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started working on the sniper highres
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started working on the sniper highres
meh, it's pretty good, but it's gonna be hard to top that rifle. BTW, if you're starting on a new gun, where's the pics of the finished, error free normal mapped lowres version of the rifle?
Also, I get the back of the scope, but the front seems a little funky. why is it that
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shape that sticks out to the left?
Also, I get artistic license, and it is futuristic and the way weapons function is likely to change, but still, the clips on both guns seem to be in very odd places.
I like the unique shape of the front grip, tho. Actually, I like the overall shape. Like the other one, it has a very unique profile. It shall be highly recognizable. =D
_o/\o_Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
Too bad wright was an asshole, prairie houses ftw.
hahaha.
also, ewww gross. Homes look best in the mountains. with rocks and snow and water. grass... sucks.
A prairie house is the style of houses that wright used and created, it is named after the way these houses normally were found in the prairies encircling the most wonderful city in the universe, Chicago. :eng101:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
But they look worse in the prairie so :)
Impossible. Needs more room for the bolt to travel back and pick up another round.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wave of Lag
Ok, let me be the first to post music.
http://media.putfile.com/Inversion---Intro-TestSample
Just a sample of the intro of a song I'm writing. If I had a whole band It'd have drums and what not too but I don't :(
Also, alot of it is out of time because I don't have a metronome or a drum beat to go by, so I did ok in that respect.
IN B4 TEH EDIT.
also, I have an assignement for art class to draw a "mad scientist's creation" any ideas?
Knowing WoL, it probably has some crazy-ass bolt which doesn't pick up the round from the rear like normal guns do.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
that thing tweek is modeling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Massacre
Excuse D:Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
wol doesn't have a clue how guns work, imo. he just makes them look cool. and at that he succeeds. =D
FTFYQuote:
Originally Posted by n00b1n8R
cliffs for me and tweeks map.
It's so pretty : O Great Job.
Hawt
wow, now that is one of the prettiest textures I've seen you make in a while, Dano.
Looks like bark, tbh.
Sexy bark though.
You and tweek are collaborating on a map? What is it D:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ð4ÑØ *
cliffs for me and tweeks map.
^Quote:
Originally Posted by Massacre
Lul, craquele filter much?
Looks like some yummy bark or close up rock, but not a whole cliff face.
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Originally Posted by Reaper Man
or not? :eyesroll:
Try rendered bumps and 2 hours of painting.
Also people, it's a detail map.
Also, I painted it from reference of a real life cliff.... It's muddy-ish shale with moss in it.....
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/9...prendermd3.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by FriedMetroid
Haven't we already been down that road? Portals don't work blah blah geometry culling blah blah....
It's going into UT3
Oh, awesome then. With those system specs I might just get that game....Quote:
Originally Posted by Conscars
You don't have to use UE3's bsp brush builder for maps!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Conscars
Fail right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reaper Man
That filter looks nothing like the crack pattern on the texture. It forms rough squares, all you can do is change the size and depth.
only if you want to :PQuote:
Originally Posted by jahrain
Also, I encourage all people serious about their map making/modding/game design to make the move to UT3. You'll get a much more open sourced editing kit (infact, completely open) and a game that looks a million dollars and runs a million dollars. It's also one of my favorites shooters. You can do the fast twitchy ass shit or the super slow mo lo gravity shit thats always fun as well. It's got many vehicles and weapons to have fun with too.
Besides, with the fully available editing tools at your disposal, you can practically make your own game if your not too fond of UT's gameplay.
Also, seeing as UE3 is a largely licensed engine, it'd be a bonus to be able to work with it.
isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Massacre
idc what you painted it to be, that's kickass bark right there.
How bout you take a look at some actual cliffs.
I've never ever seen bark that looks like that. It's only because theres moss there so you all jump on the bandwagon of thinking it looks like a red oaks bark. Fact is: bark is WAY more grained and stringy, and looks very flaky and isn't like that at all....Real bark actually has lots of tiny spores, fungi and germinations growing on the surface, lots of little hairs, and actually looks like wood.
The actual crack patterns of the texture look nothing like what you'd see on tree bark.
Examples:
http://www.english-country-garden.co...oak-bark-1.jpg
http://students.umf.maine.edu/~thomasbo/oakbark.jpg
http://www.avidimages.com/preview/20..._1212_prev.jpg
all from different trees. As you can see, the colour is much more blotchy and contains more green. The surface is also severely grainy and stringy.
The actual crack pattens of the bark are much more uniform, almost V shaped. It's all very neat, and none of it fragments off.
