Cool man.

I'm not texturing it.

no way your 46 years old moooseguy.the other half is a possibilty xD
Edited by ally on Jan 12, 2011 at 08:35 AM

Render a closeup of that area with wireframe on. When i say closeup I mean so all of that area fills the render. And put that dam filter on so it's better quality.

Also, change the background color to a dark grey, rendering on black is bad.

i render on black cause PB automatically makes the black background transparent :P

nvm fix smoothing a little ice
Edited by Hydrogen on Jan 12, 2011 at 06:28 PM

Right, I forgot that. My usual camera script automatically sets up the glossy material for me.

I got rid of the loop thing at the front, I'm gonna remake it as an extension of the main part of the handle, as it should be.

Now, what is clay modelling, and what is PB? and how do I change the colour of the background of the render.

E: Uploaded a wireframe of the current appearance.

Edited by IcePhoenix on Jan 13, 2011 at 09:08 AM

Hit 8 (default) to open a thing where you can set the background. I have no idea what PB is in this context. To me PB just means PunkBuster. heh

My second model. :D
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9084/m4a114.jpg
You guys like?

Way too unneat and bendy. Guns (and most machinery) should be made of straight parts. The ridge at the top middle (or loop, or w/e) should be straight instead of bending downwards like it's been dented.
Find a picture of the gun and see how its parts are mainly straight.

I found the gun pic like that

The trigger is a tad too far from the grip, the barrel clips badly at the point where it joins the middle part, and the front part of the barrel isn't round. The trigger is too low-poly, it should be more rounded. You also need to know which parts of the gun are seperate parts from which other parts. For example, the stock is a simple triangle, the protrusions you added on the bottom are a seperate part so they should have been a seperate shape, or at least have some indicators (such as notches and not-gradual change in width) that they are seperate.

E: Woot, finally finished modfying the Plasma Rifle.





Edited by IcePhoenix on Jan 14, 2011 at 09:53 AM

*EPIC SCREAM* *HEAD EXPLODES*


*head pulls back together for several moments*

Nice PR.

*Head falls apart.*

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/6060/ak47gmax.png
My 40-minute model

Looks like 2 minutes, if that. No offence. Give it some detail, watch tutorials. ALOT.

That took you 40 minutes!?!?

This is one of my 5 min models.


Well. The modeling took about maybe 5 min's. The render took... well... a VERY long time.

EDIT because it wasn't there(?)

Try finding some modeling tutorials.

http://ghost.halomaps.org/tutorials/

That is a great place to find tutorials on just about everything. And as will be said later try to model different pieces and then combine them.
Edited by Skidrow925 on Jan 14, 2011 at 06:13 PM

my input would be, try not to model everything in one giant thing. there's many different parts to a gun that could be modeled separately. many of the shapes can be modeled from the standard primitives MAX lets you start out with (cube for the body, cylinder for the barrel, etc) if you're anal about polycount, and you get the chance, be sure to have little details like screws as objects going completely through the gun, or better yet, built into the texture.

if you're looking to get something in-game, you're going to want it rigged. by this, I mean you're going to want the clip to be able to come out, the trigger to be pulled back, the bolt to be pulled back, etc. you can rig these to separate objects rather than bones, which would allow for more fluidity

Really though, I do suggest you watch tutorials and modeling techniques. I see overlapping faces, smoothing errors, and overall poor modeling

That looks really cool. I'm thinking Reachlike textures/uberified Halo 1 bitmaps design.

HERP DERP, I CAN PUT DOWN A NOVICE MODELER WHO'S PROBABLY NEVER MODELED BEFORE AND TRYING TO LEARN WITH MY MUCM MORE EXPERIENCED WORK EVEN THOUGH IT'S IRRELEVANT TO THE THREAD TOPIC TO MAKE MYSELF FEEL BETTER ABOUT MYSELF BECAUSE I LIKE TO THINK I'M A PROFESSIONAL MODELER AND THIS IS TOTALLY A CONTEST!!!

LADIEZ WILL THINK I'M PRO



proud of you bro

excellent model icephoenix.

lolwut?

I am fixing that message. It didn't get the entire thign for some reason. NMF it didn't work.
Edited by Skidrow925 on Jan 14, 2011 at 06:11 PM

Nice work man, I would not have expected something like this from you. Let this be an example for people who claim they cannot model at all without even trying - I seem to recall IcePhoenix starting to model only a month or so ago, and he can already produce a usable model. Kudos.

@IcePhoenix.

Poly count decent?

it's not really my own work, I just adjusted the original PR a bit. somehow the changes added about 2000 more polies, count is 8202.
So is it actually gonna be usable it was made in 3ds Max 2011?
Edited by IcePhoenix on Jan 14, 2011 at 09:55 PM

tsk tsk. Someone doesn't know about Halomaps's best meme.

I don't even know what meme you're talking about...the best one I believe is the "how do I shot web?" one probably. Gawd, that thread was amazing back in the day ._.

It's a DEE thing, used mostly on people who believe they are pro.

Hello, this is my first time posting in the weapons wip thread, but I want to show the weapon I'm making, I can't think of a name so I just went with m-82.















I know i'm not a great modeler and also with bitmaps, but if you have recomendations that would be nice.
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Jan 14, 2011 at 11:12 PM

Edit: btw I free modeled, I didn't use a image to model.
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Jan 14, 2011 at 11:17 PM

Pretty nice, but looks more like a hair-dryer than any gun.

I edited the gun to be less round and more flat.














Tell me if it still looks like a hair dryer
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Jan 15, 2011 at 10:06 AM
Edited by Halocombatevolved on Jan 15, 2011 at 10:10 AM

Rotate it 90 degrees and it could be some kind of grenade

You mean you pull the trigger and throw it then it lands on the spikes and blows up? And what do you mean by rotate 90 degrees? which part?

Rotate 90 degrees = grenade = win lul

Hmm pistol-grenade (pull trigger, throw) is a pretty good concept lol.

The pistol looks pretty overbalanced, move the trigger and grip closer to the front.

Btw don't abandon the hairdryer version, it's kinda cool.