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yeah, i hate to say this ross, but that's a very noob render indeed. From what I can see it looks kinda nifty, but it doesn't look anything like a sniper rifle. I don't know much about guns, but it seems to me the long range ones have longer barrels with less bulky crap surrounding them.
Yeah, I fail at renders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leiukemia
I know, I plan to fix that. I just need to think up some details for the stock, have a fair idea what I'll do along the length of the shroud.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leiukemia
n, see tweek's postQuote:
Originally Posted by Leiukemia
It's not a conventional sniper rifle, and I think you're forgetting that the bullpup design adds quite a lot of length to the barrel. The barrel extends from the muzzle you see there right back to a point just behind the scope's ocular display.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
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Also, don't forget that they use variants of the M16 as a designated marksman's rifle, accurate out to quite a considerable range. The M16, from what I recall, has about a 20" barrel (give or take a few).
Well, as far as the bark/rock debate I was actually mountain climbing all last weekend, so the question of whether I've seen a cliff before makes me lul.
I can definately see it's cliff, it just sorta seems barky on a first glance.
Also, the sniper looks bulky as fuck, like the kinda thing people would rename "the brick" and complain about having to "hump" around.
But that type of thing actually adds realism, and it's not really ugly, just well, the brick. Bit too curvy for my personal taste too.
I'm probably going to break up the curves with those loose, jaggy panels you see a lot on Combine architecture and machinery, like on the Citadel, APC, Hunter and shield chargers.
like i've said before, sure it may be accurate- there may be rare cases where sniper rifles, for example, are like that. but in any part of the entertainment industry, true accuracy is not what counts, it's perceived accuracy that counts. for the best popularity it should look plausible to the layman, not to the select few who do know more. that's why movies like Star Wars make so much money.
Then again, I guess it's just fine for your goal to be to appeal to those select few, who are ten times more awesome than the average masses anyway. Just so long as you don't depend on that as a career move.
lol listen to me. Of course the masses suck. Screw the masses.
[ot]was that post ot? Jesus I'm way ot lately.[/ot]
Star Wars completely jacked the MG42, which is why it worked. http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/emot-argh.gif
Also, fuck the mindless plebs, they can go suck off someone else for generic, completely plain weapons. If I say it's a sniper, it's a goddamn fucking sniper. So there.
Yeah well, it looks like a bevelled, extruded box. A purple, clearly not blue-grey extruded box.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
This isn't the first time you've claimed purple was blue-grey, so I used the eyedropper tool and sampled your render and compared it to a real blue-grey.
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/430/bluegreysn8.jpg
It was in the dead centre of the blue column, desaturated, and darkened. No purple involved. In fact, it was closer to the green end of the spectrum than purple. Therefore, fail.
Also, I have never used bevel in my life. Double fail.
Well then you should've. It would've saved you time wasted plane modeling a round-edged box. :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
no it wouldnt.
it'd actually take less clicks to drag out those edges than to bevel.
also, i think you mean extrude and not bevel, so therefore you fail, and ross win. :v