SMOOTH THE #&@% ROUND THING! HA just kidding but you probably should put a smooth group on it.

Got a scale? slap a warthog MC or peli beside for scale please.
Edited by Skidrow925 on Oct 27, 2010 at 03:15 PM

Hows that?
Edited by Amazingcuziam on Oct 27, 2010 at 03:55 PM

Epic sex. Now get it done!!!!!!!!!!111one

This is what he making just incase some people don't know. I might sub'd this, I like it. Well, when I get a break from Uni

That... is a really big gun.

0_o when its done you should release it. i wanna test that out.

you should call it a rail gun cuz magnetic accelerators aren't as awesome

Hows it lookin'? ( inoez about dah smoove grupe arrerz)

Not bad, not bad.

Magnetic Accelerator is so much of a better name, Rail gun sounds like a train is gonna come out of the gun.

lol well it is a better name but because of how it works its not as powerful

also i think you need to make sure your gun gets smaller towards the end just like the one from Reach otherwise imo it looks kinda too boxy. and use a chamfer on the outside edges to smooth actually smooth them up, or depending on the size of the model relative to the 3ds max world maybe use a turbosmooth modifier on it .... but if the model isnt big enough it will destroy the model and possibly make it round...
Edited by G TheFlea on Oct 27, 2010 at 05:59 PM

Nice.

uhh, the one in reach doesn't get smaller, its just the view :). and its boxy because i haven't bothered at all with the smoothing. (I.E. There are NO smooth groups on most of the gun) as for Turbosmooth it makes it look like a crab, and brings the polys (in the main barrel part) up from around 980 to 8000 (in editable poly, so not sure how accurate that is), so umm no.

uh ohhhh 8000 polies :| can halo's engine not handle that?
and yea i see now its just the perspective
but im thinking maybe the entire barrels part could be scaled down on its z axis to be more like the one in the game... orr just the outside edges im not sure but the height and width i dont think should be that close

lol, the engine CAN handle it, but not everyones computer can. and its not only the giant poly leap (which i test in a newer version of max, and is only 4k polys more) it also makes it look like a crab, and rounds it off too much. as for the z scaling, it is near the same (it is a little bigger than it should be though) but part of the "Height" issue is that i have some edges there at a somewhat different angle, making it seem slightly more rounded (depending on your view though) :) i'll see what i can do about it though :)

Get better computers people!!! Your bringing us down!!!

It's mainly the game engines fault, due to how old it is. The game engine may render objects weird which needs more memory than other games would to render the same object.

update on chopper:

note: engine and gearbox etc are all placeholders till i make detailed ones.

pretty sure the cannon part makes all the difference broski

looks great :) i was about to say something about the bumps on the (engine i think) but then realized that its a placeholder :P. Beats my MAC cannon by like 10 billion times. Speaking of which, here, you can haz small update http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z361/Amazingcuziam/sbdvasdbgfew.jpg (i noez itz only a link, dont wanna put up another picture ) now all thats left really is just to model the cockpit and get someone to texture it (Any volunteers?)
Edited by Amazingcuziam on Oct 27, 2010 at 07:58 PM

definately gettin there!! looking forward to the finished product for suuure!!

anyone have any ideas as to how i could animate these treads if i actually put this in halo??

orrrr should i turn it into some kinda cool new tank with like 8 wheels on either side??

A cannon is bigger then a gun.

yea but a rail gun shoots projectiles at 2.3 km/s.... mach 7....

have you ever seen a MAC round? no, thats what i thought.

a MAC goes about 3/4 the speed of light. And if anything is between where it is and where it is going it's not gonna be there anymore.

Isn't that gun in Reach called the Mass Driver?

except mac rounds dont exactly explode.

They don't need to explode.

A (let's say) 500 gram projectile traveling at .75c (about 224844343.5 meters per second) would have an energy output of about 1.2639e+16 joules or 3.0207 megatons of TNT.

Enough to shatter anything in it's path (that would hurt, a lot), but I think it's safe to say that MAC's don't shoot a projectile 3/4 the speed of light.

Edit:

Looked it up, and MAC cannons fire 600 ton shells at 30 kilometers per second and Super MAC's fire 3k ton shell at 12,000 km per second.

That would make it so that smaller MACs have the energy of 2.4489e+14 joules or 58.53 kilotons of TNT and Super MACS have the energy of 1.9591e+20 joules or about 4.6824e+4 megatons of TNT.

It would still really hurt.
Edited by AGLion on Oct 27, 2010 at 10:11 PM

Okay, to the whole MAC cannon Rail gun thing, it is a model of a MAC cannon, thats what it will be called, a MAC cannon. Argument over. and to Bobblehob, Yes it is called a Mass Driver, it is also known as a MAC cannon though, if you look when you go to get in it, it says "press "" to enter MAC cannon". 10:42 PM, This just in, i'm pretty much done, here be some picz for you guys :)
5,489 polys (in editable poly), 12k in editable mesh
Edited by Amazingcuziam on Oct 27, 2010 at 10:44 PM

where the hell did you get those numbers from?!??!

you have to find the relativistic mass because the mass of an object increases when its going .75c

the 500gram object's mass increases to 1000grams at 0.75c

E = mc^2
total energy = relativistic mass * c^2
the total energy is 1(3.00^2)
so thats 9x10^16 Joules

extrude that to your super MAC's non existent 3 kilo tonne shell which is actually 2.7e9 kilograms at 12,000 m/s which is 0.00004c
relativistic mass would be 2.7e9 kg
so the total energy would be 2.43e26 joules


when i mentioned that the railgun shoots stuff at mach 7, well... thats in real life... i wasn't talking about the FICTIONAL stuff in halo otherwise of course MAC guns are ridiculously more powerful..



oh and btw, the model is looking great
Edited by G TheFlea on Oct 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM

and probably that rail gun thing would probably be called a mini-MAC(yum) due to the fact MAC guns are huge and and the amount of force coming from something as small as this design we are talkin would not be very realistic or logical.

Sorry, this is a good enough explanation if you ask me. Not goin go into math. Since my Calculus 1 grade is shy from perfect...

cheif chillin on the bike:

That bike image looked like something out a fashion magazine.
As for the Electromagnetic Particle Accelerator (Weaponized),
We need some of those in some RPG or huge maps =)

So, who wantz me to release it now, and who wants me to ingame it and release it then? and also, who wants meh to makez a falcon? (i dont care if you want me to, im doing it anyways.)

if its textured release it now for suuure cuz id use it in an animation

shiney updates :D



ill post a regualr clay later if wanted