I am hedging my bets on a dead video card. Best thing to do right now is, go get an external enclosure for 2.5" drives, flap that laptop drive in there and retrieve that data! :) -EDIT- Damn you, Justin! Let me finish typing before you trump me!
comin along nicely! i think shes vry cute. As for the skin, the shadow choices seem odd to me. I cant put my finger on it, but its taking the "life" feel of the skin away. Here is a book that might interest you, and be helpful. http://www.fwbookstore.com/product/294/253
i have this http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=10917 the weight of the batteries isn't bad at all and overall its a very nice mouse i like it better than any of the corded ones i've had and it performs well in games too.
In Blender 2.5, you can set the hotkey for Quit to the left mouse button. Other functions override this, but it means that any time someone mis-clicks on the UI, Blender will quit (and it quits fast, before you know it).
step 2 test bakes, sg where needed, corrective geo etc. Basic renders with max 2.5 star so some antialiasing issues, will probably use hammersly for finals which should remove them.
personally for me i'm still using max 2.5 star with catmull-rom and my bakes are fairly decent...i've yet to try the different types besides area due to those two working decently for me
Nice work. Would like to see some reflections on the glass parts of the windows. Simply place some clouds in the sky to make variations and generate an Environment map for the glass via it's material and set the glossiness to 255, voila.
Yeah exactly what happened with my dx9 card as well, mine is GTX 275. Cus I tested on my friend's PC with dx11 using the same build of Cryengine and it all looks fine, no shadow glitching.
You know 2.5 million is a lot of money, more than most of us will ever see in our lives at once a hundred times that and you have 250 million That's only 1/10 of what he has.
I think the problem is caused by white background in normal map, probably caused by alpha. Those white stripes on dilated edges give those shading problems, 127 127 255 color background may fix this.