New welder.
biobrain
Join Date: 2002-02-18 Member: 224Members
Join Date: 2002-02-18 Member: 224Members
<div class="IPBDescription">I dun like it</div>Well it might look like a welder. It's a good model, but I was thinking of a big machine that will probably go over the left hand. It will have a bunch of machenical arms and welding beams along with other technical stuff. So instead of welding it will actually do the fixing. And for the animations of it it could show the machenical arms/fingers move around back and forth, maybe carrying some things. The machine itself would have a special design and it would replace parts of the hand. That would be something sweet.
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HAHAHAHA!! That is very funny, possbily becuase it is true. Is that a bad thing? No - I think it looks very 'TSA-ish.' Biobrain, your idea is cool but seems too complex for a model - the polys would be pretty high - not to mention that it would be a fair amount of work for the, already overloaded, animater(s).
The mig welder operates by having a strong electrical current run through the welding wire, the object being welded and back again to the source; compling the circuit.
The welding wire is fed whenever you press the trigger and is made to melt at a certain voltage; i can only assume that this welder is a "Smart" welder... "smart" as in it knows how fast to feed the wire, what metal you are welding on, ect.
Also, in mig welding, there must be some sort of "sheild" gas to prevent the weld from oxidizing and becoming weakend. a "sheild" gas can be any gas that is non-reactive, however, Carbon Dioxide is most commonly used.
It looks the way it does because as i look at it, the upside-down "U" shape is i guess made to keep the sheild gas in a more confined area to provide a better sheild against oxygen and its oxygenating effects; it may also be used as a conductor to complete the circuit, and not having you use clamps or some other thing that would get in the way.
The last paragraph was my speculation... the rest was my [half assed] attempt at explaining mig welding (and dont ask why its called "mig" welding, i dont know.) and how it works. i just hope you realize that it looks the way it does becuase it works...
and it takes less coding. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
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a. Slow you down and
b. Make it impossible to grip a gun and
c. Look wierd and
d. Be useless if you just spotted an alien and
e. Be high in polys and
f. Hard to animate and
g. Somewhat unrealistic for building turrets and the like and
h. Feel more like a weapon then a tool and
i. Hurt to wear.
Heh, sorry for the tongue lashing, I'm in a bad mood and think the NS team is doing a fine job.
very nice <!--emo&:asrifle:--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/asrifle.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':asrifle:'><!--endemo-->
It's in the Rc6 Screenshot topic.
Yes, and no.
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Not really, its very light compared to say, a HMG.
Sheesh, cut him some slack. Flayra doesn't hand out detailed specs of each weapon for us. He's more interested in what we think *feels* right. It's not "I think the HMG should be 20 damage/bullet, 10 rnds/second, with a recoil of .5 degrees per shot fired," etc. It's "the HMG needs to be toned down a little; I didn't even have time to *run* when I saw an HMG-marine at the other end of the corridor" or "the grenade launcher takes too long to detonate, can we shorten the fuse?"
Comparing a slashing knife attack with a constant-attack welder isn't easy, especially when you don't know the health of the enemy you're attacking and he's trying to kill you *too*.
No it doesn't....
(Looks at welder)
Well actually... it <i>does</i>.... And Vacuum has 2 U's. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
I think AvP2's welder was good. It had the little light shield right on it (you know. The thing that stops the extreme light from the welder from blinding you).
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