Yeah like the Forerunner's bolt pistol ! Why not :)

I think a very general target to aim for for FP weapons is around 3000 triangles. If its less, great! If above this it doesn't cause too many problems, but anything above 4000 triangles for the Blam! engine is to be avoided. I've never noticed any hard limit or problems with models at 5000, but its good practice to be efficient.

unless there are any complaints, criticisms or suggestions, then I am willing to call this the finished product and will move on to optimizing/unwrapping/texturing.
except for that little bauble at the end of the gun; it just does't seem fitting.

wut?


the rest of it looks really good, but for the overheat, how about you make it so that the top panel extends up and back, like the reach plasma repeater?

the side panels can flash open when you shoot
Edited by SilentJacket on Oct 20, 2012 at 01:21 PM

Very nice. Much better than the Carbine-style barrel, I'd say. It looks as if it'd be a heavy variant or support weapon, either firing higher-powered shots with greater accuracy than the standard Plasma Rifle (albeit with a lower rate of fire), or functioning similarly to the Plasma Repeater (but spinning up to the maximun fire rate, rather than slowing down after prolonged fire).

could be like a toned-down plasma rifle - fuel rod launcher hybrid

It would shoot in a straight line, semiautomatic 8-10-shots per barrel

ROF is 2/3 speed of plasma rifle (even if you are mashing the fire button)

6-8 hits to kill,

small explosion on impact. (damage radius of about 1.5 spartans)

The projectiles would look like thick plasma rifle rounds and would be about as fast

1.5 s reload from partial
1.8 s reload from empty

but that's just me
Edited by SilentJacket on Oct 20, 2012 at 03:55 PM
Edited by SilentJacket on Oct 20, 2012 at 03:56 PM

I Seriously don't understand how you guys think the barrel of that awesome covenant aggressor could turn into a shotgun. It should be at the most a more accurate plasma rifle, basically a combined variation of a battle rifle and assault rifle, firing damaging plasma rounds at a rapid fire rate with good accuracy (and possibly burst fire).

Maybe it looks like the pump grip thingy.

Ok i'll be 100% honest here, that is not what was going through my head at the time o.o

oh god

uh

is a little over 8000 a good number?

It'll be fine, export as mesh though.

Update.



Glowing yellow line around the projectile is a separate bitmap for the fired projectile only, will be custom made. Opinions? Crit?

a tad too much contrast between the grays imo

speaking of which

also, opinions of baking the Ambient Occlusion map into the diffuse?

Um, i didn't make the textures. They're from the reach beta. I'm just unwrapping them to Hunter's model...Lol.

Btw: Looking great, and extremely high poly.
Edited by grunt_eater on Oct 22, 2012 at 01:49 AM

it's only just over 8000 polys (which is still a lot D:)
last update for the night, now with 50% more cubemap. (thanks Waffles :) )

decided to go with the halo reach/2's desaturated greenish-blue color and green-tinted metal.
Edited by master noob on Oct 22, 2012 at 02:14 AM

Purdy... But i'd add some darker colors in those divots\indentations to give them some more depth.

make a specular map and add more detail in the texture

Have fun animating
or should i say good luck...

032 Mendicant Bias, who is the creator of the model ?
You or GRUNTS7 ?

I create the ammo and ammo chamber.
The ammo floating in the plasma.
I do not want it to be identical to Halo4, i improvise...


Ammo eject anim:

What the fire? people are already ripping from halo 4? Anyway, i was bored and felt like making some fun stuff.

low-poly Made in like 3-4 minutes. I'll make textures\in-game it later :P
Edited by grunt_eater on Oct 22, 2012 at 01:10 PM

The light rifle isn't a rip, I made it.

finished my m6c socom kit for "haloween". Bought it from tactonyx from the 405th forums, sanded it down, painted it. i used my odst socom pistol that i ported as a reference for painting, so it is halo ce related in a way.

GRUNTS7 is not the creator ?



No, is reload.


Edited by GAIGHER on Oct 22, 2012 at 04:38 PM

Yes, GRUNTS7 is not the creator of the light rifle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jt9ewr-B38&lc=GvpjGsGtYHV4F9_NLTYkJjKWr1NN3vCXRmPgB-L1OcY&feature=inbox

Halo Reach, what?
Edited by flameomega on Oct 22, 2012 at 07:55 PM

They replaced it with nothing xP

Animations are already done.

SO MUCH WANT.

are you good at texturing? I'm not :P

nearly done, just need to add some minor details and touch up a few areas, then deleting half the mesh for first person model and reducing poly count for third person model. complaints, criticisms, suggestions?

edit: asgdfhsk forgot to increase contrast of inset pieces, now it blends D:
Edited by master noob on Oct 22, 2012 at 10:58 PM

Why are you deleting half of it? O.o

when viewed in first person, a weapon commonly only has its left side shown. if you look at the first person models of halo 3 weapons, you'll notice that many parts are exclusive to the left side of the weapon and many polygons are missing/welded together; the reason is since half the model is never seen (or rarely seen during animations) then there is no point wasting render time on something that isn't onscreen. half life 2 uses this to the extreme, literally deleting every polygon not visible to the camera at any time (even going so far as to not have a 3rd person model for the main character) due to engine restrictions or just plain optimizing.

Well,you can leave it so that it won't look like **** when the FOV is >90.
Edited by Dumb AI on Oct 22, 2012 at 11:31 PM

What he is doing is correct, it shouldnt matter if the the stock doesnt look great in first person (unless its important). Keep doing what your doing because frankly, it looks amazing :).

Ok

I unfolded the uv. Hard !


With a basic texture: