Sorry I haven't been posting and getting my stuff out there, but college has practically taken over my life Well, I've managed to find enough time over a week to model this bad boy. Now I know there's recently been some....difficulty with acceptance of models, and I needed to model this anyways for alil thing of mine, so here you go, the imp raildet, modeled to JK-based glory.
Smooth version

Non-smoothed version


I ended up throwing alot of polygons into this, especially the foregrip, and I prob should've done abit let, but I'm too lazy to change it now lol. Anyways, stats - 1792 triangles in ~2.7 hrs in 3dsm.
Whatcha think?

i seem to recall you've done better

Shred's is already perfect.

Pretty much.

Way to point that out, dudes.

Because Shred made a version of the rail gun doesn't mean you can't make another variation.

The model looks like a good start. But I can't see how it would operate, or hold it for that matter.

You are right, the foregrip has to be redone. You could probably do it with 1/4th of the tris it currently has...
Otherwise I kinda like it. Just needs proper textures.

The polycount is really inconsistent. The rail and the chamber are pretty high poly and the grip and the back part are really low poly. It doesn't fit together at all.

I like the chamber and the rail. And as you mentioned the front grip could lose some polies. But the back is just boring and not good looking at all.

Back end's just a beveled box D:

Can't say I'm sold. A little too simplistic, especially without textures.

It at least actually looks like the Rail Detonator... unlike Shred's.
Finish this thing. =D With textures!

I agree.

He's learning!

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Front looks fine, but redo the reciever and put a decent pistol grip on it.

Everything looks a bit... misaligned. Maybe it's just the camera angle though. Like the barrel seems to protrude off-centered from the... cartridge part, which is off-centered from the stock.

Made some changes, also changed teh rendering style. Anyways here you go, along w/ my rendition of the repeater. My concept of it is using self-contained energy cartridges which move along the belt and 3 rotating barrels and recharge at an outboard power-pack. Anyways, this one I know isn't as good as Shred's....just my raildet j/k


Repeater stats - 4.6 hrs - 4672 triangles
(new) raildet stats - 3.2 hrs - 2172 triangles
3dsm as always.
Anyways, whatcha think?

They look pretty cool... but I think textures are in order.. the only thing I didn't like about Shred's repeater is the fact that it looks like a block of concrete....

I'm really liking the new repeater. And it's nice that you did something with the handle-portion of the railgun. But it still seems confusing how you hold the railgun to fire. If you put your hand on the rail like that, wouldn't your fingers get cut off by the moving projectiles?

Kyle never uses two hands...
[They look nice]

Why would your hand get hurt? they move along the top of the rail, not under it. Perhaps an indented line along the grip to imply that you don't wrap your fingers over the top? Kind of like how a shotgun is.

I was thinking about wrapping your hand around the rail to hold it, like you said.



..What? He uses both hands...

Only in Dark Forces....might as well be one handed otherwise. Anyways, that indent is dual-purpose, the first being as to tell the user "Don't put your hand up here you ***" second, it can be used as a rail to mount such things as a foregrip or a shogun-mount, cause why put a grenade-launcher on an rpg? lol

Those are way better.

Heres a quickie, the stromtrooper detonator, and no its not what blows up stromies.

Textures are temporary (they are just 3dsm textures to give a rough idea of what it will look like). 1 hr - 746 triangles
whatcha think?