Railgun Sniper Rifle
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So the plan is to make a slightly futuristic long range scoped railgun. I've thrown together some quick ideas here:
I'm leaning toward either 2 or 7. Any feedback is appreciated!
So the plan is to make a slightly futuristic long range scoped railgun. I've thrown together some quick ideas here:
I'm leaning toward either 2 or 7. Any feedback is appreciated!
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3 feels the most rifle like, 4's straying a little too far into "weird sci-fi shapes for the sake of it" compared to the others.
They're all great concepts!
Also tripod? If its a sniper it will probably need a tripod system to stabilize it.
Good luck
It seems like the most popular ones were 3 and 4... unfortunately these were also my least favorite
I removed the barrel (not sure why it didn't occur to me at first a barrel would be unnecessary... lol), made sure the gun had visible rails, and removed the P90 grip in favor of a little more rifle-ish stock.
(ZeroStrike - I didn't realize the P90 grip was intended to be ambidextrous, that's pretty cool. But you're right, probably not something you would want with a rifle.)
I'll also probably look into adding a bipod, although I don't have one in at the moment.
Anyway, I got started on the model, although it's really just a blockout-in-progress so far:
Also a quick paintover trying to figure out how some details will look:
As always, any feedback is appreciated! I'll keep posting progress on the model as I go along.
Thanks for the comments guys. Hang10... now that you mention it, that's a really good point... oops! I changed the stock a little bit so that it allows for someone to, you know, actually hold and use the gun
I may look into widening the barrel as J0NNYquid mentioned, but I don't want the body of the gun to get too much wider. Once I have all the pieces surrounding the barrel a little more finished I'll play around with width a little.
Any feedback is, as always, appreciated! There's still a good bit to go on the high poly so I'm planning to update more this week as I move this along.
Otherwise its looking good. Maybe post wires before going on to HP.
Good Luck
Here's a shot of wires, let me know if anything looks funny or if you want details of a certain piece (of course a lot of this stuff needs more love):
And here's a paintover I did to plan the scope and the top of the gun. I'll be making these HP pieces next:
I'm thinking the lenses on the back of the scope will project a picture onto the thing that looks like a reflex sight. Although this doesn't make a ton of sense, hopefully it's enough of an explanation to get away with these shapes.
I'm trying to make sure everything on the gun has some kind of explanation, even if it's flimsy, while at the same time matching the concept silhouette. We'll see how successful I am
Feedback welcome!
Keep it up!
but like i said, the execution is really nicely done
@ivanzu: Thank you! Nah, 3DS Max. I will have to check Blender out at some point though...
@praetor187: Gracias! I'll try not to disappoint
@BobtheGreatII: Thanks for the feedback! Check out the images below and tell me what you think - the simplified design also has a smaller laser dot sight. Hopefully less top-heavy?
@Joao Sapiro: Thanks! I see what you mean about the concept. And I have been known occasionally to over-complicate things in concepts, haha. I made a paintover to explore a (hopefully) simpler, less random-shapy design; what do you think?
CURRENT DESIGN:
SIMPLIFIED DESIGN:
Thoughts?
Feedback welcome!
it looks like you've got a holographic scope behind a telescopic one, the two work in completely different ways that just can't work together.
Basically the idea was that the telescopic scope would feed into a little projector thing that would project an image onto the "holographic" screen. The buttons could adjust zoom electronically, plus it could have a little HUD that showed ammo count or other info.
Now I recognize this isn't totally realistic (at all), so the question is... is it TOO far out? I'm certainly willing to change it if necessary. I had considered ditching the holographic scope in place of a little hologram thing kind of like the carbine from Bulletstorm:
Alternatively, I could remake the holographic sight into something that doesn't resemble a red dot sight (something that's more obviously just a display screen) and have some tubes/wires feed from the telescopic lens into the screen.
I'm open to suggestions!
Do you just use it as a guideline and start the highpoly pieces a second time from scratch or do you model your blockout so accurately that you are punching out the highpolys directly from the blockout pieces? Subscribed!
@hamzaaa: Thanks! I've been turning the blockout into the high poly piece by piece; I've got it broken up into a bunch of different objects.
@almighty_gir: I made some changes to the scope, and angled the projector lens a bit so that it's projecting at an angle... hopefully this will look a little better!
@Lonewolf: Thanks man! If I can make this even like 25% as awesome as one of your guns I will be ecstatic.
@mr_ace: I made another scope variation that's similar to the paintover. Still not sure if I like the shape of it though. But I do think I like the idea of a 'projected' sight better than the more traditional one. And you're definitely right about the knobs, I will change those to something more suitably sci-fi. Thanks!
More progress (the transparent blue piece shows where the hologram/image would be projected):
mod edit- (removed linked image from Eraser, it was reportedly triggering a malware warning. imagine Arnie holding two big railguns)
@Oniram: Thank you! I adjusted some edge loops but I'm sure there are tons more that need to be loosened. I need to come up with a good way to make sure I don't get them too tight when I'm working on an isolated selection. I'll do my best to fix the tight ones as I come across them. Pretty render below
@bcottage: Thanks! Yeah man, have at it! I'd love to see where you go with it.
@Meteorkid: Ohh god what an awesome movie. But yeah the Red Faction games (at least 1 and 2, haven't played past that) have wall-penetrating thermal-sighted railguns... making the multiplayer really rage-inducing and fun. Basically it's a wallhack gun haha.
Made some more progress... I'm soooo cloooose to being done with the HP. I've been messing around with different scope shapes; I think I'll use something with this general shape but I'll change around the control buttons. I still need to do something about the scope adjustment knobs and finish modeling out a couple of pieces.
out of curiosity, how are you doing the circular indents in the model? Can we see some wires, might help people see how you are accomplishing some of the detail.
@walklikethis: Thank you! Most of the indents are made with floating geometry, like explained in this thread:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85326
The places where I couldn't get away with floating geometry (generally where the surface I need to indent into isn't flat) I used this technique, from this thread by Marcus Aseth:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86882
As an example, here's a piece of the scope that uses both methods. My topology is really gross which is not ideal, but for this project I decided to try only really worrying about the HP topology if it started causing visual problems - in the past I've spent a long time making sure edges all terminate in the right place, etc, which takes forever. So I'm kind of experimenting to see to what extent I can just barrel forward and still get a good result.
Here's some more progress, now all I have left is finalizing the scope design. Then... on to the low poly!
Past that everything else looks awesome.
And Orangeknight, that's a good point about the screen and projector; it certainly wouldn't be the stealthiest thing ever. Another good reason to use a different design. And if I end up using a holosight I will put it behind the magnifier piece... Unfortunately I'm displaying my lack of gun knowledge here