Acheron is an upcoming modification for Battlefield 2142. It aims to offer the players the ultimate Colonial Marines experience (within the limits of the Refractor engine).
Ithaca M37 Stakeout model is almost finished!
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Criticism is as always welcome - just keep in mind that some parts need to be "smoothed" as you can see and there's still something left to be completed on the other side of the weapon. Don't expect any major changes, though. :)
After those minor ones, let's see how we can texture it!
Wow beautiful detail!
Thanks! Hopefully the textures will improve the "Aliens" feeling. :)
I have a question, will this shotgun have true iron sights, or will you do like normal BF2/2142 shotguns?
Even though the Hicks' shotgun had the iron sights, I didn't base this one entirely on his movie gun. The version that this gun was based on has no iron sights so I'm not really sure if I should add them or keep the original design of the version that it was based on.
Well, when I mean Ironsights, I don't mean actual sights, but just the ability to pull the weapon up to your eyes so you look down the barrel of the gun instead of just hip shooting but slightly zoomed.
It is your mod so I don't want to tell you how you should make it, just curious how you are implementing shotguns.
Honestly, I didn't even know the Hicks' shotgun looked differently until you asked me about the sights and I looked it up and I'm kinda perfectionist in this so I might want to remake the shotgun in the near future anyway. ;D But yeah, the aiming should be possible even without sights if we'll find an animator who could make it real.
Well, Battlefield: Korea has been on the lookout for a good model of this gun for our mod. So, even if you just need this one animated, maybe we can see if I can get somebody to animate it if you wouldn't mind letting us use it? Project Reality has animated some weapons for us in the past, and I have a few other people who might possibly be able to do it. Only problem is if PR animates it they might want to use it too.
The great thing is that BF2142 stuff can work easily in BF2 and vice versa.
Animators are one of the hardest people to find lately for BF mods, so hopefully you can get somebody to help you out. We don't even have a good animator at BFK mod so we have to wait a long time for us to add some of our nice weapon models.
I wouldn't mind, mate. I don't think it would be a problem if two mods for two different games used the same weapon as it suits both ones. And it would be great if it got some pretty animations, the bigger problem seems to be exporting as I can't find anyone to do it.
Let me contact my guys over at PR and see if they can help you out. They can export it using previous animations from their other various shotguns. They animated our 1897 Trenchgun and I think the animations might fit for it.
I will get back to you if I hear anything.
Also, I think we should wait until it is finalized as in textured and such before contacting them, as it just seems like the best way to approach it. Have a better chance of them saying yes if it is already ready.
Woo, great!!