Even if you were to find a tree with smooth irregularly fissured bark (wtf), with moss growing in between it, it doesn't matter because cliffs can look like anything depending on location and what they're made out of.
What I painted is crevassed muddy shale with moss growing in the damp cracks...
I painted it off a real cliff, and it looks almost exactly like what I painted.
There's lots of different kinds of cliffs and barks out there, I don't blame them when some types look similar. That's by no means hopping on the bandwagon. I don't get where that came from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ð4ÑØ *
No one's saying a cliff can't look like that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ð4ÑØ *
but it does look like bark :|
Maybe some cliffs look like bark, but hey we all said it looks good.
So I updated the sniper more (hate shot tags, I use spoilers instead):
~2,600 tris
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I also hollowed out the right side of the cheekpiece (was previously just a flat face), and made a little extrusion around the ejection port hood. I'll probably add details such as slight ridges and grooves along the shroud later.
Why did you render it blue with a black background? It's kinda hard to see....
It's fine on my screen.
I like dark grey-blue on black. :|
Blue-grey? dude, you seriously gotta calibrate your monitor. It's purple ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
Also, my masterpiece.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5868/hitlernw9.jpg
Calibrate your eyes, it's not even close. That's the shading's doing, the colour itself is just dark, desaturated blue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reaper Man
Also, lol @ that.
Looks interesting Ross, but needs less noob render. Also, your poly distribution is a bit wonky. You have the cylinders on the front with lots of sides and holes, while the stuff closer to the back is considerably lower poly. One more thing. The "loops" you've got going across the top of the scope, they should be evenly spaced rather then the polygons getting shorter at the front.
rossum. i hate it.
also, leiuki, not rly.
they should be spaced along the amount of actual curvature overlap.
i could draw out what that means, but i'm not going to.
okay i will.
think of the curve as a perfect curve, not connected dots. then, draw your representation of that curve based on how much the real curve extendsa away from the middle of the uncurved polygons. that amount should be the same at each poly.
a drawing helps lots, but IM NOT GOING TO LOLOL
spacing em evenly is a load of crap.
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
Chamfer tool, Captain Twat. Find it. :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Reaper Man
In all seriousness, though, I've never used bevel. Chamfer was the first tool I found that rounded edges, and it's the only one I've used since.
nobody cares about the tools, only the end result. i dont care how someone made a piece if shit, just the fact it's a piece of shit.
pro tools can still make pieces of shit, as many people are so willing to prove. :downs:
Exactly. But getting one up on Raper Man is always a bonus. :haw:
Double post but whatever
Please do. I don't like the way it looks at all right now :|Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
Actually, how does this weapon work? It might be interesting to have clear panels on the sides of the weapon made of that curiously unbreakable combine glass. Assuming this is just for show and isn't going into anything.
Going into GM.
Works on the same basic principle as the pulse rifle, assuming I've interpreted that correctly.
eh, then it could probably handle all the extra polies.
Yeah.
What I have planned is to have this look like a slightly curvier take on the Razor Train's design, with lots of oddly-shaped loose panels and mismatched joints.
Didn't you say this was supposed to be a combine-ish sniper? If so, it needs more of that patchwork look to it, and I don't think pulse technology uses shell casings.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
Ross, your sniper rifle looks like it would make a fabulous Nerf gun. Keep up the good work.
I'm sorry, it just doesn't look anything like a sniper rifle to me.
You texturing it?Quote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
also what pooky said.
It will, don't worry. I'm just trying to work out where to put them, how many, and which shapes and sizes. As for the casings... look at the pulse rifle. They're not traditional rounds.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
Hoping so.Quote:
Originally Posted by n00b1n8R
I don't really like it Ross, sorry :\
the whole back of the gun looks really unimaginative, and there should be at least something to divide that huge flat surface up on the side, such as adding a grip. Kinda bulky in general...
Yeah, that's fine.
It should look a lot more interesting once I work on it more, but I just need to figure out what exactly should be added and where.
WINQuote:
Originally Posted by rossmum
*edit* lol fixed. But Seriously, I think it's kick fucking ass, and it looks like a sniper to me...
Things are what you make them to be. It certainly looks long enough, has a scope, it's a fucking sniper.
Besides, Ross knows his guns, so I'd believe him when he says it's a working concept.
The design personally I love, I say meh to conventional plain guns.
I liked the design, nice and curvy.
Can't rep you ross >_>
Massive WIP.
o_o. dude you really need to work on the proportions and general lay-out of the face.
Yeap...
