Quick-Crit 2008-2009

[Malloy]

thanks, loads of bugs to fix, gotta finish skinning it and definitely a model edit before completion ( the hologram...)

btw, this isnt just a random project to build a terminal this will be used to articulate a Marathon Man achievement award that unlocks an advantage area in a map im currently working on :thumbs up:

[killer9856]

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s15/SAH1R/sohearzurholidayyyyy.jpg

How is this terrain looking? I think i should fix the edge of where the grass and cliff meet.

[Bastinka]

Looks nice, the rocks and everything seem really halo-esque!

[kenney001]

first attempt at actual vehicle rendering. That is also my first attempt at a vehicle model (shown here before)

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/kenney001/BmwZ4_studio_render.jpg


I know there are manyl modeling mishaps, it's still a WIP...

[DEElekgolo]

I see Vrayness. Or is that Mental Ray? The glass doesnt seem like Vray.
Also.
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs33/f/2008/239/c/a/Soccer_Bal_by_DEElekgolo.png

[Malloy]

yay for Halo-esque themed wip's

[kenney001]

nope its MR...don't have vray.

Nice ball^

[Malloy]

the ball looks ripped from Halo 3...

i guess the materials nice though

[Hunter]

^ Lol.

Is looks a bit to high poly though...

[DEElekgolo]

The ball is custom modeled and textured. Ripping from retail is hard. And ball isn't in beta.

[killer9856]

Nice render kenny!

soccerball looks cool to btw

[Malloy]

The ball is custom modeled and textured. Ripping from retail is hard. And ball isn't in beta.

if what you talk isn't fiction, good job.

Fooled me into thinking it was ripped ;)

[Hunter]

http://gamerscreek.com/users/WMHunterTLS/pics/Barrett_1.jpeg

[DEElekgolo]

Textures for soccer ball.
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/9791/presenttexturesws9.jpg

[Malloy]

wtf.. thats wierd as.

i would of just made a high poly sphere then cut it in half, textured one side and let the normal map do the rest.

[DEElekgolo]

The least amount of distortion is what I do.

[NuggetWarmer]

the ball looks ripped from Halo 3...

i guess the materials nice though

You can't be serious... why would you rip a fucking ball?

[Malloy]

why would you rip anything...

i rest my case.

[NuggetWarmer]

why would you rip anything...

i rest my case.

To learn how other companies model. Oh, and I suppose you don't like Zteam's work?

EDIT: I rest my case. Why? Because it was tired.

[Malloy]

what?!... seems like you're tryin to be agressive towards my opinion.

each to ones own.

i prefer to be a 100% custom work admirer, i have nuthing against Zteam's work... just something that has been made from scratch with all of the inbetweens from modelling to ingame (UVwrapping and texturing) i find more impressive.

Edit:
Something on topic.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/terminalorbtest.jpg?t=1219868824

Its a different shade of blue to fit in with the multiplayer maps scheme.
The origional could be possibly used in SP... who knows.

its pretty much finished, may tweak the texture to make it more accurate before final release of the map i am intending this to go in.

[Heathen]

LOOKS MUCH BETTER. Didnt like the black.

[DEElekgolo]

Needs more computerized scrolling textures. Like Cortana's skin.

[Malloy]

elaborate please. :thumbs up:

edit: oh i see for a more holographic look...sure i guess i was really tryin to immitate Halo 3's hologram but the colours have sort of dampened through the process of compilation i may have to tweak them before final release.

ok, i got the doors UVW'd and skinned, although i feel the doors may be OTT

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/terminaldoors.png?t=1219887502

[DEElekgolo]

Looks nice. I was actually going to make a halo CE ui that looks just like it does when you use the terminal.

[ExAm]

That'd be cool.

Also, just did this out of boredom
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture191.png

[n00b1n8R]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/somethingsomethingdarkside.jpg

ExAm and I made these here http://garyc.mooo.com:3232/sketch/

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/n00b1n8R/O__O.jpg

[mech]

Pretty cool!

Ref image
http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/5337/macrosswhmkf9.jpg

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08354/warhammerwip_09612.png (http://xs.to)
http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08354/warhammerwip_010211.png (http://xs.to)

Warhammer WIP

[Rob Oplawar]

nice render.
decent model too, although I see heavy use of extrusion and chamfering for detail- i think that's permissible in this application.
boy, you really like mechs, don't you?

[mech]

Gotta chamfer, can't project the details at a 90 degree angle. And yes, I love mechs.

Closer view http://xs130.xs.to/xs130/08345/warhammerwip_08553.png

[Heathen]

Looks nice. I was actually going to make a halo CE ui that looks just like it does when you use the terminal.
Do it.

[Disaster]

Mech, can we get a wireframe?

[Heathen]

I got one of those sketch things, but idk if I can post it :/

If I cant mods, just delete it. I dont want ban.


I am just so proud of it because its the best thing I ever drew with a mouse.


No thanks.

[Rentafence]

Nice dick

[DEElekgolo]

So much detail. I'm surprised he even knows how one looks like.

[Heathen]

So much detail. I'm surprised he even knows how one looks like.
Is that a joke? Its from a nood picture of me. Dont make me prove it.

