I can't wait to get away from 3DS Max. It seems clunky and unpolished to me. I feel like i could go 3 times faster with some logical, simple tweaks and additions. The doubled interface from the Graphite tools is super annoying on a 17" 1920 monitor. The command panels re-order themselves all the time leaving me searching…
The average minute count before something strange and unusual happens at Paul's House is often no more than 7 minutes. Lately I've noticed it less often because of how preoccupied with development we are, but last night took the cake. Unbeknownst to me September 21st is Paul's mother's birthday. I woke up to find a house…
Ok Nitewalkr... let me clear it up for you. Absolute crap. 2D Art is all over gaming still. Concept Art... Texturing... Flash Games... also, ever visited the App Store? Not necessarily true. Firstly, I know a lot of tattoo artists who couldn't put a portfolio worth shit together. Just because they draw on people's skin,…
This is a great discussion and one I am involved with all the time. Thanks Stuart for starting this thread. Quick background on me so you know where I have been and my experience: 17 years working in games and Discovery Channel documentary work. 10 years as 3D instructor- trained over 100 students worldwide in Denmark,…
MEL thread response: FunkyB: Well the performPolyExtrude procedure keeps the original faces selected after being performed, but the saveSelection script makes it deselect them once done instead. So the procedure still works, but it loses its advantage over using a regular extrude command. Also, pics (These answer your…
When I was 5 I used to ride no handed on my bike in a race with another kid down a steep hill on a semi main road in a residential area that led down to a t junction at the bottom and one time we narrowly missed the oncoming traffic. When I was 7 I swallowed a marble and it got lodged in my windpipe and I started choking…
In the States, the bartender is legally responsible for you if they served you and your drunk and then you enter public drunk or drive drunk. So if they can prove somehow that playing violent games produces some sort of intoxicated high that causes the individual's distinguishing of reality to falter. Then they have a case…
The cleanup function doesnt take care of double edges, for me at least. If you find thats true for yourself heres a script I threw together few days ago. It saves your selection so it can be used at any time during the modeling process, though is a little finicky with edge selections sense it changes their order when…
Update Backlog 3 : Smooth Camera System (with delta-time) Early in development, I had developed the basis for a smooth camera system. In games with environments which are larger than actually visible by the camera's FOV, the camera normally follows the player as they move around. A smooth camera system interpolates the…
Typically the answer to this questions goes something like this. Think of an hourly rate, figure out how long it will take to do the job, give yourself some padding and breathing room and submit that figure to them. Don't forget to calculate changes and rework and get the number of corrections and changes in writing…