Weapon In Progress - M249 SAW

[halbridious]

Some of you have read the threads i posted earlier, but now for a more official announcement
There will be a new weapon in KF soonish, along with (hopefully) a new perk to go with it. As my friend (who did the model) and i are new to modding, this may take longer than usual. for that we are sorry. But phase one of the model is complete, so i thought i'd post some renders for you all.
Note: we are trying to add more mesh, as this is under 3k polys, so there will likely be alot more poly detail later.

 

[halbridious]

Just to make sure everyones on the same page, i thought i'd add the reference pic

 

[Gartley]

Good start Halb. =)

 

[DDC1234]

Great now i can truly enjoy senseless zombie killing thank you.

 

[The_Sorrow]

sounds like alot of fun lol need to add more gore (especialy for the chainsaw), belt fed weapons are extremely difficult to Animate though :S

 

[braindead]

Looking nice Halb could do with a nice meaty MG in game

remember, if this is the 1st person model, the more polys you delete from the front of the gun, the more you can make up with on the visible parts.

 

[CandleJack]

I just had a look at this, and i must say, nice work

The stock is a bit thick though, i'd say 3/4 of its current size is a more comfortable fit.
It may even reduce the number of polys for the model

 

[halbridious]

sounds like alot of fun lol need to add more gore (especialy for the chainsaw), belt fed weapons are extremely difficult to Animate though :S

I know, i'm not lookin forward to it :/ If it gets too bad we can Stanag it, but thats not as much fun. Candlejack, will take a look at the stock. We encountered another problem, in that no-one quite seems to know what the receiver looks like when u lift that panel to reload XD Even other games don't have it. BF:BC2 just puts it in shadow So thats gonna be low detail right now, which we're kina sad about

 

[braindead]

sounds like alot of fun lol need to add more gore (especialy for the chainsaw), belt fed weapons are extremely difficult to Animate though :S

what chainsaw? this is a machine gun

 

[-=Ivan=-]

I have an idea how to let the bullets disapear when it get empty, one after another

 

[sverek]

Is it M60?

I can't image what feels better than shooting zeds with it.

 

[halbridious]

@Ivan and Sorrow - after talking with my modelerI think we're gonna do an ammo-box, where the chain comes out of the box, which means we only have to show, say, 6 links. And we prolly won't worry about making them disappear as you get low on ammo, maybe we'll have the chain disappear when your completely out, idk.

@Braindead - i thinks he was talking about how we need more gore in KF, especially for gory weapons like the chainsaw or a MG

@Sverek - Its an M249 SAW, made by FN, used by a variety of forces around the world. Not the Para version, which is slightly smaller, but the standard.

 

[Faneca]

Aaaah, the good ol' Belgium badass. Finaly we can see him in KF.
Well done, looking forward to moe-down craploads of Specimens with it while perma-crouching in a corner with some teammates.

 

[The_Sorrow]

I have an idea how to let the bullets disapear when it get empty, one after another

can use an "If" statement

not exactly sure how many bullets you'd see but 6 for example
If Ammo in Mag = 6
PlayAnim Fire 6
and same for 5 and so-on
maybe a bool would work, idk but that was the layout used for the USP

and yes Halb, that was exactly what I meant :3

 

[halbridious]

The if statement could work.... Not sure exactly how i'd set up a bool when there's multiple options :/

 

[YoYoBatty]

Maybe rig bones to the bullet and check the magammoremaining and if its a certain a mountain set the bone scale to 0.0

 

[Gartley]

can use an "If" statement

not exactly sure how many bullets you'd see but 6 for example
If Ammo in Mag = 6
PlayAnim Fire 6
and same for 5 and so-on
maybe a bool would work, idk but that was the layout used for the USP

and yes Halb, that was exactly what I meant :3

Maybe rig bones to the bullet and check the magammoremaining and if its a certain a mountain set the bone scale to 0.0

Hmm, thats interesting. I might be able to impliment somthing like this for my Colt as an alternative to the current reload.

@halb

If you use a boolean it's just true or false, so when performing a IF function it's ok.

Although I can see there might be still be problems. For example my Colt upon firing the chamber is rotated when the hammer is pull back, but as soon as it goes to idle the chamber rotates back, if I were to implement a system simular to this I would end up increasing the anim file by 6x.

Unless, if I understand YoYoBatty right, I could use the code to manipulat the bone rather than use a preset animation? So in that case you could just make a bullet 'dissapear' by scaling it down to zero.

 

[halbridious]

Thats an interesting idea YoYo - Gartley, i knew what a bool function was I'm new to unreal but have done coding b4 Just wasn't sure exactly what benefits it had over an if.

 

[Benjamin]

Unless, if I understand YoYoBatty right, I could use the code to manipulat the bone rather than use a preset animation? So in that case you could just make a bullet 'dissapear' by scaling it down to zero.

Yes.

 

[halbridious]

Model Update, This is prolly close to the final. A quick question for texture people - Whats the standards for textures? I don't do textures at all, so any texture related stuff for KF that i can send to my texture guy would be nice