i thought of this, and it would be hard to do, but i think it would be awesome. and extremely highpoly. i was thinking of making a mg or pistol, that is completely clear. and modelling all the inside parts, to make it as close to a real working gun as possible. the bullet in the chamber would disapear, the inside of the barrel would flash completely white/orange/firy color, the casing would eject, and then another bullet would pop up into the chamber. i was thinking of doing the pistol because it has a shoot empty and reload empty animations.

what does everyone think of this?

So like a working pistol with a glass like shell you could say? That sound cool, try it!!!!

*watchs PC fly through the roof*
well if you get me pics of every single piece you need i can model em for you then you can put it together

Interesting concept

however I think thats a hulleva lotta work to go into something that will end up looking like a toy

...you could just *NOT* make the pistol, and JUST have the parts...

but the worst would be the animations

Getting the glass effect shouldnt be too hard, just use the trans skins... but modeling all those innards = yikes. Your right, the poly on that will be a headache, unless we have some leet modelers (which we do) here that could optimize the hell outta it. That indeed would be cool... TOO cool I fear... I would always pull out my pistol and watch it fire... not aiming at the skulk... *chom*

I hear by ban this idea because it's possible coolness factor affects my playbility factor.

I joke of course, this would be intresting to see a pack of see-through firearms...

yes the worst would be animations. but it could be worth it. if the pistol was done, what kinda concept would it be?

ohh ohh ohh, lets do the knife first

lol, i duno that might be a little hard. to many moving parts...

Yeah, the energy cell pack, the .223 LR's in the handle for that little Spestnaz surprise... the spring-loaded mechanisim... the two-way radio... man knives these days...

Well if you need any pistol concepts, I'm more than willing to help out. Not to toot meh own horn, but I consider myself pretty good at doing nice in-depth pistol designs. Sure I may hark from the more realistic shapes and forms right now, but thats because I like my pistols to actually work in theory. Of course, I can always do a good Sci-Fi on if needed...

well after some rigorous work i managed to get the knife finished.

amazed at all the moving parts

well vash that is what we need. a pistol that works. perhaps it would be of help, if you had a pistol of your own you could take it apart, possibly draw all the main parts. the hammer, the clip, the chamber, the main stuff. if you dont have a pistol of your own you might be able to find a pistol taken apart on google, or on some gunfreak site.

I have a 1911A1 Service pistol I could strip for you.



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on some gun pics on worldguns it has the gun broken into bits

Idea bing!.... just to let you know my surename is Bing..... leave it alone

Sounds like it'd rock!

Release a high-poly and a SUPER DUPER high-poly version

High-Poly for the "normal" game machines

Super high poly for those with the Radeon 9800XT and a 3.0 or greater Ghz CPU


I could try to help with the concepts... maybe... lol. I'd need a gun to take apart tho


(I doubt my dad would want me taking any of his apart... like the .22 revolver or his .357 revolver... and he'd MURDER me if I took his .44 Magnum apart )

well DarkCharisma, it would be great if you could post the stripped down pics on here. this could be like some sort of [pre-mwip] thread i guess.

Howstuffworks has cutaways and animations showing the internals. It's very basic, and probably missing a few things, but will get you started.

Revolvers and gatling guns:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/machine-gun2.htm

Recoil Based Machineguns:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/machine-gun3.htm

Blowback and Gas Based Weapons:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/machine-gun4.htm

Machine Gun belt feeding systems:
http://people.howstuffworks.com/machine-gun5.htm