Looks like a cool competition, can't wait to see what everyone does! New to the forum, mainly just as a good excuse to animate something other than kids tv characters! :) I've gone with the idea of a young, energetic female character with a circular blade in the same fashion as a hula hoop, so her attack will feature some…
Bought it thanks! Very impressive, if it works out as well as Zbrush's dynamesh it will be a nice native solution. Will save people $600 or so too from having to pay for a license just for dynamesh workflow. Not sure if they have something like this in blender but you should make one if they don't have it. A lot of people…
Always go MODO :P I've been using MODO since 101. It's hard to nail down exactly what it is about it that feels good... partly it's that the majority of tools and features all work together across all the things (sculpt tools work on sculpts, but also regular geometry, and on UVs) all the falloffs and action centres work…
There is also the ase export script and Chai's pipelineIO custom FBX exporter. Out of the box with Modo 501 your best bet is the Autodesk FBX 2006.11 file format, haven't tested the collision meshes with it yet though. The regular "Autodesk FBX" file format from Modo is fairly broken in UDK. Collada works pretty good…
Here you go mate http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/ http://eat3d.com/ These two are the best if you want to spend a bit of money, I reccoment Eric Maslowski's 3DS Max 101. This is Eric's Forum from his website with a bunch of free videos that are really helpfull (all from the paid dvd) :…
Thanks for the reply, I don't think I can spend that much on the D3100 or T2i but if I am lucky I might be able to find an open box one at work for less then $600. If I end up diving more into photography and want something better I know these things hold their resale value fairly well, so upgrading in a few years probably…
As for heat and cooling I know it can be done, but my experience was I had a very high end laptop with a good processor and video card. Warranty replacement on motherboard 3 times and video card was at 5 or 6. I can't remember. In the end they gave me my money back. As for them including a r9 in a steam machine for lower…
@Lukeman87 Thanks! I've added a few more loops to round out the forms as suggested. Always a struggle to hit a strict poly budget and I went over by about 600 tris, 10.6k total. Just finished UV mapping and I've decided to overlap a few uv's and keep the overall texel distribution equal across the model... hopefully, I…
The reason I decided to enroll in a game design program at the college level was to ensure I would work at it. I personally could not improve my skills enough in my spare time while working a full time job. I also view the debt I have taken on as an incentive to do well in school and motivation to get a job. If you have…
I'm interested in how you came to these estimates MamoruK. 2 months of rigging for a month of animation seems ridiculous and on the 15 games I've shipped over the last decade wouldn't expect to manage resources like this for such a short production. Nemcy, are these characters able to share proportions / share animation.…