Can you tell us what connections you are talking about? Press? Publishers? Fellow developers who you can hire? I mean tickets may be expensive if you live overseas. From what I've heard that the real meat of GDC are panels and talks.
ya but what kinda numbers are you talking about? What kinda hardware is it running on? everything as far as performance goes is relative, and the vert/tricount isn't the only consideration. like the case your talking about, your saving only handful of verts, so there will be no noticeable difference.
That was a really awesome talk :D Some great tips! I was part of a much smaller Q&A panel at Teesside University recently and it is great to see that we were kind of saying the same stuff as the guys at GDC. (Immediately shares link(s) to GDC Talk with my contacts there ^.^ )
This is not old school, old school if we are talking about games would be sprites, if we are talking about 3D then we are in the max 300 tris range (Quake 1 , tomb raider) old school is from the first time it happened, and not the first time you learned about it.
While we are talking comps, has anyone (looking at you Ror and Moose) heard any talks of another "Make Something Unreal"? I just figured with the new UT out that it would be coming up soon. - BoBo P.S. Someone start a mini-comp already!
We could also have the art vs craft debate, or talk about how commercial art doesn't have any merits, or the current boundary art movement is lame in some aspect, but to me, I like art that talks. I doesn't have to be pretty or clean.
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Quick update: Might have found a fix for the error on the door. If it doesn't work today, will make a post in tech talk. Edit: This fix worked on a few pieces but that problem area on the door is still going strong. Will try one last ditch effort and if that doesn't work it's on to tech talk.
Armageddon : not sure which buildings you mean or what the question is. Most brick buildings are done via vertex blends. If your talking about the distant buildings in the beach level that is matte painting placed on a 3d geo to give it some parallax. If your talking about others not sure.
my PC set up is on the first floor and Im standing outside the house having a smoke and I can still hear my guildies talking on vent. I got them mainly for skype and its great to talk to my mates while Im taking a sweatty shit