Flameball model

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

Great work, Rad!

Try making all details out of textures instead of the model. Scrap anything that you won't be seeing often, like, anything that's only visible from the bottom. (You're not gonna be standing under the gun all day.... Will you?)

[paperclips]

excellent work there!
I for one really enjoy the snakeskin, that came out so sweet man!

[Rad Ished]

I used the poly reducer script, it works perfectly, UV data intact. The model looks pretty much the same and is now just over 2000 polys.
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I did try the decimate modfier but it scrapped all the uv data. Also the poly reducer script created a hole which i could not seem to repair without making white patches on the model where the texture was not mapped.
So then I made the area in question a vertex group and used the poly reducer script option to not reduce that area so much. I very rarely have this kind of positive result with Blender problems, im stoked.
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Im just working on the pants shirt and glow textures now. Anybody know what the difference between pants and shirt is in this context?... i assume they are just the areas coloured with either red or blue depending on which team you are on, but why two of them?
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I admit that the rear of the weapon is suffering from 'no clear concept' syndrome, but such is life.
xD

[sev]

Im just working on the pants shirt and glow textures now. Anybody know what the difference between pants and shirt is in this context?... i assume they are just the areas coloured with either red or blue depending on which team you are on, but why two of them?

This is because you can use 2 colours for the player model, and those 2 colours are also used on the weapons "shirt" and "pants". This is how the RL looks with "color 3 4":

[Rad Ished]

ah, oops of course .. it was on the tip of my brain

[C.Brutail]

sev, is that your screenshot? In case that is, you're playing with the same colors as me

[sev]

sev, is that your screenshot? In case that is, you're playing with the same colors as me

Sorry, I just chose those colours because of the contrast, and I didn't use red-blue to avoid misunderstandings about team colours
(I only play with one colour at a time, which I alternate)

[Rad Ished]

Ok, heres the 2056 poly md3 with texture, glow, shirt, pants , normal and bump.
Also the .blend is in there too.
http://www4.zippyshare.com/v/16509354/file.html
enjoy =3