WIP: Starship Troopers Rifle

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:56 pm

Right toolbar -> little hammer icon -> polycount mb? Or is that just Gmax?

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:18 pm

Umm.... 4,485

I dunno if thats good or bad, I forgot the area where it goes bad.

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:20 pm

that's a little high for a weapon model for halo. that poly count also seems high for the model. it should fall around 2500-3500. maybe less if you work it right.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:21 pm

>6000 starts giving Halo the sh*ts.

EDIT: No filter on that, don't get angry at me... *filters by self*

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:44 pm

So if I just stopped, put a skin on it, and put it into Halo, it would do alright?

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:46 pm

Performance wise, yeah. Visuals wise... it needs more work. I learned the hard way, my first M16 model looked almost decent in Gmax but looked terrible ingame.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:49 pm

rossmum wrote:Performance wise, yeah. Visuals wise... it needs more work. I learned the hard way, my first M16 model looked almost decent in Gmax but looked terrible ingame.

Liar..... Well, I'm in a tight spot here... I cant really do anything else to it in ph34r of adding more polys, however the model won't look great in CE.......I guess I could try and see what it might look like in halo..

And Snaf, it could have been my codec, I updated it so Ill try to download the vid again.

EDIT: Nope, when I open it it says the file is corrupt. DANGIT

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:09 pm

i dunno how you're gettin corrupt files.... they d/l fine O.o

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:25 pm

SnaFuBAR wrote:i dunno how you're gettin corrupt files.... they d/l fine O.o

Really? Wierdness, could it be a problem with my winrar?

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:31 pm

that's possible. did you get the divx codec like i told you to?

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:35 am

Serious. My original M16 was FUGLY. Dunno what the new one would like like ingame though.

Anyways... don't be afraid of the polycount until you hit 5800-ish.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 9:08 am

SnaFuBAR wrote:that's possible. did you get the divx codec like i told you to?

Yeah I'm downloaing it right now.

EDIT: Nope, didn't work, heres what the error message says:

"C:/Documents and Settings/Christopher/Desktop/M-G's Stuff/Models/Tutorials/Plane Modeling/01_getting_ready_for_modelling.rar
The archive is either in unknown format or damaged"

Rossum, send me a pic of your M16 through pm if you can, I wanna see it.

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:44 am

It still doesn't have enough detail to be able to see the shape easily.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:21 pm

Heres another update, its probably the last one because I dont want to raise the poly level higher.

What I did was I added a chamber thing for the clip, I resized the clip, I also detached the clip. Then, I added little fins on the front because thats what it looks like in the SST game, so I thought it couldnt hurt.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:08 pm

Looking better, but still could do with some work. Maybe if you have time, go back later and do it from scratch, that's what I did on my M82 model and although they both sucked, the second try sucked less.

I'll PM pics in a sec

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:00 pm

Yeah, I'll re-do it once I can get those darn tutorials to run.

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:23 am

definitly looks better but the mesh looks a mess

gh0570fchurch · Post by **gh0570fchurch** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 11:10 am

rossmum wrote:Dude. You, sir, just flamed one of the best modelers here.

If not the best.

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:48 pm

i wouldn't say i'm the best. katarn still whoops my ass at guns. one day... one day... lol

i'll be as good as he is now at guns, but he'll probably have gotten better >__<

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:48 pm

So, does anyone have a solution to my winrar problem?