Your handle is D:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

you sir, win 100 internets.

That my sir is better than bungies stuff. You get a cookie :)

so was that an attempt to make fun of me?


you wouldnt happen to have any tips on how to FIX that, would you?

Make the handle more round like this maybe?

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn159/Joshflighter/critplescopy.jpg

can i get a wireframe of that? the front of the handle isnt just a flat box either. it does have some sides

Yes, you may.



Of course you are a very low poly person as you stated to me on xfire, so you may want to bring down the poly of that kind of handle. :)

wait so, you fire, and the rockets fall from the sky? thats awesome.
in the projectile tag for the rocket that falls, make it so instead of sticking to materials like dirt and metal, they blow up on contact. because what it seems like to me is that you have those rockets on a timer and ignore collisions

lol, from wat i know(not much lol), i think he means the tag not the model, i think the tag is like the commands and stuff that tell the projectiles what to do on occasions. in this incident the rockets are on timers(like a plasma grenade), i think u have to set that to a super low number, or make it explode on contact. of course i might completely wrong lol.

also besides it pwning, mye make the blast radius a bit larger? (same amount of rockets thou???)

dont all jump me if im wrong on teh tag thingy lol

dont do this
other than that you pretty much nailed it.
i really like this new guy

Dayum. That's really nice. Do you have xfire? I want to make my Rods of God more like that.

lol, here is something i made, but compared to ohunter's, mines is total crap, its less then 1k poly, if u wanna use it(anyone) and stuff go ahead lol...jus gimem some credit somewhere :P

oh its liek a targeting canoon or something lol, for his areial attacking thing. if anyone wants it go ahead and have it :P

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Edited by Dennis on Mar 28, 2009 at 09:03 PM

Your poly distribution sucks.

Alright, Poly distribution is where the polygons are spread out equally. Like in your model, some places have many more polygons that others. Try to maintain the balance, and that balance is called the poly distribution.

E/ to start off, remove all the bevels on the handle. those are gross. Secondly, the green part. That is way too high poly. Not to mention the intrudes you have there. Those are completely unnecessary.
Edited by Newbkilla on Mar 29, 2009 at 05:00 PM

RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEE
Or that you should take away some polys, so the model look balanced. :)

if you really don't care then just make the entire thing low poly, or the entire thing high poly right now your just being lazy.

You contradicted yourself. Theres tris where they don't need to beo n your model :S

The stock extender has useless detail on it.

If we let people do what they felt like doing, there would be thousands of bloodgulch mods!
owai

To all of you. Its not called poly distribution. It is called:
TOPOLOGY
Something Hunter needs to understand.
Example of bad topology.

Example of good topology.

Get it? Got it? Good.
Edited by DEEhunter on Mar 29, 2009 at 08:12 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

People please read and understand that post. PLEASE
Seems like nobody arround here understands that. They leave ngons and have terrible topology because of ending loops.

It can be referred to as poly distribution, and often is.

Always model in quads. It has the best smoothing. If the surface is flat, then it's okay to use polygons with sides larger than 4.

Well, Maybe for something as simple as halo but for anything else its not.
Edited by Disaster on Mar 29, 2009 at 08:35 PM

>:D That's what you showed me months ago.. Some guy asked about smoothing. Whether to use quads or triangles. And then it went on about nogons etc..

Gtfo of Hunter's back.


Unless he is going to do Subdivision, there is no need for doing the Topology perfect. He isn't in any gaming company is he? No. Is he doing stuff that actually get in-game and look good? Yes.

So really, topology or not, its about the users preference.

This is directed more toward DEE.

It would work better in-game if he had better poly distribution. Whether or not hes going into a gaming company doesn't matter, it's no excuse to be lazy. people have gotten on him about his poly wastage before but hes too stubborn to change so why bother.

Nvm.
Edited by Gh0st_Elit3 on Mar 29, 2009 at 08:54 PM

Subdivision doesn't matter. He should still have good topology other wise it's a really bad mesh.

First off, the front is increibly boxy while he is wasiting tris on the stock extender that don't need to be there.

You guys (Dee im looking at you) are trying to compare a low poly structural model to a higher poly organic model, you cant do that.
I know exactly where you are coming from (and im sure Hunter does too) but he is making low poly models for halo.
Some parts of models have more detail in some places and less in others, that the way it is.
Mind posting a wireframe Martyn. Because i fail to see how anyone can even comment on the topology of the model without seeing that.
Looks great to me.
Edited by Maniac1000 on Mar 29, 2009 at 08:56 PM

Half of the minor details he has on that model can be textured in and look just as good. He has modeled in details that you will never see, such as the front grip, stock extender, and detail on the clip. If hes going for low poly, then he still needs work.

I do agree with that wesman.
Although you dont want to make it too low poly and bland in the model there are details to be added in texturing that dont look too different ingame.
I know he has used high poly to low poly baking so that might be the way to go with this.