Most have already been said, but I will reiterate: -Zombie games (zombie / vampire movies and TV shows are even worse) -Intrusive dialogue / cutscenes that yank you out of gameplay experience. 99% of AAA games these days do this -Tutorials... if your game is too complex to give a controller to someone and let them figure…
Should be able to dodot(lightDir,s.Normal)*0.5+0.5 I recommend you just jump straight in to writing the surface shaders in code, you seen to understand enough about shaders in general to do so. By default it's all just straight up CG code (which is close enough to HLSL that they're interchangeable 99% of the time). Just…
Taking delivery of one of these next week! 99% of my driving is city stuff and I rarely carry much luggage. Looked at Audi A1, Fiat 500 and Alfa Mito... fell in love with the Mini, so much fun! I'm too old to care about owning a fast car now. Actually that's not true... I still like fast cars, but when our fuel costs £1.39…
Personally, I can't stand listening to 99% of Black metal and at least 50% of Death metal. I can appreciate it for what it is, but nearly all Black metal bands focus more on being technical and unique rather than making it actually enjoyable to listen to. Plus the lyrics are kind of angsty. And it's not because I don't…
Team Fortress Classic. Seriously some of the best team gameplay ever. Installed it the first time in about 99, and was so hooked I had to uninstall it because my wife was about to divorce me. Installed it the next summer, same problem. Forgot about it for about 2 years, then did it again. I've mastered every player class,…
this is great information i was often wondering why the blue .... however: lets not forget than if you use a grey scale specular mask you can get away with just "1" channel !!! j ust stash the spec mask into the alpha channel of your normal map or defuse map. if 99% of the shaders in your game use specular masks than that…
My LW is more like a plugin for Maya. If I need crazy control over exact measurements, or a product model I just do it in LW. Or a kick-ass product render and I don't wanna whittle my life away with Maya's renderer. But 99% of the time I am in Maya. Just sucks all these little things LW can't do for the game stuff adds up.…
99% of PC noise comes from the fans. The fans generally speed up and thus get louder when the PC is doing something CPU or GPU intensive like rendering or playing games. You can try to clean the dust out of your PC like lnhert suggests, which should help. If you really want a quiet PC you'll need to get specific parts to…
I am not one of those movie critics by ANY means, and I usually love 99% of movies I watch, but I didn't like Juno at all. It was funny once every 10 or 15 minutes with a lot of boring shit in between. The way the chick talked was funny at first but got annoying after a while. The funniest guy was the guy who got her…
Actually that's a good point, I didn't really look at the flat maps before, but your specular seems very odd. You've got shiny parts inside the wrinkles, which in a game would just look wrong. You could make that spec map do a lot more if you spent some more time on it. Certainly do NOT just invert the diffuse as a start…