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The advent of the internet allowed individuals to take the power of their own creativity and make stuff that the slow, short sighted and clumsy megacorp can't for various reasons.
I don't think its a golden age, because that implies that it will end. Instead things just get more and more possible as we improve our methods. I can now 3d print a working gun I want, all media (which the megcorps want to gate access to) is effectively free, governments and corporations are fighting a constant losing battle against the rest of humanity, and they're giving ground each time a new startup appears with a cool idea and just does it. The next step would be the dissolving of such cumbersome and wasteful institutions as we approach a type of creative singularity. Which will happen once the actual costs of production become low enough - which many smart people are currently working on. Yes I'm talking more about physical products, but we've already reached a point where this same community is producing free content of a much higher quality than many paid digital downloads. Someone is going to come up with a cool idea which frees this content creation from the licensor's. Hm. I should look into how much it actually costs to license Quake1 from id. So to wrap up my Throne Room posts from a little bit ago, the contest wrapped up and I managed to squeak into 10th place! Only the 9th loser, not bad!
But I got the prize I was shooting for so I'm happy! Now, back to Qonquer jamming http://www.polycount.com/2015/04/07/the-throne-room-10th-4th-place-winners/ cool warren. probably only 10th because, well, it wasn't really a throne (if that's what the contest required), but it still looked cool.
On noticing you're using Modo to UE4, what's your pipeline? I had some trouble exporting FBXes that UE4 would accept, and I'm just wondering if it might be that my Modo version is too old or if there is something special you have to do to make it work.
Kona - It's funny because a bunch of people messaged me saying how much they liked my scene and it should have ranked higher. I even had a few judges tell me I was in their top 3 - yet, 10th place. :)
I don't mind tho, as the prize for 4th-10th was exactly the same so other than ego there's no difference. Was a fun contest tho, and I had a blast making all those props... It helps in that now I know it's just supposed to work, and I don't have to do any conversion steps inbetween.
I'm still using Modo 501, so I guess my problem is it doesn't support the right format? Time to try to upgrade I suppose! I did get it to correctly import geometry, but the UVs were missing. It does output something that identifies itself as FBX 2010, but probably not the right FBX 2010.
Thanks for the info! If it helps, this is my FBX export settings in MODO
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/2015-04-08%2006_27_38-Preferences.jpg I think the candles in shot 2 should create a brighter hot spot around them, it seems very flat atm.
Shot 1 looks really cool. Again maybe a little dark though. Nice atmosphere however! I took out all the lights and replaced it with the new sunlight stuff and also added dirt mapping. I loved his map but the lighting seemed like fullbright. I also added WarrenM's skybox.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ueyhc3a7bn33efa/hypnos.png?dl=0
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