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Well in the past two days or so I've been working hard on making somewhat of a new plasma pistol, I've seen a lot of good models, but not for the plasma pistol, so I thought I would give a shot at skinning and modeling for a first time and turned out to make this. I'm currently working on an updated version , but here's what i have right now.

Included in the RAR is:

-new plasma pistol skin
-new plasma card skin
-new red plasma pistol contrail
-new plasma pistol reticule
-somewhat of a new model(I wanted to keep most of the plasma pistol's original shape though)
-pictures(at the bottom of the post as well)

I made all of this myself, using Photo shop for skinning, as well as paint for the reticule.

NOTE: I also have included the plasma rifle's reticule in the RAR, it is exactly the same as the original but you must inject it after injecting the plasma pistol's new reticule (this is because for reasons unknown, that the plasma rifle's reticule becomes corrupted)

Feel free to give constructive criticism and a rating, and I will consider it in my updated version.

thats a good model...not just for the plasma pistol, but a good model in all of the good models here.

Andrew_b wrote:thats a good model...not just for the plasma pistol, but a good model in all of the good models here.

Thank you for your input it very much really appreciated. Also for those people who think that the Brute plasma pistol should be completely skinned red, I already have a skin made for that, and will probably be included in the future version.

work on the skin, a lot, it still looks like regular plasma pistol.

no.

CabooseJr wrote:work on the skin, a lot, it still looks like regular plasma pistol.

Thank you for the constructive criticism. D

He gave a reason... It still looks like the reg plasma pistol. The model is great btw.

So...how come in the ingame pics it shows a normal model, but you have screens of a new one? I'm confused.

shadowkhas wrote:So...how come in the ingame pics it shows a normal model, but you have screens of a new one? I'm confused.

i think its to show the skin...and the fp model...or he forgot to swap the main model with the fp...

sangheili123 wrote:He gave a reason... It still looks like the reg plasma pistol. The model is great btw.

I was talking about DS killa, and yeah I didn't swap it with the first person model because when you do that with the plasma pistol it just falls into the ground and you can't find it, so I'll probably end up making a separate third person model. The only thing I have to really work on now is the the top area, because the bottom area looks perfect in my opinion. Also you can see that I spiked up the bottom and extruded the spikes more, to give it kind of a bayonet look like in a brute shot.

EDIT: In-game picture added, I made a new covenant styled reticule using parts of ones that already existed, rather than some lines made in paint, and the reticule lines up perfectly . But yeah the top still needs work, and I also hid the charge bar in the picture, as well as my beta skin. Any comments?

mmm thats preety good well the last pic i saw of the brute pistol needs a better skin but since its a plasma gun it might be kinda wierd to skin but u can try

That's pretty damn cool. I dunno about the straight bar on the top though, kinda throws off the spikyness. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Altimit01 wrote:That's pretty **** cool. I dunno about the straight bar on the top though, kinda throws off the spikyness. Can't wait to see the finished product.

Thanks, and yeah I removed that bar on the top. Good to hear that people like it so far, also can anyone give a link or write a tutorial on how to change the colors of the plasma pistol's plasma, the mgs2 and light tags don't seem to work (and yes I skinned the contrail to a red color too).

oh i know i know...yaya i know...her brb to refresh my memory but i think i did it before...yeah go to the decal tag in hmt and (i have some plugins) change all the colors to 0 except the R to 9999 that should make it reeeeeeed. as in red!

i know you took a long time to do this. but it looks like you just stretched a few vertices around and did a skin.

It'd be cooler if it was textured better near the top, instead of being a random dark region, but that'd be harder since it's stretched out.

peow130 wrote:i know you took a long time to do this. but it looks like you just stretched a few vertices around and did a skin.

I only did stretching for two of the "spikes" and on the newer model(not shown) i stretched the front area and bottom area so you can actually see the ends in the first person view, other than that, the top spike was some vertices i moved around that were in the front area and i chose to move to the back so that it would change the original fp view slightly. Oh and Khas what i just said about moving vertices from the front area to the back is the reason why it's black in the front, and that's the original plasma pistol skin if you didn't know.

EDIT: Picture added. Also credits goes out to ambar, who made the plasma pistol skin a while back.

cool, now it actually looks like a brute weapon

Thanks, I'm going to edit some of the other parts of the skin a bit and then fix up the stretched areas in the model and then add on the meter bar and then the final will be released.

CabooseJr wrote:work on the skin, a lot, it still looks like regular plasma pistol.

i am 100% with you on that caboose