[Bastinka]

I smell a case of the homosexual, it's uncurable from what Yahoo! Answers tells me :[

[Malloy]

lol unlucky Silent (as i can only assume you were searching for homosexuality cures yourself.)

[Heathen]

BURN

[TeeKup]

Only I hold the cure. You need to come to my house and basement to get it.

@ Mech. Thats a beautiful Tomahawk Destroid you modeled.

[Heathen]

Ah at that sexual basement proposition.

[Malloy]

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/floodgrowthtest.jpg

model + skin : Malloy
animating + tagging : Ki11a_FTW

animated too, look great :D

[Bastinka]

do they pop?

[Malloy]

ooh yes they do sir.

[Rentafence]

Pics of poppage. >:(

[Malloy]

early beta...

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=M5F531OQ

[Rentafence]

They shouldn't completely disappear when shot. The top half should pop off, leaving the bottom and the exposed inside. =/

[Malloy]

the bottom half will be bsp geomtery and they sit nice on top.

[Heathen]

Look great! Cant you make them shiny? I know you guys have some word for what I am trying to say, but its some shiny map thing you guys do. Do that to make them look slimy.

Watched vid. "Breathing" like animation looks great, but couldn't you have it pop and leave the destroyed version? Not completely destroy itself?

[Malloy]

possibly yeh, this is basic stage of development so i guess we'll come to some sort of compramise for this issue.

i guess a cubemap could give it that Halo 3 glossy look... all in developement thanks for the crit :D

[SnaFuBAR]

Gotta chamfer, can't project the details at a 90 degree angle.
Uh, since when? You must not be doing your loops right. Also, looks like your smoothing is really bad in some spots, might want to fix your tesselation/ngons.

Not a bad model, but I've never really had much interest in mechs, as they're mostly a collection of primitives.

[Con]

ExAm and I made these here http://garyc.mooo.com:3232/sketch/

lulz, I asked if anyone there was from modacity and got this :smith:

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3416/capturexr7.png

[jngrow]

elaborate please. :thumbs up:

edit: oh i see for a more holographic look...sure i guess i was really tryin to immitate Halo 3's hologram but the colours have sort of dampened through the process of compilation i may have to tweak them before final release.

ok, i got the doors UVW'd and skinned, although i feel the doors may be OTT

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/terminaldoors.png?t=1219887502

Nice!

Also, tried to see the popper video, clicking play only led me to "dates in my area". :( Gah, then I had a nasty lil pop-under window.

[Malloy]

oh yeh sorry about that.., just close the advertised page and hit 'play' again on the streamed video.

[mech]

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08355/warhammeredgedrenders141.jpg

[TeeKup]

Model a Valkyrie!
http://www.steelfalcon.com/Macross/Images/VF19kaigerwalk.gif

or a Destroid Monster!
http://www.mahq.net/mecha/macross/sdfmacross/hwr-00-mk2.jpg

[mech]

Not part of the mod, the Valkyrie's IP was taken by BT in the Harmony gold BT lawsuit and the Destroid monster was taken by harmony gold. But BT does have an alternative to the Destroid monster which is this http://ppc.warhawkenterprises.com/mechbay/stone.jpg

The Warhammer aka Tomahawk Destroid also belongs to BT.

[Malloy]

iv'e never got into the Mech Warrior series, found it rather boring, but i love those renders :thumbs up:

[NuggetWarmer]

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/HEVSuitWithDummyAlmostDone.jpg
EDIT: Tri-count: 11,678

Almost finished. The knees look better in the Max view than in the render. I think the hands might be too big...

Also, does anyone have a solution for a Windows error? All of my folders are set to read-only, but the files aren't. Is this a major problem, or something that can be fixed easily?

[BobtheGreatII]

I think it looks rather sexy.

[Rob Oplawar]

like from a low budget niche pr0n film sexy

[legionaire45]

Ironically, your model has too many triangles to go into the Source Engine. (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Model_Creation_Overview#Performance_and_Budgets)

Looks nice, can you post a close up of the head?

[rossmum]

Is that an actual, hardcoded, "fuck you don't go over me or I wreck your shit" limit, or not?

welp guys looks like 1/3 of my King Tiger will get into the Source engine

[NuggetWarmer]

That's the polygon counts, not the tri counts. Once again, there's confusion in there. The polycount is almost 7K for Gordon.

[legionaire45]

I believe that if there are more then 10,000 polygons (might be triangles, idk) on screen at once, then the game will crash. Not sure if that limit applies to Gmod since I know some people have gotten 30,000 polygon models into it before among other things (eg armies of zombies, etc).

[rossmum]

Dunno about that; I've seen lines and lines of vertex overflow errors scroll down my console in GMod while looking across certain maps, but I've also seen a lot of shit onscreen at once in other Source games and I'd imagine it'd be a lot more than 10K.

[Disaster]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/rockskincopy.png
5th skin I've ever made in photoshop. Rock Skin or cliff skin is what it is.

[Roostervier]

lolpic

5th skin I've ever made in photoshop. Rock Skin or cliff skin is what it is.
It's starting to get there, but it lacks depth, and seems too plain.

