I'm trying to get a bit more speed out of my computer without too much investment and thought I would get more then my 2 GB ram. My problem is that I can't quite figure out what they mean about the max ram for the motherboard. Its either that it can only have 2 gb ram or 2gb ram in each of the two slots. Wlso what kind of…
Started retopology. The benefits in polycount are obvious. A bit messy, but gets the job done. Most artists suggest removing small fillets from the CAD model first, then doing the retopology, and finally using a chamfer to add all the details back. So, you would go from this: to this: This is a simple and fast method.…
In theory there is a tool to change the scale relative between islands when packaging in the UV editor. But I can not get it working, using groups or not. * "For example, say you group some clusters, and then select a polygon belonging to one of the clusters and set Rescale Priority to 0.5. Then you apply Pack Together or…
Something silly I did over the weekend to refresh myself on using Blender: I was originally going to do a 128 challenge (128 tris, 128x128 texture) but realised pretty quick that 128 is insanely low, Goofy would have become a Minecraft skin. Bumped it up to a limit of 256 tris and that was still tricky. Texture was done by…
Started to work a week ago, almost impossible difficult with all those sheet metal s***. MG3 general purpose machine gun MG3 Ammo Box 120 Rounds ( Patronenkasten DM40004 ) MG3 Ammo Crate 250 Rounds ( Patronenkasten DM2 ) MG3 Anti-Aircraft tripod ( Fliegerdreibein )
Its not that they don't have skinning, its that the verts are weighted 100% to one bone. A lot the early 3D games from the original PlayStation used 1:1 skinning. Final Fantasy 7 (36:00) https://youtu.be/rwiVRAOJPDs?si=CWrYEs4vhrwKfOy2&t=2158 Resident Evil (3:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0U7IslEpIg&t=105s Dino…
I couldn't resist to try out some more fancy stuff before I continue pimping the cornell box. Here is a ray marched skylight with multiple samples. Runs nicelly. I get around 120 fps with 32 samples per pixel.
i used to have 3ds max 8 as student edition, its way cheaper (around 120 euro) and you can use it for 2 years if youre a student. just not for comercial use. 3dtotal is affiliated with DW too as far as i know. - Rick.
Who needs a 120 GB drive? I have a 10 GB, and I have only used 1 GB of it. From what I read, you can't transfer your own videos onto the hard drive, anyone know if it is possible?
yeah you are never too old . I am 120 and am a 'senile old man' but still work in games. on a lighter note 'oisoo' https://twitter.com/#!/oisoo I like his philosophy:) which says give up you will be comfortable