Some more wips. The content within the rails are still in the design stage. I need to think of something interesting for them :P. Lets just say its 97% done. Made some spec and normal maps and rendered it in 3ds max.

Why can't I model like that.... Soo not fair...


I sooo want that thing...

someone should model a pvs4

Your texturing is VERY good mister.

You could say that...

wat

the shotgun's inaccuracy is what balances it out. If you make it really accurate then it increases the range and it's no longer a close range weapon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJasFFmkkQU
Edited by Spartan 279 on Jul 31, 2011 at 06:23 PM

The hand coming off of the magazine insertion literally teleports away. That's beyond snappy, it's physically impossible - even by a crazy aesthetics-first definition. In general you seem to lack control over your motions... it's not a bad thing if you're a beginner but the sooner you can leave that sort of thing behind the better. Your movements across the board seem to follow a sort of logic common to new animators - it's something like stating "okay, the magazine is coming out so now the gun *must* move because that's what it's supposed to do" rather than asking "how, if at all, should the gun react to this situation?". A little emphasis on subtlety in your movements can go a long way towards making them better.

If you haven't already I strongly, strongly, strongly recommend the tutorial series by Jeniffer!! regarding FP animation:

http://www.mediafire.com/?93mdbt9dyn1
http://www.mediafire.com/?8s0mc32qxul
Edited by teh lag on Jul 31, 2011 at 06:35 PM

Now it wouldn't be halo without glowing thingies...




It would probably work better with a warmer colour. I choose an ice blue for the render, but it can be easily changed to a red.

Personally I feel that the glowing bits are a little too prominent. However, since its technically a gauss/rail gun I can see the possible justification for having somewhat more glowy bits around the barrel.

I made it stand out mostly for render purposes. It is intended as a really weak glow, only visible in darkness. In game however, I would probably make it so it doesn't even seem to glow under light.

Maybe try thinner red lights, or at least some sort of fixture or edge around the lights would help.

I also finished the tac shotgun.

original:


Modified (final).


I shortened the original iron sight rail and removed the rear part of the sights.
Edited by Jesse on Aug 1, 2011 at 12:47 AM

Perfect :D

The thumb movement clips, and seems rather unnatural. Best be rid of it.

The left hand still jumps after the clip-in. I don't see what's so hard about lengthening the timeline and dragging the frames further apart.

The little jerk-tilt at the end of the return to origin is a little out-of-rhythm with the rest of the animation. There seems to be a slight pause right before it, though I can't really tell, because the video ends abruptly. For your next video, consider repeating the animation 2 or 3 times through a quick edit with Movie Maker.

E: Just saw Jesse's post.

Perfect, the only thing you need to do now is

Edited by doompig444 on Aug 1, 2011 at 12:59 AM

Animating FRMT's DMR. How's this for a noobie?

Sum Ting Wong.

To be honest, I like them because they're different origins from what you see, Maybe even realistic but they won't work for this game.

Might release the tac shotgun with the h1 anims today.
Edited by Jesse on Aug 1, 2011 at 01:32 AM

dont look the same origin wise

Magnet guns don't glow and human weapons don't normally either.
I know you like the Crysis 1 gauss , but sorry, glow doesn't make sense for gauss really. Keep it metal and only glow what would normally glow on human guns.

DMR sure is one ugly gun.

His origins and the retail ones look totally different. The stock on the retail origins is more up and the gun is more "straightened out" per say.

Glow makes things look awesome.

Covie, plasma based weapons perhaps, but glow was not made for human weapons unless it is a plasma based human weapon. Magnets don't glow, if they overheated so much to where they glowed I wouldn't want that anywhere near where my hand.
There are no human weapons in halo that use glow as it is used in this manner.

I disagree, the magnets themselves don't glow, but in this case, a weapon like that would take an unbelievable amount of electricity to be usable, so it seems to me that there should be a visible representation of that enormous current that the gun uses to fire the projectile.

And you want your VISUAL electric current RIGHT by your hands? Electrical currents are not represented by colors and electrical blots traveling between electrodes. What is this Frankenstein? just because you need more power doesn't change the known facts about electricity. Besides, all you would see, if anything, is white light jumping, not blue, unless it was plasma.

I'd rather it look cool than portray realism.

Woah, woah, chill bro, Im saying a visual representation that the entire weapon, scope not included, is coursing with energy. Im not saying have current arcing through the air, but some sort of led or lighting system that indicates that it isn't just a piece of metal.

Note how he's looking almost straight down in that picture. That's with the looking overlays that cause the gun to move accordingly in a semi-realistic fashion.

@314: They look okay, are not exact, but are not bad either. You may need a slight downward tilt and a shift upward, but whatever.

Update:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5996800231_904435ab55_b.jpg
Edited by Spartan314 on Aug 1, 2011 at 03:28 AM

Ok that may be acceptable, but strips of light in random places as it is in these renders makes it look like plasma and it looks gawdy.

doesn't look gawdy, it just needs to be a little more defined.

if it's going to be used, it's still too much. Perhaps small thin lighted lines in one area might be acceptable but thick strips of light like on it now make the thing look like it's more useful as a light bulb than a gun.

No they don't, that's why it's the impractical shotgun. Btw, shotguns can shoot farther than ~1m. Didn't we already discuss this? I posted about the spas 12 and that it had a ~40m range and skidrow was like "I was just gonna say that" or something?

Anyway, It can just be for looks. There's a lot of stuff in video games that's just for looks, and is impractical on real weapons. For example, the reach shotgun has rails on it.
image

I have no idea what you would ever need to mount up on a shotgun like that. (except maybe a really impractical red dot sight :P)


Edited by Dennis on Aug 2, 2011 at 07:18 PM

Maybe to blind the shooter?

Maybe, because the shooter is so dumb, it blinds the shooter, and when the shooter is blinded, his resulting spastic firing actually hits something.

Thats the way it works in Halo, son. Spastic hunters, spastic glitches, stuf liek dat.

No offence to any people.