MY WORD AND CAST BACK TO YOUR ENEMIES THAT WHICH WOULD BLACKEN YOUR FORM. This is a process thread for my current project, the manticore mecha from the tabletop rpg LANCER. Current status: Based on the designs…
Howdy. I wonder if any of you are using compressed normal maps? We're about to start supporting it in our engine. For a 256x256 map, it's a filesize savings of like 55%... 192Kb for 24bit TGA vs. 86Kb for DXT5. So I've been talking with Doug Rogers, developer relations guy at Nvidia, about how the DXT5 format is used for…
Hey Guys, First time posting in tech talk, cool. So I'm using biped for the first time, and coincidently it's also one of the first times I've used Max from start to finish on a piece so I'm in need of some assisstance. I'm getting the hang of animation with biped, but the thing that has me hung up is the curve…
SizeAjustor plugin : Adjust draw size / focal shift ( and more ) by simply moving X and Y mouse axis while holding down a hotkey. Don't interrupt your workflow anymore when adjusting brush size or focal shift, instead smoothly adjust it with visual feedback, just like in mudbox, photoshop, etc... !!! > Description : I was…
Game engines work with triangles not quads/polys and automatically convert a quad mesh when it's imported, explained properly in Chad's link above (again look at any games mesh like the one I shared), you generally want quads for subdiv modelling and I guess some editing tools work better (blenders loop cut CTRL + R only…