AshuraDX

I'd darken the specular map a bit for most of the armor  as it shines pretty bright atm which doesn't match the greyshade camo paint on his armor

Faster, but more easier to have errors.

 

-md3tbone command will convert any bones named to a tag of any name you choose. Waiting on my tutorial to be approved.

done

@@DT85 I have one question :

are there any sides of the view model that def. won't be seen ? Bottom & Front maybe ?

I use turbosmooth render iterations at 4 for when the model renders, and iterations at 2 or 3 for viewport so I can see what I'm doing incase I've forgot a part.

that's what I do but my max starts crawling and crashing every 5 minutes around 300k polys which is usually the moment I transfer my finished pieces over to mudbox

EDIT : I might require your help for the viewport Animations DT, as I suck at animating

Nothing to really show yet but here's a first Piece that's near completion

starting with the highpoly mesh this time , next shots will most likely be from mudbox as that handles high poly scenes way better than Max

Released !

Inspired by @@DT85's work at the Heavy Repeater I decided to start gathering reference material for the DL-44

pics will come soon

EDIT :

finished my basic sketch for the guns right side, drawn over photos of the original Mauser C96 model the DL44 was built from

it's lacking a lot of details as of now but I don't need to have them in my sketch as of now , mainly a lot of small nubs & ribs

but I included some of the asymmetric details from the right side of the gun , still have to finish the left side and sketch up the scope, I also jsut noticed that I completely forgot a piece that sits right behind the flash hider on top of the barrel

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

your last idea will def require a code mod

a first ingame screenshot

for some reason I can not embed it, says I'm not allowed to use that image extension which is strange as I think I embedded .jpg images here before...

Done

still have a few minor tweaks to do until it's ready for a release , might aswell have to adjust the blade length as it's now about as long as a saber blade with a saberlength of 24 in JA which is ridicously short

will work aswell , another option would be an exchangeable floor.jpg in the modview folder, just as it's done for EffectsED or you could leave options :

grid, "solid color floor" and "load floor texture"

Good to see you back on board mate

take your time, RL is allways more important so get that stuff done and find your peace by modding during the breaks, that's what I do

@ Google autodesk 3ds max and get the trial version. If it works fine you can sign up at autodedk students and get a free learning license for 3 years.

But Blender for example allows you to reach the same quality and is free. Just remember - it's not the software that makes your work look good

Wish my computer could handle this kind of 3D modeling program.

otherwise I don't see any impediments atm - this scene is not high poly at all

I see, so I guess that means you're kinda allready at it

nice !

sorry If you allready answered that question : what about realtime shaders ?

letting us preview our JKA shaders in modview would be awesome but I don't know if that's possible at all without rewriting the whole renderer in Modview

done with the low poly mesh

@@Xycaleth

Yes, I do most frequently the animation controls and texture reload buttons

continueing what I started with my Murasama, here comes Raidens High Frequency blade from Metal Gear Rising

still have to add all of the detail plating to the handle until I can call this lowpoly version done

But reskinning a Reborn to make it look like the Jedi Hunter is just...eh...

at least he tried

the model certainly isn't perfect

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

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

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

@@dark_apprentice , which program do you use to edit the images ? Photoshop ?

the alpha channels had to be edited and I'd prefer teaching you how you can do it yourself rather than just giving you the fixed files

you should also remove the Jedi Knight logo saber from your hudleft & hudright images to avoid any wierd issues