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Sir Phoenixx

Sir Phoenixx

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This is the HK XM8, I just finished it yesterday. These aren't for any particular mod at the momment. It's 2519 polygons, excluding the bullets which are just there for the render.

With smoothing groups:
HK_XM8__2_by_Sir_Phoenixx.jpg
(http://www.deviantart.com/view/12508514/)

Without smoothing groups:
http://fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/326/b/7/HK_XM8__1_by_Sir_Phoenixx.jpg (http://www.deviantart.com/view/12508327/)

Also, these are bullets that I just made to be used in renders, gun icons/graphics, and maybe in magazines and reloading/loading animations (lower detailed of course):

Bullets__1_by_Sir_Phoenixx.jpg


http://fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/326/b/8/Bullets__2_by_Sir_Phoenixx.jpg
 
Pritty good, some of the smoothing could have been done a little better. Thats about it really... I don't personally like the actual weapon, but the model looks pritty good. Nothing much to say really...
 
The smoothing error at the front bottom of the gun is due to how the polygons were position/made, the one on the right bottom of the grip is there because I think I forgot to remove the smoothing group of one of the bottom polygons like on the other side.
 
hehehe, I know why they are smoothing errors and I know how to fix it :D

Hmm..... how can I go about showing you... I am not sure really... Maybe you can work it out for your self?
 
The model may be good... but the rifle itself is so extremely butt-ugly...

Sorry :|
 
The model looks very good. Although I gotta agree with recoil. The weapon itself is butt ugly.
 
You think the XM8 (and therefore, the entire G36 series) is ugly? :O

(The XM8/G36 along with the M16/M4 and some futuristic/ergonomically designed guns are some of the best looking guns in my opinion. The only guns I think are ugly are most AKs (nearly all weapons from Russia, except for a select few), and weapons that are just simple shapes... (MAC M10/11, Sten/Grease guns, etc.))
 
No, I actually love the G36-series (reason to join the army temporarily maybe? :)) - but the XM-8 is not aesthetical(?) to me in any way. It doesn't at all look dangerous or so. I know that the looks don't matter in the battlefield, but this is about a model... so... :p

Though I must agree that most rifles look very good, except for the russian ones (HATE the AK47 for what it is ;)) and those bullpup things, like Tavor or Fa-Mas (AUG is ok)
 
While desperately avoiding a post like "In Soviet Russia, AK-47 doesn't like YOU!", and obviously failing miserably, I'd like to say that I like the russian designs on weapons. Most HK's I like. I don't dislike this gun, it's just that if it looks like that, I want a laser to come out of the front, dammit.

Either way, the model is accurate and well made. Keep it up.
 
The XM8 is a G36, the only major difference visually is the buttstock and the shape of the top/carrying handle...
 
Which is quite a large aesthetic difference. I agree with Recoil - the G36 looks like a "real" gun. The XM8 looks more like a supersoaker :)
 
niceeeeeeeeeee .... i liek it ... all of it .... custom CS m4 model maybe? :D .. i want i want

EDIT : have you all seen some of hte XM8 videos? the thing ownz....
 
I don't know, maybe. I just made it for myself, I intended it (and an entire list of rare and unique futuristic/ergonomically designed weapons and/or current or failed prototypes.) for a semi-futuristic realism mod that I was thinking about trying to start. But since most of the people here have the idea that if it is realistic in any way, no matter how different, it must be a Counter Strike clone, I might do something else.
 
The problem is that that's exactly how the community as a whole will perceive it. There's so many "realism" mods in development that it'll be very hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I thought you were working on Renalert anyway?
 
Pi Mu Rho said:
The problem is that that's exactly how the community as a whole will perceive it. There's so many "realism" mods in development that it'll be very hard to sort the wheat from the chaff.
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If people weren't so ignorant and immature, there wouldn't be that problem. If a mod is a "counter strike clone" because it has a realistic theme, then CS/HL is a Quake, Wolf3D, or [insert name of an FPS made before CS/HL here] clone becuase they're first person shooters.

Pi Mu Rho said:
I thought you were working on Renalert anyway?
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Yeah, so? Since his decision to move to HL2, we have nothing to do at the momment until everyone has HL2 and is able to work on it. I'm also somewhat thinking about rather or not to continue...
 
