Tutorial: Creating a Weapon for Source - Part 1

[andrei313]

I do that to Got used to it and I feel it's the best way to move around I'm interested to hear if there is anything else that can be done about this.

[desertfox]

I notice it happens whenever I hold the CTRL button and zoom in. Don't know if that helps or not. Also:

Originally Posted by rascal

Dear Stormy,

thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I just discovered it on moddb (where i also downloaded it really fast). I am just on part 2 of your video "02 Modelling 1.wmv" and i already have a problem :P

The secondary image (Glock 1802.jpg) that you put behind the first one seems to be bigger as the one i have.. as if you transformed it to be bigger but i really would like to know the exact height and width. I feel like i can not continue this tut since i need both reference pictures at time. With a little hope you know what i mean, and maybe you or someone else can help me.

Best regards,
rascal
P.S. i am a total 3D studio noob.

Edit: figured it out myself ! Thanks anway!

How did you solve it? I am currently having the same problem.

[solarkid]

Simply scale the plane that you have the material applied to, to match the model/first reference pic.

[solarkid]

After playing around a bit more, I've found that CTRL, ALT and SHIFT have different effects when zooming.

[Dutchj]

I'll try that, thanks for the replies

[desertfox]

Originally Posted by solarkid

Simply scale the plane that you have the material applied to, to match the model/first reference pic.

I thought thats what it may have been thanks.

[rascal]

@desertfox: exactly. I was looking at a still on "left" viewport where you could see how he arranged the pictures and then tried to fit them in as matching as possible to that.

[Uromastix87]

Great job on the tut Stormy d/l part two now! How would you model the knuckle part that pulls back on a Luger?

[solarkid]

Originally Posted by Dutchj

Cool tutorial. I'm currently downloading part 05 modeling 4, but I have a problem with my perspective view. I cant seem to get it the same as in the video. Whenever I zoom in it starts to get slower untill I can't navigate anymore and have to zoom out again. Does anyone know how to fix this? Cause its really annoying to model like this.

Figured it out!

If you're zooming and rotating around part of the mesh but previously centred your view on a different part of the mesh, it starts to crap out like that and you have to reset your view.

Obvious answer in hindsight

[showNOmercy]

Originally Posted by solarkid

Figured it out!

If you're zooming and rotating around part of the mesh but previously centred your view on a different part of the mesh, it starts to crap out like that and you have to reset your view.

Obvious answer in hindsight

Resetting your view does fix this problem, another way to work around this without having to try to reset your view is to use the dolly zoom by holding ctrl+alt and then moving your mouse up and back. This acts like your pulling your view around on a dolly. Once you mess around with this you'll see that it is very useful and also helps restore some of the zoom like resetting does.