With the permission of my publisher, Taylor and Francis, I will post all of my new text book, No-Code VR Development Using Unity and Playmaker here on the blog! That’s right, you could conceivably compile all the upcoming NCVRDUUP posts and not pay a penny for a retail copy of the book! But seriously, don’t… Read More »
Continuing a trend of Top 5 lists, here are my recommendations for the top 5 best free WordPress plugins. These plugins will help optimize your WordPress site for search engine results, and by extension, profit! 5. Smush: Image Compression and Optimization (https://WordPress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/) According to best-selling author Nell Patel, “a 1 second delay in page response… Read More »
I’ve spent several days trying to make Gimp look like Photoshop. I followed the instructions here, here, and here, with the latter two bringing me closest to success. I had the least success with Gimpshop. For one, the top-level folder in the sourceforge download is misnamed which means that the readme install instructions will fail.… Read More »
The title says it all; 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image! A whole lot of #gamedev is reconstructing characters and worlds that can’t be found IRL. That’s the whole point of an art medium whose biggest draw is escapism. Fantasy art assets will still need to be created by “hand.” But, for the times… Read More »
Mozilla Firfefox is out of control. It typically consumes between 2 and 4 GIGS of memory on any one of my systems. From what I’ve read, this seems to be a known issue occurring in proportion to uptime and resulting from memory leaks. In one of the threads I read, the PaleMoon browser is a… Read More »
Last week I described the heinous workflow that is adding alpha planes in zBrush for use in Max. Much of it needed to be done manually. One saving grace: I found a script that allows the user to import multiple meshes into Max. Given that I had 100+ meshes to import, this was a much… Read More »
Equally at home in a Tutorial Tuesday (check back next Tuesday for a more thorough write-up), these resources aren’t of my creation. But they are great! As mentioned Wednesday in a microblog entry, I’m “…working on rigging. It’s not going great.” Now things are going much, m̶u̶c̶h̶ better (again, I’ll elaborate Tuesday). Until then, check… Read More »
