SWBF Series Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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PsYcH0_]-[aMsT3r wrote:
DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:The DC-17 hand Blaster:
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and ingame:
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(im going to take a wireframe shot of it right now)
:eek: That's just awesome. Best model I've seen in ages. The UV and textures are perfect and the actual model looks brilliant. You gonna release it?
It's released already.
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For Terra Strife; need to improve the wheels, but I'm working on 9pose (steering) and treads now! Woohoo! :D

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:eek: Nice! Dude, that's awesome!
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Here's the main pistol for all EGA (new rae map). Ingame, everything around the trigger will be transparent!

Beretta 92fs:

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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Nice models! The actual model and the textures are brilliant, though I'd suggest trying to make the UVs a bit cleaner.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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A simple pistol I made for a map that's gonna begin production soon. The texture sucks, I know, but I got lucky when I opened up the texture in the texture editor and it popped up with the UVs in the perfect positions. If someone wants to retexture, I'll be glad to send you it.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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honestly it looks a bit weird

if you are not that good in making textures, create propper UVs and copy and paste parts of shipped textures on your UV
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Yeah, I know it looks weird. I'm not good at making gun models. And I always thought it'd be kinda cool to have a gun with the trigger not under or over anything, even if it looks sorta liek a jackhammer.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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I'd like to try and texture it.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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CETME 700 Rifle, for the Rae map:

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The above pic has some spread pixels: that's my lack of making the background transparent, not the model :lol:
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Actiroan wrote:CETME 700 Rifle, for the Rae map:
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The above pic has some spread pixels: that's my lack of making the background transparent, not the model :lol:
I'd recommend doing a poly reduction set to about 0.5%, so it gets rid of unwanted polys. Higher poly models normally look better, but you should still get rid of any unwanted ones to to speed up gameplay. Your textures are brilliant, but I'd still try doing better UVs. if you can get near-perfect UVs, the models will look way better.
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PsYcH0_]-[aMsT3r wrote:
Actiroan wrote:CETME 700 Rifle, for the Rae map:
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The above pic has some spread pixels: that's my lack of making the background transparent, not the model :lol:
I'd recommend doing a poly reduction set to about 0.5%, so it gets rid of unwanted polys. Higher poly models normally look better, but you should still get rid of any unwanted ones to to speed up gameplay. Your textures are brilliant, but I'd still try doing better UVs. if you can get near-perfect UVs, the models will look way better.
I don't see what you mean with the uvs, since they look fine to me. Plus the model is already quite low poly, especially compared to some others. UVs also seem fine to me, maybe at some places at the bottom or summin, but this uvs are kinda perfect fitted on the texture.

Edit: Ingame picture to show what i mean: looks kinda perfect in my opinion! :D

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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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I won't continue the quote train :). Yeah, that one actually looks awesome! I guess it was just the weird alpha.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Grievous's modidfied DT-57 blaster:
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(i modified the stock droidblaster, if somebody want to give it a better7differet texture, tell me)
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Actiroan wrote:Plus the model is already quite low poly...
True, but it never hurts to take away some more. I wouldn't recommend using polygon reduction, but if you manually remove lines such as the ones highlighted (I only highlighted a couple for example, there are more; looks like you used the stock circle, u:8 v:2 base:2, and usually you don't need the extra 2s) and possibly some of those straight lines, you can get the poly count a lot further down.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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Honestly I don't see anything where the polygons should be reduced.
High-poly weapons don't do anything to slow down the frame-rate; all my weapon models in Terra Strife have a much higher polygon count than what Actiroan's got and the game runs fine.

I have one question though; where's the magazine? :P



By the way, D.U.C.K., very nice blaster, looks true to the movie in all respects.
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DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:Grievous's modidfied DT-57 blaster:
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(i modified the stock droidblaster, if somebody want to give it a better7differet texture, tell me)
That looks amazing! Now we'll have proper pistols for the CIs, since the're using the Stormie ones. Good work!
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Taivyx wrote:Honestly I don't see anything where the polygons should be reduced.
High-poly weapons don't do anything to slow down the frame-rate; all my weapon models in Terra Strife have a much higher polygon count than what Actiroan's got and the game runs fine.

I have one question though; where's the magazine? :P



By the way, D.U.C.K., very nice blaster, looks true to the movie in all respects.
Lol, i dunno. Ask the weapon designer? This is the ref pic :P

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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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:shock:
That's one tiny clip.
I'm too lazy to circle it in the photoshop so in case you didn't know what a magazine/clip is, here's a picture of the same weapon with a much larger clip.
Basically the magazine is where the bullets are stored, so, the magazine you've got there has in it maybe..... 5-10 rounds? :P
In contrast, the one I posted has a 30-round magazine.
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Re: Model Showcase Thread v3.0

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JabbaLovesLava wrote:I'd like to try and texture it.
Thanks! I'll send it to ya. Do you want me to just send yoiu a black texture stamped with the UVs, or will youy figure them out by yourself?
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