[Disaster]

It's starting to get there, but it lacks depth, and seems too plain.
Thats what I was thinking. Whats the best way to add depth?

[DEElekgolo]

Make a choppy noise map and overlay.

[ExAm]

Looks like a good mossy rock texture.

[Disaster]

Looks like a good mossy rock texture.
I was aiming for a cliff skin but when I was done it was a rock skin :p. I applied it to a rock model earlier and it looked rather good.

[NuggetWarmer]

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/GordonFinal.jpg
I think I can finally say I'm finished with the model, minus a few smoothing errors.

[Bastinka]

Thighs and calves look a bit weird.

[killer9856]

Can we see a Perspective view of it? Kind of hard to say much with just a front view.

[NuggetWarmer]

Here's a perspective view of him. Hope you don't mind that I took the purdy lights out.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/PerspectiveGordon.jpg
I think his legs might be a bit too skinny.

[Chainsy]

That and the area right under his chest should stick out more.

[NuggetWarmer]

Which area under his chest?

[ICEE]

the protrusion is what chains is talking about

[NuggetWarmer]

Oh, I see. I like it better the way I have it though. Seems more accurate to this picture: http://news.filefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/half-life-2-wallpaper.jpg

[Chainsy]

The thing is, that's where the diaphragm is located. On normal people like scientists and other non uber muscular people, the disphragm actually sticks out a tiny bit further then the actual lung section of the chest, so as constricted as that is, it looks unnatural and seems like it would hurt to breathe.
example:
http://www.ian3d.net/Screenshot/Human%20Anatomy%20Side.jpg
Right uner the rib cage on the smooth model, you can see it sticking out further then the actual chest.

[il Duce Primo]

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/8031/texturekg6.png
The strip on the left is a copy from Halo 3 and the right one is mine.

[Malloy]

im only seeing the one on the left...

[legionaire45]

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_01622.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_01622.png)
http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_02721.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_02721.png)
http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_03387.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_03387.png)
Lolwut. Triangle Count is somewhere around 3k w/o optimizing. Needs moar spots-to-put-the-bullet-in-the-cylinder-thingy and a few other tweaks.

EDIT: And rep to the first person who can correctly guess what gun this is.
EDIT2:

[17:22] Selentic The Panda: thats a weird looking gun
[17:22] †£ëgionnaire45™†: THATS WHAT SHE SAID
[17:22] Selentic The Panda: OHHHHHHHHHH
[17:22] †£ëgionnaire45™†: it's a cool looking dick
[17:22] †£ëgionnaire45™†: I mean gun
[17:22] Selentic The Panda: i bet it misfires
[17:23] †£ëgionnaire45™†: IN BED
[17:23] †£ëgionnaire45™†: OH
[17:23] Selentic The Panda: ON YER MOM
[17:23] †£ëgionnaire45™†: D:

[Rentafence]

Oh my god, you actually modeled the rifling on the barrel?

[legionaire45]

Oh my god, you actually modeled the rifling on the barrel?
...yes =<

[Heathen]

Here's a perspective view of him. Hope you don't mind that I took the purdy lights out.
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/PerspectiveGordon.jpg
I think his legs might be a bit too skinny.


Hi Buddy Holly.

[ICEE]

Love the revolver legionaire.

Nugget, gordons legs still look a little bit short to me.. the torso : leg ratio seems off.

[NuggetWarmer]

Yeah, I noticed that too when I looked over it again. It looks pretty much spot-on to me, besides some issues with his face, of course.

[Heathen]

Would it be too much to ask someone to make me a modacity dock icon?

Just the gear thing.

PM me if you want to.

[BobtheGreatII]

To me it looks like his feet are too small... but it could just be me.

[Heathen]

Would it be too much to ask someone to make me a modacity dock icon?

Just the gear thing.

PM me if you want to.

Bringing this to the new page.

[mech]

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_01622.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_01622.png)
http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_02721.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_02721.png)
http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08356/august_30_2008_03387.png.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs230&d=08356&f=august_30_2008_03387.png)
Lolwut. Triangle Count is somewhere around 3k w/o optimizing. Needs moar spots-to-put-the-bullet-in-the-cylinder-thingy and a few other tweaks.

EDIT: And rep to the first person who can correctly guess what gun this is.
EDIT2:

.45 long colt

[n00b1n8R]

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u27/foxymccloud/Modeling/PerspectiveGordon.jpg


HOLEY CRAP, IS THAT THE MASTER CHIEF'S FACE?

[BobtheGreatII]

Didn't you know Gordon Freeman is really the Master Chief also?

[rossmum]

.45 long colt
n

I know what it is, but I won't spoil it

[ExAm]

My latest outrageously impractical firearm :v:

Barrel's aligned to the leftmost chamber and it breaks open in a ridiculously convoluted fashion :awesome:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture193.png
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture194.png
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture195.png

[rossmum]

Make more. I demand it.

Someone get that shit skinned and ingame.

[ExAm]

Not finished yet :P

The idea is that the entire mechanism is spring loaded and opens when the hammer is pulled two clicks back, ejecting the cylinder, which is replaced with a new one. The top is then manually pushed back into place, causing the hammer to move one click forward, locking it in place and preparing it for the next shot.

