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I have thought about removing the front "spikes" on the heavy laser.... They dosn't do anything....

 

anyway, i conneced the barrel to a more logic location.

hvlaser10.jpg

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That thing looks like it would cause some pain :devillaugh:

 

How about connecting the side supports to the front of the barrel, just in front of the raised area, sort of a support collar.

 

BTW all you guys designing weapons should go take a look at the halo 2 site they have a close up of the weapon used in their game and I think we should be adding those kind of details on our weaponry. Especially for x-net

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rather than a thin pin, why not use a flat strap that looks similar to those spport pieces on either side? Like have a flat piece parallel to the ground come out and wrap around the barrel, you could make that the thicker barrel section even. I'd move that thicker section back towards the front of the barrel.
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yeah, im moved the section back, to see how that would look.

 

hmm...yes....i can try...dunno if we talk about the same thing...

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Whoa, that looks good, dunno if ne1 has already said this (most things I say usually have been) but that well looks like the big gun the bird with da skinhead was using in Aliens. Not a bad thing tho.
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hmmmm....i am not quite sure....

 

Is this what you are talking about????

you know we could sharpen those prongs and have a mele weapon for close range :)

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That's what I had in mind Mikker. I was trying to tie in what purpose the side framing served, supporting the barrel seemed the best choice there.
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hmmm...ok, but i didn't think it looked good. It was, even though it supported.....ugly.......hmmm........

 

i'll think of some improvements for theconnections...

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All of these weapons look more like they came out of Bungie or Valve than a fan project. (This is a very good thing, as we are doing prefessional work!)

 

Anyway, I am going to tackle the heavy laser ctd unless someone else wants to.

 

To facilitate my writing of the entry, I need to ask some questions about the heavy laser. 1: Is the model on the art assets list the one that will be used? 2: Where is the trigger and 3: How do you hold the thing? (I just need a picture of someone holding the gun the proper way.) Thanks! And excelent models!

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IIRC it's inspired by Vasquez' weapon in "Aliens". Look at the film and you should get an idea, one hand holds the back, while the other one holds it somewhere near the end of the barrel (there should be a grip there). The trigger should be on the rear somewhere. Whether or not this is is the gun that will be used I'm not sure, but my guess would be 'yes', at least as far as the concept.
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yes....

 

1) the pic on the the assets list are outdated, but the newer version isnt that diffrent.

 

2) its in the back handle, you turn the handle to trigger.

 

3) (imaginate the back hand on the back one)

dabigbahvlaser.jpg

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I've split these 3 laser weapons out into their own thread to make it easier to follow. When the laser cannon for aircraft is started, it should go into a "craft weapons" thread I'm about to make. Edited by Breunor
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Also, that sharp edge connecting the trigger guard and the handle seems very unpractical (ok, maybe not when you're wearing power armour, but otherwise that'll be pretty uncomfortable on your fingers :) )

edit: in Mikkers pic

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@ tzuchan: Yeah, i see what you mean. No problem in changing that.

 

@ Vaaish: Yes, your model. It is really REALLY bad exported in the area that you've changed, plus it lost all smoothing data.

 

@ j'ordos: I know. I have been making change to it, so it's easier to reach the trigger.

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@mikker: ok here is a obj export of the thing lets see how that works. I can't promise you smoothing gropus here either but hopefull it isn't screwed up this time... I'll look into that 3ds export.

laspistol.zip

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np. looks pretty good, maybe just make the grip a shade thicker and wider, seems a little lightweight still but that might just be me. I think there needs to be a little more work on the smoothing groups for the grip, but I'm not sure how final the groups are you have right now.

 

Touch that up and lets move to texturing,

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great. Now...

 

...how do make the textures for it?

 

:Brickwall:

 

ANYONE GOT A TUTORIAL THAT REALLY EXPLAINS HOW TO MAKE A WEAPONSTEXTURE FROM SCRATCH TO FINISH?!

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varies from program to program in what things are called but you need to unwrap the uv's and place them in a square kinda like putting together a puzzle. then you export that image and paint in the lines using your favorite art program. Finally apply the image you just created to the model ans see where the seams are and patch it up accordingly in the texture.

 

now thats a greatly simplified version of it but it should cover the principles....

 

you use 3ds max right? I'll seeif I can come up with a better tutorial.

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okay.

