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Halo CE Pistol 3D Project
Posted By: Naveeda <naveed@gmail.com>	Date: 11/3/09 2:35 p.m.
Caeser over at 2old2play.com created a really awesome 3D model of Halo CE pistol with case and bullets. Here is his description of how this all came about. If you are not into 3D modeling stuff jump right below to the pics. About 3 weeks ago I started working on a futuristic bullet in CAD for the Halo 3 team im on called; Vulgarity from 2old2play.com. Ive been a Sr Designer for automotive & aerospace going on 10 years and Ive been into graphic design for about 8 yrs, so I felt this project would just be something simple and fun to mix and meld my skills from my real job to my, fun graphic design side. Once I started the bullet i figured i need a case to house the futuristic bullets in. it didnt take very long before I started to add more detail and more detail. After about a week i had completed the futuristic bullet and case concept, and i thought it came out great, but was still missing something. So I got the bright idea that i needed a gun to tie it all together. My first thought was a 357 COP Derringer, but while it looked cool, it wasnt futuristic enough. So i then turned my attention to the Halo CE Pistol. I thought, hmm, i could do that. So it started, i had tons of images for reference and i thought this should be easy, well i was wrong. I had no dimensions just images, so everything i modeled, i had to do visually look at and try to get the scale right. It was harder then i thought. i wanted to add a little flair to the gun in certain spots as i was modeling it. The gun itself was fun to do, but very time consuming. The program i use to render my 3D CAD is called Hypershot, and in order to apply colors and materials to things, they each need to be a separate part, so i basically had to build every single piece in a giant assembly in order to be able to apply the materials and colors correctly. This was one of the things that ended up taking a lot of time on the gun. I had to model the trigger, the rubber grip, the gun stock, the magazine, the screws, lights, laser site, the slide on top thats connected to the laser site, and the bullet ejection cover plate. It was a lot to do and put detail into every little piece. My final task this week was finishing up the gun stock, the main part of the gun. In my early renders my edges were very hard and Mrs Doublefire suggested i put a break edge to smooth it out (basically radii or fillet's). This actually worked to my benefit as i wanted to blend the front handle of the gun into the nose anyway, but would need it to be blended. The blending task took about 2 days, just a very time consuming task trying to get them to look right at the intersection. So 3 weeks later I have finally finished my little project, what started out a simple futuristic bullet project turned into the massive renders you see below. The 3D CAD software I used to create my models is: Pro-E Wildfire 3 The 3D Rendering Software is called: Hypershot Un-rendered cad screen shots http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/3D/case_case-final-cad.jpg http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/3D/topassem-cad.jpg http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/3D/bullet_cad_final.jpg http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/3D/clip-assembly.png http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/3D/clip-assembly-1.png http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/gun-final-wireframe.jpg http://www.gamer-grafix.com/2old2play/gun-final-cad.jpg Final renders (click for full-sized versions)

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Message Index

Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	Naveeda	11/3/09 2:35 p.m.
Re: Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	Naveeda	11/3/09 2:38 p.m.
Re: Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	Louis Wu	11/3/09 3:00 p.m.
Re: Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	Naveeda	11/3/09 3:16 p.m.
Re: Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	Naveeda	11/3/09 3:47 p.m.
Re: Halo CE Pistol 3D Project	}SoC{BrownSound	11/3/09 5:29 p.m.