@DarkSolider The black stripes are a little, "pixely" and detract from the rest of the livery scheme, anyway you could fix that?

Apart from that nice work, mind loaning me an ar to play with?

Oh and, prepare to be amazed.










Finally, got the uv's done for this blocky turd. The texture isn't final, but right now it looks like a final turd.

Any pointers?

(Never saw cheddars texture for his mac.)

Looks pretty accurate as near as I can tell. I don't recall seeing three holes in the rear sight of actual MAC-10s, but as long as it has the top-most peephole, it'd work.

Seriously?

That's quite nice, I thought the texture was really crappy. Would you mind being my tester when I ingame this mojo?



This airsoft version has three holes, which you might be able to deduce from the pic.

I know you should never trust air soft models, over the original but there seem to be more air soft refs out there at the moment.

After a quick Google search, it seems that the tri-hole design is indeed the standard for the MAC-10 rear sight. I must have been thinking of the M11/9, which seems to be a 9x19mm variant of the MAC-11.
Edited by Echo77 on Jul 22, 2014 at 11:37 AM

Nice job Flanker ! Pretty descent for me !

Update assault rifle :

Looking good, just needs less ware IMO and more clouds and grease. Color variation is looking good but for some reason I feel it may look a bit better if you change it to a cooler shade IMO.

This is what my half done texture looked like (haven't done the black parts etc): http://imgur.com/Rc0pi7j

Looks purdy good cheddars!

I tried to bake a normal map today, can't say I was even remotely successful.

Cheddars rocks ! Nice work as alaways !

Mac-10 update.

I wanted to try and emulate a two tone effect for the paint e.t.c. But it doesn't look as good as it should. Neutral tones of dark grey and blue seem to blend best, so I'll stick to using them.

As for the wear and tear, I plan to reduce some damaged area's and transplant them to a an area more suited to scratches and abrasions.





(Note to self, change the RGB values for the default max background to: 68,68,68 in the render settings)

You should use a gradient map as background, it prevents having similar colors to the background on the model.
Except when trying to render crashes 3DS max...
Here is a render of the RL WIP in a viewport, soon finished !

those grips don't look like they'd work, also that model gives me some ideas. y'mind if i take some inspiration from your model when i do some concept art?

Sure, it's a good thing to see it can give you inspiration. And to me, the design of the grip is OK right now and will not interfere in the animations.
What kind of elements would you take ?

I don't usually bother with gradient backgrounds > instead In the render window I hit the "render elements icon" and change the element back ground from 0 0 0 to 68,68,68.

But thanks for the info. Btw, I don't suppose you know anything about normal mapping?

I just made the highpoly so far and I will learn how to do a decent baking of the normal maps.
If everything fails I will do it planar surface by planar surface.

Are those optics on that launcher? I've always wondered how people without neural interfaces aim with them.
Edited by Bottletopman on Jul 27, 2014 at 02:02 AM

My initial thoughts:

Edited by Echo77 on Jul 27, 2014 at 02:14 AM

i swear, if echo was a woman i'd hit that^

But she is :o

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wip; low poly thunderlord machine gun

No comment about most of those crits, but I think the connection a the end of the barrel is necessary, even for a disposable rocket tube.
You're going to have a lot of vibrations going on along the end of the tube as the rocket travels through it. Considering the size of the barrel and rocket, wouldn't that shaking compromise the rocket's precision (and make it worse than it already is) without that extra stability from the other rocket tube?
If the launcher barrel's gonna vibrate anyways, it might as well vibrate together (and thus, have a connection heavy and massive enough to make it do so), if you ask me.

None of the other Halo launchers have a connection that far forward, and rocket launchers in general are inherently recoilless due to the vented backblast, meaning there wouldn't be much vibration at all. Rockets are also fin-stabilized in flight.
Edited by Echo77 on Jul 27, 2014 at 11:50 PM

^he beats me to it every time, anyway, the joining piece ism't the greatest way to lessen vibration, if it was up to me i'd use thicker, fluted barrels. sadly that wouldn't make much sense for a weapon where you throw away over half the gun (because it'd be too heavy). i always hated that aspect of the classic halo rocket launcher, it just doesn't make sense.

Actually, rocket launchers do have a bit of recoil, just a bit less than what's shown in the Halo games (especially Halo 3).

Take a look at this video of an M3 Carl Gustav firing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-O1hQasMB0

While it's a recoilless rifle and not actually a rocket launcher, it's basic premise is the same: launch a big explosive out of a tube, and the term recoilless rifle is actually a bit of a misnomer, as you'll see in the video. I think in the second half of the video they use training rounds or rounds with a lighter propellant load as the recoil is nearly non-existent, as is the backblast.

Actually, come to think of it, I think the recoil anims in Halo 3 are pretty close to the M3 recoil upon a closer replay.

The connection on the front seems pretty superfluous to me, a little extra stability never hurt nobody. Also, as far as the grip on the underside being less detailed... probably because its not visible in the FP view, so it is generally less detailed.

Just my guess :P

Wait bobble so are you saying the front connection is unnecessary, or it doesn't matter? Because superfluous means unnecessary hehe

I believe he's not referring to the connection itself, but any argument over it.

Bingo, probably should have worded it a little better though :P

Right, but it's very slight for what they are. It's certainly not something I would think of as causing so much vibration throughout the tubes that it would hamper accuracy to any real degree.

The new SMG from Halo 2 Anniversary is f***** awesome.

that looks nothing like the classic m7, wtf 343? its anniversary edition all over again. shame too, they did so well with the mjolnir markvi.

If they didn't change it people would complain too...I mean, think about it. 343i has been in a no-win situation from the beginning in this regard. It really shouldn't come as too much of a surprise by this point.

So I decided to ignore everyone as long as they are just complaining about what exists rather than helping me to enhance the model and add details.
I may even put a yellow stripe on it. Oh wait there are already some...
I don't want to end with 2 tubes attached together with duct tape.


Anyways, started baking :

420 blaze it.

I'm making it with the model entierly smoothed to 1 group, I wonder if that's the right method...
Edited by bourrin33 on Jul 28, 2014 at 05:36 PM

A duct tape rocket launcher? Why does Dead Rising come to mind? Either way I think that would be an awesome idea. As for criticism, I don't see anything that looks blatantly bad on your model. As for a smoothing group, as long as you don't smooth sharp corners, you're good.