lol lol lol noob!!!! ;)
its a wire frame render http://www.eddybrown.co.uk/blog/claywireframerender/

I'm gonna write up a quick tut on how to make a cel-shaded material and render it in 3ds max sometime soon.

There are already tutorials on how to do that. I should make some epic render tuts though.

Please do that. I would benefit from a render tut.

Not exactly the kind of cel-shading I mean though, all I've seen is basic cartoon ones just using the pen and ink material or whatever. My way is a little different.

You really think I haven't seen all those before =)

My point is to make a tutorial on something that hasn't been done before millions of times.

Point it up a bit more please. Also, it doesn't look like the thumb is helping to grip the gun, but rather hold it up. But yes, the model does look good.
Edited by ODX on Oct 22, 2008 at 08:11 PM

Spartan, we already went over this. His model isn't CAD's. It's got obvious differences.

2 pages back: http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo161/trehuragok7/Models/wire-1.jpg

Gun position looks pretty decent IF the reticule weren't in the center of the screen. rotate frame gun upwards a bit on the Y axis (I think its y anyways). the finger positioning is pretty bad though. Make the thumb actually grip the weapon rather than just sit there.

yeah halo 3 is retarded with thumb position. try to hold a gun with your thumb like that. with an airsoft gun or something its not a big deal, but try firing a 12 gauge shotgun with your thumb like that. you wont.

But I- I mean, before, post, IV....D:

http://www.bungie.net/Online/Halo3UserContentDetails.aspx?h3fileid=56461365

I want to see these origins performed. And CLS's origins for the AR actual look the best next to SomethingTeam's.

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/3204/arrenderof3.jpg

Old concept. Fuxed fingers.

H3MT's bubble shield... :-/

How so?

That was before he got D33p's IK arms I suppose.

He means the fingers don't look right. Also, if you wan't to see those origins, play halo 3. Personally, I'd rather see custom animations any day than halo 3's simplistic, boring anims.

Yeah like my awesome PP anim ideas to make the PP more interesting :D You still need to do those ICEE lol

>.>

<.<

Who me? *sigh*

I'll do them, dont worry

I thought you hated animating them? Or was that the needler?

Both to be honest, but i already did the needler. May as well get the Plasma pistol out of the way

Why is the Needler so hard to animate? I can imagine why it would be a nightmare for modeling, but how so animating?

It's easy to model. I believe it's the weapon with the most animations in the game.

How so? It has: reload, ready, idle, posing, grenade, overlay, and...crap what am I forgetting. Moving, I forget what it's really called. How is that the most animations? Humans weapons have 2 reloads, one for an empty clip and one for a not empty clip, then everything has what I said, besides adding more animations for something like equipment.

Maybe the most demanding animations?

It seems like the most flexible, if you ask me. Countless ways to make the ready, the reload? Either shake it around in different directions or reload it like CMT's. Melee? Either use the spikes or the bottom, punch them even, grenade, eh, nothing so special. The posing? Poke your hand with the needles would be one. I guess you could say say demanding also, since it's the only Covenant weapon in Halo 1 that has to 'reload.'

because, you have to animate every single needle, as they each have their own frame.

ready
idle
fire-1
throw grenade
melee
reload full
reload empty (this is necessary to put the needles back in place before the anim is over, otherwise they will fly up at the end like cmt's old h2 needler)
ammunition (to make the needles disappear with each shot
posing
overlays
moving

its obnoxious to sync up the needles in the middle of the reload anim with their original origin

The reason needlers are multiple assaches to animate is because of its overall shape. You don't even need to touch the needles themselves for any of the animations except for the ammunition. positioning the hand inside the gun to actually wrap around the handle is a pain, also the reload is ridiculous. How wiggling the gun around like the halo 1,2 and 3 reload animations do will actually put more ammunition into the caddy, I just don't understand.

The weapon that is actually the hardest to animate is the plasma pistol in my opinion, because it has the most animation scenes of any typical halo weapon. The plasma pistol has

ready
melee
fire-1
fire-2
misfire-1
overheating
overheated
o-h-exit
throw grenade
overcharging
overlays
moving
overheating-again
throw-overheated

stop me if I missed one.

It is also very difficult (for me) to get the overheating sequence to look natural in game. Plus, the weapon's design doesn't make it easy. The only weapon that can almost compare to the plasma pistol in difficulty would be the flamethrower, because it has a reload animation as well as most of the animations I listed above.

~mystery solved~

Agreed

The texture is to blotchy and unsmooth. Metal isn't spackled like that. The sponge filter was abused much.