Hmmm, a one handed pistol shotgun, yeah it shouldn't have much recoil boyyy >_>

Actually I have both hands on it, if you haven't noticed already.

I don't see how the magazine just drops without doing anything.

Eff realism, eff how 'Bungie' made it.

This is me, this is my animating, and that's how I wanted it to be. I had no limits, no restrictions, so I did what I could and it turned out fine.

Actually, I found that it is best to constrain the shoulderbones to the frame gun for firing animations. This prevents them from becoming detached in game. also, when you fire a gun your whole torso is going to move with the recoil, so its appropriate to have the shoulder bones move

I believe there are lots of games wherein the pistol mag just drops when reloading.

Yeah, but by logic, there is a mag release.

news flash, not all games follow the rules of conventional firearms.

who says theirs no mag release on a mauler

I fixed the firing animation (exporting as a JMM, like CAD said) and threw in a custom bitmap for the firing effect I've quickly drawn in photoshop yesterday. http://www.xfire.com/video/228600/

Well, I think it's time to move onto something else to practice more. If you either think it is worth a releasing or just want to play around with it, just tell me and I will upload it, as I have no reason to keep it private.

Btw you cant reload m1 grands if it still has bullets left, or else you almost have to almost field strip it just to pop in a new mag. Or so I heard.

That's right, of course. For two main reasons. 1 is that if you have already some bullets in, a new loader with 8 bullets won't fit, and 2 is that if you pull the bolt the loader will not come out that way. You should pull the bolt, and while keeping it pulled take out every single bullet including the loader and then put in a new one. But well, since I don't know a way to make a weapon not reloadable when it still has some bullets in its magazine, I did it in the way Call of Duty 5 did, with an absolutely wrong but still practical reload-full, with "wastes round when reloading" on.

i know it sucks ass, so critz plz
ill post the wireframe later.

Get rid of the pointless texture. And research how weapons work... And look...

Change the texture
get rid of the scope
Move the magazine closer to the trigger
Add a stock

Wrong, the m1 garand has a magazine release button on it which will eject all current rounds and allow to load a new clip.

Looks extremly thin, fix that.

Re-uploaded Mauler animations (not changed at all) with a brighter background:
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Tell me if it's still tearing or something...it might just be the 'still processing' or it's being stupid again and I'll have to reupload.

Edit: Yeah, I'm sure it's still tearing and being stupid. Please stand by...
Edit2: Alright, I've got to re-render the whole thing...
Edited by ODX on Feb 21, 2010 at 02:49 PM

I'm sorry but you should really just start completely over at this point. Watch this tutorial:
www.fpsbanana.com/tuts/332
follow along, then use the techniques you learned in there to remodel it entirely.

OK someone help me, why is it completely murdering my rendering?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wutIZ030lI

dont put the res to hd in the rendering menu, make it hd in liek sony vegas or sompthing

I decided to make a concept of a gun, well I liked the turn out.. Oh and Penguin, harp on me if I got the rails wrong :)

They look correct from what I can see, but their placement is awkward. It would be hard to put the attachment on from that angle, seeing as the rails are between inclines

It reminds me of a backwards p90 o.O

The magazine is internal - and non-detachable.

IMO, the Garand would waste rounds when reloading even though the magazine is non-detachable, like a shotgun, probably because the clip wouldn't fit when there are still rounds in it. That's what I heard.

Is it okay for the rails to be there if I flatten out that area a little?

Elefant, I did base the body off of the p90, thought its drastically different.

It's a render straight from Max, all the animations are in one scene and they switch out for each animation.

I do that because WMM murder quality, and I have nothing else D:

You uploaded as a .avi? Youtube hates .avi files, I only uploaded one once and it did the exact same thing your video is doing.

Nevermind, I've figured out I can render out in beautiful .mov, Quicktime's file type.

Expect a re-re-uploaded video in about half an hour <3
Edited by ODX on Feb 22, 2010 at 06:21 PM

or WMV

I've got one uploading right now, says it has like, 27 minutes left. I had to re-render it at a lower res because it was at first 301 MB, now it's 191.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyq8zkgEP6c
Edited by ODX on Feb 22, 2010 at 09:42 PM

Duh, I've fired one. Magazine refers to what ever device is used to hold the rounds. In this case its the 8 round bloc clip. There is a release to the clip and it can be ejected without all 8 rounds being fired, however it needs to be reloaded with a new fully loaded bloc clip.

Are the rails any better? Also, ignore the crappy black lines you might see, those are pretty bad shadows on the render.

Wheres the trigger?

It integrates with your mind and shoots when you think it to shoot.