Also, original design didn't hinge, but instead was fed by a magazine where the main hinge is located. Supposedly it would have used rimless ammo and shells would be inexplicably ejected when each chamber passes the bottom of the gun, where the front of the cylinder was originally exposed. There's absolutely no point to it being that way, but there's no point to a lot of the design elements of my weaponry :awesome:

[Heathen]

Would it be too much to ask someone to make me a modacity dock icon?

Just the gear thing.

PM me if you want to.


:( Please?

[ICEE]

Love the revolver exam. As long as we're toying with revolver ideas, i've got this concept for a shotgun that utilizes a revolver design, except instead of individual shells in each slot there is a magazine holding 3-4 shells. in other words it would be really strangely shaped and really awkward to fire, but it would be able to fire possibly 30 times before you would ever need to reload it. When i sketch it up i'll post pics.

[Chainsy]

There's already one, go type in future weapons military shotgun. Basically it looks like a Tommy gun had an orgy with a shotgun, making it pretty much what you said. Oddly enough though, when you said that, the picture of a gun blade went into my head..and I haven't played final fantasy in 3 years.

[Disaster]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/shotgunwow.jpg
Not my model but its the first weapon skin I've ever made and the 6th skin total in my photoshop career.

[Chainsy]

Try painting in details and not dodge tooling for shine. I know its a pain in the arse but it can come out much better:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/side-1.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/front-2.jpg

Model by Donut
Unwrap by Icee (iron clad for non xfire users)
Skin by me
We are aware of some stretching, and Im probbaly going to go back and refine on the grunge whoring and get rid of some of it.
Also forgot to make base metal 100% so yes you can sort of see unwrap lines.

[Heathen]

Cool....looks good.Really.But then people are gonna come behind me and pick details that I have no clue about.

[Rentafence]

Your skin is worthy of CS1.6 Disaster, haha. It's getting better.

[Disaster]

Your skin is worthy of CS1.6 Disaster, haha. It's getting better.
:| lol I'm trying to get better. I know its not the best. I was looking for ways on how to improve though. Is there a really good weapon skinning tutorial out there because I used the one on the glock for source

[ICEE]

jeez chains why would you post the pink one -.-

[Heathen]

Its pink?

[Chainsy]

I had a red omni on it, ify our monitor has a configuration like iron's it comes off with a pink hue.

[Heathen]

Well its not pink >_>

[Disaster]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/shotgundone.jpg
Finished
Here is what the real one looks like
http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/ref.jpg

[JunkfoodMan]

Make the texture smoother. As of now it looks like stone.

[Heathen]

I love it.

[legionaire45]

http://xs230.xs.to/xs230/08350/august_31_2008872.png
Sitting at 4751 polygons and I'm calling it done. Gonna UVW map it now. Fucking 16 sided cylinders made the triangle count really high =<.

[ExAm]

Just over 4k tris, ees feenished.
Probably uses some kind of revolver compatible .45
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/magnumrender-1.jpg

[Malloy]

lol dude thas probably the most innotive weapon i've seen in a long time, Kudos

very impressive

[Pooky]

How is it innovative... its ridiculous and impractical :S

also disaster you could clean up that skin some, it doesn't look like metal it looks like sandpaper

[Disaster]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/shotgunbetter.png

[ExAm]

its ridiculous and impractical :SBut that's the point! :awesome:
It's innovative because it uses an original mechanism. Look up the definition of the word "innovative".

[ICEE]

Exam that gun looks awesome. way to sci-fi-ify the revolver

[Malloy]

How is it innovative... its ridiculous and impractical :S


if thats the case you had may aswell give the low down about all of the impracticalities of all of the halo weapons...

i dont remember him saying he was sending off this design to the pentagon to get processed and made a regularly used firearm in the army.

i think the gun is georgeous tbh... something fresh to the constant stream of military genre'd weaponry that gets posted here.

[Disaster]

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii256/echo216/shotguncamo.png
Got bored so I made it camouflaged :D

[Rentafence]

Skin looks better. Doesn't look very metallic though.

[Disaster]

Skin looks better. Doesn't look very metallic though.
WoL told me to take the highlights out :(
Also might be a combination of the camo too

[ICEE]

another one spoilered for the sake of you who dont want your PC's to lag

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/SMGreload.gif



I know about the finger going through the mag at one point after he sticks it in I just don't feel like re-rendering it right now.

[Bastinka]

Very fast :S

[ICEE]

65 frames. May be a bit disproportionate speed wise.. Rendering anims always seems to make them a bit speedier. I may have to slow it down in max to make up for that.

[Bastinka]

It's actually nice just a tad fast for my tastes.

[ExAm]

That's pretty good

[Con]

Personally I would give the gun a little flick to clear the mag, it looks kind of weird just shooting off like it's spring loaded.

[ICEE]

I'm thinking I'll add in a mag release so it looks a little more plausible. everyone just imagine him pushing a mag release button with his right thumb ok? :P

[teh lag]

-The motion of pulling the bolt is "cancelled" by the gun's body moving - the first time I watched it I didn't realized he even pulled it. I don't know what exactly you should do, but find a way to make it more visible.

