woah, hold the phone

so ripping the texture from a random reach map file

is less lazy then making a texture by hand with custom trimmings

MIND BLOWN

on a serious note, does it fit or should I go full shazbot and change it completely?

Change it :D why not to make it around the side flap with the bitmap like surrounding it when it's overheated then it opens ? or like it coming from the firing point to the flap flap overtheatty.
No idea if you get what I mean, but I'm not a big fan of the actual thing

populus approbando cogitatione rationem?


heat indicator will change, I just haven't come up with anything better at the moment.
the inside is completely bluish white, as I can't decide on whether to use a grid on the inside or make it really bright (it is, after all, super-heated plasma)

Isn't the gun supposed to be purple?

I like the blue :P
I'd say make something inside.

nice to see plasma rifles with custom animations, do want

The blue looks good, though it could use a more purple sheen.

Possibly use 2 textures for the inside, after overheating, it fades from one to the other, one being slightly cooled, coil type look.
Edited by olly12345 on Nov 8, 2012 at 06:26 AM

That looks truly awesome :D
I think you can get some inspiration from the h1 fuel rod gun circuits textures and the CMT's plasma pistol inside for the overheat. Spinning stuff would be godly, and I can animate :DDDDD

Someone wants the Halo 4 HUD on a black background ?

I'd like to see the inside be really bright personally.

PNG's are not for posting on the internet unless linked to with a URL. I have to have this conversion with idiots all the time.

JPG's are for internet and display all of the information that is NEEDED and can be seen by the human eye. PNG's are a waste of bandwidth. Plus the texture doesn't even have enough detail to even give you a reason to use PNG's.

The ONLY difference you get between a PNG and JPEG on your image posted is better quality EDGES which can only be seen when zoomed in a lot, the eye can't tell.

So don't use PNG's.

If you really want to go in excess you would use .bmp or .tiff

Why the fk does the second assault rifle look like someone drew all over it with crayons and chalk or something?

I think it looks a little more realistic for a gun that has probably been dropped more times than any other gun in the game

but yeah, the yellow stripe is ugly, try going with a more golden color, and make the scratches more obvious
(it's paint after all, its either on there, or scraped off) you should also probably dull down the green button lights, a lot.
Edited by SilentJacket on Nov 13, 2012 at 04:07 PM

That is precisely what the format was designed to do. Offer the color depth of JPG with the animation and masking capabilities of GIF without the requirement of a licensing fee which GIF formats require.

Look it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics

They are still un-necessarily large for showing low quality models, and JPG's fit ALL purposes for showing renders.

Edit: Also, the bold text says "transferring", that does not mean DISPLAYING the images, which in this case is 1.89MB, where it could be 1/4 of that size.
Edited by OHunterO on Nov 13, 2012 at 08:39 PM

Not animated renders.

Unnecessary for you maybe but the internet wasn't designed specifically for your particular tastes.
By that logic then transferring JPGs doesn't display them either.

In this day and age of fast internet with decent download limits, 1.89MB won't keep me awake at night.

Still... you only get your money's worth, and for some it's not a lot.

That image still needs to be loaded into memory which can just clog it up with useless data. It is completely and utterly pointless.

You're comlaining about a mere megabyte.
Now that is completely and utterly pointless.

It's the fact that he may continuously use PNG's that is the point, not this particular image. PNG's are completely and utterly pointless for his use - which is a lowres texture on a lowres model...

TBH, I really don't know why there isn't a filter on this site to not allow them. A few other sites I have been to don't even allow PNG in their forums. Many "strictly" have policies that only .jpg can be used to optimize experience people with lower internet capacity.

It takes way too long for me to load a PNG, regardless of the size; the service provider that hosts the PNG pictures have slow bandwith speeds, and often take a long time for me to load PNG images (around 10-20 seconds).
I would rather not hang around on a web page waiting for 5 consecutive PNG images to load for over a minute, heck even 10 seconds is too long of a wait for one image.
JPGs are the most effective with low file size and minimal quality differences. It's not like we will be staring at the image close up by zooming into the image like 300+% just to see details that may or may not already be included in a JPG when compared to PNG.

You just a retard, you can't tell. Plus I can't even see that render as it's a crap render.

Why do you keep responding to him? If that render didn't tell you he is writhing on the floor with laughter at ever reply to his pure troll posts, what will? TBH, I can't believe he hasn't been banned yet especially with the linking to the porn earlier.

I'm new to 3D modeling and texturing, but I have made my first project. It's a .44 Magnum but I don't know how to upload images from Blender.

Render it, or just use snipping tool. Then upload to imageshack or something.

Ok, trying it now.
Edited by S0UL S0LDIER on Nov 18, 2012 at 07:56 AM

render you object in blender, then when the render is complete hit the f3 key to save the rendered image then create an account on an image hosting site (photobucket, tinypic imigur etc.) then upload to that site, copy the direct link to the photograph and click on the button that looks like this: paste the url there and voila the image is posted

Getting close to finished on an ACR I am working on. I know it looks way to "grungy" right now, but I still have to tweak that a bit.

Crit?

Method?

Polygon modelling I guess.

I searched online for reference images of the weapon I wanted to make, but I openned up 3ds max and created a plane. Then I started extruding edges, welding verts, etc, etc, etc.... then I unwrapped it, openned up GIMP and made a texture.

Why do you ask?

I finally figured out how to upload the images. It currently has no textures or animations but here is my first 3D Model:







Edited by S0UL S0LDIER on Nov 19, 2012 at 05:11 PM

I don't know how to view wireframes. I am using Blender BTW.