hey... those are about as good as mine!

Make the idle animation a loottttt slower. Closer to maybe 60 or 80 frames.
The arm that throws the grenade should probably be in sync with the grenade that gets thrown lol.
Make the movement happen in less frames.

Not sure how to sync the arm and grenade...


If I made the movement happen in less frames, wouldn't it result in shorter animations?
Edited by Dumb AI on Jan 5, 2014 at 11:30 PM

idk if jackrabbit posted this yet but here

Lol

Such sky. Very rocky. Nice floor. wow.

I know i suck at making cliffs.

The rail gun and FP arms actually look pretty good considering they're in CE.

Did you follow my tutorials for the animations?

I didn't cover grenade throwing did I?

Oh well, it is kind of a pain in the neck. But basically you need less frames. The arm should blip up to somewhere above your head in 1 frame, than swing forward in a throwing motion in like ~2 frames. Once the arm passes the point where it is ~20 degrees above horizontal you can slow it down (use more frames) to finish the motion and return to origin (because by that point the grenade will look like it has already left your hand).

In my experience grenade throw animations require a lot of trial and error.

Animations in general just require a bit of practice. At first it seems impossible to get them right, but before long they are not so bad.

Yeah, and that's what you want. Right now the grenade is thrown before the arm.
If you make the arm move in less frames, then you shorten the time it takes for the arm movement to happen.
When the time taken becomes shorter, the arm and grenade should be closer in sync.

Why, yes, I did!

You also didn't cover first-person moving.

Shhhh
You'll hurt the feels.

Actually I did cover first-person moving. it is in part 20 at 6:47.

Here is a link to the exact time in the video that I start talking about moving:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1uz9F-eqhg&list=PLsYFcdY5bHyKaq_pA2nUJ1qkreXemLsnV#t=407

First person moving is fairly easy if you do it like I show in that video.

I doubt that that there's anything worse.

And I would love to see your first animations. I really would like that.

Remember, we all have to start somewhere.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jan 6, 2014 at 08:21 PM

People around here tend to be overly critical of stuff. Just ignore them and keep practicing. I know my first animations where absolutely hideous.

that yellow is too yellow lol and that worthog(see what I did there?) is too sexy
Edited by rcghalohell on Jan 8, 2014 at 12:13 AM

someone did steapunk design on weapon there ?

i tried to do that with the scatter gun from tf2:

That doesn't look half bad. It might be nice to see some of the TF2 weapons in CE.

i think i will try to do tf2 stuff on 3ds max if somone is interested by models for texture and port it on halo send me a message and and i will upload models?
Actually i think i will restart the scatter models because i made it when i was bored and the wire is bad.



God, french version suck, that's original sound of the game ?
Edited by Dalek on Jan 8, 2014 at 02:00 PM

Why wouldn't I?
Edited by Dumb AI on Jan 8, 2014 at 10:11 PM

There is at least one other way you could have presented your critique, just sayin'

I've finished unwrapping the body of my "DMR", can anybody give me advices or tuts about scaling and preparing the unwrapped parts on the texture ? and to give me comments about the UVs

Isn't the DMR bullpup? Or is canon not applying here?

It is, but I believe there are some concepts of the Halo 4/Reach weapons that aren't bullpup. I think it looks pretty cool!

Edited by YakZSmelk on Jan 10, 2014 at 07:14 PM

well im making this

concept version

looks great! I'd encourage you to think about enlarging the the bigger parts (grip) and scaling down the smaller parts such as the rail part though.

Spacing between the parts could be tightened though which would give you more texture space. Although its causes hard to paint textures, it looks more professional.

This is a professional back as an example of what I mean:



But as you said you still gotta pack the other UVW's into one map.
Edited by Cheddars on Jan 10, 2014 at 11:38 PM

Thanks, mootjuh , you are forcing me to do a highpoly then, I thought I wouldn't have to do this task, but it seems to be the best option to add the details it lacks without needing badass texturing skills...

I changed the uv's to have a more uniform scale and tried to do some paint and scratches, and note they are not final and all not correctly placed, but the results makes me more confident for the future. I'm also afraid of putting black lines usually but I realize all textures sues black lines for detailling so I will try to do this.
LET THERE BE THE FIGHT FOR HIGHPOLY !

some pics of the current wip and uv's :



and here is the highest res pic of the reach BR concept I could find :

Good luck on making it !

edit : Moot, could you give me advices about making the "bakable" highpoly from the lowpoly ? using push modifier gives ugly results...
Edited by bourrin33 on Jan 11, 2014 at 09:08 AM

beautiful

Why make a high poly from your unwrapped low poly when you can use NDO2. Yes, having a high poly to bake your objects is better than a normal map filter, but from seeing what you want to do, it will be much simpler and give cleaner results.

I'd like to make a highpoly to get those details with ambient occlusion that I don't have the skills in texturing to make, a lot more details and such.
I'm not a texturer at all and I fail at adding the big details I want to put

is it a modded reach dmr model? or a custom model 100%? either way youve hurt me as ive tryed making this my whole modelling career. now theres no point ;(
lol jk
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 12, 2014 at 01:14 AM

i am making the model from scratch if i just make the carrying handle it will be stupid. that model is just a concept.

UPDATE= i have the receiver dun

Edited by savinpvtmike on Jan 13, 2014 at 10:29 AM

To get an AO from your Normal, you can always grab the Blue Channel and multiply it over your diffuse. You'll want to also create an AO from the lowpoly so that your AO matches better.

That's if you just use nDo.

Now for baking why are you trying to use the push modifier?

Double Post.
Edited by YakZSmelk on Jan 13, 2014 at 04:16 PM

Yeah, I agree with Yak.

I was going to mention the blue channel too as well as the xnormal normal map to ambient occlusion. If you have a clean blue channel, you'll get a clean conversion.

I just think it would be a lot easier (and logical) now that you created your low poly to use a normal map filter like quite a lot of game companies do.

Doesnt the model needs to be right over the surface of the baking reciever ?