-Hand clips mag when he puts it on. Finger position in general there could use some work. It doesn't look like he's really holding it.

[CtrlAltDestroy]

1. When he releases the magazine, the gun "flicks" to the right, while the magazine ejects to the left. This just looks odd to me.
2. The bolt cycle isn't prominent enough, as teh lag stated. I would make him sweep his hand down the gun completely as opposed to a "back and forth" motion to make it more obvious that he's pulling it.
3. The right thumb is... bent in a really awkward way in the origin, and throughout the animation. (once again, I forgive you because you're using the H1 rig)



Also, since we're on the subject of posting animations:

http://www.halotrialmods.org/zteam/images/08-27-08/rel2.gif

[Malloy]

^sexy, lol when i was waiting for the .gif to load i was like, this looks long winded... but it looks great in real time.

heres what ive been working on :
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/ghostsofar-5.png

[Bastinka]

Post a render thats not a wireframe?

[ICEE]

@ cad: I can see that your copying the H1 AR reload, but when he pulls the magazine i notice that he hesitates once the mag is fully freed from the gun, and then pulls it straight down. to me, this looks really unnatural. Also, when he inserts the magazine and pushes it a second time, there isn't really enough emphasis to show force. What I would do is rotate the wrist a little bit so it looks less like hes pushing it with his thumb and more like hes slapping it in with his palm. That might not follow suit exactly with h1's animations but I think it would look a bit better. I also don't like how huge the hand looks when hes pushing the bolt back but I know theres really nothing that you could do about that.


PS: I want your rig :(


@ Lag




-Hand clips mag when he puts it on. Finger position in general there could use some work. It doesn't look like he's really holding it.



I know about the finger going through the mag at one point after he sticks it in I just don't feel like re-rendering it right now.


-rep-rep-rep-rep-rep

lul

[CtrlAltDestroy]

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7789/3meleebrod8.gif

Triple-melee a la e3 2003. I intend on trying to get this ingame in Halo 2, as I'm pretty sure multi melee combos are still supported.

[ICEE]

Love that one.

[Malloy]

Post a render thats not a wireframe?

what?

[Chainsy]

Post a render without the black lines.

[rossmum]

Triple-melee a la e3 2003. I intend on trying to get this ingame in Halo 2, as I'm pretty sure multi melee combos are still supported.
Didn't you do one of those aaaaaaaaages ago? Or was that someone else?

[CtrlAltDestroy]

Yeah I did, actually. I probably still have it lying around.

[Malloy]

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/faggymcghostrender.png

[teh lag]

.

Somehow, the wings look too short vertically... I don't know if it's just that, but they look off.

[Malloy]

yeh you may be right, i literally just modelled this off screenshots i found on Flickr :P

im going to scale proportions to the Halo 2 ghost model, so hopefully the final product will relate to the Halo 3 ghost than it does now.

[Chainsy]

After 3 months of hard time working on this, its finally done!

We got a lot of inspiration from other video games and our love goes out to the people who helped this dream come true.

It all started back 4 months ago when we wanted to create something special and new, so my friend donut said: "lets do this!" And I was like "yeah!" And so we did do it, and here we are now.

The process was a complicated one, and as soon as open sauce comes well happily share with you the secret of how this amazing piece of work was made.

Well It took us 3 weeks of me slaving over a computer screen concepting, as we scratched numerous designs, some of which made rocket scientists look like teletubbies.

After the concept was done, we knew we had nailed it right on the head. Donut quickly got to work on it and modeled it, which right now is about 95678 tris, without optimization. Next icee beautifully animated it for standing, walking, crawling, reload 1, 2 , 3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,7 8, 9, 10 ,11, 12 ,13, 14 and 15.

Then went through 18 melees, designed 4 origins for 3p, fp, 2p, and matrix bullet time p. He also designed 5 different idle positions and then unwrapped it.

This took him 1 month.


Then it was my turn, working onto the point that my fingers bled, I carefully skinned and worked on this model. We poured our souls into it!




Without further ado here are the credits!:

- Donut (modeling)


- Icee (animation/ unwrap)


- geo (ideas and support)


- chains (concept artist, skinner)


- Selentic (being a smart ass)
Now without further ado here is it is!!!!!!!!!!!

















http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/clip.jpg
Sadly I accidentally dropped the gun off the drop off cliff behind my house, only the clip survived.

[Malloy]

i think i read it in the wrong tone. i was very dissapointed by the lack of awsomeness :(

[Rentafence]

Sadly I accidentally dropped the gun off the drop off cliff behind my house, only the clip survived.

Magazine* :eng101:

[Rob Oplawar]

The pictures are all broken. All I see is an unimpressive magazine.

[Chainsy]

There are no other pictures. :|
That was the point of the joke.

[Limited]

>_>

All that typing for nothing then. I suppose the mag is half decent.

[Chainsy]

I like it how you expect a mag to be extravagant and hold your attention for 2 hours. :lol: Anyways its the mag to a sniper Im currently skinning for (blank) team, but me and the leader got a kick out of reactions of this.

