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Re: Photoshop/Shader - Normal Map - Deepening and Combine
malcolm: Because that way you remove any sort of normal (Z direction) influence from the overlay map, which will interfere with your baked normals otherwise. In normal maps, the blue channel represents the normal's magnitude in a range of -1 to 1 mapped to 0..255 A value of 127 means that the normal has a magnitude of 0… -
Re: Big handgun [Finished]
Don't delete faces since you can optimize the mesh a bit more for the 3rd person (other player views). I've been working anywhere from 2500-5000 tris for fpv weapons. You could probably get a good model out of 2500. Shoot for that and see how it turns out. -
Re: BBC Panorama - Are Videogames Addictive? (Tonight @20:30GMT)
The problem I run into is that when you call not being able to stop playing wow an addiction then it puts it on par with substances that no matter who takes them they will become addicted to them. If you give anyone heroin, they will become addicted to it. If someone plays wow there is a good chance that they'll quit on… -
Selling my Gnomon Workshop 3D Creature Development Master Class Boxed Set
**SOLD** Thanks guys Hey guys, I'm selling my Gnomon Workshop 3D Master Class Boxed Set. There's 25 hours of lecture on the DVD's, 66 HD video clips, and a nifty workflow booklet with a lot of great advice and tips in it. There's six prints of some art that's included as well. It retails for $350. I'm selling it for $250.… -
Out of Oil Stockholm
Thought i would post a school project we had this summer. http://www.vimeo.com/6995648 The theme was given to everyone in the class to give their own take on the given subject, the rules where that sweden ran out of oil 1973 and was then isolated, and after that it was up to us to make up what happend. The short is set in… -
...Character Modeler/Models Needed...
Hello. We're currently searching for 2 or 3 freelance character modelers with a good understanding of poly flow. We'd like to keep the base mesh poly counts relatively low, ranging from 9K and up; from there, zbrush or mudbox could be used to create layers of additional detail to be applied using normal maps. We're going… -
Re: Early-Late 2000s CGI/Game textures
Zbrush appeared around 1999 maybe or early 2000 after some Siggraph presentation or something. First it was almost purely 2,5 painter with ability to drop small meshes on 2,5D canvas . I recall I instantly suggested to buy it for $900 but our management refused saying why would we need this weird soft doing weird stuff… -
Re: Tutorials, Guides and Resources for Dota2 Workshop
It's a triangle limit. While you may be using quad's when retopologising you should always keep the tri limit in mind as every quad is 2 tri's. It's the total triangle count of the completed model. So if you model half of it using 250 Tri's then mirror it to complete the model you would have a 500 Tri LOD. Your mileage may… -
Re: 700-800 - £600-700- Budget 3D modelling/rendering build
I think you may have mis-read my post, as I've come to the same basic conclusions as you have. A. The 560Ti, 660Ti, etc cards are much better value for money(I just used different math to show it). Even easier is to simply look at the passmark value chart: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html B. Differences in… -
Re: Who's going to GDC 2010?
Ya, so, it turns out I'm not going to GDC (I failed to get in while it was cheap, so spending $250 to attend the expo for 1 day isn't terribly appealing) Anyway, I'm still interested in the meetup. I concur that a bar would make a lot more sense (I chose a restaurant last time because only 15 peole were supposed to show…
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