sorry guys been a bit sick lately and havnt really been able to check the board. Great to see there are some servers around, i am especially looking forward to UT2k4 onslaught, i havnt played it online but it seems like a great game and i couldnt think of anything better than trying it with some polyfraggin mates. However…
Well - what better on a Sunday than a hungover, spammy cross-post from my DOTA2 thread?!?! it was a loooong slog getting this one done. I was hoping it was going to be done much faster but loads of problems conspired against me on the way - glad to see it finished! Check out the full thing here:…
oh i got a nice gretsch pro jet like this so i wont be needing the guitar pack, but i'm sure for someone just starting the epiphone les paul will be just fine, i played a long time on 100-200 dollar guitars before moving up to better ones, hell the gretsch was only 500 an it plays great. tho with gettin the epiphone i…
Photoshop has tools to correct lens distortion but it can be tricky to use. If you know what type of camera was used (doubt it) it has preset settings if not, then you can fiddle with the settings. Another pitfall of the beauty photo shoot is that they hardly ever take profile shots or perfectly frontal shots. Its normally…
Hey all I've just finished writing a new article / tutorial for my website, and I wanted to share it with you. Its mainly aimed at students and developers who might have lost some of their desire to improve, but hopefully everyone can find some inspiration from it. Anyway you can either view it on my website or view it…
Hey James The reason UE4 only lets you have up to 4 stationary lights in one area is because the shadows are being baked into a distance field shadow map and they only have four channels. That's the reason they only allow four in one area, the big red X that appears over the light when there's more than 4 stationary lights…
should i get a wii or a ps3? i don't have any idea about any of them, only youtube videos. tell me what you think? i think a wii would be a cool choice, but let me know what you think please.
There is a thread in this subforum called "recently hired in AAA? show your portfolio." I believe not very long ago two or three people were hired at ubisoft as prop artist. You can see the work they had to get those jobs and if you lack the eye to distinguish if your work is as good as theirs or not, you should get…
Ok, well dont go to too much trouble, i just came back from comparing the companion's screen to a friends imac that he uses professionally and it turns out if i set all the display controls to default and just use the standard srgb profile i get closest. So that was time well wasted... The profiles i get from spyder are…
I haven't used Renderman, so I can't answer any specifics here, and I assume you're using Batch Render from the Maya interface. First, do you get any feedback or error in the script editor after the render fails? It may be helpful to locate the renderman log to see what you can learn there. Are you able to solo or disable…