Techniques are like asshole and opinions, everyone's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks. I think it's time we update each other with the techniques we're using to cope with the current gen of graphics. Here's mine. Assuming I'm modeling from scratch: -Use splines and surfaces to build up dense geometry…
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WIP 13a Focusing on hair card placements and negotiating how thick the hair texture strands need to be. I think I feel I'm on the right path. Right now the difficulty is trying to nail the soft transitions of the reference photos of Joe's hair, given that it's all short, but it does have varying clumping and density…
Nice progress on the environment! The paintover looks very interresting. Only the roof in the foreground looks very unfinished, especially the sharktooth ending of it looks strange. Doesn't it usually break of in a fairly straight line at the supportbeams? (might be wrong, im not really an environmental guy) Some refs i…
Hi guys! I would like to share you about the progress of my Mirana concept (and also my art progress (more like a research lol)) so.. i was reworking on my old mirana concept the "Descendant Of The Solar Throne" in my last weekends and i think it's such a good topic to share with all of you and also i guess this is the…
Cool to see a Polycounter attending the FullSail jam! Orlando gamedev has come a long way. That's the one I normally go to. This was my fourth GGJ. Actually ended up going to the Downtown Orlando location to try something new. In part because my old coworkers Jose Dieck and other guys from n-Space decided to go there as…
hm there are quite a few topics involved here.. serializing & storing the data - that is actually pretty easy with the .net xml stuff, but you'll need to read quite a few docs for this. In the end you want to define a simple data structure which contains your leaderboard entry and throw that into a list/array. pseudo c#:…
You should probably remove steam from that list. It's linked to your account not the hardware. Anywhere you can install steam and log-in you can download the games. You can create backup copies and you can play offline. Steam Cloud syncs your controls and custom settings, even your sprays and saved games carry over to any…
When i bought the ati 5770, i had as alternative the nvidia old gtxs. My ati cost me 130 euros with shipmment in pixmania, and a gtx260 was like 300 euros with shipment. The gtx 275 were too expensive for me. I really don't understand why such high prices. Prices has been dropped, but not much, now that 5770 can be found…
In GT and specifically in CARCADE.DAT cars main body have 136~244 polygons(triangles + quads) not counting LOD models(theres two more LOD models in car beside of the main model) I also don't counting bottom of the car as it use different type of face and the wheels(they are stored elsewhere anyway), theres also shadow…