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Maus
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
<div class="IPBDescription">kind of a 40k Tau weapon</div> Out of boredom I thought I'd make one of the Tau weapons when I was reading a preview of the game, and it's coming along nicely. However, I'm intending to use this for a HMG (don't flame if it's unsuitable - I neither care nor know anything about the Tau) and there's no clip on the Tau model anywhere, so where do you think would be a good place to store 150 bullets on this thing?
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Is that giant screw in the side in the last screenie? Be damned if it is.
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Maybe if a magazine is run through the gun, so the rounds are transferred to an internal magazine. So No fumbling with removing a spent mag and replacing it.
But you are gonna have to add a bit more polies to this monster. Either that or you can skin a hole in and use transparency.
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Here's what I came up with for the clip. The bit where it goes into the gun needs a wee bit of work, but the basic idea's there. Two 75-bullet clips, joined in a U-shape.
Moi.
That's a Tau Pulse Carbine, n00blar. That thing under the front part of the gun is a photon grenade launcher. From the cover art of the codex, you would think it fires lasers. But since the Imperial Guard have lasguns (lasers, basically) and there's muzzle flash coming from lasguns, I wouldn't trust the art. Since the lasgun (commonly referred to as a "flashlight" by IG players because of its weakness) shoots energy and can't penetrate armor, Tau weaponry cannot possibly be using energy for their weapons since it has an AP value of 5. Since they also employ huge freakin' railguns on their Broadside battlesuits, the best guess would be that they have Gauss-esque rifles. But the Pathfinders are soon going to have a miniature railgun to use as a sniper rifle, which wouldn't make sense, since they probably already have railguns. My guess is that they don't propel the ownage far enough, so they took the railgun off a broadside and shrunk it.
The Summer Battle Tour is coming to my local shop this Friday.. w00t!
edited because the completely harmless word I use to replace a naughty f-word now gets itself cut out by the swear filter too. Feh. (OMG swear filter evasion!! Ban me!)
Yup, like that.
Really though, as you already said the skin's more of a filler for now. But the p_ model is perfect for an HMG, I'd just toy around with the origins and the model scaling a bit to get the right feel.
Nice job.
(Laser Target Designator)
Now why would I want to do a thing like that? It'd have those crazy brightness-shifting side-effects of additive transparency <i>and</i> require me to pointlessly model the inside of the viewfinder too. It's going to be a scren with a black background, with some kind of radary thing drawn on, I think.
In fact, I think it's going to have an <i>Elite</i> radar oval-with-W. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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So when can I download it? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->