My first model.

[IrocJeff]

I hope you add custom sounds to it and maybe try to replicate the firetime and damage. Oh, and make it available for jk2 please.... 

[Mandalorian]

I hope you add custom sounds to it and maybe try to replicate the firetime and damage. Oh, and make it available for jk2 please.... 

If any one wants to help with that?

I can't seem to get the 1st person view running well. I'll get there eventually I suppose.

[IrocJeff]

If any one wants to help with that?

I can't seem to get the 1st person view running well. I'll get there eventually I suppose.

 

Here's a youTube link for the blaster sound. I did find some stuff from Left for Dead that is supposed to have a blaster sound but I couldn't open up a vpk file. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqw28__RYXo

[Mandalorian]

Thanks!

[Omicron]

Nice work man!

[Mandalorian]

made a variant for the carbine, esb version. New uv for this taught me how to be neater.

[AshuraDX]

the UV's could still be improved, give this a shot :

apply a checkerboard texture to the model while UV mapping, then try to keep everything in evensized squares,

otherwise you'll get blurry/stretched textures on some places and extremely crisp textures on other parts

 

just compare your barrel with the back of the gun and you'll see what I mean, the checker texture helps to avoid issues like this

[Mandalorian]

that's actually exactly what I did ashura it's just that when i made the uvmap that part of it exported at 512x512 and the rest are higher resolution 

sorry that's 128x128.

Edited August 31, 2014 by Mandalorian

[Sithani]

I think I just came

[Mandalorian]

made his blaster to go with these. It's a very simple design but I had fun building it using my sideshow figure for referance.I plan to make a few more of the guns he is seen with. Most of all I am happy with the edge splitting I did here.

[AshuraDX]

wireframes please !

keep it in mind for your WIP models as wireframes make it easier for us more experienced modelers to help you improve your models

[Mandalorian]

Sure, I haven't finished this so it's a little high poly's. I messed up the handle a bit. I'll keep in mind wireframes in future.

[Jolly]

some pics ingame:

Is this map going to be featured in the mod or is it just a random map to demonstrate the animations and model(s)

[Mandalorian]

It needs some work but it will likely be in the mod.

[AshuraDX]

@@Mandalorian Sorry again,

Wireframe overlay would be better than a pure wireframe pic I need to express myself more clear the next time

[Mandalorian]

Ahk sorry my bad.

[AshuraDX]

woah, that needs to be cleaned up the handle is a complete mess right now

You have quite a few random vertices you really don't need (atleast from what I can tell) in there

[minilogoguy18]

The barrel should honestly be redone with say a 10 sided cylinder, right now different sections have different amounts of iterations which would cause all sorts of problems if you did something like tried to bake normals.

 

Kinda going on what Ashura said you should aim to make things out of quads as much as possible with the edgeloops following the major features.

[Mandalorian]

Yeah I know the handle is a mess. I'm still learning the ins and outs of looping techniques.I think the only good points is the hard edgeing worked how I wanted and the blaster is accurate. This only took me three hours which I thought was good for a beginner. I'll probably remake it. Thanks for your criticisms. I look up to modelling pros such as yourselves.  

[Mandalorian]

Well I started to rebuild. Just the barrel so far. much neater and smaller in faces.

[AshuraDX]

Neat ! can't wait to see more

[Mandalorian]

Thanks is it better?The rest=

[AshuraDX]

@@Mandalorian Yes ! much better

at the first glance I only see 2 vertices you could probably weld, at the rear end of the gun above the handle

you got a sstretched face going form the inside of the trigger guard to that upper corner, you could weld the front vertex of those to the back one and save 1 vertex per side but that's really nitpicking now

[Mandalorian]

Thanks for all your advice, Ashura

It's fun making the models and I am quite proud of them for a first run.

[Mandalorian]

These are the final results on my first three models.They all have shaders and the second blaster has a first person view. the other two don't as of yet.