[Can we do a fund-raiser to get (Blender / Unreal Engine) Material Editor tool alongside the standard Shader code?]

The mentally impaired and color-blind person in Borneo my well just be experimenting. Creativity becomes muted if everyone connects the dots in the same order. Tools like this encourage experimentation which I think is a good thing?

[Metal / Roughness together or separate?]

Many applications also natively support the substance sbsar format to allow editing of material properties.

[What are you working on :]

Nice work Chris!

[Affinity Photo]

Thanks for the feedback, this is the path ill be taking when my CS6 implodes.

[Adobe make changes to Maximo]

The beginning of the end was when Adobe purchased them , will be available through the CC 

[Affinity Photo]

I’m still using my CS6 suite but have been closely following there development

[Steam Greenlight to be replaced]

I’m a believer time is better spent supporting paying customers than fighting piracy, it’s a frivolous endeavor to keep abreast of.

[HTML question]

A div is normally only as wide as its container. A blind stab id try using a fixed position or css3 translates. I’d really need to have a play with it to give a correct answer. For SEO benefits you really should be looking at a responsive design.

[A homemade retro synth, using a Raspberry Pi and SunVox]

If only moog's came in that colour.

[Marmoset Toolbag 3]

It's a great piece of kit but no not a modeler

[I can't find textures]

Nevermind.

[Saving a bitmap with alpha channel]

A bmp would need to be converted to an ico file to show a transparent preview on the desktop.

[The game is darker on every computer that's not mine?]

Id check to your graphics driver is not editing the colour settings, i know nivdia provide a myriad of settings.

[Military Action Figures concept]

It that the cast of Screamers?

[GeoVox]

To take advantage of the benefits from creating terrain from voxels you would need to be exporting to a mesh. If you just wish to generate heightmaps maybe L3DT or World Machine might be the better choice, both come with limited free versions to try.

[Non-Steam Download]

Can not see many schools allowing students to install steam at all.

[Decals]

Yes it is application specific. Until today had never seen an 8bit representation of the alpha channel in a png as i do with say a targa. I did a bit of reading and photoshop is specifically hiding the alpha channel in png’s

 

From the adobe help desk., Transparency and alpha channels and png

 

PNG does not support arbitrary alpha channels like other formats such as TIFF. PNG specifies that the fourth channel in a file is transparency, and only transparency. When you open a PNG file with transparency in Photoshop, it is considered a single layer image. It is not a flat background image. Alpha channels can contain anything, while transparency is a specific channel relationship. You can have multiple alpha channels per document, but only one transparency channel. Photoshop handles transparency and alpha channels separately.

[Decals]

That one was straight out of substance designer, I always was under the impression png didn't write to an independent channel.

[Decals]

Interesting i do not see the alpha channel. The only way i have ever seen this was with a 3rd party application called SuperPNG many years ago. Can you view the alpha channel of the png attached?

 

[Decals]

Did you save your png and reopen it or simply add the alpha?

[Decals]

You will never open a png and see 4 channels.

[Decals]

A png uses alpha transparency that is written into the png file but not as an independent channel.

[Decals]

PNG's don't support alpha channels, it uses alpha transparency that is part of the png format.

 

Outputting the diffuse as a targa will give you an alpha channel.

[Where to get or make Textures?]

Also take a look at cgtextures.com

[3d-coat tileable normal maps]

A quick material put together from the normal map.