Search options (Page 2 of 12)

You know what, just  because you are a 'almighty' programmer, doesn't allow you to be RUDE. You are clearly NOT from Missouri.

You are flat, rude.

YOu are lucky anael is who he is, or you would be REMOVED from this forum. I still think you should be. You need a RUDE awakening, to the fact, that you are human, Im human, TD is human, and you don't 'get away' with talking DOWN to people .

What about that, is difficult for you, to grasp ? YOu are one to say, 'ah come on', so Im asking you, --really, come on now!

I guess your blinding intellect, blinds you to the finer points of accommodating other peoples FEELINGS. We aren't robots with no feelings, but even so, if we were and were more like the 'doctor' on voyager then we'd still be feeling the marks of your stinging comments.

I also see you replied with more detail, and that's just lovely of you, but I've no interested in reading it, as I could not get beyond your arrogant attitude, long enough to concentrate on your response.  If I saw an apology, I could prob. do it though I see a lot of people making seriously mean  comments, and not offering apologies afterwards. There seems to be a trend going on around here lately....Is this what it means to be a programmer ? To be mean, and disprectful to other peoples feelings ? Count me OUT if that's what all this means ;)haha.

Just, Wow.

There are consequences in life, usually, for  arrogance such as yours, but I guess around here that might not apply.

'can't we all just get along', isn't going to work really well, when someone is willing to throw out nasty bombs. Just sayin...

If you are having posts cut off TD, you might need to switch to using IE browser as a experiment ?, My friends were having similar issues with firefox ( and other things) which caused him to switch to IE as well. good luck!

And btw, before anyone presumes Im ANGRY or going on and on, this is not the case. Just ask my local friends , when they get in their arrogant little 'moods', and then ask them what happens :)hahaha. I hold THEM accountable, and fire right back at them, so they know they did wrong. This doesn't mean Im not vulernable to not being rude at times, as we all have faults and try hard to 'overcome' them, but in the part of the world IM FROM, we apologize afterwards for rudeness.

If I've ever been rude to someone, and it wasn't called for specificially by their actions, then I apologize right now in advance. Stuff happens, but apologies SHOULD be offered always. ;)heh

I think what's not being said here, is that to get anything that is going to look appropriate for the type of game you need, most likely is going to take a lot of artist time, that or maybe for some prototype, or a game where detail is less an issue, then a greeble might be ok. Example, I find it very very hard to believe, the starship above, was just made by greebles, because the detail looks to me to be very precise.

Until I see a video showing the entire process of such a highly detailed object done, the starship for example, I refuse to believe that's how it was done. SOrry, but sometimes I call a spade a spade Im also from Missouri, its the 'show me' state Words are cheap. THe normal map thing is obvious  but that's a far cry away from making something as complex as a starship skin from the offered picture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble < if you checkout this page, it sure sounds to me as though greebles were : "  created automatically by specific software in order to avoid the time consuming process of manually creating large numbers of precise, custom geometry. This can often be tedious, and repetitive work, and some consider it a task best suited to automatic, software based procedural generation, particularly if a great degree of control is unnecessary or the greebles will not be particularly large on screen. Most greeble generating software work by sub-dividing the surface to be greebled into smaller regions, adding some detail to each new surface, and then recursively continuing this process on each new surface to some specified level of detail. Similar algorithms are used in the creation of fractal surfaces.  "

Trouble is though  I don't think you are giving us all the info. Where do we get the normal map from if not the high res texture ? Where does that come from, if you don't create it first ? That doesn't sound quick, or easy to me at all. Details needed We don't all work for game studios and therefore have this info at quick retrieval

thx
VD

Ok ty very much for the videos, and I shall have a peek as time permits.

Cheers
VD

I know TD ( only from the forums, not in real life), and  have no specific reason not to trust him at all, but I too won't be clicking.He/she would have no control over any spam that might come from this site, and given I 've never heard of this site, Im also resisting going to it. I have antispam here, but I'd rather avoid than attempt. NO offense TD, those are my real thoughts and have no bearing whatsoever, on what I think of you as a  helper for these forums.

