Have you finished the Concussion Rifle yet?

Not yet no

I can't wait to see it, though.
Your current models are top notch. I hope they make it ingame.

Tah and me too :L
The idea is to bake the details into a Normal and AO, Normal's pointless for CE just need the AO. But I still havn't tryed to bake anything, usually fails lol. The lowpoly can be used though lol, got the shotgun at low poly, had it for ages just need to unwrap it.

Noob question:
What's AO?

Ambient and Occlution, basically the shadows and where parts are dark as no light gets to it. Help's texturing loads and can give better result.

Ah I see.
Lol, I should probably learn about tag texturing and stuff. But I've always been more of a bsp/map unwrapper/script/shader/bitmap/etc guy.
Who knows, maybe I could make some cool shiz outside of Halo if I learn this though...

Have you tried learning hi-poly? It's a lil difficult. :/
I've been using Grant Warwick's tutorials though and they are helping to clarify things a bit. If you go this way, you should definitely check him out. He has some good videos on Autodesk's forum website. You need to sign up to see them though.

Here's a render i made of eliteslasher's Halo reach grenade. Note that textures are old. New textures will be shown LATER.

I You can crit on the grenade if you want, or the render itself.
(render: 3.5 MB)

Grenade looks good, not much to crit on tbh, looks perfectly acceptable.

Looks pretty cool. Reminds me of BFBC

I DEMAND to see a wireframe.
Jk.

That model isn't hidden by ripped textures, custom textures + model.

But i MUST SEE A WIREFRAME!!11
Jk.

Hope that hog has a heavy engine and front end.

I know right?

lol

Well, we are close to done. Shade has been working on getting the final textures, shaders, and everything completed. A few tweaks and we will be ready to give this thing out to the community.

Anyway, may look a little dark, but some changes may be made to brighten them up a little bit.















Video

http://www.xfire.com/video/3d62c3/


Please leave crit. We can leave changing shaders up to others, but we want the textures to be right the first time.
Edited by eliteslasher on Dec 22, 2010 at 04:28 AM

Textures are badass. I think it looks great.

Okay, I retook some screenshots of the grenade, but this time, in normal lighting. It's not dark and the reflection is far better (ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE METAL imo)












Oh and new video for the reflections.

http://www.xfire.com/video/3d632e/

Don't forget to post crit before we release!



Edited by Shade117 pro on Dec 22, 2010 at 04:56 AM

Too shiny on the grimy bits, you can't have shiny grime. That just doesn't make sense!

Other than that, it needs a contrail and a light like the reach grenade.

Aside from those additions, it looks awesome.

I dont think this will be a full release with new particles and such. So yeah, its up to people to do that themselves, we are only releasing the grenade (maybe, though now you mention it, I wouldn't mind doing the contrail and all). The Grime, sadly... I don't know whether to care about it or not . But thanks for the crit, EliteSlasher and I appreciate your crit!

I don't want to be near that hog ;)

OUTLINES= NO
GRIME + GLOSS = NO. Reduce showing of the cubemap....make your multipurpose more red.
Edited by Invader Veex on Dec 22, 2010 at 08:16 AM

The metal bits look fine. The layer beneath looks like cloth.

Just add a yellow lens flare to a marker on the grenade. Copy the banshee lights flare and that should do it.

Looking great guys! Does it screw with performance any considering how nice it looks or will it not matter too much?

@veex. Okay the multimap will be fixed and I don't get where the outlines are exactly? Any pointers on what you are talking about would be good

He's talking about the scratches around the edges of the model. I personally agree with him, they seem to be overdone. Especially when a grenade shouldn't really be taking that much abuse.

I think the scratches on there were my original scratch layer in which case, yes it was overdone.

I dropped a grenade in a meat grinder once.

I can't go on my CPU at the moment but the only reason the scratches are so bright is because of the multimap but I'll get it done tomorrow.

Shader tutorial: make one?
E: Damn, new page. Sorry if I sound like a idiot there.

Edited by SlappyThePirate on Dec 22, 2010 at 08:40 PM

I don't get what you mean :P