Sadly I can only animate.

Even more sadly,I can only make shaders.

nearly finished :O


edit: aw, the image is too small to notice the marathon logo I slipped in :(
Edited by master noob on Oct 24, 2012 at 01:00 AM

Wow dude! All I have to say is THAT looks amazing! Granted i see you still have a little more metal to texture, but these updates on this just keep getting better and better!

That looks really good.
Keep it up!

finalis tactu es :O

still needs a heat meter, but meh

sorry about the anti aliasing, but 3ds max decided to be a butt about cubemaps and scanline.

wait so when you equip it the parts hover out and assemble? and if so can i see a video of that happening?

Thats such a badass gun... I can animate if you want, and I have some ideas of original plasma weapon to submit if you're interested (send me a PM)
What softeware did you use beside 3ds max ?

Personally I don't like the texture for the cylinder on the middle of the gun (rotator ?). For me this texture is ore appropriate for Forerunner's buildings and structures.

The Spartan must be wounded.I don't think anyone would normally aim that way unless they're hurt or something.

...Um. Not trying to hurt your feelings, but that's really bad. I used to be really bad at origins too. Heck, I probably still am.
But compare your origin with plasma pistols from other games, and see what needs rotating and moving around.



Huge img so I'm gonna url it.
http://images.wikia.com/halo/images/c/c9/Halo4PlasmaPistol.png

In halo

Looks like it's made out of rock, go for a more glossy look

I think it should be more clean and metallic.Maybe a bit more glossy and shiny.
It looks a bit too old.

Too much empty and unused space.

mastur cheef, mind sending that model my way? i'll unwrap and texture it ;)
as long as there is a reference image >.>

Ewwww, stretched !!!! The old ones were better. You need to make the amount of pixels per surface homogenic on the whole model, and you can visualize this by selecting the checker pattern as material when unwrapping, or using a checker material

For the love of God people, grunge and worn edges are so 2000. Grunge should never be used unless something literally should be dirty. Use a grunge map for breakup sure, but it really should have like a 5-10 percent opacity on the grunge layer at maximum.

That is terrible, watch some tutorials first.

you can use the UVs I sent you as an example; I set every piece apart using large UVs for objects with more detail (blade) and smaller UVs for things with less detail (tip and end of handle). also, the UV of the blade was shortened from the curved part to the tip since everything between those two points are a straight line, thus not requiring as much space. also, since the blade is modeled after something that is cel shaded (no detail or specular) you can make tiny UVs exclusive to color, ie seperating all blue parts from grey parts and making a 2x2 or 1x2 texture featuring a pixel or so of each color. also, using the relax tool will help sort out overlapping UV coordinates. essentially, arrange everything outside the box first, insert the larger and more detailed things first, then arrange things by detail so the least detailed pieces are the smallest.

also, apologies for messing with the model; working with so many polys is beyond my expertise, and optimizing was on the mind

If you watched decent tutorials you would know it sucks ass... for one, you have UV islands that are tiny and not scaled to take up all the space that is available around them.

You have also shrunk the blade which is going to cause major stretching of any textures. The blade isn't going to have much detail, so it doesn't need loads of UV space, but you could split the blade in half so it has more pixel density...

No...

Where is the other part of the blade? And have you Relaxed all the parts so they are the correct size on the UV Template? Apply the checkered map and make sure they are square. Render it with the checkered texture so i can see.

omg... you still put the other half on the UV map... if you cut it in half it's shorter, put both pieces side by side and you can enlarge them so there is more pixel density.

And the checkered pattern should be square, the checkered pattern on your blade is not square...

You're wasting a lot of space, and the blade really needs to be represented a lot more than it currently is.

You need to make the larger pieces take up more space in the UV map. Essentially, the "checkered" pattern needs to be equal in size across the model.

I see stretching on the handle, each face on that handle should be the same size, whereas on the UV map they get thinner on the edges.

The blade can still be chopped in half and made bigger, there is more room to use.

No like, because the handle is a cylinder, each face is taking up less and less space on the horizontal plane, so the way you have it laid out, the faces on the edges of the cylinder are getting almost no pixels, while the ones in the center are getting more. To compensate for that, you should make the faces on the edge of the cylinder larger horizontally. I hope that makes sense.

when i say "horizontally" i mean like, since you have the handle sideways, take the verts of the polies on the top and bottom edges of the handle and scale them vertically away from the handle.
Edited by UnevenElefant5 on Oct 31, 2012 at 05:27 AM

Look at the handle, is the checkered pattern square? No.

You need to either relax it more, or manually resize it so that they are square.

laziest heat gauge texture ever

looks like a scope for a plasma grenade launcher. why not try the repeater's heat gauge?

I think it's fine.

mh.
had to hand make this texture since there is no ripped repeater textures

Looks legit.

You could've just grabbed Adjutant and ripped it yourself...
Laziness.... *sigh*