I would not use decimation for that, how many polygons has the blade? I usualy bake at 1 million or 2 million polys. Plus it looks that your blade has a 180º Smoothing, Split the blade were the Sharp edge is, to split the blade in 2 halfs. and then add smoothings of 45 or 60º it will look more white, instead of looking all…
[ QUOTE ] Zing! [/ QUOTE ] Not quite. Unless 'a simple gun' is only fireworks and rudimentary cannons, asherr's several thousand years early. The first gun with an internal firing system of any kind (moreso than a long match trailing it, that is) wasn't until the 1500s. The first percussion cap firearm was in the early…
I said nothing to the effect of it being Shakespeare. I meant simply that American film studios (and other ventures) change things for no good reason or on the premise that American audiences can't relate to Asian themes/characters. OH NOES WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND FOREIGN! For me the lowest common denominator is the studio…
The maxscript listener code is fine, as long as you take the core of it and wrap it up nicely. Everything in the listener is written specifically for the objects that it is dealing with at the point, so I normally add a layer of abstraction. A simple script that I use a lot is rotating a character. I build my characters…
Hey thanks for the replies guys, I've taken all the info into account and made some very crucial adjustments. I haven't redone the arms but i did make some adjustments. Added an index, reworked the boots and lengthened him out. Made his stomach a bit bigger and added volume to some muscles. Also posted a shot of the face.…
You can do a fair bit with Virtools. We've done a few webgames in the past with it at work, and for prototyping some gameplay ideas it could be what you're looking for. Even I was able to get a characters racing around a track and I have no programming skill. We did a nice miniputt game at work with it a while ago..…
To re-examine my late-night sake fueled post. To me, someone without a lot of excess cash to spend on games, when I go to a game store to browse some games, it's like walking into a library where all the books are sealed up. You can't read the first little bit to tell if the writing is good or that you might like the story…