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I am developing a game for which we need a car in Maya. I tried downloading the car from Google sketchup but they have too many faces (20000) but to load it in our game we need at least below 4000
so i want some tutorials or some kind of step by step procedure to model a car. Alternatively if i can download the car from somewhere it would be great.
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here's a link with different methods of modeling a car. Do keep in mind that it will take some time to get it modeled correctly, so if you're in a time crunch then you should consider buying a model from turbosquid or if you're not planning to sell the game and you give credit to the modelers or take their permission to use their models for your game, then check out models here. link
http://www.mayamodeling.com/maya_car_modeling_tutorials.html
Here is a link to a low poly car in Maya:
http://www.freemayavideotutorials.com/maya-downloads/maya-models/3d-car-model.html
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Tariq
3D modeling is not that easy. Especially with Maya which you don't seem to know... Your best bet is to buy a 3D car model from turbosquid (or any other competitor):
http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/3D-Models/Vehicle/Car
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I have taken a car blueprint from the Net(googled)to develop car modeling in Belnder 3d. my question is there any concerns/issues related to copyright/licence ? for example if i want model a AUDI A6, getting the blueprint from the internet, will the AUDI people have some rights ?
I was a developer on a rally game a few years past, and from what I recall we had to negotiate licenses with pretty much everyone. And we developed the cars from blueprints, screenshot and those sorts of things. Car manufacturers don't give you a ready made model for your game :)
They were, however, pretty easy to deal with. It all depends if they like the kind of exposure you give them or not. Easiest and safest option would be to send them an email and ask. Avoids any nasty surprises down the road.
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I'm working on an artificial intelligence project, right now I am working on the subgoal of total "knowledge-representation". Expressing anything a human can express, basically.
I want to share my vision for the way to create artificial intelligence. Where is the place for that?
I have looked around, and not found a "lively community" for artificial intelligence. I've seen forums for specific AI related project. But that's not the right place. Doesn't seem right to go to attempto's forum and start talking about "how to create AI".
My project needs others to help. And so far, I have not found help.
Is there an "Artificial intelligence community"? Where I can talk about my language? And share my vision?
If not, maybe I should start an AI community, myself? But again, I am an outsider, to the established AI researchers. I don't know what I'd need to do to get the right people attracted to my community.
AI is a highly active academia research field.
Publish academic papers about it. Through the paper, you'll get in contact with people interested by your stuff.
If it's not worth a paper or an academic article, then it's probably not worth a community either.
Have a look at chatbots.org - they have an active community and although focused on chatbots, they have discussions covering many areas of AI.
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I noticed that http://getchabooks.com has a list of many schools and the classes that they offer. Does anyone know how they get this data? I assume it's through some database, but I could be wrong.
It is most likely through a database. Their database to be precise and I doubt they will let you have access to it.
I found this site which looks pretty legit and offers a CSV or an excel for all accredited Colleges:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownloadFile.aspx
The site does have the disclamer:
The U.S. Department of Education cannot, therefore, guarantee that the
information contained in the database is accurate, current, or
complete.
You could probably come up with a scraper to glean the rest of the information from publicly available sites but you would have to check into the legality of that.
It's not everything but it's a start. Hope this helps!
Tons and tons of manual data entry, and/or negotiations with the specific colleges they support. Not all colleges even have their own databases of classes (and most don't have book information online in any consistent format); there's certainly no central college course catalog database out there.
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i am currently undergoing the branding of a place that is in the outskirts of a major city. the situation at hand is that the place is unknown and not easy to get around, so my associates and i have planned to develop a gps application with specifics eg safari lodges, conference venues of this area and make it possible for people to download it onto their smartphones (nokia,iphone and black berry) and be able to navigate their way around.
the issue is how much would it cost to develop such an application and run it?
need an answer ASAP. thanks a mil.
The answer to this question could be 1000$, but it could be 100.000$ as well. There are so many details to a project like this that must be taken into account that it is almost impossible to answer your question more precisely.
To give an example - consider details like (but not only):
who will supply the necessary content
does the content need to be updated on a regular basis -> CMS
should the app navigate the user around in turn-by-turn style or should it be more like an interactive map
These three details alone would make a huge difference. So, the best thing you can do is contact a company or a freelance developer, brief him precisely on the matter and see how much it'll cost you.
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Does anyone know what technologies/ content management systems newspaper companies like the New York Times or the LA times use to run their websites?
I need to re-design my Universities website, and I want to make sure I'm using/researching the best technology possible.
Django has its roots in the newspaper industry, which is detailed in the online book and FAQ. Since then it has grown in popularity, running a few sites, including portions of the New York Times and LA Times. Here are a few links that further detail its use in that industry.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1906795/what-are-some-famous-websites-built-in-django
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/mar/29/scripps/
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=52&aid=150818
The New York Times scrapped the off-the-shelf CMS they were using for a completely custom CMS; I don't know exactly for the LA Times, but I'll bet they're running on custom code, too.
The best technology possible is different for each use case, and unless you're the New York Times or the LA Times, it's very likely not a CMS that's been tailored for large-scale international newspapers.
All that said, if you need build a site that runs a Media property like a newspaper or magazine, consider Drupal. Check http://groups.drupal.org/node/5100 and http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites to get an idea of who's running it. It's also great for NPOs and universities, as well.