looks like someone took an MA4D and stuck it in a blender with an SC20KFnF2000 :/

WTH? Thats not even a real FN200 varient. You know nothing of weapon varients!

is anyone working on the missile pod other than me?

Heh, that picture was from the trailer

not the most spectactular model but anyway....

Make the blade slightly longer.

http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9595&page=303

Lol wut? Halomaps is now PG.

i cant see it;

this is what i get

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Never mind.. Jesus, I thought you guys would figure it out..

The shield is rounded, not flat.

Ultama, what are you doing here?

These are really nice weapons! Good job.

So I decided I should try doing a bullpip (clip behind the handle) style gun again, since I failed so hard last time I tried. I figured out I've been failing so much because it's not me, but it's how the Halo 1 AR and Halo 2 BR are designed that make them feel weightless and horrible no matter what I try. Here's my result, I used Wave of Lag's BR from his Christmas release package, if you need the link...I have no idea where it is, I just have the folder with the stuff. PM me if you want it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naI0EBEyOXg

Rendered this at 800x600 clay, took all night on my computer.

Lol, you and making animated clay renders.

The animation and origins look good to me. I want to see a whole set done, and possibly ingame, mr.

Lol ODX. My animations of my forerunner structure in the wip thread took 14 hours to render a 11 second clip..

Kinda boring considering you didnt even touch the bolt :V
Also its called "bullpup"

Well, I tried a bolt push and it looked really ugly. Then, I tried copying Halo 3's BR Bolt push, looked somewhat better but I didn't like it.

:V
Bah, I guess I'll try that double melee again. Yes, double melee, aka a swing across the screen then a hit with the butt.
Edited by ODX on Mar 1, 2009 at 03:54 PM

The greatest amount of poly waste I see is near the handle area.

The green is part of the main body.

The red is a separate object. Its separate from the body, and the handle.
Edited by Advancebo on Mar 1, 2009 at 07:00 PM

Hunter. I've seen most of your models and you do waste polies horrible. Like in the rocket launcher concept model, you fused the cylinder with all the rings is pasts through. And like this one. You could have made the rhombus' surface flat and have all the little boxes interesect with it. But you continue to waste your polies. Look at this picture and start modeling more like this to save polies.

Halos engine can handle a couple hundred extra, you're acting like its huge. It's not. I weld my stuff together, because it looks better that way. If it pleases my eye, then it's fine.

Collion models never have to be that high poly. Especially for a weapon. Collision models are always primitive models that define the general shape of the object. Dont expect the game engine to do everything for you. A "I dont want to save polies because I dont want to!" excuse will not work. There was a good reason why there is no "Closed models" rule for weapons.

Collision will still compile if there are objects intersecting.

Hunters got his own way, and it's been working out well. Why try and change something if it works flawlessly? It makes no sense..

Its not flawless. Many of hunters models have a horrible topology. And he even said himself that he doesn't know what topology is.

This is right. Disaster told me smoothing is best in quads, and when you got 7, 8 sided polygons, it gets pretty bad.

Its best to model organic things, such as bipeds, completely in quads. Triangles can make for weird smoothing, especially when adding a turbosmooth or meshsmooth modifier. Its best to avoid triangles and ngons when possible.

Smith and Wesson 500: the model and skin are by snaf. Now, i know someone is going to complain, so im going to say this now. I know that during firing and reload the cylinder doesn't spin, and in the reload the same shell is stuck in the same hole and dissappears. Now, this is something I solve with an ammunitions animation. This makes the game automatically spin the cylinder and remove/add the bullets, but it isnt visible in the render. So please don't get on me about that.

http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/?action=view¤t=sw500.flv

The recoil isn't exactly my proudest animation, i'll agree with you there. I was lazy

a couple thousand is huge.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/TheKillerDonut/models/humanturret.jpg
see this? yeah old bad render, im not looking for crit, im using it as an example. but this is the second model of the halo 3 turret that i have done. its about 2.7k triangles. my first one looked about the same, with some smoothing problems, and had over 9k triangles, and was harder to model than this was.
so let see, thats like... a 6000 triangle difference? multiply that by however many turrets there are in the map, and any other custom weapons modeled this way, and you end up saving around 40,000 tris at least.
yeah, it is a big deal.

I do unwrap your models. And I recently unwrapped your hornet which had a bad topology*. I gave crit and you seem to want to enforce "No I will not model with good topology!" excuse.
And like donut said. It is a big deal to save polys.
Edited by DEEhunter on Mar 2, 2009 at 04:07 PM

That is pretty much saying to us "No I do not want to get better." Hunter the only outcome of us helping will only benefit you. I cant possibly see a bad outcome of this that you are trying to avoid.

He's just being stuborn let it go.

I can. And those involved with another stupid argument will not be able to post so they will know too.

If OHunterO has a way to model that he likes then it is up to him to decide if he wishes to change not you.

Life lesson: You cannot change people you can only offer them the opportunity to change themselves.

yeah dee, you gave him advice, and i totally agree with you. if he chooses not to accept it, then fine. his loss