Well, after a minor f**k-up, i'm working on it again, after a poly count pre-optimisation, it's sitting around 850 poly or so, which is great news, i figured it was much higher. I'm aiming for about a 1500 poly target for this, but i've doubts it'll even be that much.

I think it'd fit the HMG better...

Good look'n so far

Well it's too big for a pistol, and the clip size is WAAAAAAAY too big for pistol, unless it's an anti-tank pistol, that is....

Shotgun, well, i don't care if it's a shotgun, i'm not gonna even bother trying to work out how to make a shottie reload using a clip.

That leaves HMG and LMG. Given it's size i'd say either way is fair game really.

i meant if you didnt model it with a clip, or the ending buttstock area. IE: only modelling what's outlined in red.

remember... pistol does most dmg per shot of all the ballistic weapons (excluding the all mighty shotgun)

GL, btw, is NOT really ballistic... it's a morter more than anything

no, no you're not


please

honestly i think that it should be a pistol - it looks like one in the concept and so it should be. pistol packs the most punch, so it really should have the size to go along with it

Hah, far from abandoned. I only started it at about 10pm and it's now 4am.

I'm just not going to work on it any more tonight.

As for progress, the grip etc still needs a hell of a lot of work, the pivot for the stock will be changed from that crappy cylinder to something more like in the concept, the PC will drop drastically from what it is now (~1900 :o).

Then, the model will be done.

i think the GL is already hand held...
havent seen a stationary GL in NS yet


i think it should be the LMG

That alien looks likes a huge venus trap (THAT EATS YOU WHEN YOUR NOT LOOKEN).

With the new version, 1595, about 50% optimised and not finished yet, but pretty much on target.

is that the tri count? or just quads/polies?

tri.

if your refering to tri or poly or quad give me a sec and ill explain

tri = triangle

a tri is a face with 3 corners most models in games are made of tris its what the computer processes to make the shapes/models you see in the game they are all put together by a bunch of triangles esunas model is made up of 1595 tri's which means it took 1595 triangles to make up that object the higher this number the more it affects performance

poly = polygon

a polygon is a face that is made up of 4 or more corners some of the new engines use these instead of tris for example if you have a square it counts as a single polygon but you can also make up that square with 2 tri's the half life engine builds everything of tris so it breaks squares, hexagons etc into triangles so this number is even higher

in summary the higher the number the worse performance



btw nice work esuna looks alot more then 1595 tris

but, if used right, the higher the number, the better the viewage (hot smexy models can be both low or high poly.. depends how well made they are... most I did was a 500,000 poly box... that was funny as HELL... till my laptop crashed as a result XD)