Autodesk has a comparision chart. I think the biggest things its missing modeling wise is deformers. You could also look into buying other programs too, both Zbrush and Modo are fantastic other options. Zbrush is definitely the most bang for your buck. Turtle works fine for baking, you can also use xNormal which is free…
but isn't eidos originally a british/european company that happened to be taken over by square a few years ago? might be entirely different when it's a newly setup studio without baggage. and yeah, definitely - dealing with head office (or even just people high up who like to bypass the org chart) can be a time consuming…
So there's another question... I USED to scale the islands outside the bounds of the UV but UDK always gives me a warning that this is a bad thing. So just recently I figured out that I can adjust the U and V scale of the materials in max so that I can get them looking right and then apply the same scale to the material in…
I would not expect stellar hardware this time. In the end both Sony and MS want to make money from their stuff some day. And only Nintendo so far sold with a win from day 1. I expect a sort of HD update, and that's it. In total Xbox is still deep in the minus…
Hehe yeha it's like someone from marketing found a workstation with mudbox running on it and said 'cool! we make this program?! WHY IN HOLY HELL AREN'T WE PIMPING THIS?!' Then proceeded to make some demos. All I need now is a ppt presentation with some pie charts that compare the awesome factor of MB 2009 vs mudbox 1 with…
you can remove\change the shortcut by going to: Customize> Customize User Interface Group: Main UI Category: Selection Action: Smart Select (click on it and then click on Remove) Goes without saying from these dialogues you can change pretty much anything you want. just click on the list of actions and start typing the…
So, I've been going through some job posts for Game Design and a number of them actually ask for proficiency in Excel. I've never really did much in Excel to think myself proficient in it. I've put numbers in boxes and changed the colors and borders to make a chart, but anything past that is foreign to me. Anyone have an…