Full Weapon Creation Tutorial

Racer445 · Jul 2009

tutorial is no longer available. something will be said soon.

EarthQuake · Jul 2009

shit sux

Mechadus · Jul 2009

Nice! You da man! Thanks for taking the time to make this for us noobs

Ive got a full day of waiting for After Effects to render tomorrow, so this will be a great way to pass the time.

-N!

CastratedWeasel · Jul 2009

TakuanDaikon · Jul 2009

OH HELL YEAH!

I have been *so* looking forward to this

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this and for making it available!

Nizza_waaarg · Jul 2009

oh em geee... its d/l'ing slow :P

awsome you finally released it man. Extra cool that you covered uurverything rather than just a specific part. Gotta go steal some of my friends bandwidth now $:\$

Racer445 · Jul 2009

yeah I could probably use some mirrors or something...

BradMyers82 · Jul 2009

Cool its here! Sneaky putting this in tech talk, since you originally posted in pimp&Preview.
Downloading is slow for now, maybe you shouldn't let too many people know about it untill I download it.

Jason Young · Jul 2009

I'm in the process of uploading for a mirror. I'll post the url once they're up. Would anyone be interested in a torrent for these? Might not be a bad idea.

gaganjain · Jul 2009

so nice of you.*_^
Downloading is slow here,it going take 5 hours to download each file....
Torrent idea is not bad too...
Edit
You upload HD video on vimeo and mirror files will save lot of bandwidth..

Racer445 · Jul 2009

Torrent is a good idea. I was going to set one up but I have no idea how to do web seeding and can't leave my PC on 24/7.

I can only upload 1 HD video to vimeo per week with a free account. My webhost gives me unlimited bandwidth anyway.

Jason Young · Jul 2009

If you want to create a torrent file and start seeding, I can go ahead and start seeding as well. I'll leave it going for awhile, and you can shut off whenever you want.

I'd start it, but I've still got a little bit of time before the last rar file finishes. If not, I can upload one in a little while.

DEElekgolo · Jul 2009

OPINIONS WILL BE EDITED ONCE TRANSFER SESSION IS COMPLETE.

Luke_Starkie · Jul 2009

Yeah torrents will be alot better, each file will take about 6 hours for me here

STFLOYD · Jul 2009

A - M - A - Z - I - N - G. Seriousley this looks like a very promising tutorial! downloading now.

butt_sahib · Jul 2009

Thanks alot for the tutorial racer, looking sweet!

Downloading now :d

Ihazard · Jul 2009

cheers racer, I'm sensing that all of a sudden there will be a lot of AK74u's around ^^

itsover3 · Jul 2009

W00T! finally i've been waiting forever for this :P downloading now looks great

thnx!

ImSlightlyBored · Jul 2009

very nice
racer could I make a suggestion?
the multiple downloads at 500mb each are quite large, what about labelling each one up as a component? for example, I am mostly interested in the sub D modelling, game mesh and texturing, not so much the UV layouts etc. Not to say I won't watch them, but it'd be great to prioritise.

needless, thats nitpicking, and I can't wait to watch this and learn!
cheers man

slave_one · Jul 2009

Awesome, d/l now .. hopefully check it out tonight. If this becomes a torrent i'll seed. (Also never created a torrent .. )

[HP] · Jul 2009

Yep, I'm downloading as well. I might upload it to somewhere else also, I bet you're gonna need some mirrors!

Thanks a lot for this dude, you'll help a lot of people!

Flewda · Jul 2009

Good stuff man! Thanks for sharing, always great to see other artist's techniques!

CastratedWeasel · Jul 2009

Acumen · Jul 2009

hm, i have had superfast download speeds for all the files. can't wait to view the 7 hour epic

MattW · Jul 2009

Looks awesome, thanks a ton.

Once a torrent is up I'll start get seeding as well, my home PC is on pretty much 24/7

Chaosv49 · Jul 2009

Good for you Acumen -.- (Jealousy's a bitch)

Thanks racer!! you're the dude.

NoisyMonk · Jul 2009

Glad I was one of the first people to find this post last night. Downloaded them all in less than an hour!

Didn't have a chance you watch even a second of it last night though, so thats probably how I'll spend my entire day today. I'll post my comments when I've gone through it all/if I notice something off.

Stole this link from your other thread
References - http://www.pixagogo.com/5710214125

[HP] · Jul 2009

So, can anybody put a torrent up?

Chaosv49 · Jul 2009

Hmm... why do I have to download all the parts just to see the video? I tried clicking on a clip but have to sit and download all those

NoisyMonk · Jul 2009

Yeah, this wasn't packaged in too friendly a manner for most people. I was lucky and was able to download them quickly. However, if you're on a slow connection/getting slow downloads due to high traffic, this might be a little painful. You must download all parts, and then extract with winrar in order to watch any 1 part of the video.

