Link: The Area

OK the texture baking video I did for Autodesk’s ‘The Area’ community site is now up.  Its a free video and covers in detail how to bake a light and texture map in 3D Max.  Although Max 2009 is used for this video it can be followed along with in any fairly recent edition of the software.  If your not familiar with this method, its a very fast way to improve the wquality of your texturing and is especially applicable to next gen game models.
For those of you still following my YouTube blogs, a new one is up.

I just recorded a short video tutorial on map baking in 3d max that should be seeing the light of day over on Autodesk’s ‘The Area’ site pretty soon.  I know a lot of people get stuck trying to learn how to do it in the early days when starting out in 3D, so thought it would be a good condidate for a freebie.

We’ve just had our 1st scan today of the new baby to be.  Its due in march and all is fine.

We’ve now… at long last, finally got a logo for DashDotSlash.  Up till now, the logo I’ve used on this site was one that I came up with in a hurry in 5 mins a few years back that was only meant to ‘make do’.  But as ever it sort of hung around far longer than it was suposed to do.  So I asked a good friend of mine John McIntyre to come up with something, what you see at the top of every page is the result.  Its the start of a number of changes to the site’s layout and design I’ll be bringing in as I have time to do them.

Along with some code fixes for some very old CSS bugs I never got around to fixing, there will also be a cut down and more streamlined gallery page.  Its time for yet another overhaul of the site…I’m getting itchy feet again.

Sorry for lack of new models etc, but I’m rushed off my feet with a number of important and hush hush projects at the moment that alas as usual I can’t talk about…at least not just yet.  But soon I will be free to and I’ll be sure to outline what it is I’ve actually been up to the last few weeks.  I promise that it’ll be worth the wait.

Just a quick note in between work session’s to mention the fact that my wife and I katrina, are having another baby.  We’ll know more once we have the scan in a week or two…  But suffice to say we’re both over the moon to add another screaming kiddy to our existing ’spawn of satan’ Kane, who’s 3. lol  (Actually I’m joking as he’s a very well behaved child…just thought I’d add that before my wife kills me….never piss off a pregnant woman. )

Wayne…