An Idea would be to transfer the serial to a diff account for a fee of course. Stardock makes money on it. and they are still supporting the Serial number / license that was purchased originally. To make it legit both users would have to agree to the switcch so you don't have people stealing your license.
Would you guys prefer a streaming video or a downloadable link? Also, your stuff may be turning off because the viewports were muted accidentally. It's common with people that are new to xsi. They press something funny and it does it. at the top left of the viewport you'll see an A, B, C, or D in a circle. click on that and uncheck anything that may be checked. Worth a try.
[quote who="Eomega" reply="2" id="1931961"] Quoting tristangoodes, reply 16 The link is http://tristangoodes.com/xsitutorial/xsitutorial.html Just beware, it takes a while to start. don't be impatient I have waited 10 minutes, and it doesnt load past the thing saying its loading.[/quote] It loads, for some reason it just takes a long time, I'll re-encode it to a quicktime or something when I get a chanc
[quote who="Major Stress" reply="24" id="1931874"] Quoting tristangoodes, reply 20 question though MajorStress, Why do you find max is less unforgiving than XSI? I'm just curious. Because i cant do simple tasks like selecting individual tri's without having to fight with the UI in XSI. Even lasso select doesnt work that well. Trying to edit a mesh for me in XSI is a major fight. I dont have these problems in max which is why i am sticking with max for modeling.[/quote]</p
Can't really see what's going on here. Have a larger clearer image?
[quote who="Pale Onyx" reply="21" id="1931323"]AAAAA My navigation toolbar is missing by default! How do I add it?[/quote] Which one do you mean? and are you using xsi or xsi mod tool?
The pirate ships in the game have billboard particles, something for you guys to look at
well, Max is expensive for starts, When sins was in production, we switched to xsi because A. It was cheaper. B. It's a faster modeling package. C. All the artists on the game were most comfortable in it. The reason I like xsi is because it feels like you're sculpting. If you guys want me to model something, post a picture and I'll do it, but I won't be talking. All that I will do is record my keyboard again and just model away.</p
[quote who="Neruthea" reply="17" id="1930949"]hoiw bout making your own ship?? is there any tutorials for that???[/quote] The tools I show in the tutorial are the only tools I ever really use to model. Not sure what you'd learn by watching me make a ship. The ship I'm working on is under NDA so I can't record it. Sorry
For transparency, you'll need to rewrite the ship shader so that it'll see a channel as transparency. It will though negate a channel currently in use and you'd have to redo every texture in the game. Using billboard particles is an option though. However, realise it's render heavy.
just made up a tutorial of me working if you guys want to check it out. It's nothing fancy and wasn't scripted. You'll probably notice me saying Umm a whole lot. Trying to think fo what to show. Hope this helps, if you guys have any questions, ask away. I'll answer and maybe post some more tut's The link is http://tristangoodes.com/xsitutorial/xsitutorial.html
The particles use a different shader to the ships. It's why it allows transparency. you would need to write a new ship shader that uses another texture. Right now on all the textures, every chanel is being use (RGBA) Alpha has different uses in our game. So that being said. The first place to start is writing a new ship shader.
Since the game has been released, how many free patches have been released. I believe over a gig's worth of content has already been made available and all free of charge. These expansions are a result of what most can assume is Ironclad sitting down trying to think of ways to make the game better. There is no conspiracy here guys...
[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="2" id="1911697"]Nope. most of us are Vista (both 32 and 64), a few XP's still for compatiability testing. The Xplay demo was done on our laptop (Vista 64 Ultimate).[/quote] sorry, I bow my head in ignorance...
I believe they're using XP with standard hardware configs, nothing major... When you see it on xplay, they're probably using xplays machines.
[quote who="Cykur" reply="7" id="1910513"] Some Mac users are pretty unhappy that the latest Macbook doesn't include a Fireware connection. The article below shows how Apple has a long history of dropping technologies that are heading into the twilight: Hmm...didn't realize this...might be a bad move on their part. In the film industry are a lot of people with firewire connecting hardware that will not be too happy.[/quote] With the way the fi
This relates to piracy because it's the reason you can't resell. People buy the game, copy is and return it. 50 000 is not a lot of people, and it's why I used such a low number... We're trying to compare something to something else which is totally unrelated, and there are people here that are finding holes in everything. I know it's not a perfect annalogy. I for one don't care if you find a hole in my examples, due to the fact it's just an example and we'll never find a simi
[quote who="Windexglow" reply="3" id="1889330"]A bit off topic, but I've had horrid experiance in using obj as a filetype to move objects between different versions of 3dmax and maya. In fact, I've lost dozens of hours of work due to complications with the obj file type when modeling for wc3. Near the end fo it all, I found out dae is excellent for cross-platform and cross-version exportation/importation.[/quote] It's probably just you using the wr
[quote who="horneraa" reply="4" id="1889339"] Quoting tristangoodes, reply 3Don't blame the developers for this issue, blame pirates for the fact you're not getting what you should. So the people that did nothing deserve to be punished because some pirates are making slight cuts into corporate profits?[/quote] At this point I think you're just trying to argue for the sake of arguement. Of course it's not fair to the honest person, but what in life is this way?
what version of max are you using man? Max has support for OBJ
Let us all look at the root issue here, why is the issue of not refunding a game even present? I mean, with consol games you're allowed to resell them right? so maybe the finger shouldn't be pointing at the software companies, but to the consumer who for some reason, everyone thinks is innocent. The large majority of the gaming public has at least pirated one game n their lives, and there is a large amount of people who do it without a care in the world. Don't blame the dev
You guys are all missing the point, the reason we buy games is for an experience, you're not paying for a CD (which is physical. Must like any other experience, say a vacation or a season pass to a ski mountain, you shouldn't be able to experience all it has to offer, then give it to someone else to experience the same things. The person who is missing out on money and incurring the fact they're basically giving somebody free access to their property is the owner of the experien
I believe the difference is the sharpness, they released the highres versions of the textures
[quote]they are having an other sequel. It was discussed in Wiredd Mag. I think it has to do with Two Face vallian.!!Spoiler!!Given the ending of Dark Knight, I'm not sure how that's possible.[/quote] this will be a SPOILER too!! Well, it is technically possible, watch the ending again. The movie never actually says anybody dies... Just they were hiding his identity of what happened to him...
Softimage has released a free Mod tool. It is on their website, so no purchase of any software is required to convert the file. Just export the geo out of Maya, and set up the mesh correctly in XSI (locators (nulls, and tangent mapping) Export the dotxsi out and run it through he mod tool
