A tutorial that I did when I was about at your skill level and I was starting to do my own Desert Eagle was this Fire Hydrant tut. It is very well done and should be easy enough for you to follow. What I did was watch each video once through without having max even open, just watch the video and see how he does the…
Hahaha sorry, I just didn't think there was any more important things as far as normal mapping went. You're not mean at all, and I definitely agree about the watching tutorials thing. Frankly, I'm tired of watching hour long tutorials, and that's why I'm starting to actually model now. The only reason I sat through 9 hours…
Thank you for your reply! I'm using 3DS Max. I googled strip modelling but the only good resource I found was this: http://www.maxforums.org/threads/strip_modeling/0002.aspx thread which didn't really do much in telling me what it actually is. I understand that I may be in over my head, but I've already watched tutorials…
Thank you very much for the response! I think I know what you mean by strip modelling. Is this strip modelling? Also, this is my fifth or so model. I spend a lot of time watching tutorials that people recommended me to watch and they helped a lot. I guess I thought I was finally ready to make a gun. What you said about…
Wow. I'm blown away by your answer! The reason I asked is because I thought that it might have been considered as a generally bad thing to do. Like having anything above quads. Two tutorials I've watched on hard surface modelling were largely based on using modifiers like mesh smooth and turbosmooth so I know a little bit…