Used to post (rarely) before the old board when bust. Now I visit Cgtalk, Cgchat a bit more. I still lurk around here... this might be my first post on the new board. cheers.
I find the polycount forums pretty good for pure art techniques, but game programmers don't really talk here about their engine tech. I like to listen in on these lists. A lot of it goes over my head, but now and then there are some great insights. They have searchable archives too.…
That sucks casey. Count your chickens though. You could be a lot worse off. As I'm sure most people here have too at one point or another in their lives, I studied various martial arts back in the UK, and even the toughest, scariest south London street savvy 6th dan uber nutter bastards that I knew will tell you to just…
Haven't seen any great birds in rt, though I do recall an interesting thread about procedural feather animation on CGTalk (I think, might have been in the 3ds max section). You want individual feathers? Or would it been enough to use a couple layers of 1-bit alpha'd planes?
Paul what happned to that school that you were associated with ?? Here is a CGtalk thread all about what you are looking for !! http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=69427 Here are my top recs .. Art Center College of Design Ringling Vancouver film school Digipen
the texture is coming out nice- It would be cool if the separation down the middle was a little less straight, but It also has a bit of an edgy feel to it being str8 so I`m a bit conflicted. Due to your UV`s however you really cant do much about that. Generally its best to have seams where: A- you wont have to battle them…
I think most students start by doing this - I know I did. Before I worked I used google image search in personal work (although more frequently used mayang and cgtextures and stock exchange - I don't believe anything in my current portfolio uses stuff from google images). In general, for personal work, you're relatively…
You sound more of a super douche than anyone else in this thread. Anyways...OP...PC has been the most useful fucking forum that I have come across....and they will help you with your tech questions, how do I do this? What does this do? What's the most efficient way of doing this? To use PC in a effective way...Create…