The whole game industry is going through some BIG CHANGES. It's about at the same level as the Great Videogame Crash of the 1980's and we're not gonna get out of it for a few years. A good time to start your own company I think.
Here are some links to the stuff on imageshack I had a tab open in Chrome that had the old posts in it. http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/8909/tribal1.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1979/tribalbody1.jpg http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/5393/unityscreenshot.jpg http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5502/111vag.jpg…
Mojokey, I agree. I had the same reaction last night when I dropped it in, "humm too much". The ref I chose for the pilot house probably was fine before I FFD'ed it or was just a bad choice. I bounced between the 1920's rounded pilot house and the more modern angled version.…
ahh stop ccomplaining and fix it then, honestly you have pointed out all the flaws pretty well (which is easily done) BUT can you let us know exactlly HOW to get around these problems..!? I also disagree, games are changing but just not as fast as people would like.. take half life 2 (i know every one goes on about it) but…
260 is quite a bit more powerful, if you do go for a 260 - don't get the standard 260. Rather get the 260 core 216 - it's the same as the 260 except higher clocks, more cores - 216, as apposed to the 196 of the standard one. And 2ndly because it is actually cheaper than the standard 260. It follows the same path as the…
Depending on how close you plan to allow the player or viewer to get, You could simply try some staggered planes with tree photo's/alphas, similar to how Arch Viz guys do background foliage. Obviously you'd need to play with the size/angles of each but it would be a whole lot quicker than modelling anything. Alternatively,…
No degree, some art classes here and there. At the time I was looking at higher education, 1995-1997 everyone had a hard-on for web design and the tech/web bubble was about to burst, no one was teaching games except a few very techy schools that had waiting lists 8 miles long. So I took art classes and worked on mods. I've…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058212/ How to murder your wife, 1965 film might be worth a watch in relation to that! I would just add an extra pinch of salt to someones meal everyday, that will teach them....
I go to a place called 1997 thats at the bottom of wardour st. been going there 10-11 years now I know all the guys that work there its like home away from home. I thought the MW2 display was kinda funny, how big games have become it was like a film premiere.. have no idea who the IW guy was