Just something I've been dabbling about with in my free time. Keeping the shapes simple to allow for easier skinning so I might actually finish this model in some way. 301 polies at the moment, need's a trigger, some way of joining the seperate sections of the gun and some detail adding.

That's about it.

could turn into something very good , looks promising. If you modelled that off the top of your head then , i can never do that for some reason . Keep it up

Try drawing at least a rough shape for the model in paint or something then model kind of to it but allowing yourself some artistic license to make parts look better. It's what I tend to do.

This is the rough concept I modelled off:

Too... plain and dull if you asked me, but every work makes you gain experience so, keep working... no matter how your work turns out!

Please keep it low poly my pc sux
If you get it meshed ill try skinning it, with my n00bzor skinning skills

how do you hold the gun? :O

a bit blocky aint it?

Ergonomically it'd be hell...but I could see Militaries cooing over how easy it would be to store huge numbers of them...and it'd probably be durable as hell.

i'd suggest making it so where your thumb goes through that hole (blue) and the trigger comes off the bottom (red). as it is now, i don't see how they would hold it (.. unless you are planning on doing what i just described).

*edit: maybe just make it longer in general as well. that way the part that looks like a stock would reach to the shoulder and the part that looks like a grip would reach far enough forward. i don't know why everyone else doesn't like this, but i think it looks kick ****... then again, i like tron...

ya thats a good idea but if you do that plz add a trigger guard

haha, yes, that too. don't want to drop it and shoot your buddies in the butt.

that reminesd me of my whale-dor

I think that would be cool for a siege...

The original lmg is already a low poly futuristic lmg thing
but i guess yours is too, needs a handel of some kind

Ta for the C&C, I think I'll google some SMGs to get some more accurate concepts for that trigger-thumbgap thing you described.

What do you think of this?

Still feels uncomfortable

cause its all blocky around the handle part

that reminds me so much of the Halo AR oO

but more...simple

visualise yourself holding it, do you think its comfortable?

hm, maybe a bit more like this? i dont know much about gun design

forget a buttstock, figure out how to fix the handle first. I'm not going to want to hold on to a shooting brick, uc? because a brick is about as ergonomic as this. And i dont mean that rude, I'm just saying that it'd be a horible design as a real gun, though you did pretty well modelling it.

Scrapped that last design as I'd have to start over to make it work. So I decided to go for something a bit more conventional, the thing on will be a VDU for something or other. Only really the trigger to do, again low on the polies, weighing in at just 370. So you'd be looking at around 500 for the entire model.

Trigger and guard added. PC 440.

I'm thinking about adding in some detail to the main body of the gun, but I'm not sure of what to add in. Do you guys have any ideas? Bear in mind I'm wanting this to be low poly so think whether it could be skinned first.

lol, stupid me, I just realised I forgot to add the clip.

/me smacks himself round the face

600 on the nose.

Not very original...

The idea is that it's low poly. Sheesh.

Explain to me how the poly count and the model being original are of the same nature.

I wasn't aiming for anything amazingly original, I never said I was, I even said I was making something pretty conventional. Also you can't add much detail when you're going for low poly which is about the only think which differentiates one gun from another.

I liked the potential of the first one more- maybe more like this:

yah go back to the first one and make it so the fingers below the trigger finger have somewhere to hold onto kind of like in Brimstone's idea. it shouldn't be difficult to modify what you had. then once that is done do some chamfering on the parts where the hand go to round it off to be more comfortable. then this gun would be ace.

Finally got some free time after about 4 coursework deadlines so now I've started on the UV map for the skin. The properly coloured parts are those that have been meshed.

This is what it looks like so far, I've just roughly laid out parts so far, not going to properly condense them in until I've meshed all the parts properly.

nooo th first design looked cooler

maybe have it have a Golden Eye(N64) style reload where it just disappears from ur screen and has the sounds etc that would save alot of time to animate and create a magazine for the weapon dont u think?