Nope, works for me.

Attempting an XM8 using some tricks learned from the Beretta tutorial... the guy makes it seem so easy



No idea how I'm gonna go about doing the buttstock/handle, the gun's got all these crazy smooth transitions and I'm a total max nub
Edited by Marka Haiyana on May 9, 2009 at 05:05 AM

Tau!
anyway, 3ds UI is virtually the same as gmax UI, so you can pretty much use a 3ds max tutorial for gmax.

That doesn't make much difference. You can use a 3dsmax tutorial for gmax because they have the same (more or less) UI

Yeah, Tau rock so much.

Most 3DS tutorials can be used for Gmax, but beware the ones that use exclusive features like target weld and unwrapping, and some other stuff I can't remember.

What? gmax has target weld and unwrapping.

hey, dont do that! you edited that text to say that after we suggested it would be the same. Anyway, they are very similar.

it doesn't really matter what version its talking about. I think they all have the same features pretty much

Clayrendergo:

Just a random M16 with some addons I found on fpsbanana (awesome place to find weapons).

...Yeah yeah I hear you, Sandtrap Open Source weapons are still being worked on don't worry >:|

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I don't model, at all.

Hes about to animate it, considering the origins.

if only my stuff was taht awsome lol...maybe some day in far off time :P

I was just about to say looks a bit like something youd find in uhhhhhhhhh somewhere. Well i was about to say SMOD but i just realised. HaloSMOD anyone?

Now, should I do a reload kind of like Killzone 2's or a Call of Duty 4 style one? I'd promised some time ago that I'd start to copy Call of Duty 4 animations (because they're awesomeness) but Killzone 2's is unique, in a sense. Send me a PM saying which one you want so we don't clutter this thread with people whining that they want this one or that one and so forth.

im pretty sure thats a cod 4 rip....

No, COD4 doesn't have that much detail in it's weapons. Most of the detail is in the textures and normals.

Been at this for two days, it's coming out okay for a first serious model in Max..

Can't wait to tag it. >:)

EDIT:

TAGGED AND YOUTUBED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bI9WmoqnU

Needs a skin/anis
Edited by Marka Haiyana on May 12, 2009 at 06:08 AM

Looks like a lot of extruded/beveled/chamfered boxes. A lot of those details can be worked into the mesh, you don't need a seperate object for them, and also, round off the bottom of the barrel, it doesn't look very comfortable. Neither does the handle, and the sphere at the end of the bolt-thing looks a little big. Although, I must say, I do love the design of the weapon.

Glock 18c I textured for Tactical-Assault

whats tactical assault?
oh and that is sex

Dam nice
Thinking of going into graphics artist?

Yes actually I am.

Get on xfire mister..

I'm supposed to be doing school work :P

I'm the biggest procrastinator in the world and I have waited untill 3 days before the written part of my final exam is due. :(
Edited by Disaster on May 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM

That's what Josh was saying. I was going to add why you weren't studying:)

Also:





Edited by Newbkilla on May 13, 2009 at 10:34 PM

Man, I wish I had the patients to texture stuff. Maybe I'll learn this summer while I work on my various projects. Lol

I'm having an animation issue. First time attempting to animate a gun, and I'm getting an error. Basically, in most of my animations, the frame-gun is linked to the right wrist.

IE:

http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu279/m00kz/anigrenade.gif



However, for the ready animation, I'm wanting the right hand to come around and pull back the bolt. This requires a different hierarchy, and for this specific animation, I've set up the gun to be linked to the left wrist.

IE:

http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu279/m00kz/aniready.gif



Now, tool gives me this error when I compile the animations:

"Not all animations were using the same node graph! Import failed. Ask Jason to push you around in a wheelchair if you need it."

It's pretty obvious that the hierarchy needs to be the same in all of the animations. Is there a way to do that without completely messing up my ready animation? And how can I avoid this in the future?

And yes, the gifs skip a few frames, I used a crappy converter
Edited by Marka Haiyana on May 14, 2009 at 01:37 AM

yes, link frame gun to frame bones24 or whatever its called on the arm's rig, and use keyframe based constraints on the frame gun and the right wrist. you cannot use different hierarchies for the same animation graph

Okay, so I'm assuming I should go back and do that for all my previous animations as well heh, shouldn't be too bad

I'm going to have to say that right now you're probably animating without IK. Basically, it's hard as hell. When you get on xfire or some other program, ask me or ICEE and we'll give you a max plugin that IK's the arms for you. Pretty much, it creates two circles (that somewhat make a sphere) around your wrists that you can move and the rest of the arm will move with it. You can also constrain them to frame [anything] and they will follow the exact movements of that object you linked them to. Helps when doing things like twisting mags around when you take them out (ala Call of Duty 4 style).

You can change the constrain for animations so in one you could have the left hand constrained to the frame mag, and in another you can have it to the ophandle. Vice versa with the right hand as well.

Edit: Btw, you can move your shoulders.
Edited by ODX on May 14, 2009 at 08:22 AM

The gun needs to be linked to one frame only throughout the animation set.

Here's a link to ik setup if you need it. http://www.halotrialmods.org/zteam/downloads/FP_IK_Controller_Setup.ms

You mean the IK thing from CAD?

IV got it.
Edited by Advancebo on May 14, 2009 at 08:31 AM