It will be interesting to see if the Fermi launch has much of an effect on current card prices... the rumored price points are so high that I don't see why ATI would lower prices on any of their mid-range cards (5770, upcoming 5830, etc.), which also doesn't give much of a reason for NVidia to drop prices drastically on…
I am renting - however what I pay is actually very cheap for this area; it's not just below average but below the cheapest you can currently find. My house is considered to be 'three bedroom', however one of the rooms is unreasonably small in my opinion. Prices vary from around £1200 per month to around £3500 per month. I…
Meet the Scheisswasser & Söhne U-Bot 7 Submerged Bipedal Weapon System, aka The Panzerwurst. Severely lacking agility on both land and in sea, this amphibious cast-iron guard dog represents the latest in obsolete military solutions. Guaranteed to sink like a stone or wander aimlessly around your docks firing resolutely in…
Version 2.2 don´t work on Max C:\Programas\Autodesk\Max2013\3ds Max 2013\maps\fx\memory(462,18): warning X3206: implicit truncation of vector type C:\Programas\Autodesk\Max2013\3ds Max 2013\maps\fx\memory(463,19): warning X3206: implicit truncation of vector type C:\Programas\Autodesk\Max2013\3ds Max…
Yep, you can go either way and separate out all of the pieces, or combine them into a single file. The main advantage of using references is how easy it is to keep things up to date and make broad changes to the rig/skin/mesh. You change one or two files and it updates inside of all of the animation files everywhere. It…
I'm really susceptible to the temptation to want to peek at social media every five minutes rather than stay focused on my work. This application has been super handy for keeping me on task and accountable for my lately - http://neilblr.com/post/58757345346
There's a setting in lightmass called "lighting scale". I remember setting it to a really small number (or half of the default) and that helped mitigate that issue. Be warned however, it increased light baking times BY A LOT. However, it helped smooth out a lot of shadows because you're tricking the engine to render using…
Best thing we can ask for is a sleek little black metal box [for the heat] with as much power in it as possible and no fancy features like backwards compatibility and touch screen pointless rubbish. Get some decent power that will last for many years and reduce the size of Sony's loss margin. I believe at the time they…
@AlexCatMasterSupreme - Thanks for the feedback. I am always willing to improve my texturing. I find creating metal is the hardest part. Sometimes is comes off as realistic (for example: the gas pump nozzle, shield on the front of gas tank, and gas filter on the side of gas tank) or sometime is turns out concretely. I do…