Tavor Tar 21 revisited **STARTED SKIN**UPDATE**

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:35 am

I have to remake the gun cause my hard drive crashed and i lost all my models

but heres a render

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Fri May 13, 2005 3:52 am

Thats pretty good polygon usage. How many are there? Nice model by the way, although it is simple.

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:42 am

thx man

heres an update

its 1572 polys in that update

SnaFuBAR · Post by **SnaFuBAR** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:55 am

wow man, that looks pretty good. already looking better than the previous one.

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Fri May 13, 2005 12:29 pm

That is an excellent model. Not too much crap on it, good use of polies, and the outcome looks great. Excellent job so far. Get a nice skin on there and it should look pretty nice.

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:46 pm

about 60% of it is waste, you should definitely optimize that. It does look better than the original though.

Waverunner · Post by **Waverunner** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:50 pm

Katarn wrote:about 60% of it is waste, you should definitely optimize that. It does look better than the original though.

Yeah, I can see a couple that could be easily fixed, but overall it is not bad. You know how to optimize, right?

Darkstorm995 · Post by **Darkstorm995** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:46 pm

looks like too many wasted poly's on the handle

crimson4245 · Post by **crimson4245** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:03 am

and it might just be me, but it looks like theres alot of length segments on
the barrel.

Gavel · Post by **Gavel** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:16 pm

I believe that all models should have alot of segments when it comes to bent clips. Such as this guns clip. It just looks dumb if you don't. Still a nice model though.

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Sat May 14, 2005 4:42 pm

WRONG. To be completely accurate, it should have either 3 or 4, he actually has too many, and they are in the wrong spots. To get the most possible smoothness/curve for your segment, you need them evenly spaced.

Gavel · Post by **Gavel** » Sun May 15, 2005 6:28 am

Well, I didn't mean that as 'I believe this is how people do it, or how it works' I meant taht is just my belief. What I believe in. I can't stand looking at something that's supposed to be curved, and you can see the corners on it. I also believe that anything that is supposed to be curved, should have alot of poly's put into it. Like the barrel. I usually go with 14, or 18 sides. Trigger guards, eh, no so much. But a smooth handle should have some really smooth looking poly's Any long flat surface, should be as low poly as possible.

Like I said, just my belief's.

Oh, and that anything small shouldn't be very detailed, considering how small it is. I never got past why people put so much effort into guns. Vehicles should have more details than guns in my opinion. Although my Cavalier model doesn't really support that. >_>

I just don't know what to add for detail on it!

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Mon May 16, 2005 2:52 am

sorry for the long waited reply ive been so busy lately and havnt had a chance to work on it.
thanks for the positive replys and i think the clip is fine.. but thats just me. the poly count is
1643
here is the final render
im adding uvw maps for textures so just ignore those.

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:06 am

I love your models cooldude!
The final copy looks great

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:04 am

thanks maca

and heres an update

Gavel · Post by **Gavel** » Mon May 16, 2005 12:59 pm

Not paticularly a fan of the colors... but looks pretty cool anyways.

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Mon May 16, 2005 1:03 pm

Lol, the colours will be changed, that just happens after you export the UVW's with texporter =D.

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Mon May 16, 2005 3:58 pm

duh, colored uv's. Anyways, the maps don't look so good

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:10 pm

Wow. Crazy. My first model (an SMG) is nowhere near as detailed or smooth yet has 952 polys... still working on it too.

cooldude5990 · Post by **cooldude5990** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:30 pm

thanks guys and i think they look ok not the best maps cuase they are the first ones i did that didnt use the detach method

heres part of the skin started

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