There is still an Author of the pictures who's stuff it really is.

Reposting this cause it got buried by arguments.

Updated video of my stuff heh

Give it time to process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_R_3iZ8Bwo
http://www.xfire.com/video/118352/

That's looking very good mook. Have you thought about posting on the bungie forums somewhere, I'm sure there's alot of marathon lovers over there aswell.
Edited by iizahsum on Aug 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM

thought about it, but I'm gonna wait until it's in a more final state

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjvrbuOqXg&fmt=18

Please ignore the minuscule "snap", which is again caused by the filler render, and will not appear in the final animation. YouTube tends to cut off the last few frames, so that's why I have the filler render.

okay im starting a katana (called "xer0") for a mod, & the modeling went pretty well =).
The katana has approximately
288 vertices
572 faces

this project actually went well so thats why im continuing it =P

here are some renders of the katana:
Overview


Handle & blade top view


Handle area (again)


& finnaly the wireframe of the handle


Right now i am gunna start UV-Unwrapping & afer that texturing.

Update:
I just finished Unwrapping, im starting texturing.
Edited by Shade117 pro on Aug 22, 2009 at 03:00 AM

Words
Edited by DEEhunter on Aug 22, 2009 at 03:01 AM

A draft texture,ill add more detailed later on when i have the time, for nao.

Make the smoothing group for the blade and the handguard separate, otherwise it looks too organic. It blends together too much. Real easy, set the planes that make up the blade to smoothing group 1 and the guard smoothing group 2. Other than that, it looks pretty nice for a lowpoly sword. The texture is simple but effective.
Edited by Marka Haiyana on Aug 22, 2009 at 05:00 AM

kay ty, but i cant fix the blade cos sum of the polys up thar are stuffed but ill ignore that. & also the blade will look better in game because of the reflection cube-maps, & also the halopc engine has a tendancy to make things shiny, soo yeh thanks anyways.

oh and the textures are only a conept. they are placeholders, cosi didnt have enuf time to continue texturing n i was tired. ill fix the texture later cos i can do way better on textures but thanks...
Edited by Shade117 pro on Aug 22, 2009 at 05:37 AM

I feel ignored :[

I appreciate you gamma :D

It seems slow, and doesnt look like human motion for ready-ing a weapon like that.

Made the zoom for it.

Alphas are liek soo purrfict.

Dude, it looks fine, I can't see anything wrong with it.

Looks good, but I would personally make it use animations.

just an fyi, a wireframe like that really does not help us at all. select your model, duplicate it, check off "instance" (this makes it so your duplicated copy will change if the original model is changed), then apply a push modifier to it with a power of 0.05

make a new standard material, color it however you want, and check off the "wire" box so it colors only the wireframe. now when you render you will have the wireframe overlaid on the mesh.

look at the wireframe in this picture. those are all instances of the original model, one of which has the wireframe applied. it makes your work look much more professional, AND shows us the mesh of your model so we can criticize (in a helpful way) your work with more knowledge than just "it looks bad"
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/TheKillerDonut/models/saberrender.jpg

good start. It looks nice.

m1a1? as in a thompson?

no! The "Tommy Gun" is a different gun than the one that jesse made. The M1A1 was a Rifle that was goin' to be for medic's and replace pistols.

M1a1 carbine ripped from cod4, textures edited by onotix.

noding and exporting by Elefant :B

orly. I didn't know. Good job.

It's not the M1A1. Call of Duty named it wrong. The M1A1 has a folding wire stock. This one is a solid wood stock, aka just the M1 Carbine.



Lol no. The M1A1 had a folding wire stock because it was meant for airborne troops. That way, it would be more portable upon landing.
Edited by Gamma927 on Aug 22, 2009 at 06:33 PM

You mean World at War's, right?

i was saying that because M1A1, among other things apparently, was also a model for the thompson.
E: STOP GETTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM VIDEO GAMES
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=m1a1+gun&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10&start=0
tell me why EVERY picture there is either an m1a1 abrams or a thompson


im pretty sure thats a bitmap hes using for iron sight "zoom", and if so, it does not look terrible.

it cannot be done with regular animations in halo
Edited by Donut on Aug 22, 2009 at 07:11 PM

Yeah i always say "cod4" but people know what i mean.. I think.



Actually it can.


ImBrokeRU did it with his m16 or whatever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9PawqW95c

Look at 0:15 for the firing and at around 2:00 for some action. It can still throw grenades as you can see, and it uses the firing animation to do this, so no other animations are lost.

Edited by jesse on Aug 22, 2009 at 07:26 PM

what exactly did he do to make that work then? melee?
E: when he throws the grenade it doesnt animate
Edited by Donut on Aug 22, 2009 at 07:48 PM

Regular firing animation.



Those were his first animations, when the video starts, he said he made the reload and firing, the gun did not have the ready, melee, or grenade throw animations.

oh ok i missed when you said it uses firing animation. thats not the downsight aiming i was talking about. thats actually really annoying. having to guess where to aim then having the gun pop up like that. what i was talking about was actual downsight aiming like in farcry 2 or in a call of duty game, where you can look down the sights without shooting. as far as i know, that cannot be done in the halo engine

Looking though it while not firing, well THAT i don't think is possible, unless you sacrifice another animation.

IMO replacing the firing animation is as good as it can get.

Don't those DMT Modern Warfare-type maps have an aim down sight feature?

Go take pics :D

Look for yourself:
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3697
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3757