It's great that you want to help others, but, I would vastly prefer you give us the original document URL, instead of giving us the information through your eyes, because you might not have understood all the relevant information. NO matter how smart someone is, does not prevent them from misunderstandings. I see this everyday, with my neighbor, so while thanks are in order for your attempt TD, I think we should have  the original document so we can view it ourselves in its original format/content.

VOidworld looks quite nice, but the only problem is, its rather old software, meaning in windows 7, even with compat. mode ON, it refuses to leave the ' visual tool' open, even though the tool starts up on initial run. I even tried  the view menu, and it blinks for a split second, but wont' stay up. That caveat should be included, so people are wondering wth ?

I c hecked out tutorials for this very interesting app, but I saw nowhere in the few  I found where it said anything about this 'window' not showing up out of box on first run.

Don't blame autodesk, that's cheap BLender must stand on its own, or not at all , but judging by some comments I"ve seen over time, I'm not entirely sure they care. Time will tell.

As I say and to reiterate as its important, OSS is the great equalizer vs apps that are outside the realm of possibility for most of us, but thankfully blender is far from the only choice, and with assimp that should make it all a non issue.  I'm not sure about shaders or other specific things about maratis exporter in blender, but I'd rather learn all that the hard way than be stuck using blender.

For starters,I wish some other website than uploadmb could be used, as I never have much luck with the download 'automatically' starting,so I wind up waiting far too long. There are other places to upload to like skydrive or dropbox or whatever

But ya, I agree, if you fix something, indicating how  you did it might help someone else struggling with this issue.

I think you are confusing terminologies or have expectations not being met ? What makes you think it is offset ?

When I test sponza, it perfectly lives up to my expectations as in you press UP arrow and you move throughout the building. That is expected behavior The floor is flat, so as you move there is no alteration in those phsyics , as expected. The same holds true if I walk over a 'terrain' mesh ( just a mesh ) and its not flat but hilly and uneven, whereby your player now moves along with the surface contours, as expected.

Same with any mesh.  I won't get any difference in behavior, faik, until you for example, create 'feet' and have an animation as in yofrankie level.

Short of that, Im not sure what you are getting at, so maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in on this and help us out

Ok I have a question...one of the examples from maratis itself, shows making 'player' a sphere I think.or box whichever I guess, but you used  convex hull , and Im wondering if there was a reason for this ? Convex hull is expensive on performance, unless you have a really good reason to use it, which in this case there would be none that I can see ( thanks sadwolf for explaining this to me)

Thx a lot for doing tutorial ( though I think you should leave out AO as its rather long with it there, and put ao in a different tutorial), as this would help those unfamiliar with  sculptris though I actually knew how to do it by now.

thx
vd

I think that is a bit unfounded to say '3ds max is the past'. Such a strong statement requires proof. HOw is it the past, when its used in all major universiities and prob. most game studios ? Doesn't make any sense, unless you have stats you would like to share I personally really like maya as it works on many platforms, and is also used    extensively in the industry.

Oh and btw, blender's  userbase doesn't mean much if they get so nastily animated over obvious things that almost all other 3d apps take for granted (* turntable):

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr … ball/page6

^  this is one of the biggest reasons, I decided to take another look at not using blender as much. I respect blender for the liberty it gives people who have little to no money, but given we have choices like ARt Of Illusion, shows I can try something else and not have to deal with people upset so easily ( not fun), and I've yet to see any squabbling like that on the AOI forums. Clearly they are a professional community, unlike blenderartists. 

Things like that matter a great deal to me, and I'm sure to a great many others. I've seen several times over the years where people ask for change, on some level, and are kinda stonned for it, which makes you wonder....( a thread on blender.org that I can't find atm, but I remembered it very well)

thx
vd

Trouble is, who is going to do that..the  max author on these forums no longer seems ? to be maintaining that as he hadn't the time ( he hasn't posted here in ages, literally), and the community is just too tiny atm for anyone else, likely, to   be either a good enough programmer to do it or have the time I guess...All fair points, just saying...Either someone has time and the knowledge or they don't, and on top of that its going to take someone doing a LONG night or two or ten, because this community is just far too small to see various people take up that particular challenge.

I also agree about stability...Iv'e seen blender crash and otherwise have video artifacting on moving the preference menu, and 3ds max does none of those things that I've ever seen.