its very hard to complain about this for me - like a few people who've posted already I've been using the same license for over 15 years and back then it was 300 quid so I've had excellent value for money out of it. I wont buy another license because the UI is shit, satisfactory free/cheap alternatives have surfaced and…
Some quick 3D "sketches". This is a low poly (2k for the girl and 300 for the bird) goth-emo chick with her pet emoraven. Done to practice hand-painted textures, and based on a concept by someone else. These two are random high poly characters that I did to force myself to get faster. I had 10 hours to complete each of…
So I was looking through Amazon.com to buy my girlfriend & I a new George Foreman grill. I started reading through some of the customer reviews, and this guy's review literally made me laugh out loud. I figured I'd post this link and pose you all a question. Do you all find this guy as funny as I do?…
Hey guys, first post in Polycount! Looking for feedback on my submitted final year project piece. Two game ready characters at around 30k tris each, based off of the iconic villains from Dragon Ball Z. Looking for some feedback, what I hopefully did right, what I did wrong and where I can…
Also in the ShaderFX window Settings-> Show Properties Panel Each texture node once selected will also all the way at the bottom show a property called "UiOrder" its set by default to 100 This does not effect the order in the UVEditor just the "Property Editor" and "Attribute Editor" order! For your sanities sake id…
In max you can use skinwrap to do this. In Maya you need to write your own version of Max's skinwrap (which is not the same as Maya's skinwrap) Basically ... constrain a joint to each vertex on the base body mesh, skin the armour to them and when the base mesh has a blendshape applied it will deform the armour. Blender…
Again, what is your budget? You can get a used dSLR + lens for about $300-350. Most compacts, and most cameras in general will be poor for getting high detail, low noise shots in interiors without the use of some sort of studio lighting(or an abundance of natural light). If you want these type of shots, you can get them…
I'm thinking of buying a tablet very soon so I can get started with those DVD's. I already know what I'm going to get (Wacom Intuos 4 Medium) but I'm not sure where to buy it from. Newegg has it for $350 but someone on there said they found it somewhere else for $300 but he didn't share the source. Do any of you know a…
Try Kaiser; http://number-none.com/product/Mipmapping,%20Part%202/index.html (and gamma correction?) You might find that your problem is coming from the filtering and turning up/on ansio would help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotropic_filtering Mips are essential for performance! But actually before that can be said…
If you have some extra $$, Grant Warwick's Hard Surface Modelling course has a pretty good portion on cars. I used it and got about midway through a car in my free time and his tips were SUPER helpful, especially the fact that he used 3ds Max. He has a discount for students as well, which brings the price a bit below the…