If people weren't so ignorant and immature, then the world would be a better place in so many ways. Unfortunately, however, they are. It's not something that can be changed, sadly.

My apologies, I assumed that everything was all systems go for the Renalert Source thing. After all, it's only code that can't be worked on now.
 
What's even worse, this isn't just a HL/CS community thing, I've seen a lot of people who play CS go into Quake 3/etc. mod forums and outright bash them because of how they think it's a CS clone.

(Unless the mod is made to actually convert CS to another engine, or almost everything in it is the same (money/purchase system, a lot of the same weapons, map themes, characters, etc.) it's not a CS clone in any way.)
 
I know that, you know that, most of the more enlightened community members know that. You can't do anything about the majority though, and they're the ones that'll make your mod popular or not.
 
I actually really like the gun - the model is very well done too. I think renders of most current guns look...well...plain. Nothing wrong with the models - in fact they're fantastic - but everybody seems to model the common guns. Which is why I was slightly upset about the lack of the OICW in HL2, because it's such an odd looking gun.

-Angry Lawyer
 
I was slightly upset about the lack of the OICW in HL2, because it's such an odd looking gun.
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Well ... uh ... the MP7... and that combine rifle... aren't looking odd you say...? :D
 
I don't think the MP7 looks that odd, looks kind of like a thin MP5 with no external barrel and foregrip/hand guard.

(The OICW is just an early version of the XM8 with a grenade launcher on top.)
 
Combine Autorifle isn't a real gun, though. And I never disowned the MP7. In fact, I much prefer it over the MP5 :)
Nothing beats a rifle that looks like something off Starship Troopers, with a grenade launcher and green-lensed scope attached.

Keep making the less-seen weapons. They're good.

-Angry Lawyer

-Which reminds me. Is the original OICW still in development by the US government, or have they scrapped it?
 
Keep making the less-seen weapons. They're good.
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Watch out for our mod ;) FN FALs, FN FNCs, SIG SG551, S&W Pistols, Beretta PM-S12s and so on and on...
 
I'll keep my eyes open.

The main reason I like them is because the newer weapons fit into Half Life's timeframe. Currently, I'm doing a one-man mod team creating an RTS based on the Half-Life storyline, and for some reason, having the only armaments for Resistance troops as MP7s, pistols, and that shotgun I can never remember the name of is kind of limiting to them. Without the OICW, they've got no futuristic-looking rifle, and so kind of get owned by Overwatch Pulse Rifles.

-Angry Lawyer
 
that shotgun I can never remember the name
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Franchi SPAS 12 :)

But I've thought about a HL-based singleplayer mod too... I'll read through your info-thread again :) I could think of the Steyr AUG being used by the combine too, btw.
 
Admitted, the Steyr AUG has a coolness factor in it, but, with it being in Counterstrike and all, it has the feel of being slightly out-of-date. The OICW covers the rifle needs, right now, anyways :) Thanks for the creative insight though.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Hm... no :D

Maybe the best of the XM8's... but I'd even prefer a G36C over that.
 
i think that weapon looks cool as hell, and scary... i wouldnt want it pointing at me :)
 
about the cs clone thing the word has actually come about to describe the thousands of realism mods that have one purpose to set two teams against each other ..... there are SO many of these especially if ur looking at the bf modding scene there are thousands of dc clones that essentialy are no diff from each other ....
but i do agree there are also a lot of mods that dont get the credit they deserve because they have realistic weaponry and ideas but there really are a lot of mods that are not cs clones but clones of each other .
 
have you gotten it in game yet? or is there a file I can DL?

Id love to replace my Mp5 or colt with this gun...
 
i can't wait to get one after i commission into the army, that weapon is sweet, and the model you did looks hella good
 
Uh, no it isn't?

i can't wait to get one after i commission into the army, that weapon is sweet, and the model you did looks hella good
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In about a year or two when it's finally put into production it'll replace the American M16 and M4 assault rifles. :D
 
Sir Phoenixx said:
In about a year or two when it's finally put into production it'll replace the American M16 and M4 assault rifles. :D
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I know, I'm so excited, especially since I won;t be commissioing til 2007, so I should be getting one soon after i commission, hopefully, especially going infantry, like i hoipe to do, again, nice model, hope you put it out for use after its skinned, but please make sure to use the cool dark, metallic color and not the bright brown/tan one
 
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