Finally found a decent 3D modeling program with a MaximDude friendly UI.
Been doing some practicing, heres my first successful attempt at a gun, though i'm not very pleased with the slide.







Silo 2.0.6
Time took to make: Too much.

It looks.... Melty...

It's made of molten cheese. :D

Here's a baseball bat I made before the gun.

Much better. I prefer Google Sketchup for the very few occaisions that I do want to model anything (Yes, shut up about it), and thusly I'm still at the "boxy thingamagun with no textures" stage.

How many times did you smooth that?
Unless that's rendersmoothed, that looks like in excess of 1000. You really only need 100-200 tops for a handgun.

Subdivided 4 times. >____________>'

1 time.


2 times.


I think i'm gonna try making the next gun without subdivision. Unless it comes out REALLY ugly.

Yeah, i think you need to cut back on the HyperNURBS. In some programs, you can add phong mapping (like Cinema4D) I don't know which one you're using.

I figure I might as well showcase some of my 3D stuff here.

The result of about half an hour messing with Blender: (It's supposed to be a bolt-action rifle, in case it's too ugly to understand.)



I didn't use Subsurf because it made the barrel look weird, but I might use Bevel later if I can make it look reasonably good.

Ah, yes, C&C, if you don't mind.

Oh wow, that could be in like Call of Duty

You sure?

Don't worry, I have a fire extinguisher next to my chair. :3

To put out the trainwreck that is that rifle? Seriously did you even try?

That actually sums it up quite nicely. Just for you to see how bad I am at digital arts. And a beveled version, just because:

I would be afraid to fire that thing.



Is that modeled after a Hi-Point?

Nope, didn't use any reference.