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Re: Jagged Normal maps - video card issue?
Jagged edges fixed! Eric was right, tiling the repeating section of the normal map (at a higher res) worked perfect. I guess I was just trying to jam it too small of a section. Im still wondering though now, can you tile a specific section a map. If I have a 1024 map, and I want to tile a 256x256 section of that map, is it… -
Re: Left 4 dead 1/2 off sale this weekend!
Bought my copy on Saturday. I had been wanting to get it earlier, but the $50 price tag had scared me off. (cheap-ass gamer for life!) Now you see, this is exactly why Valve is on top of the downloadable games marketplace race. Other companies throw content up, slap a price on it, and think that is all that need to be… -
Re: Hard Drives
You might not get much benefit from raiding them. A single X25 already reads at 250MBps, which is near the limit for a Sata II controller. But its write performance is only 80, so raid would help there. edit: Nevermind, apparently it helps a lot... these folks got 396MBps read and 131MBps write.… -
Re: Who Works On A Laptop / Recommendations?
you'll need your own porter too, my old graphics beast laptop was 8kg. (the first "desktop replacement", the HP ZD2700) Thankfully there are no "early adopter" machines these days. I work on mac hardware both at home and at work, and have a powerbook laptop which is no where near your needs (I use it for checking email,… -
Re: phillip.bailey
...1k textures for a grenade? You should be able to get away with a 256 and it would likely hold all of the same detail that's in your diffuse map right now. A separate ambient occlusion map for such a small asset is really unnecessary. Try collapsing every other edge on the bottom and top parts of the grenade, it could… -
Re: Normalizing uv pieces in Modo
Yes adaptive relax should be the default, its what i used 99% of the time. The only time i dont want adaptive is when i need to use unwrap relax with pinning points. Adaptive relax should be the first thing you do to your uvs after selecting edges and hitting unwrap. I usually do it a couple times with a strength of about… -
Re: Karl Franz Monument
Tracing is copying just done by hand. There's nothing wrong with using it as a reference and painting your own interpretation. We can tell the difference between the two, and if you're going to do our art you had better do it right. Otherwise, you're just blowing your chance. You can go a little crazy with your polygons as… -
Re: Engagement
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Re: my brother + porn = ....
You can be like me and use a Mac but depending on your mileage, that ranged between 500 to 2500 bucks. Otherwise, you can use Spybot and Ad-Aware to clean up the spyware and Firefox to prevent most kinds of spyware that is browser-integrated. It works well on all my other PC's at home as well as for the users that… -
Re: Punk Rock Robot - DS Specs
Hey guys, long time no post. Here's the semi-finished animation: I know he slides a bit but I didn't have much time to animate him. I rendered him out in smaller actual ds dimensions and you don't notice the sliding much. The whole scene is 840 tris so it's under the limits and if I wanted I could make a little scene on…
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