My first model.

[Mandalorian]

I thought I'd start work on my first from scratch shiny model. I am using blender. Let me know what you guys think!

SO far I am 3 hours in and 988 faces have been made.

 

  

[IrocJeff]

That looks pretty good so far!

[IrocJeff]

I just looked up the blaster you are making on Google Images and there are a ton of variations to it. Are you using any specific one for a reference?

[Mandalorian]

I am using a blaster from a boba statue I have. It is sixth scale.

[Cerez]

Wow, that's great modelling, Mando! 

 

Very impressive. Keep it up!  B)

[Asgarath83]

Nice 3D works! It's a wonderful rifle model!

[Mandalorian]

It's finished now But I can't get it textured when exporting, despite using the right md3shader properties. Tried exporting it as a obj and the texture works fine so It's not the uv map. Any one got any ideas? @@mrwonko your my best bet and also thanks for the tutorials.

[mrwonko]

Are you using my exporter? If not, look into the exporter's documentation on how to set textures. Otherwise, maybe share your .blend file so we can take a look at where you went wrong.

[Mandalorian]

Are you using my exporter? If not, look into the exporter's documentation on how to set textures. Otherwise, maybe share your .blend file so we can take a look at where you went wrong.

yep I did use your exporter every other aspect is done.

[Mandalorian]

Yeah sure here it is https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4njfm5tppdiye2/carbineblend.zip?dl=0

[mrwonko]

You did not add a custom property called md3shader. You added Ghoul 2 properties, namely you named all your meshes "md3shader" and set a shader for them.

[Mandalorian]

Ahk well Thanks so much for taking the time clearing that up. Do I need to remove the glm2 properties?

[Mandalorian]

Thankyou so much MrWonko that fixed it! Your a legend!

[Mandalorian]

some pics ingame:

[Mandalorian]

Anyone know how to set up the 1st person to be like the ultimate weapon pack? 

[DarthStiv]

Oh, you rock man!
Well done.

[therfiles]

Dude, that looks incredible! Love the hard work you put in and you got great results!

[Onysfx]

Very nice!

[Archangel35757]

There are 1st-person weapon tutorials in the SoF2 manuals.

[Mandalorian]

Awesome I'll look for it. I've mostly got it figured I think. 

Thanks everyone!

[Asgarath83]

GREAT WORK!!

[AshuraDX]

Well looks like i'm late to the Party

first model you say ? not bad !

but as you know me I'm, quite itnerested in seeing a wireframe overlay, to give you some suggestions to improve your models performance ingame

[sharedmedia=tutorials:tutorials:177] take a look at this and give these a shot each saved face is a surface less the game has to render and thereby beneficial to performance

when I started I did not know a lot about this stuff and really didn't give a shit, which is why I've started to remake some of my older models

 

you don't have to follow my advice but I think you might benefit from this

 

EDIT : you should also look into smoothing/shading breaks in blender

they'll help you define hard edges

[Mandalorian]

 

Well looks like i'm late to the Party

first model you say ? not bad !

but as you know me I'm, quite itnerested in seeing a wireframe overlay, to give you some suggestions to improve your models performance ingame

take a look at this and give these a shot each saved face is a surface less the game has to render and thereby beneficial to performance

when I started I did not know a lot about this stuff and really didn't give a shit, which is why I've started to remake some of my older models

 

you don't have to follow my advice but I think you might benefit from this

 

Hey yeah I tried to keep it in mind as much as my limited skill allows. I used a decimate modifier to get the faces down. I still ran a little high on that count.

I'll upload a wireframe:

[AshuraDX]

a wireframe overlay pic taken from blender would actually be a lot nicer @@Mandalorian

sry , I should have expressed myself clearer

but as far as I can tell from that pic you could save a few faces at the rifles stock

[Mandalorian]

Ok cool thanks. Sorry I should of but i may have saved over my blend file by accident. I have a copy I posted here so I could download it and fix it(it wasn't set up properly.)

Your likely right on the stock. I was thinking of getting the scope down a bit too.. Thanks for the advice Ashura. I read your tutorial not long ago and I tried to keep that in mind, I'll get better with efficiency as I make more.

@ Archangel35757 .

I tried to find some tutorials but I had no such luck. I even downloaded some but they didn't cover anything I needed. If you have these lying around It would be great if you sent me some, If you have the time/motivation.

 

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