http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html The GF is a beast, but then again the next ATI card is 150 bucks cheaper. Depends what you want to do though. My card is down the list by now, but it still manages to drive a 30" and a 22" monitor at respectable FPS with very high settings in e.g. Mass Effect 3 (yes, I…
What Justin said. Take a look at this thread: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79595&highlight=%22cottage%22 about halfway down he has a little breakdown of how he did the foliage. This is pretty close to how I usually do mine as well. Allows a lot of control and gives nice normals (if you use them), and…
Very clean. The wood grain effect looks nice on the sides but seems to breakdown at the top. The wood grip should be inverted to imply it is being carved into the wood handle surface. The borderline around the grip raises above the surface, as if it were taped on. http://www.hallowellco.com/hhg-22-cheetah-buttplate.jpg…
Holy crap, Tim, that is a bad lookin' gun there. I never got serious with the hobby. As a kid I used to shoot bummble bees and dragon flies with something like this. http://store1.yimg.com/I/cobraairguns_1835_8897621 At 16 I got my first .22 which I still have. I hunted deer and did my own reloads. Later sold all that for…
buut if you really want to do it in mental ray add a lens shader in the render settings, you can add one called glare and it'll glow everything out that's brighter than 1. here are some tuts w/ glare http://masteringmentalray.surpass.nl/content/view/36/10/ http://masteringmentalray.surpass.nl/content/view/22/10/…
Woohoo, the Gun Game mode will be featured as Valve is partnering up with the guys whom made the additional game mode. Along with others to come as well packaged with it! :) >http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/22/counter-strike-go-gets-arsenal-mode-with-help-from-modders/ Tbh the game doesn't visually look very bad. I'm liking…
You can't really look to your mother or father to see if you are gonna go bald. It's a random thing. Your dad/mom can have a full head of hair with the shiny locks of a Viking, and you can be bald as a baby's ass by 22. You would have to go back a few generations of blood relatives, see what degree of baldness each one…
I'd like to work in ANY game studio probably something fantasy based I think... and somewhere with sunshine, lack of crunch and encourages my creative input... I'm only 22, recently graduated and a CGI artist at a vis studio and I'm already sick of crunch :O My boss is a former 3D artist and he's still unbelievably…
More updates! So I got around to making the bigger columns that I wil have in my room. Still needs some normal fixes, and I still need to make it rain gold on them. Here's what I got so far. LowPolyWireFrame Their size in the scene (the redbox represents the scale of the throne......more or less, that's what i'm thinking…
i used this tutorial a while ago that suggests mental ray and 32 bit displacements, but it doesn't seem that zbrush 4 has all of those fancy settings for exporting displacement maps. i recently opened a max 2008 model with displacements in max 2010, and i had to adjust the extrusion strength to get it to look right. i…