Working on a low-poly Samus Aran arm cannon - Public Domain

Quake
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If anyone wants to make a Metroid Prime-like mod for Quake, I’m currently working on a 3D model of Samus’s arm cannon, but not going for 100% accuracy. Still needs animation and texture work done, but here’s the full Imgur gallery of it so far: http://imgur.com/a/evD9t

Couple pictures:

http://i.imgur.com/khWS2bz.png

http://i.imgur.com/rFQP3ht.png

Here’s a download of the .blend so far:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4I6bOzuYWfBdktsdnAwZ2JoN3M/view?usp=sharing

Also for some reason, I can’t log into the account I just created, tried doing the forgot password thing, and even that generated password isn’t working for some reason.

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Oh yeah, and it’s public domain so feel free to do with it as you wish.

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Got my password situation figured out.

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Very cool man!

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Looks good for a low polymodel!
Good to see it has that smooth design.

I once converted the G-rail for Quake.
It had a straight body and I added a curve at the front.
http://home.kpn.nl/lo2kf8/quake/models/g-rail.jpg

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Thanks for the encouragement guys, currently working on UV-unwrapping, will update when that’s done.

Looks good, Madfox.

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Got the UV-unwrapping done, here’s a link to the updated model: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4I6bOzuYWfBM2wtS0syT0F3Mk0/view?usp=sharing

Here’s the UV map: http://i.imgur.com/6EuC50C.png

Here’s the UV grid for reference if anyone wants to make their own texture: http://i.imgur.com/uSpQHeE.png

And here’s the rest of the gallery: http://imgur.com/a/BiGYn

As before, this is under the public domain, so you may do with it as you wish :slight_smile:

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Great you like to share it.
It certainly has a workaround on it.

In my case I couldn’t wait to go on and make it compatible with Quake.

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Update on the Arm Cannon, updated the UV maps a little bit, so here’s the download link for the revised model: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4I6bOzuYWfBUUhxSGZiNklhRVE/view?usp=sharing

Here’s the texture currently, still a work in progress: http://i.imgur.com/weQBw5g.png

Here’s the dithered version that adheres to the Standard Quake Palette: http://i.imgur.com/dqYq2qn.gif

Couple shots of it:

http://i.imgur.com/AZ7OFZ1.png

http://i.imgur.com/YGwH24Y.png

And here’s the whole album: http://imgur.com/a/30FcS

Madfox: You got it into quake? If so I’d like to see it :slight_smile:

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Another update, pretty minor, still working on the textures. I decided against the dithering as I thought it looks better without it, more metallic and shiny.

Texture before color reduction: http://i.imgur.com/IX7gqHK.png

Texture after color reduction: http://i.imgur.com/zbaYb7L.gif

Pics:

http://i.imgur.com/yNLBUGZ.png

http://i.imgur.com/2Hr3M5j.png

http://i.imgur.com/4kqDhSE.png

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Exporting the model from blender returns a 3DS file
without triangles and 178 vertices.

Can you fix a way to add a triangle count?

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Madfox: try the Triangulate Mesh modifier and check apply modifiers during export? Should be about 294 tris.

Anyway, I’ve updated the UV maps yet again, as well as updated the texture a little, here’s the download for it, feel free to host it elsewhere: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4I6bOzuYWfBcDFUdnFlQ2RFNG8?usp=sharing

Texture: http://i.imgur.com/5jijGBQ.png

And as always, here’s some pics:

http://i.imgur.com/YVJ7MNZ.png

http://i.imgur.com/9vlx16D.png

http://i.imgur.com/SavTQRQ.png

http://i.imgur.com/Itk8Opu.png

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After some changes I screwed it into Qmle.
I had to patch some rigs and came up onto this.
I know it is not the exact textured, but it is just from a loose hand.
I can always change it if you like.
http://home.kpn.nl/lo2kf8/quake/models/canonner.gif

for your interest, here’s the file:
http://home.kpn.nl/lo2kf8/quake/models/Q1armcanonner.zip
All it need now is some qc.
Succes!
:stuck_out_tongue:

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Hey, glad to see you got it working! And yes, making a QC mod is definitely next on my todo list :wink:

I added my own animations, however, making this model pretty much complete. Check em out:

http://i.imgur.com/HxdqDix.gif

Full album: http://imgur.com/a/xxdyj

You can download everything here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4I6bOzuYWfBcDFUdnFlQ2RFNG8

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Just updated the file.

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Nice, just updated mine as well with a new charged fire animation and an animation sheet listing the animations and their frames.

http://i.imgur.com/Hr2vXWJ.gif

Madfox: I keep imagining a squeaky wheel sound when I watch that gif of yours :stuck_out_tongue:

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So I started work on the qc mod. I downloaded the quake QC source, commented out the self.currentammo = self.ammo_shells = self.ammo_shells - 1; line in w_fireshotgun, to start it out, compiled with FTEQCC and when i try to start single player, it segfaults:

========= Quake Initialized =========

execing quake.rc
execing default.cfg
execing config.cfg
couldn’t exec autoexec.cfg
3 demo(s) in loop
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Anyone have this issue before? What do?

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Well I tried it under darkplaces and it worked, but not quakespasm for some reason… dunno what’s up with that.

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Well I got the model in-game… sorta… it looked like this for a little bit:

http://i.imgur.com/7fuXplT.jpg

I exported it from blender as .fbx and converted it with noesis, but I dunno if noesis goofed the export or if it’s just too close to the camera or what… I tried fiddling around with it and now I can’t see the model at all. Anyone familiar with quake modeling and know the proper orientation/translation/scale the model should be in for a Blender > Noesis workflow?

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Whelp, I got it working, thanks to this website: https://pnahratow.github.io/creating-models-for-quake-1.html

Here’s how it looks:

http://i.imgur.com/EHCCtMA.png

Album: http://imgur.com/a/IwD9j