you might get more actionable advice if you show your current work, state what goal your are working towards, and then somebody might be able to point out specific areas you are lacking in and you can target those directly, which might be more productive for you. then you might be able to find a mentor who specializes in a…
Repeating Frendens numbers for PPI... Uh no I used the power of google to find a website for calculating PPI http://pixeldensitycalculator.com/ As far as repeating everything on the Frendens review, the only thing I remember from his review was that he was extremely happy with the yiynova U models, and that was in part…
That image you posted has enough pixels for a much larger print. Much larger. A 300PPI print already has smaller pixels than a human hair. You don't need a 9600PPI image. You need a 300PPI image printed on a 9600DPI printer so you have 1024 color variations. As to what is better? Well, if you're going to print at too high…
I'm not sure if raising 1-2 budgets would actually help that much. Here are some of my suggestions: 1. I think valve should just even out all of the budgets or at least have a starting point for them. For example having the mount/summons lod0 start from ~2000 Tris and 512x512 texture size. I mean I doubt that anything will…
not sure if anyone is still following this post, but I have had all the same problems myself, and after a lot of research and tinkering this is what I have found.> using transfer maps and mental ray together requires a lot of steps necessary to get mental ray to communicate properly with maya. I copied all my steps into a…
//If you have problems with viewing objects with alfa maps, I made an fx file that you can use with //max so you can see color maps,alfa maps,vertex paint and vertex alfa without the seams. //Just make a text file call it "something.fx" and paste this text in it then open it from max as a //Directx Shader.…
Anything that hangs outside of the 0,1 space will tile. It is perfectly acceptable to have your UVs look like a rats nest with UVs hanging out far past the 0-1 space, IF you are using tiling textures. Below is using a tile texture and it helps to offset the UV's to help avoid repeating details. You can also add strategic…
Ok just bought it a few days ago (theres a 30% sale going on right now up till 25th december if you enter the code "JINGLE" when buying), my impressions; It's not what I thought it would be like, at first I thought it was a "single-sitting" type of game, but it's actually a more "casual" kind of pick up and play for a few…
its a cheap operation in your shader and can save a shit load of memory if it's a runtime changeable thing there will be a cost associated with passing data around - that can be prohibitive but will depend on your engine/use case. it'll be equivalent to something like changing a light colour based on input from the game…