Danr the reason I usually paint my panels where they go like in the current uv setup so I can easily make an LOD out of it. I can easily take out the panel I modeled to make the LOD of the box and reuse the texture. Recently I have been modeling tanks that are around 2000 polys and have been making LODs for them that make…
When the console first came out, that's all it really was to most buyers. Sony even planned on that. At the time it was either $400-600 for a PS3, or rather, a Blu-Ray player that can also play games-- or $600+ for a straight Blu-Ray player, most of which didn't even have the quality of video that the PS3 has. That's also…
The problem is more your poly distribution. You say the model is 3-4 k polies. Of that, roughly 1000 have gone into the rails. In my opninion, you'd be better off either setting for a more realistical polycount, say 6000, or face the fact that you'd make better use of polies if you were to normalmap the rails. Even if you…
what is it with new york and annoying 85 years old grannies? someone should seriously kill those old hags. when i was in new york, there was a 2 blocks long line to enter some big building.. dont remember what it was. honestly, it was the longest line ive ever seen. so true to my israeli hertige, i simply walked right into…
There's also the question of money. Hitting the ground running for a big studio would also mean a big salary. If you can't do stuff that's at their level or higher, they won't hire you and pay that salary. On the other hand though, you have small studios that can't afford that salary to begin with. So the people who can do…
Some old new stuff: Hand painted textures for Dino Hunter: This penguin has a special place in my heart because it was the first character I was allowed to work on professionally (outside of my personal indie experience) and everything in the texture is hand painted--no reference baked in there whatsoever. Pretty cool! I…
The room isn't very big, but it is a reasonably-sized bedroom. The 40" will fit perfectly in a corner I have for it. The 16 GB of RAM is only $150 too, for DDR3. G.Skill RipJaw series with RAM sinks. :) I figured that I would need that much RAM since I am also going to go dual monitor ( that 40" plus a 19") to help…
I'm getting the impression you either think me and jack are the same person or that we have the same opinion so just to clarify: I have no problems with kickstarter, I have no problem with Massive Black, I have a problem with your post... You're passing off game dev experience as if it doesn't count for much, or that…
I think reddit buildapc or buildapcforme may be of better help with a super budget build. The only thing I would say when asking is that.. 1. You shouldn't need 550watts for that build. 400/450 should be more than enough. 2. The FX-6300 may be a better option vs. the i3-4160. Having 6 cores will be nice with…
Ohhh I didn't know there is a plugin for max 2009... Thanks man! : ) I updated fbx plugin to 2009.3. Now everything works fine except I checked Import tangents on, Remove degenerates on and Explicit normals off. From what I understood those are settings opossite to what you wrote in post #185. I hope I'm not creating…