A gun for Fallout 3?

[donnato]

Holy guacomole Grondo. Thats just great. You`re in game. I`m very happy for ya bro. Nice job a few last details and it`ll be done,eh?

[grond]

Gads, Don, details...

Exploring Gimp is more time consuming than Blender or Nifskope, because it's so subjective. But I'm getting the hang of making worn looking metal ( sorry Will ). That's what's kept me from saying 'I'm done'. But it's almost done.

Changed the color to something like FO3 green, and tried hard to get the scratching right, tone-wise. There's still more to do, but I have the idea. As far as animation goes, I'm lost. That might come after I release it, but I'm happy with the reload animation now - I changed it so there's no pulling back of invisible bolts.

How does the new color strike you?

[InsanitySorrow]

Wow now that is looking sweet , The detail on it is perfect

[nottlong]

Looking very sharp, I like the darker color. And you will be done when you are done.

[WindmillTilter]

New colour looks fantastic! You've done amazing things here, I can't believe it's your first model.

If you want send me the NIF and the reload KF you're using. I may not be able to get anywhere either but I've spent a lot of time playing around inside NIFs. If I can figure it out I'll post step by step instructions (I'm assuming you'd rather have that than me just send you the file).

WT

[donnato]

Sorry I haven`t been in here lately.Wowee Grondo, that is very nice. Lotsa good work there. I think I can see what you mean by still having more details to attend to. This looks like the type of thing I could spend a 1/2life noodling with even after it was basically "finished".

[grond]

Sorry I haven`t been in here lately.Wowee Grondo, that is very nice. Lotsa good work there. I think I can see what you mean by still having more details to attend to. This looks like the type of thing I could spend a 1/2life noodling with even after it was basically "finished".

Yep! It's a strain of OCD, and I have it. Detailing this thing has overwhelmed me.

Lookit what's taken about five hours...just the muzzle burn detail. The muzzle unwrapped into 2 pieces, and my OCD made it imperative to have the same colors at the same edges. I think I have it. But I think the muzzle still looks painted, not burnt by firing: :)

New colour looks fantastic! You've done amazing things here, I can't believe it's your first model.

If you want send me the NIF and the reload KF you're using. I may not be able to get anywhere either but I've spent a lot of time playing around inside NIFs. If I can figure it out I'll post step by step instructions (I'm assuming you'd rather have that than me just send you the file).

WT

Thanks Windy.

If I can get my head together and find the files I'll shoot em your way. But for now, I'm wearing a virtual smock and squinting one eye while holding a thumb out at the easel. I'm like a painter now, but without the know-how.

[nottlong]

Dos not look painted. Remember whatever paint or oxide that was used to cover the weapon originally will react to the heat and light. So you could get some interesting effects. But it look very good.

[WindmillTilter]

I think the muzzle looks excellent!!

Oh and welcome to the fraternity of Obsessive Texturers. Hope you don't like sleep.

WT

[grond]

One of the reasons this thing is taking so long is because I love sleep. I won't sacrifice sleep for hardly anything. Even texturing.

But it's very close to finished:

I need to beat up the trigger area a little, but not too much, so maybe Willie will still want to use it.

Now it might not look like a true Pancor Jackhammer, because I used a bit of license on the sight. It's the way I wanted it to look.

Any suggestions for other wear ideas?

[Si-Shen]

Its looking mighty sharp grond

[grond]

Thankee kindly!

[nottlong]

Looking very GOOD.

[grond]

Thanks nott. The coolest part of this is when ingame you target a body part, the game goes into 3rd person slow mo and to see the gun I made fire at someone is rewarding beyond description.

The reason I haven't 'filmed' it for your enjoyment is because it's horribly violent!

[grond]

Added some info:

[WindmillTilter]

Any suggestions for other wear ideas?

Hmm the wear is coming along really nicely, bout the only other place I can suggest would be too add some minor surface pitting to the section of barrel visible between the stock and the sight.

WT

[grond]

I knew you'd say that. I knew I needed to wreck the thing that took me so long to get looking right.

Pits wouldn't work so I aged the entire barrel.

[WillieSea]

Looks great! Is this ready for playtesting!

Then I can go through and 'clean up' the scratches!

[grond]

Good luck 'reading' my chaotic UV map, sir!

Spent the past couple of days trying unsuccessfully to get a new UV map to use. I have both sides of the area above the trigger mapped together, so any word will print backwards on the opposite side. I'd need to redo the model, I think, to get a UV map to play right. So I made a gaudy compromise:

It's the true Pancor logo. Should I try for perfect stars? I grabbed them off the interweb. How's she look? Gaudy, cheap and cheesy?

[nottlong]

The stars and rest of emblem should look as worn and weathered as the rest of the gun. So maybe a missing or rounded point on a starand a little fading across the emblem.

[InsanitySorrow]

It looks good, but I agree with Nott and suggest adding some wear and tear in there

[donnato]

Added some info:

Too cool Grondo. I love that you included the alliance. Nice work.

[grond]

OK. After some (way too much) time away I returned, to find the thing that chased me away from it. There's a problem with the mesh, or the UV map. One spot, just under the sight, looks wrong - it reflects differently than its adjacent neighbors.

Watch

I can't fix it, and I think it would need a complete redo - new uv map, new import, etc. I might just leave it, but because it's the biggest part of the 1st person view, I really want to fix it.

Can you see what I'm talking about in the vid?

EDIT: If you can't, then

See how the shadow along the sight appears cut, near the dark spot?

Is that a show-stopper? I think I'd complain...

[WhoGuru]

Just looks like a natural imperfection the metal to me. If you hadn't pointed it out I likely would never have thought there was anything wrong with it.

[Glaedr]

id thnk that if someone is going to complain about something so insignificant, rather than appreciate the work that the creator has put into the rest of the weapon, then they can go stick their head in a toilet.

stupid nitpickers...