Double Barrel Shotgun

[xC4RN4G3x]

Double Barrel Shotgun. I got to go at the moment so I'll post the polycount later. I will also smooth it out and render it with the shotgun open. any crits on the progress so far will be good. After this model I'll get into skinning (hopefully).

 

[twentyknives]

nice yet again but a bit angular. are there smoothing problems w/o the hard edges?

 

[WAR_Nuker]

looks great. just smooth that motha.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

like i said...i didnt smooth it out..which is why it looks angular. sometimes i think my guns look better angular...no idea why. maybe i like hard edges. lol.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

well here is the result after smoothing / optimization. 2467 polys, ahem...triangles. crits would be awesome.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

that looks very spiffy. im not very familiar with the triggers on double barrel shotguns, but are they supposed to look like that? i thought it had 1 trigger. if there were 2 triggers, wouldnt there be 2 hammers?

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

Older double barrel shotguns have two triggers, one to fire each barrel. Newer/modern double barrel shotguns have a single trigger and a switch for automatic or manual barrel selection.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

so did i model it right...or did i make mistakes?

 

[WAR_Nuker]

well....yours looks just like the one in that pic. looks like you did alright.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

well i actually modelled the one from here: http://modelguns.co.uk/dblebarrel.htm
tell me if you find anything wrong

 

[WAR_Nuker]

missing the front sights.

 

[Pesmerga]

I dunno why you're so obsessed with getting everything exactly how it looks like in a picture. Front sights or not, it looks good, and adding that clutter just adds polys.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

hmmmm...do u believe i should leave the front sight out then?
EDIT: i do have some "spare" polys if my budget is 2700, but...i like the current poly count(which i believe is too high for the current amount of detail). Tell me what you guys think.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

ah...well if your poly count is in danger then just leave it out....or make a small triangle instead of the little hoop they have for a sight.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

do you think 2467 is too high? the gun does look pretty plain so if my poly count went up to like 2600, that would be really awkward. people might be shocked to see such a high poly count on such a plain weapon.

 

[Ennui]

It looks good to me... and don't worry about the poly count too much if it's as low as 2500.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

alright, thanx.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

make sure you optimize.

 

[crackhead]

carnage you are producing these models way too quickly its bad for my self esteem. lol looks great.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

carnage you are producing these models way too quickly its bad for my self esteem. lol looks great.

haha sorry about that, :x . i'm sure you can model twice as good as me...i've only been using 3dsm for 2 weeks now(maybe not even). i did however get some good basic knowledge about 3d modeling before i used it since i came from milkshape(which is almost 100% editable poly modeling). dont ask about that program...i HATED it. i never finished a model on it because the interface just made me pissed. everytime i looked at the program i just couldnt model anything. there was no motivation. yeah..story of my life lol.
come on guys...post your work! i wanna see what other people are modeling.
EDIT: yeah...i fixed that smoothing problem on the barrel. it happened to be that the vertices there werent welded. took me a while to figure out. lol

 

[crackhead]

lol i never could model anything on milkshape. and i doubt i can model twice as good as you. i havnt been posting any pics for ages cuz ive been trying to learn to texture and also to make characters which im finding really really hard. im gona ask desty if he fancys making another 13 part video tutorial for xsi on character modeling lol. anyway keep up the good work what mod are you making these models for?

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

i'm uhhh....currently making these models for a mod that i want to make but...i'm not sure if i'm gonna make it now. i think there are gonna be some legal problems.

 

[WAR_Nuker]

well if the legal problems consist of copyrighting....just give them credit in the readme. ive seen mods for games that are complete ripoffs from other games, and no credit was given. they are just mods after alll.... also if you arent making money off it thatd be a plus.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

its not the copy right...its umm..i dont own a "real" copy of 3dsm....i dont know if i can make a mod if i dont own a legit copy. so yeah..i'm waiting for a reply in the other thread.

 

[crackhead]

but now u have your reply and it was a positive one you can tell us about your mod..

 

[WAR_Nuker]

the ends justify the means my man. if you make a mod, no ones really gonna care how you made it, they just gonna wanna play it.

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

i uhhh dont want to disclose any information about the mod yet. i'm still planning it out. in general its gonna be a skill system game with three teams. the teams are gonna be the zombies, upperworld survivors(Outlaws), and underworld survivors(The Law). the story is that a nuclear war breaks out and almost everything is destroyed. the majority of the population goes underground into the fallouts while some remain on top(who later become the Outlaws). with the high levels of radiation, a mutated virus begins to reanimate the countless corspes left to rot from the nuclear devastation. the Law(underworld) finally come back up after 75 years and encounter the zombie horde for the first time. The Outlaws have gained mutations from the radiation, and from the Darwin's theory of evolution all the negative mutations have passed away and only the beneficial ones are left(i know this is almost impossible in 75 years....but just go with it). The Outlaws feel threatened more by the new human civilization emerging than the zombie horde(which they have been fighting for the last 75 years), and declare war on The Law. The three forces are now all fighting each other. The gameplay is gonna be a skill system, as stated before, with unique classes to each team. i have lots of ideas that i dont feel like writing here because it would take AGES.
EDIT: i'm gonna make a site soon(hopefully) with all my game ideas on there because http://www.nomoreroominhell.com/index.php?act=gamep has already taken some of my ideas. well they weren the exact ideas but some are similar.
DOUBLEEDIT: if someone could tell me a good free host, just so i can write down my ideas and not for future purposes, that would be awesome. i dont want to make a site on the shitty hosts that i know right now. they all have popups.
TRIPLE EDIT: i plan to pay for good hosting if my mod does get its feet off the ground, but i just need a free host at the moment. nothing more.

 

[crackhead]

hmm its been a while since i used a free host lol cant think of any. my friend has a few servers and sells sites with high bandwidth for really cheap pm me when u want to pay for one and ill give you his details

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

alright no prob. . any comments on my game story? a bit stupid?

 

[crackhead]

nah it sounds good sounds like it needs some coding do you have a coder?

 

[xC4RN4G3x]

no not at the moment but i'm expecting my bro to help me out soon. yeah i know one coder isnt gonna be enough(plus he knows only average C++ because he took a JAVA class last year). so far its only me on the mod. yeah...depressing lol.
EDIT: i really want to make a zombie mod but the guys at www.nomoreroominhell.com are scaring me. they seem all professional and stuff. like "7 years of experience in modding and animation" and like "he's been making music for 12 years now"(these are just random but if you look through the site; they seem very professional). not to mention that they have 20+ members. plus their models are like "professional".