heavy crossbow

[Glorfindel]

Right now, it sits at 362 verts and I don't expect it to jump much with the arrow added in

I sort of based it on Vomica's model and then a european crossbow, it comes out to be a interesting blend I guess

I'll model an arrow, unwrap it, and then animate it

 

[Red Cell]

Wow that looks amazing!

 

[PBarnum]

You should also add a new animation to the third person view instead of using the bow and arrow animation.

 

[Glorfindel]

UVed.

You should also add a new animation to the third person view instead of using the bow and arrow animation.

I'll look into making a few custom player animations for it, see what I can do

 

[The Man In Black]

It looks good, but I don't think it looks particularly HEAVY ;-)

 

[Sabre]

Here's a thought(I know you're already done with the actual modeling, but hey)

Back in the day, some crossbows pulled their strings so taut, that they were fitted with a 'stirrup,' so that you could step on it and use your body weight to help draw the bowstring back.

Like so:

Adding that, along with a longer reloading time, will give the player the illusion that you have to draw that sonb!tch back to combat-ready using your leg...Plus it will eliminate the need for a complex reloading anim

 

[The Man In Black]

Yes, there will be no hard animations involved in that reloading...





....For first person.

 

[Glorfindel]

Animation is my best skill anyway, I plan to make a set of good looking anims

and I just had a good idea where he sticks his foot up into the stirrup (while it's still in view) and you get a nice scene of him pulling it back on his foot like hes a badass

...but i wont do that

Crossbow Shoot Animation

Also MIB, how heavy of a crossbow do you want? Something that launches javelins or something? I thought about making a repeating crossbow (in the eastern style) but it didn't feel very medieval, and the other heavy crossbow I found was basically like this, a large block of wood with string and firing mechanism.

 

[Sabre]

If animating is your best skill...There's also that quarterstaff in the WIP thread. Thothie'll be creaming himself over someone actually finishing stuff on that thread

 

[Glorfindel]

consider it done my lord

(after this)

oh and the spiders too, after those

 

[Crow]

d a m n

 

[Sabre]

Hay Crow:

Cats=OWNED
http://www.addictinggames.com/kittencannon.html

 

[Crow]

 

[Sabre]

Well folks, looks like we won't be cat tanking into Mordor anytime soon

 

[Crow]

luls

this crossbow is still amazing

texture it NAO

 

[Glorfindel]

Reload animation

Is that the right speed for the reload, or too slow (or too fast!?)

 

[The Man In Black]

Beautiful, but it's much too quick. It should look like the player is straining to reload it.

 

[Crow]

Hot damn, thats really nice.

As MIB said, just slow down the part where he pulls the string back.

 

[FER]

What program are you using for modelling and animating?

 

[Thothie]

Reload looks fine to me, only thing I'd say is I'd hoped the Heavy Crossbow would have a capital H - ie. take a fair amount of the view screen, but I'll take what I can get.

 

[Kh]

just a question:
why not making models to hl2 ?????

 

[Sabre]

Reload looks fine to me, only thing I'd say is I'd hoped the Heavy Crossbow would have a capital H - ie. take a fair amount of the view screen, but I'll take what I can get.

Simple as scaling up the model
Now script it so that we can nail Maldora to the wall with it. xD

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

just a question:
why not making models to hl2 ?????

Because we still need models for MS:C, and the faith in the production of MS:S is dropping, and has been, since the devs decided not to show us any progress, we're lead to believe there's none at all.

Not that I don't appreciate the work you're doing for MS:S, but a lot of people are starting to believe it won't leave the ground.

 

[Kh]

owww,i see,
In fact,i was asking myself why nobody show there works...maybe because am the only one making somes .
In reality i think there some work back.I dont know exactly,ask tothie maybe?He is a great coder and i dont know if he is always on ms:c or if he is looking toward:mss.

I dont think half life have any future.SO does it really care to make models for a dead mod?

 

[The Man In Black]

Thothie has nothing to do with MS:S, and is mostly a scripter, anyway.