[legionaire45]

You are doing this whole "lulz" thing wrong to be completely honest.

Look at my Rickroll map for proper lulz.

Oh, and model the bullet in the magazine please. Looks like a boxy piece of shit at the moment.

EDIT: meant to add "even for a magazine." Meh, instead of posting something stupid like this, post the weapon when you have actually gotten something done please.

[BobtheGreatII]

Looks like a boxy piece of shit at the moment.


Ow.... :lol:

And yeah... should just stop on my post right here, but I think you get the point. Not funny... should have posted more gun, even if it didn't have a texture.

[/complaint]

Moving on...

[rossmum]

Drawing at 5:30AM fucks your eyes, don't do it.

That said:

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/ogef.jpg

Fixed but not scanned:

- head

To fix:

- left hand/arm
- right hand
- possibly finish it

[Rob Oplawar]

some of the proportions seem a little off, but it's damn sure better than anything I can draw. Looks good. Is he going to be holding something in his left hand, or is he giving a hand signal? Are you gonna be showing whatever it is he's looking at?

[Malloy]

he's blatently holding a microphone singing YMCA

[rossmum]

I've never been good with proportions D:

He'll probably be giving a signal with his left; that said I might do what I originally planned and just rub it out so he's got it by his side carrying a case of ammo or whatever. I dunno if I'll go so far as to add anything else, but yeah, I might.

We'll see.

[ICEE]

mag looks too nicked up there chains.

[mech]

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/clip.jpg


Looks like it was dropped in milk.

[Chainsy]

I guess you could say its milk. :3

[Malloy]

yoghurt?

[Chainsy]

No, but doesn't matter anyways, I made it noticeably darker, or it wouldn't of fit the color scheme of the sniper (and it also hid most of a the scratches).

[rossmum]

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/Granate.jpg

[JunkfoodMan]

Pose it so it looks like he really wants to hurl the grenade. Right now it looks like he either wants to skip it across a pond or just chuck it.
Or that could be me exaggerating things and making use of my overactive imagination. Either way, it would be better if he had more emotion/passion into the way he throws his grenades...
But aside from that, just like alot of your poses, I love it.

[Bastinka]

Very nice Rossmum.

I've been playing CoH :-3

[ExAm]

Pose it so it looks like he really wants to hurl the grenade. Right now it looks like he either wants to skip it across a pond or just chuck it.
Or that could be me exaggerating things and making use of my overactive imagination. Either way, it would be better if he had more emotion/passion into the way he throws his grenades...
But aside from that, just like alot of your poses, I love it.In the heat of battle, one is probably going to throw a grenade hastily.

[JunkfoodMan]

In the heat of battle, one is probably going to throw a grenade hastily.
I reject your reality and replace it with my own.

[SnaFuBAR]

Looks like it was dropped in manmilk.
ftfy

[Kalub]

shit dude I made one a while ago.... its lost in the forums though

[Pooky]

pose

Arm needs to be further back, overall motion needs to be more dramatic. I like it though.

[rossmum]

...I just realised that's a really dumb place to hold a stielhandgranate if you intend to throw it more than a few metres.

Fuck. D:

[ExAm]

starting on my entry for the september contest
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/pdw.jpg
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture199.png
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture200.png

this thread gets more attention :P

[ICEE]

maybe its just me but the slits look a little bit wide for my tastes. Love the design though it still doesn't look like a sidearm to me.

[ExAm]

It's a PDW dammit >_<

E: moar
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture202.png

[Sel]

Looks like an interesting start.

Meanwhile today I booted up max for the first time in a week, and took renders of stuff I did like last month; I also moved a few verticies :downs:

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/selentic/Models/rev.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/selentic/Models/rev2.jpg

Everything is unsmoothed because this really does show the detail a lot better than the smoothed clay render :\

[killer9856]

Any new bases you make?

[ICEE]

@ exam: do you plan on getting this PDW ingame on one engine or another?

[legionaire45]

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9049/september022008wiresv1.th.png (http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=september022008wiresv1.png)
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/314/september022008wire3hw6.th.png (http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=september022008wire3hw6.png)
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/5962/september022008wire2xp9.th.png (http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=september022008wire2xp9.png)
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/8664/september022008wire4dk7.th.png (http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=september022008wire4dk7.png)
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/5779/september052008wire1bs4.th.png (http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=september052008wire1bs4.png)
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3414/lolwuttestcopyyb1.th.png (http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lolwuttestcopyyb1.png)
Hey, if you give me $1,000 I'll suck your cock.

[Bastinka]

ExAm, have you ever played Battlefield 2142?

[kenney001]

15 minutes of boredom.....and playing with DOF

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/kenney001/jacks.jpg

(ps: know the jacks are floating....)

[ExAm]

@ exam: do you plan on getting this PDW ingame on one engine or another?Currently it's just for the contest. If someone wants it ingame, I'll clean it up and make a lower poly version.


ExAm, have you ever played Battlefield 2142?
Yes. They have a genius on their weapon design team :v:

[SnaFuBAR]

i found most of their weapons to be of the utmost mediocrity :v:

[ExAm]

I prefer the term "simplicity" :v:

[Pooky]

trend whoring :v:

[Sel]

Any new bases you make?