Nizza_waaarg · Jul 2009

you don't actually need all parts per se, you just need enough for the specific vid you're up to... if that makes sense >_>
so like, i just got rar 1 and 2 and watched all the intro vids and the 2 high poly vids that were split across the rar's, working on the third d/l now. So you can kindof watch while you download later parts =D

...OMNOMNOM!!! (vid be cool so far, i can haz learning :poly142:)

Racer445 · Jul 2009

Thanks everyone

I'll throw a torrent up today.

Chaosv, ImSlightlyBored, NoisyMonk- I used winrar part files instead of doing all the files individually because I thought it would give people a smaller download with less files, though it does sacrifice the ability to pick and choose parts.

Jason Young · Jul 2009

I just made one at http://www.artofyoung.com/misc/ak-tutorial.torrent if anyone wants to start leeching. My computer went to sleep(still new to vista) last night and I didn't get a chance to finish uploading the rar files.

I'm used to private sites/trackers, so let me know if the torrent doesn't work for some reason.

Racer445 · Jul 2009

Thanks man, I uploaded it to my hosting too and put it on the first post.

I'm seeding right now.

BradMyers82 · Jul 2009

Racer445: I quickly watched some of the first few videos. Looking pretty good, and pretty funny at times with the stuff you were saying, so I was entertained.
I have a little crit for you though. Try to use connect in vertex mode if you can instead of cut. Connect will always join the two vertex together perfectly, while cut will mess stuff up some times like add extra verts, or two verts on top of each other. I'm sure you have run into this. Anyways, I have all my buttons assigned to shortcuts so its just a matter of selecting the two verts and button press. Just thought this might help.

I definitely work with edges too close together as you mentioned in the video.
How do you work with them further apart and still get nice smoothing? Add more loops? Just curious, because you made a good point there, I just didn't get how to actually work that way.

JostVice · Jul 2009

The tutorial is awesome! I never touched sub-d modelling before and I'm loving it! Still I didn't make it further than second video, but thanks so much

STFLOYD · Jul 2009

NVM solved..

fritz · Jul 2009

weird....all my files are broken. will try again. thanks so much for putting this up

divi · Jul 2009

stop pulling up your nose q.q its gross!
other than that, it's always entertaining to watch people create stuff, so good work there.

Racer445 · Jul 2009

fritz · Jul 2009

just outta curiosity....has anyone found a really good way to dl this? looks like i'll get to 1% in about an hour w/the torrent.

muppo · Jul 2009

nice tutorial and thank you for your time.
awesome part the description of your normal map process where you point out some really good info on how to bake a really good one.

STFLOYD · Jul 2009

Wow, 1 hour for 1%? I got 1% every like 5- 10 secs...

Jason Young · Jul 2009

As more people finish, theoretically your DL speeds should increase. That's assuming they continue seeding.

Did you try downloading from the original link posted?

slave_one · Jul 2009

Hey,

I have all the rar files and wanted to use them to seed for the torrent, tried to get that to work, but it didnt. Does anyone know how?

(I tried, saving the torrent run it and have it allocate the files. Then delete those and copy the complete rars to that location) Bit of a torrent noob here .. sorry

ceebee · Jul 2009

Hey Racer445, thanks a lot for this. I'm just about through the low poly video but I'm enjoying this more than the majority of Digital Tutor and Gnomon videos so props to you.

Jason Young · Jul 2009

slave_one wrote: »

Hey,

I have all the rar files and wanted to use them to seed for the torrent, tried to get that to work, but it didnt. Does anyone know how?

(I tried, saving the torrent run it and have it allocate the files. Then delete those and copy the complete rars to that location) Bit of a torrent noob here .. sorry

What torrent client are you using?

In utorrent(and probably others), you would open/add the torrent and point it to save in whatever folder the rar files are already sitting in. If everything is in the same structure(in this case the 6 rar files are in a folder), it should automatically figure things out and start seeding. If not, you might need to uncheck "start" torrent when opening it so it doesn't start automatically, and then right click on the torrent and choose "force re-check.

Ben Apuna · Jul 2009

Sweet a torrent, I was waiting for that.

Thanks for putting this tutorial together and getting it out to the community Racer445

I look forward to seeing your workflow. Hopefully the download won't take too long...

Ghostscape · Jul 2009

grabbing the torrent now so I can seed the hell out of this.

fritz · Jul 2009

yeah its' sped up a bit. i'm at 60%. utorrent

fritz · Jul 2009

ok....STFLOYD:

i think we had the same prob. i got all the files and they work......however, vid 3 and 4 don't work. i think you originally posted that....and how you posted "nevermind prob solved" or something.

what happened?

THANKS AGAIN FOR DOING THIS RACER!!!!!!!

Full Weapon Creation Tutorial

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