There's like 1000 magnums, why don't we try something new?

Super Magnum anyone?

My rendered video for helping anyone who animate
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/FileDetails.aspx?fid=11735&player=Shockwave%20M33

HReach's AR and BR have the worst empty reload (the part where handle is charged) I have ever seen in my entire life. The worst ANYBODY has ever seen in their entire life.

To quote ODX: something about taking halo 3's animations and crapping them up, etc, along those lines.

in b4 odx

Wtf, I thought it looked okay :/

It's Halo 3's animations for the AR/BR with a horrible HORRIBLE animation for charging it tacked on >_>

lol i'm with doompig, i think the animations look fine, but...that might be because i'm not an fp animator lol.

Exactly.

I really wish they could have done something different.

But I do like sniper empty animations, and pistol animations in general. I could sit there with Halo Reach reloading the sniper all day.

I couldn't :[

Pistol: Reload-full is static at mag-out, reload-empty looks like an unfinished piece of unpolished garbage T_T

almost done =V

You don't need that many chamfers on the trigger.

And you should attach the handle to the guard, down by the magazine.

The rear part of the slide looks quite disproportionate to the rest of the gun. I also don't know what's going on with the area on the handle, next to the trigger.

If you were truly to make it a more custom pistol, it would be nice if you could make something like an external hammer, real iron sights, just something to set it apart from other magnums.

I see what AGLion is talking about, the back part seems really small compared to the rest of it. It might be the angle though, cause it's farther away.

actually,the back part is 3 times bigger than the front.which I have to fix.However the angle is weird.
Edited by 032 Mendicant Bias on Sep 12, 2010 at 09:26 PM

Some one should make the pistol animations like the pistol's in "The Conduit"

Those are AWESOME!


-Skidrow

I'm hoping you take crit well.

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You have got the idea, bit in some parts I can see edges where there is a curve, and they are apart of that curve but they are not doing much. Well, basically, if there aren't really defining the curve much then just get rid of them.

The trigger could just be a box with a curve, don't see it so no point in modeling details or chamfer'in it imo.

Behing the trigger you have that indent where the thumb rests, you seem to have some pointless edge loop which is vertical at the back of the indent.

Other than that it looks alright for what it is. Try something a bit bigger and challenging so we can give you better crit to what improve on.

Also, at some points your poly distribution is a little off.

Looks good though.

Ok,I'll see what I can do about those,thanks for the crit.

Flat surfaces can be optimized greatly.
Also, the larger and more equilateral the triangle, the better. A bunch of thin triangles crowded up in the same area can cause for the pixels to be processed twice at certain distances and angles.

random smg i modeled just now:

that IS random!

aside from general boxiness in some areas (reflex sight, screws, the parts that are rounded where the screws go) its pretty good. are you considering a career in this field? because i dont think youd have a problem getting hired

ya, ima redo the sight and some other areas. and ya im thinking of this field :P

Rig it bro

The clip looks a bit bulky compared to the rest of the gun, but that would be my only complaint, the rest looks good.

You're better than some of those old farts modeling for big companies. I love almost every model you churn out.

I have a question on rails for weapons. Is there a standard type rail that most people use? I see most of them and they all look exactly or almost exactly the same.

picatinny rails.

the most common, and the most easy to model is the one where its simple extrudes. there are multiple types of rails that you can use though.

for instance, there is a type of rail that has a gap in the middle, and is actually used on most cod guns.

accurate rails, that make sense, are picatinny rails, which is used on almost all guns.

CoD doesnt count, there accuracy sucks.

I agree also I think the sight looks a little odd.


-Skidrow

CoD rails suck ass. picatinny rails or they are wrong.

does anybody have that picture that was posted around a while back that has all of the measurements of picatinny rails? i keep forgetting to save it when i see it :(

The CoD rails are a legit type of picatinny rail, and they look better than just simple extrudes and scales. I believe there are three types of picatinny rails:

rail I'm talking about. you can find this on the market more frequently, and on guns that normally do not come with picatinny rails.

regular, like you would find on most AR-15 derivatives

weaver rail, with less spacing between the slots, i believe this would be common on some much newer or custom AR-15s.


and dimensions:


forgot to add: the NATO accessory rail


and there is a type of rail called Picatinny Combat Attachment Points, but it's not really rails. Its simply oval holes on the forward grip found on the XM8, don't have a picture for it.
Edited by AGLion on Sep 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM