I have been working on this gun for my Computer Graphics class. Its kinda rough, quickly put together. But i think it looks pretty damn good. Any tips on how to use the newest blender release? Here are a few pics, and a download link. Hope this works...

http://www.mediafire.com/?fezmznzzoh2

Good tip to use.

You know by The pistol grip is seams a bit choppy/blocky. Select them and select ... set smooth.

it makes them a lot smoother without adding any verts. (Y)

Good job BTW

Thanks. So whats this set smooth? do i just select all the faces? and where would i find "smooth"? is it a modifier?

Select the face's you want to aper smooth.

Hit the 'w' Key.

Go near the bottom and it should say 'Set smooth'.

it's still better then anything i can do with blender.

Yea same here... Much better than anything I can do.

i wonder if he is coming back.

Who's coming back? Yeah i got another problem, when i put it into render, the inside of the scope and the inside of the barrel, disappear. How can i fix that?

Could you sent a pic of the first one . without being in wire mode.

Do you have faces for those inside areas? If you do, make sure the normals are facing the right way.

There is now a new scope, and i checked much things, but it still keeps on happening! Now the outside is missing! Can someone download this .blend file and help fix it up? What are you talking about with the faces on the inside? and what are normals. Sorry, i know next to nothing about blender.

edit: Link broked. Will try to find good file hosting site

Ok, select your mesh, go to edit mode. Under the editing tab for the Buttons menu (F9), there is a box called Mesh Tools More. Click the button Draw Normals. You may need to increase the NSize in order to see it, but there will be little light Blue Lines coming out of the faces. This shows which direction they face.

For the faces that don't show in render, check if those lines are on the right side or not. If they are not on the right side, select the face(s), then click Mesh > Normals > Flip.

Hopefully that fixes it.

Or you can go into Texture mode.

Good start!

Much, much, much better than my first model. My first model was so strange

One suggestion to find wrond normals: In the bottom, in the buttons menu, there is a button "Set Smooth" (actually TurdDrive button is only "smooth"). it will make the gun appear "soft". Maybe you will notice that there is some faces that are strange:
Now take a look:


These lines show where the face is pointing. the faces that were strange in object mode are actually inverted normals( Normals is the name of the direction a face/polygon is pointing) pointing inside.

The other ones are ok, as you can see.

So just select the wrong faces, click "W" and "Flip Normals".

edit: Oh, just saw that you're using blender 2.5....

Unfortunately I don't know how to see normals in 2.5 ( I don't know if it's implemented) so If you want you can download the latest version before 2.5, so that you can fix it. I have both 2.5 and 2.49, so it's possible to have both.

No i actually meant 'Set Smooth'.

The one that doest change the location of the verts.

Ah, ok.

It's because in one of the posts you said "press W", so I thought you were referring to the other one

K thanks guys. ill see if that works. Also, with the new blender. Is there a way to stick a picture in the background so you can model of it?

Well, assuming it didn't change from v2.49, in the 3D View window, switch your view to a Side or Front Ortho view (Num Pad 1 or 3) and then click View > Background Image. A box comes up, click the Use Background Image button, Click the Load button, find your image, then adjest settings and you should be good.

However, if it did change, than I can't help you much.

Thanks, ill try that.

This is my first try after a previous attempt, yeah I think my missile cannon is too complicated for my actual skills and knowledge about blender so I tried this one

The weapon isn't finished, it lacks of a loader, barrel, front grip, and a lot of details
I don't know if people will recognize what I'm trying to do, but that's a simple weapon and that's why I choose it as my first model I hope this time I would be able to finish it, then if I do I will try something else.

Now it has a barrel and a few corrections

The heat shield, I tried to make the forward grip but I had a great problem with

I hate grips.

I can never do them right.

I was close to reach my goal, the main form was close to what I wanted to make; but when I rotated my circle I did it wrong an this messed up all my work made on it I just deleted it because I was furious

Is that an XM8

Yes it is

It looked like an G36,

but then I looked at the butt.

Here is the forward grip

I'm so happy ^^ now it begins to look like something

Added some details and a few corrections

And a little view in first person