Absolutely not worth it. If you want a new card, spend a few hundred on a gtx 5 series card, and pocket the rest. Quadro cards are meant for crazy precision. If you were doing Solidworks/Cad type stuff where it was super important, that would make sense. However, my 300 dollar card will run circles around that quadro in…
I was just about to upgrade the free android license that I got last year to Unity 4.0. It would have run me $300 for the Android and iOS licenses. Now I get them for free! This is going to make testing for mobile devices a LOT easier and cheaper. It's also going to be great for prospective OUYA developers. I've been…
Easy to do: Rip the DVD to an Iso on your Hard disk - about 4-5 Gig One utility rips the artwork from the ISO - about 300 Meg The other utility is a model viewer, use it to see the art. Draw and drop the raw file into the viewer to prevent crashes. The art folders are named something like c for characters, w for weapons, s…
They really should call this Blender 3.0. They are rewriting everything and reorganizing how the whole program works, and only going from 2.48 to 2.50. There is a talk about upcoming UI ideas here. 3rd Video: The Evolution Of Blender's UI http://river-valley.tv/conferences/blender_conference_2008/ -- The 2.50 preview is…
I just beat it.. 120 hrs. Spoiler ******** I really didnt feel the ending and the final boss battle... It took me a few minutes to realize.... HEY WAIT... THIS IS THE FINAL BATTLE? WTF !!!!!? End boss = easy. I didnt even have the best swords and shields, and my guys were all averaged at around level 57. Ancient Man of…
I just want to thank you Labyrinth for this cool little app - I went and got a DS lite today (seeing as its my birthday) and banged this straight on an r4 - brilliant stuff! Needed to change the bmp to 24 bit but apart from that it worked like a charm. thanks for sharing mate! my attempt at the dude in Crystal Chronicles…
Hey, I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of some infos on creating awesome efficient square uvs like slipgate makes. (I'm working on low res hand-painted stuff atm) http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/327/7/b/Demonette_construction_shot_by_slipgatecentral.jpg I'm wondering if you have to be very conscious…
Hello, My Name is George I am a 3D Generalist looking for additional freelance work to do on the side (evenings and weekends) here is a link to my current portfolio: http://www.georgetomlin.com/ I have a wide variety of skills and would love to put them to use, drop me an email at georgetomlinart@gmail.com if you have any…
As much as I try i can't seem to get the circular part of the spartan helmet from the movie 300 to get the right shadows of it ,whenever I get the Ambient Occlusion Map. I would like some suggestions to fix it. It just messes up with my textures unless I delete that part from the psd file. I wonder if it is the interior of…
Hi. I have a problem with rendering quality shadows in Unity Pro. Have a look: http://s4.ifotos.pl/img/2JPG_nhqwera.JPG http://s6.ifotos.pl/img/1JPG_nhqwerh.JPG And this is the point light. I have Deffered Lightning selected in Build Settings. In two other options, I don't get shadows with point light. What is this? I gave…