 

i don't know why the shading is so fücked up... it's not like that if you reove the texture. So it's no problem, as i'm not gonna have shading on my texture. Right?

laserpistol_wireless.jpg

laserpistol_wireless2.jpg

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good. Now i just need some texturing tutorial. Not those "how to make metal" tuts, they suck, but a more "step by step" in skinning a model. I have been using hours trying to find just 1, but no. None. Nada. Keine. Ingen. 0.
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I'm not sure you'll find one. Just find some reference pics, fire up your graphical software and let 'er rip :rock:

With some luck you might be able to find some textures from steel or other metals that are usable, if not: experiment :innocent:

Another thing, this laser pistol does not exist IRL so you can use your imagination, as long as it retains a credible look no one will complain that it doesn't look like the real thing LOL

 

Now, best of luck to you, and get cracking!!! :whip: :chickenrun:

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Unfortunately, no, that's why people have arms and invented things like a mouse and photoshop :)

Sorry, but these are the tools you'll have to work with... best things I could come up with were some tutorials here, there's some texturing tutorials there, for example one on how to create some metal :devillaugh: . But like I said before, it'll have to come from you. Unless you want me to have a look at it, but there's no guarantee that I'll do a good job on it :hammer:

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Bad news guys. Well, not so bad, but...

 

Looks like 3ds max messes the models. You probably know that after convertion to Ogre medium scout model has origin slightly moved to the right and doors are displaced. I imported the same 3ds model to XSI Mod Tool. It looks the same there. But the worst thing is that your pistol isn't nice too after import to XSI. I know that you'll say that it's becouse I imported the model to XSI but.. Medium scout in XSI looks the same like in Ogre. Laser pistol in XSI looks little messed up so.. it will look like that in Ogre too.

 

Here are some screenshots showing the problems.

xsi1.jpg

xsi2.jpg

xsi3.jpg

 

What do you think?

Could some of you investigate more deeply XSI Mod Tool? If it's worth it I'll code the dotXSI->Ogre converter.

 

Guyver

 

EDIT: it's the one edge I found that shouldn't be there. Also I don't know how smoothing will work in ogre

 

EDIT2: now how medium scout looks in XSI:

xsi4.jpg

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I'm working on on tyig to investigat the XSI tool, where I'm tunning into issues is that it won't even go past the splash screen so I can enter the unlock code.

 

 

Mik, try exporting the model to obj and see if that helps and try checking the normals and recalcing them outside before you export.

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there doesn't seem to be a problem with exporting, although i can't make my EXI work properly.

 

And i don't figure out what those normals do, although they look like they should...

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ok, the pistol is on standby, and i've been working on the heavy laser riffle.

 

I've done some improvements, but theres still quite a way to go.

 

I removed the pointy things, they did absolutely nothing (other then making aliens go blind.)

heavylaser2.jpg

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Whew, I had to dig way back to find your previous pic of this weapon :)

 

I don't mind the side thingies gone, but the way the barrel and the 'body' blend (well, not blend actually ;) ) looks a little weird to me :unsure:

Also, it looks like you smoothed it somewhat? I have to say I liked the really angular version you had at first better. And now I think about it, how about moving that rear handle lower and more to the rear? To me, it looks a little awkward to hold it this way, as the arm holding the rear handle will be bent almost 90°, which isn't the most comfortable way to hold something for a while.

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I think that it should follow the direction that the laser pistol has taken. As such it fits quite well.

 

 

My concers are with the way the barrel attaches to the base, can we add some detailing on that front panel that gives it a more logical reason for the barrel to be elevated above the body? Maybe a clip simialr to the pistol?

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Improvements on the heavy laser.

 

- i've improved how the muzzle attach to the body. Slightly.

 

- nitched the handles from J'69's stunstick concept :naughty:

 

- improved the bottom and made it look less fat.

 

- a little......groove (is that the word) on the side of it, and a larger on all the way down to the rear.

 

- the muzzles are less blocky now.

 

- the rear handle is lower then the front.

 

- it's quite a bit higher.

 

- A big inlet in the bottom in one of the sides, like the bullet eject part of alot of guns.

heavylaser3.jpg

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Hey Mikker...

I believe I've commented on this before, but the placement of the handles for the heavy laser rifle is odd... I still can't quite figure out how is it supposed to be carried...

 

I believe it is based heavily upon the smart guns in the movie aliens. I surmise it would be held in an similar fashion.

 

http://aliens.valkiria.net/Pictures/sirduch/smart.jpg

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