[WIP] Sidearm thingy

[MMFSdjw]

Thanks Apoc. I think I know what you mean about the contour line.
Right now I've done practiacly nothing with the grip, it's nothing but a box with meshsmooth and FFD x4 thingy. Simply for the purpose of size & proportion. It's not even an editably poly yet, still just a primative.

I had thought about the recoil but I hoped that would simply go unnoticed! lol

Right now I'm thinking some of these problems would be aided by making the top section larger, closer to the size of the bottom section.

the sight is a bit more tricky, I'll have to play with that a bit.

[TeeKup]

Random idea.

Make a rifle version, give it a charge shot, make the charge shot sound like Lugia's aeroblast.

[jngrow]

The upside down thing wouldn't bother me as much if it was attached to an arm or something, semi-mega man style. But it's your weapon, do what you want with it. Looks great so far.

[DaneO'Roo]

Nevermind the rest of my sketch, just the handle area. Maybe, I dunno.

The gun would make sense as some kind of covenant flamethrower, looks really fitting.

Also, I'd like to skin that thing when it's finished, if you don't mind of course. I just really like where you going with this. Awesome concept.

[MMFSdjw]

that's a wonderful sketch, and it gives me some ideas for some details to add however, that handle look horribly uncomfertable. It does look very nice, but also very painful.

I adjusted the size/position of stuff and I think it looks a bit more ballanced now.
I've got some ideas for the clip/sight area but so far my attempts at modling it have failed. but I'm working on it.

[Hunter]

I am loving that sketch Dane, MMFSdjw you should really try and model Dane's sketch, then it would look amazing, especially with Danes skins.

[SnaFuBAR]

you know instead of having that shape on the grip, you could throw it in front of the fingers like it would be a trigger guard.

[MMFSdjw]

trigger guard... hmmm... I think I understand what you're saying.
If I understood you correctly, I've been thinking about something similar to that the whole way through I just haven't been able to nail anythign down yet.

[Pooky]

Such a human way of thinking. Kinda lazy too. just because you dont have a easily learned sight picture available close to your face doesn't mean it's impossible to aim something.

Assuming it's for humans to use, a human, intuitive design would probably be a good thing

[Apoc4lypse]

I love danes concept, its sort of how I was trying to imagine the handle looking too. I don't think it looks that painfull to hold, except maybe you need to leave out some of the jagged spots from his concept, like the whole front/trigger area looks amazing, the back area with the pointy things don't make sense tho if someones hand is going to wrap around it, just change those and its good.

Also not to sure about it being a flamethrower... I still see it as the answer to a covenant submachine gun style weapon thats actually on par with the human weapons. (The plasma pistol is an ok weapons, not as strong as the pistol obviously, and less ranged) The Plasma Rifle is almost as good at the assualt rifle (talking halo 1 here, forget the rest of em...) The needlers sort of in its own group... not that gr8 of a weapon.

All the covi weapons from halo 1 never had a real defined "lead" weapon. It was supposed to be the plasma rifle, which is tru in Campiagn, then again in Campaign the human lead weapon is the Assualt Rifle. Once you play multiplayer though, the covis don't really have a lead weapon, and the human backbone weapon almost always becomes the pistol.

This thing can kind of fill that void I think.

Or maybe its not covinent at all, and its from some other alien race.

Either way it looks like it would be utilized the same way an UZI is, fast ROF, accurate for the first few shots (slow shooting) then slowly less accurate the longer you hold the trigger (as the ROF speeds up).