I'm liking that Reach sniper model.

Thanks. I gotta remake it though in 3ds :'(

Reach magnum I have been modeling for last few days.
I know the back of it isnt looking anything like reach magnum, I might remodel that part.
And there are several obvious wrapping errors but since im so bat at wrapping and texturing in general I wont redo it.
Has 1203 faces.


Edited by beazt on May 8, 2011 at 04:43 PM
Edited by beazt on May 8, 2011 at 04:44 PM

Show. Me. The. Triangles. Now.

I spy with my little eye, N-Gons, fix 'em! Hunter is probably gonna come in and say something about them too, listen to him if he does, he knows more about them than i do. I essence though, N-Gons are faces with more than 4(ish) vertices attached. I forget why they're so bad though.

They are bad because they are 1 polygon but can have an infinite number of triangles. A N-gon is a polygon. But usually a n-gon refers to a polygon with more then 4 sides. Therefore they are bad since you can think you have 22 polys on a cylinder but you would really have 60. Get it?

Which is why you should give the triangle count and not the polycount.

They are bad because some game engines can have trouble rendering them and calculating the lighting on them as almost all game engines use the verts to calculate lighting on the mesh.

They are not so bad on flat surfaces though, but it's bad practice. I used to always have them lol, I never got told not to... but I know they are not good to have, you won't see them on professional models.

How about you type it out next time Hunter?

It's kinda hard to read.

But I am glad I wus right xD

Over all it's nice but hunter was right about most all of it.

Not sure what the green was about.

I don't write often okay! lol. :P

View larger image, easier read.

When you DO write try to use either print or cursive. Not a mix. That get's annoying.

I don't see what the problem is with the handwriting is... you can read it, right?

Ok well, here's a AR that im trying to fix, and get ingame. (AR Fails because it needs grenade throwing animations and the number thing need to be fixed so its not see through)

Here's what its supposed to look like: http://www.xfire.com/video/43665f/
And here's what it looks like currently: http://www.xfire.com/profile/tylerp14/screenshots/?view#113827018

just model an actual reach rifle instead? Don't modify other people's work and call it yours.

I didnt call it mine, DaniloC is credited for the model and bitmaps/shaders and the such. Credit goes to him as well for the sniper, Im just fixing it for him and getting things to work.
Sniper: http://www.xfire.com/profile/tylerp14/screenshots/?view#113826977

Edit:
Fixed the AR, Take a look: http://www.xfire.com/profile/tylerp14/screenshots/?view#113830688
Edited by tylerp14 on May 8, 2011 at 11:26 PM

AR seems a bit fat. less width, more height.

^^^ Thats the way its supposed to look Now then...Anybody know how to fix this? http://www.xfire.com/profile/tylerp14/screenshots/?view#113832052

I think that's in the 3P animations.

Idk where that is or how to fix it, i'll just ask DaniloC when he gets on xfire...

Load up the model in max, then import the default ar model. notice how the nodes/markers are positioned on the default model, and try positioning the nodes and markers similarly on yours. This SHOULD fix the problem.

Mainly because I dont have 3ds Max installed and not that good at modeling...My friend looked at the gbxmodel in 3ds Max and said it was fine, which was odd in his case, he didnt know what to do, so apparently its not the 3p problem, even though he kept saying it was the fp gbxmodel but it wasnt. So.......
Edited by tylerp14 on May 9, 2011 at 03:22 AM

Not very well.

There is nothing wrong with ngons , so long as your smoothing groups are done right and you are not sub dividing the mesh.

Well, the AR in this vid http://www.xfire.com/video/4667d9/ is almost completed, i'll post here when its done

Do you need a perfect sound for armor lock ? ^^

Do you have a Sound I could use?

long and thin isn't great, but it's not worth adding unnecessary verticies to avoid.

A bit late, but that was the BEST post ever.

Not in most places I agree Pen. But if they are extremely long and thin and you have spare triangles it doesn't hurt. Helps to avoid smoothing errors too :)

Agree?

It's pretty much all circumstantial. It'll change constantly so you have to be attentive enough to know when and where. but yes if smoothing is coming out horrible then yeah you may have to. But with normals now it can hide it a lot.

Also not best post, immature and a waste of space.

Okay, fair enough.

What do you mean by that last bit?
"Also not best post, immature and a waste of space."

What format ? :)

Um, .sound tags maybeh?

He means Grunt's scribbled wireframe is immature, and not the best post as I said it was. Sure it was immature, but it was funny.

I'm a noob in modding ! I can just send you in a standart format, like .wav, .voc, ...
Sorry :/

If you plan to convert whatever sound effect ya'll are talking about into a .sound tag then you should make it a .wav (.mp3 works too I think, but I use .wav so I don't know for sure about .mp3)

If you don't know how to convert sounds then simply download this tool:
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2659

It is really easy to use and has good understandable instructions. You basically just have to select a file, click a button and your done.

Hope this helps,
-Yoda