February 2012
9 posts
“When I said that I’m going to be an actor everyone laughed at me.”
– Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg
“To make millions, you must IMPACT millions.”
– MJ
6 Ingredients For Success
Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young Mark Zuckerbergin his early 20s as CEO, Facebook investor Peter Thiel said: “Well, we’ll wait until he’s over 25 to file”. Wise move, considering that Mark’s title on his business cards read “I’m CEO, bitch”.
This week Facebook filed its S-1 to go public. Mark is 27. How Mark...
“We make games we want to play”
– BUNGIE, INC.
blender
Ctrl+I inverse selection in blender ^^
/ on numpad hide nonselected similar to Shift+H
“Everybody can dream but only You can DO IT, You WILL do it bcos 99% of people...”
– Myself Daniel Szulc
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P90X Diet
What diet do You use for P90X?
“If you’re thanking God it’s Friday, maybe you should take a closer look at your...”
– MJ DeMarco
January 2012
7 posts
“Differences between entertainment and successfull, entertainment its only how...”
– Jason Jones (Bungie co-founder and project director)
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“Reach for the stars
And if you don’t grab em, at least you’re on top of the...”
– Armando Christian Pérez
“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and...”
– Harry S. Truman
December 2011
35 posts
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“Want big guns? You have to work hard.”
– P90X
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Specular map
Specular Map: 1. Create a new material and turn down the specularity to 0 because we are going to use a texture to define the specularity on the object. 2. Create a new texture on the object and paint on the texture - white will be your shiny areas, black will not be shiny 3. Set the texture to be a UV Texture 4. (KEY POINT) On the influence panel on the texture tab under the Specular setting...
Photoshop
While texturing:
group in photoshop - select layers press shift and press create new group make it Pass Through or Normal, then add mask to group copy for ex. metal picture(to get into mask click Alt) then Ctrl+L to use levels to make it looks better.
You can add strokes - new layer then select with control for ex. that group metal mask then edit and stroke.
Cg Cafe
Cg Cafe:
-Tutorials made and still growing.
-Logo done.
-Domain done.
-Hosting done.
-Website in progress.
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“If you have tekel syndrome focus on the most likely idea.”
– Myself Daniel Szulc
normals tip
If you normal map bake something dont keep couple of objects in the same place bcos it will bake on that little objects and whole on one bigger that is close, just separate objects far away during baking to not make double baking some object its not estetic.
If you making low poly after high supsurf you can make separate objects and no need to weld them, just stick them together and Ctrl+J it...
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add object
Shift+F1 find blender file go to object and imoport filename same as blender file.
maps
Into object add diffuse map (AO map + adding colors etc..) and add normal map.
smooth and flat
If object is rounded, make sure smooth is set in shading settings (T hotkey) if not, make sure flat is set.
Simple :)
Mirror:
Shift+D to duplicate then Ctrl+M mirrors selected (check normals after mirror)
Apply mirror and then bake (if don’t you will have seam visible)
If you still can see difference between two sides try this:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51088
Chris advice (senior UDK game developer)
Make grey boxes game, no extra textures or modeling and rigging, make it playable! not just another good looking graphics crapy gameplay experience, then make one level using kismet and find more people to help.
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