Not yet, I've been focusing on other projects, and haven't really touched this at all :\

[rossmum]

hey guys I'm cool too :v:

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/kingtiger2.jpg

mantlet was horribly wrong so I redid it

[DaneO'Roo]

Ooh ross, yay

[rossmum]

Still up for the task of skinning the beast?

(nice and hi-res mind, maybe a 2048^2 for the hull, 1024^2 for the turret and 1024^2 for the accessories and stuff and then we can work out the interior when said interior gets done)

e/ oh, wheels can go with accessories and then 512^256 for treads vOv

[kenney001]

another render:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s13/kenney001/monster.jpg

I was testing myself to see what I could do in 15 minutes. This is the result, however the high-res render was after the fact...

[Malloy]

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/centurion.png

Centurion (High Roman Soldier) Spartan helmet perm idea, those arent flowers those are metal olive leaf shaped armour pads in the shape of a crown (like stereo typical Julius Ceasar images)

thoughts and tips on how to make it better?
it is the suxzor atm

thanks.

[Hunter]

@Kenny Looks good for 15 mins.

@Malloy, Model it XD Would be nice to see 3D.

[Malloy]

wow. i took long posting mine.

[Rob Oplawar]

@ross: model sux you sux.

[ExAm]

Line drawing project for art class
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/0908082053.jpg

[BobtheGreatII]

Ha wow, I actually think that's rather good.

[ExAm]

Not even one bit of tracing :3
I didn't know I was good at hands :awesome:

[Chainsy]

Its pretty good, the only crit I have for it is to make the thumb on the bottom left hand thick, as it just looks like a 5th finger, instead of a thumb......
Lemur hands. Other then that I like.

[Con]

Looks complicated to hold, nice drawing.

[ExAm]

Its pretty good, the only crit I have for it is to make the thumb on the bottom left hand thick, as it just looks like a 5th finger, instead of a thumb......
Lemur hands. Other then that I like.It's just that the segment there is waaay too long. I noticed that in class yesterday. Going to fix next class.

[Malloy]

need some inspiration...

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p307/sgtbotley/centurionhelmetpermwip.png

ideas on top of the helmet design?

[Rentafence]

Do a mini darth vader helmet type thing, where its rounded on the top, but droops down on the sides a bit

[Con]

I'll say what everyone's thinking when they first see it: too many lines on the visor..

[BobtheGreatII]

I'll say what everyone's thinking when they first see it: too many lines on the visor..

.

[Malloy]

lol awww, origional it was supposed to be based on ancient roman armour and the Roman's used the symbol of the eagle as power and nobility, so i tried to incorporate it into the vizor's design.

[Chainsy]

Ok, basically divide the visor lines into 3 separate pieces, that center one, and the wings.

[TeeKup]

It looks more alien than human.

[Chainsy]

Forerunner battle helmets?

[TeeKup]

Forerunner battle helmets?

..........No

[Pooky]

..........No

Well it does have a pretty Forerunner look to it actually :eyesroll:

[TeeKup]

No

[Pooky]

Yes. It's got all the same angles, the same pointless lines...

[TeeKup]

The helmet looks atrocious. I can never imagine a forerunner warrior wearing such a helmet.

[Pooky]

The helmet looks atrocious. I can never imagine a forerunner warrior wearing such a helmet.

These people have been dead for millenia, who knows what kind of aesthetic they would have had <_<

Besides I didn't say I liked it, I just said it had Forerunner elements in the design.

[TeeKup]

I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN.

UGLY HELMET IS UGLY.

:phonegonk:

[BobtheGreatII]

I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY OWN.

UGLY HELMET IS UGLY.

:phonegonk:

Pretty much that... :lol:

[Malloy]

ha ha was tryin to a bit different and creative, guess i should abandon this design. :\

[rossmum]

two versions, sunset and un-sunset

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/ThreesaCrowdsunset.jpg

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/ThreesaCrowd.jpg

[Pooky]

I think I actually like the second one better, the sunset version feels a bit melodramatic.

[rossmum]

Looking at it again, I need to do something about the phong on that K98. Jesus Christ, it's like a mirror.

Vaguely related story: one day while the bushfires were really - and I mean really - bad, and about 10km away, the smoke was filtering the light so that there was this eerie blood-red glow cast over everything even though it was still only about 11 in the morning. It stayed like that all day, it was pretty nifty (though the sweltering heat, ashes, smoke [which starts my hayfever up pretty bad], and the fact it could easily change direction and burn my house down on a whim were kind of shitty)

[Hunter]

The dead guy behind seems a bit to blurred.

[ExAm]

Looking at it again, I need to do something about the phong on that K98. Jesus Christ, it's like a mirror.

Vaguely related story: one day while the bushfires were really - and I mean really - bad, and about 10km away, the smoke was filtering the light so that there was this eerie blood-red glow cast over everything even though it was still only about 11 in the morning. It stayed like that all day, it was pretty nifty (though the sweltering heat, ashes, smoke [which starts my hayfever up pretty bad], and the fact it could easily change direction and burn my house down on a whim were kind of shitty)
I had the same thing a few months ago, during the CA wildfires.

