What's with the extremely small barrel?

lol, i decided to make a very good melle pistol combo, 500 magnum pistol(made from de templete i had) with small axe added to butt of gun. can be flipped around and slice and dice ppl :


will animate when i get home
Edited by Geared on Jun 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM

The axe looks sort of werid.

Again, I didnt model the gun. Its a sten, and it is an anatomically correct model.

Also geared, with that axe on the gun, how will you remove the magazine? I would suggest having it branch off from the side of the barrel.
Edited by ICEE on Jun 29, 2009 at 01:56 PM

lol wut
Edited by halo3n00b on Jun 29, 2009 at 04:00 PM

Using a model as a reference to model a model?

the ax actually is supposed to slide in, i did it ina hurry, it slide out when u flip it around to smack someone....lol

well first of all im going for a custom model, and second of all rendering the h3b magnum and putting it on a plane isnt as good as using the actual model as ref because max tends to make the textures low quality and its hard to see some of the details, secondly since halo doesnt have very good bump mapping, its easy just to put those details into the model, and i might add some extra things like a laser pointer or one of those cool sights like the assault rifle from fear 2.
Edited by halo3n00b on Jun 29, 2009 at 05:06 PM

Make the color brighter for Ambient Lighting (Render>Environment).

how can you get any brighter than white...

Glowing.

:o how do you do that?

It's in the multipurpose map, although I'm not sure how you would achieve that effect.

you can make the textures higher res in the viewport by doing this:


pic explains itself, click on configure driver to get the other window though

also, nice, and i agree that there is no bump mapping possabilitie, however you can't texture as good as bungie (well, unless you're disaster) so my choice would be using that bungie model, unless you get someone like disaster to texture that thing

you can easily make chars on a model, there's a modifier in the list somewhere, add in your own name before you release to prove it's yours, if you even will release it

get on xfire, i have some stuff to show you =O
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jun 30, 2009 at 07:47 AM

fake bumping makes me crai, lil update.


Edited by halo3n00b on Jun 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM

The Halo 3 Shotgun with no decent Halo 3 replication animations.

Why does everyone have that same testing BSP? :\

i liked it on the spartans, but now you're overdoing it S094, it looks TERRIBLE on the shotgun! too glossy, texture looks bad, no seriously, i think i like h3noob's project more than this now.
even though it's a h3b rip, you can make stuff look ugly, please, just model the detaills in instead of making a fake bump that doesn't work out really

so to awnser the question, it looks like eww, and it's not an attack, just my opinion

you're better off modelling the bump map in this time

Cuz I gave it to them.

The difference between the fakemapped shotgun and the actually modeled shotgun in pollies is negligent. Please model the actual gun instead of doing these supposedly cooler ideas. The engine isn't going to lag to hell when you use it and actually a lot less than if you fake bumped it.
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Jun 30, 2009 at 02:15 PM

uh what? a preapplied texture is going to lag the game more than doubling the triangles on a gun? thats not a negligent number. look at the amount of sides needed to generate a look that would be on par with the fake bump. you would be nearly doubling the triangle count of the model. thats not negligent

I'm talking about the groves ontop of the shotgun alone. Most of anything else can be faked, but the groves need to be implemented right. Those itself don't matter poly wise. If you have a model with 6,000+ pollies on it, then you have something to be a bit concerned about.

I've had issues with fake-bumped weapons compared to standard textured weapons. IMO, the nicely detailed (but not overly detailed) weapons worked better than the glossy and over shaderized (meaning too much work was put into the shader instead of the model) weapon. This could just be me, but if it's at around 4,000 or less, than your fine. Idk about 5,000, but I've heard you want to stay away from anything getting to close to 6,000. Also, the groves can be inset or even put in simpler on the shotgun. Also, the ring-ditches at the end of the shotty barrel can be modeled in too. The groves alone with those are negligible numbers. It all depends on how it is done.
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Jun 30, 2009 at 03:32 PM

the model itself looks like its really low poly in that picture. adding the grooves would be a good thing. i would have done it too.

my only issue is that you called the amount of tris necessary to do so "negligible" when in fact given the weapon's current apparent triangle count, adding those little details could almost double the tri count

Well like I said, it depends on how the shotgun itself is done. If done right, then you could get away with a 1,000-2,000 base shotgun model and finish it with a 3,000-3,500 detailed Shotgun model.

lol my progress is realy slow xD, probably cuz this is my second attempt at modeling
Edited by halo3n00b on Jun 30, 2009 at 05:20 PM

Finish the model, render it appropriately(seriously, get rid of the background ffs), then we'll crit it. Side views of WIP models are really hard to crit, especially when you have the actual model right next to it/behind it.

Isnt that Darkshallfall's texture? Arbiter100 told me it was.

ohai. you're not the only one with one of those.

Are you trying to show the biped or the SMG?, Anyways they're both decent.

lol the smg ofcourse

and whats with the dalmatier handle on the right side of the gun? =/

yes veex, time to teach you the religion of opensourcing EVERYTHING but your underwear =3

No.

i like the smg but the handle on the right is a little awry.

Magnum attachments by Joshflighter

I modified the texture, but didnt fix the multi yet.

My attachments model, unwrapped to darkshallfall's skin.





http://www.xfire.com/video/e3d42/

That are my rofl hud, it goes soi soi soi soi soi
Edited by Advancebo on Jul 1, 2009 at 06:32 PM

This is my model in high poly and then taken and basicly baked with normals:





Anyways, I barely post here anymore anyways. That is sub'd by the way.


...

And to what Advancebo posted:




EDIT:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUz3rNS94g
Edited by Joshflighter on Jul 1, 2009 at 06:39 PM

Triangles 2292.

Still need to finnish the make adjustments.
About 3 hours of work.