I'm not used to the paiting technic, at all,I'm learning slowly, by doing that kind of try. :embarrassed:
I haven't done much in photoshop, to be honest.
Anyway, thanks for the comment. :)
Buddies
http://firedragonsmaps.net/Buddys/Small.jpg
Click image for 'slightly' bigger image.
Click Here for a super HUGE version.
Yep, WIP, and quick one at that, might make an animation with these guys.
Just something thats kinda funny, yet random. :lol:
(I take no credit for the models just messing around with lighting, and bipeds :p).
oh I was about to say NICE MODELS but yeah. Who's are they? They're cute and widdle :)
Nice posing :)
Ok, found my other art diary.
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2228/assortedeh0.jpg
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/523...ssortedcn3.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/1...ecliffsuy7.jpg
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6...ircularym7.jpg
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/2...oortileir6.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3...enderedsk9.jpg
orly
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/5...nteriorvh6.jpg
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2...rdiffusfz8.jpg
orly
http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9494/myhandht1.jpg
^ and I challenged myself to draw my left hand in less than an hour, as close as I could get it.
damn dude you've got one bony wrist XD
I've got a question tho, why is it you always use that particular lighting effect for rendering your textures? I mean it looks good and all, I'm just curious.
oh yeah and Ross, have you played Half Life 2 Episode 2 yet? You do know that they actually have the combine sniper rifle in the game, don't you? And it looks perhaps less cool and unique than yours, but it looks way more like a sniper rifle tbh.
because that way you also see the normal/specular maps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
Also it's a bit harder for the lowliest of noobs to steal it that wayQuote:
Originally Posted by Rob Oplawar
only if noobs want to be freking idiots and use a prebaked diffuse-only texture instead of a proper specular/diffuse/normal/glow/detail mspped shader.Quote:
Originally Posted by FriedMetroid
but yea, if anyone would want to do that, they're too stupid to get rid of the shadows
That's why they're the lowliest of noobs :eng101:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tweek
Website template I'm working on. It isn't complex, as they wanted a minimalistic design. Just a jpg, as I can't be bothered to upload the SWF as the animations aren't done yet. I dislike what they made me do to the header, but 'the customer is always right', eh?
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/632...ecliff1qn5.jpg
thats a pretty cool design actually!
Looks good.
Anime project for my Illustration class. Her name is Bijou, and she has a pet demon named Picasso... I just haven't designed the demon yet. XD
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../BijouDone.png
Well....your good, I just hate that cutesy style. I also don't see the point of the dots below the eyes.
Here's something new for you: a pose-in-progress. I'm not staying up all night to finish it, so I took some shots as-is so you guys could have a look.
There's a lot of shit you can't see in these; I'll probably take a whole stack of screens for the final and edit them all.
The fog really doesn't do a lot for it, so this one will take a lot of editing, maybe even a stitch or 10.
That's cos UR A BOI. D:Quote:
Originally Posted by LlamaMaster
I have a thing (not a fetish, just an interest) for eye tattoo, and I usually add it as a personal touch to most of my character drawings. However, the dots do serve a practical purpose, at least to me anyway. They add the illusion that her eyes are wider, which gives her a more childlike face.Quote:
Originally Posted by LlamaMaster
Thanks for the opinion. ^__^;
Aerowyn and rossmum...
Could it be, that this is the only forum where WWII and Hentai collide? :awesome:
Great job, both of you. Just because I suck at art XD
Aerowyn I don't think her right pinkies supposed to bend that way. :downs:
It's just for a project in my class--if it were a personal work I was doing I'd be like, "NO WAIIII" XDQuote:
Originally Posted by Archon23
Thanks though, I didn't notice.
Yeah, you man :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aerowyn
Oh wait D:
The Combine were in WWII?Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrickssj6
;)
needs more tentacles :downs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aerowyn
also, the lack of nose, and the nostrils being so far part makes her look like a little piggy :3
/me no like due to lack of boobs :saddowns:
Oh yah, because everybody likes little girls with big racks....Quote:
Originally Posted by Reaper Man
:haw:
Look's like voldemort's nose to me :vQuote:
Originally Posted by Tweek
Maybe that's because it's not done yet? @______@ I'm planning on fixing it up but not right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tweek
I can bend mine like that just fine...Quote:
Originally Posted by Archon23
Rest of the detail will probably be normalled and skinned on; mag well is unlikely to be seen for more than a second or two so I left it alone. Final polycount is somewhere in the ballpark of 3,100.
Anyone want to UV it for me?
WTF?! 3k?!
i would ahve guessed like 1k, maybe 1300 but no more.
where's the wastage?