[Hunter]

This thread gets more attention:
http://gamerscreek.com/users/WMHunterTLS/index.php?dir=pics/Dane/&file=Dane_9.29.10.jpeg

Un-Armored:
http://gamerscreek.com/users/WMHunterTLS/index.php?dir=pics/Dane/&file=Dane_9.45.10.jpeg

[Malloy]

you've got the front outer armour piece the correct width that bottom of the outer armour on the handle should be...

other than that nice.

p.s top of handle looks fubar

[ExAm]

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/0910082019.jpg

[Chainsy]

Bottom thumb is still weird, bring it in a bit closer, and the perspective on it is screwy, the nail should be more over to the left side on top, not near center.

[ExAm]

Dangit, I knew something looked weird about that nail... Further fixing the thumb itself was out of the question. The drawing's finished and it's good where it is.

[Amit]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/amit9821/Untitled-RC3Final.jpg

[ExAm]

Decent, but the glow around the text seems out of place, and your name on the lower right is barely visible. Make it stand out.

[Reaper Man]

I don't see the relevance of the halo font with that image. Damn font's overused.

[ExAm]

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture214.png

[rossmum]

Coming along pretty well.

Also, don't forget guys that tank crews are usually issued with shortened assault rifles and such (like, REALLY shortened), so it'd be work asking Snaf if those count ;)

[ICEE]

Ok so I took some criticism I got before and rolled and smoked it. 2 weeks later I found time to make some changes...






Old smg reload http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/SMGreload.gif
New SMG reloadhttp://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/SMGreload-2.gif




Spoilerd because apocalypse some bitches don't like gifs

[Amit]

Decent, but the glow around the text seems out of place, and your name on the lower right is barely visible. Make it stand out.

Maybe I should have written some notes with it but I just wanted you guys to find the flaws for me so I could address them. This is for a forum banner and my name is not meant to stand out. It's mark of just the artist's signature or trademark.


I don't see the relevance of the halo font with that image. Damn font's overused.

Hahaha, of course not. It's just there because it was the best looking font in the list I already had. The font was there from a previous Halo-related project last year.


http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/TheExAm/Picture214.png

That's pretty cool.


Ok so I took some criticism I got before and rolled and smoked it. 2 weeks later I found time to make some changes...






Old smg reload http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/SMGreload.gif
New SMG reloadhttp://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/animations/SMGreload-2.gif




Spoilerd because apocalypse some bitches don't like gifs

TBQH, they look exactly the same to me. What did you change?

[ICEE]

Watch more carefully, they have some key differences

[Amit]

I see it now. Although, it is really hard to notice but I think the stock pointing to the left while ejecting the magazine (or whatever caseless ammo uses) looks more authentic.

[rossmum]

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/TheCamp.jpg

I should really update my gallery at some point

[Rob Oplawar]

... wait, what??
Am I interpreting that right, or is my mind just seeing what it wants to see?

[rossmum]

Probably the latter

e/ oh, she's looking at the sky, so yeah

e/ oh wow, I knew I should've folded her arms across the top of it, that just looks suss

[Reaper Man]

She's clearly hiding her erection. :downs:

[ExAm]

Looks like she's grinding the pillow :v:

[Malloy]

hopefully she smuthered that bitch.

[SnaFuBAR]

oh jeez ross.

[Con]

ironclad, that animation looks way better now. Get it ingame gogogogo

[rossmum]

fuck you guys have you never seen a person sit backwards on a chair or something ffffff

[ICEE]

ironclad, that animation looks way better now. Get it ingame gogogogo

:D thanks


Unwrapping comes first though, and it doesnt help that the modeler *COUGH DONUT COUGH* decided to tweek some things after I finished unwrapping it, which totally threw off the uvw coordinates. Admittadely the model has much more :awesome: now though.

[BobtheGreatII]

So as it's been said before, this thread gets more attention than any of the other ones, and I would really like to improve my gun... please help me out guys...


Yeah, so I thought this was a good excuse to work on something for Entropy... and so I've been messing around with this model, and here it is so far. I'm looking for ideas to add detail and what not. Uh... The little indents above the clip are lights, not vents. I know it's not the cleanest model and there are quite a few wasted polys, but as far as I know it doesn't have to have to be too organized, as long as it looks good, lol. So now...
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/812/85678621fm7.png

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/3843/73148547ac3.png
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2240/19265329ym9.png
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5855/38910850ip0.png
And a quick video I made (Animation shouldn't change even if the model does):
BMhWBQR6JAc

Polys sitting at: 4,335
Verts sitting at: 5,515

And again, crit is very welcome and I would love to add more detail...
Oh and one more thing... tsk tsk to me using boolean but oh well.

Edit: Craaaap I'll get the concept art I first made up here in a few...



Thread here:
http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?p=300194#post300194

[Heathen]

I actually like it alot. Looks like that EMP gun from Timesplitters.

[rossmum]

think I'm getting the hang of this skinning lark

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm258/rossmumv2/m60progress1.jpg

[ExAm]

The only thing I don't understand about skinning is getting everything to be consistent between UV slices.