Need some help with an idea.

[rossmum]

I've been wanting to model a Combine-esque sniper rifle for a while, and while I know what Valve's Combine sniper looks like, I want to make one completely different (yet still at home within the HL2 universe). I also thought of mixing in a few elements of the Spiker's design (particularly the muzzle), and a bullpup design with a long shrouded barrel and shrouded scope.

The problem is, I utterly fail at designing weapons. I've got a concept I like, but it's beyond my current modelling abilities and it's not quite as HL2-ish as I wanted.

Anyone here think they can help me out by drawing up some concepts?

[Skiiran]

Just add some doodads to an SVD and make it blue. *hurr AK-47 stock on the combine assault rifle*

[Bodzilla]

Day-
noe

:awesome:

[Haloking365]

What do i have to work with? /McGuyver

ill work on something

[Texrat]

paperclip, rubber-band and some pieces of egg shell.

[rossmum]

Oh, forgot I'd made this thread. No need guys, I drew something up and Snaf fine-tuned it a little. :D

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s310/xbh_rossmum/s-5sniper4r.jpg

Not done yet, but getting there.

[Caboose O'Malley]

Nice, I like it. Just slap a dark, maybe camouflage-like skin on it and make it fire some really high caliber rounds semi-automatically and call it "The rail carbine" or something...

[rossmum]

Camo, ew. I'll be making the shroud and cheekpiece that blue, shiny metal the Combine use largely for wall plating in the Citadel, and the stock will be mostly a darker, blue-back metal. It loads 5 specialised, more powerful pulse canisters per mag, each firing one extremely powerful burst of energy (think Combine pulse rifle rounds, but bigger). I'll give it the HL2 sniper firing sound (because I love it) and the blue targeting laser (except toggleable, so you don't have to give your position away).

[Caboose O'Malley]

If it shoots bursts of energy, then why did you make a conventional clip with normal-like rounds?

[rossmum]

...Have you ever played HL2?

[Caboose O'Malley]

...Have you ever played HL2?
When it first came out, I didn't really like it that much.

[rossmum]

Well in that case, you'd know that the Combine standard-issue rifle fed off of little canisters which held 30 energy pulses in them each. Those canisters, funnily enough, were roughly bullet-shaped. I'll leave you to do the maths.

[Pooky]

Well in that case, you'd know that the Combine standard-issue rifle fed off of little canisters which held 30 energy pulses in them each. Those canisters, funnily enough, were roughly bullet-shaped. I'll leave you to do the maths.

aaaand that was the main reason I hated that gun. Can't stand the fact that those penny thick little bullet things were supposed to hold 30 shots, even if it is energy. Plus you never had to reload the big mags full of them you would see lying around :|

[rossmum]

Well, these are slightly larger and each hold a single shot, and are reloaded from a conentional box mag.

[Syuusuke]

I drew something up and Snaf-tuned it a little. :D

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s310/xbh_rossmum/s-5sniper4r.jpg

That's what I read, that's what I see.