Yay for Star Craft! I present the rifle used by the Terran Armored Infantry Trooper (a.k.a. Marines).
Worked on this model for a couple hours, and it looks pretty good in my opinion. I haven't added in all the details nor have I started on textures (omg, I'm going to dread making the textures, unless I get some good pictures).

Here are some pics from Jed's wireframe and below them are the source pics I was using to model the rifle.


And here are some rendered shots (Zy's 3dviewer is ahelluvalotbetter than joke's preview, as I just found out ).



The only problem is that I have to run Joke, puppetjedi, forceremap, and Zy's viewer on my old win95 computer as something's wrong on my new one and it crashes when I try to open any opengl programs on it (bad drivers I'll bet). These awesome programs run incredibly slow on that old pc and, thus, I had trouble getting good shots of the gun in Zymotico's viewer. Oh well.

I also intend to make the marine suit at some point; hopefully it'll turn out good.

Lastly, does anyone have some shots of the rifle that would be good for making textures? Preferably profile shots please.
Thanks.

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Looks pretty good. Of course I don't really play Starcraft. The area on the upper half looks a bit off from the ref pics you provided, but it wouldn't be too hard to fix. As for a profile shot for textures, no idea, though if You could provide me one with UV mapping, I could take a shot at creating some textures.

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Lookes nice... Maybe I can provide some shots... Please Hold...

Looks pretty accurate. I hate the armor suit, though, so I wouldn't mind if you kept your fingers off it.

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OK, I couldn't get very good shots of the guns, but from what I could see they were very much like the one on your doll. Maybe darker, but the only ones I saw were in dark envireoments. Oh, and there's a counter on the side of the gun that displays how much ammo is left. 3 didgets. When it's empty, it will beep and blink. I think I have some shots:

http://edward.leuf.org/x/Counter1.jpg
http://edward.leuf.org/x/Counter2.jpg
http://edward.leuf.org/x/Counter3.jpg
http://edward.leuf.org/x/Counter4.jpg
http://edward.leuf.org/x/Counter5.jpg

Now, this is the original size of the movies. They were stretched ingame. If you want the movies where I found that shows the gun, then I'll try to send them. They are SMKs and are 50-70MB big.

/Edward


[This message has been edited by Edward (edited April 12, 2004).]

SWEET, make some Starcraft stuff for Jedi Academy (still playing starcraft).

looks cool

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The lower portion of the gun isn't connected the way you have it. Right now, you have a cylinder meeting a flat surface while from what I see in the action figure, it's half of the square extruded then rotated to form a slanted edge, then the cylinder comes from that. Not to mention, on the lower portion that the cylinder is connected to, it could have the same corner-cleaves as the central portion of the top does. Else I'd say the cylinder on the bottom isn't a cylinder at all, but a stretched octigon rather than a cylinder. I also think that the indent on the side of the gun that looks like:

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Could be added into the model to give it more texture and depth.

I'm done.

[edit]I lied. You see on the handel part of the second reference? His thumb is still touching the handel, thus it has a slight overlapping into the body of the gun. A couple cleaves could include this, as well as the shrinking of the width of the handel to match. If that doesn't make sense, contact me on massassi chat and I'll explain it utter detail. (Those who know me, know I'm not lying when I say "Utter Detail.")[/edit]

JediKirby

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