Help I'm drowning

p0rtaplayer's butt is really good value.

I'm not paying that much to ride Colossal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1xS07N-FA
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gaben

Keklolzor wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU1xS07N-FA
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I don't get the inclusion of will.i.am but oh well, great video.

This reminds me of my very first program: "Hello World". If you know coding you know this feeling

Kopeke wrote:
I don't get the inclusion of will.i.am but oh well, great video.

Yeah, that part of the video made no sense.

But yeah, kids these days, they don't problem solve anymore, everything is just pre-made or they are happy of what they have. More kids should be forced to sit in front of a computer, and tell it what to do with strings.

will.i.am has been supporting stuff like this forever. Doesn't surprise me at all he was in the video.

Hell, they played a will.i.am song on Mars.

HugoBDesigner wrote:
This reminds me of my very first program: "Hello World". If you know coding you know this feeling

It's a beautiful feeling.

Going to the Emerald City comic con. Should be fun :> I'm cosplaying as ratman...pics later.

A football player wrote:
EA, you are worse than Herpes. At least my infrastructure worked.

Finished it.

That is awesome. What makes it more awesome is that is is made of materials that is not cheep plastic like the Portalguns. Also love the mega cannon lights.

How are the lights powered?

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The handle looks a little small, but between pictures and the fact that the game is basically a 35mm camera so the weapons all look weird-shaped anyway I can't really tell. I'm rambling; it looks gorgeous.

Also I am going to Tampa Comic Con when that happens because why the hell not.

I try not to go out of state, Atlanta has enough cons that I don't really need to.

Which handle are you referring to, the left handle or the rear handle? The left handle isn't totally finished yet, right now I just have the 4" bolt that whatever I am going to use for the actual handle will slip over. The rear handle was remodeled based off of an existing pistol grip, as the rear handle in the original viewmodel is bigger than your fist. It would have been impossible to hold on to.

There are ~160 LEDs in total, powered by a 9 volt supply, currently I'm using 8x AAs to give me plenty of battery life. I'm probably going to redo all of the lighting using RGB programmable LED strips, so that 1.) I can cut down on the rat nest of a wiring job that's on the interior and 2.) I can give the blue the proper electric white-aqua glow and not a watery/icy blue glow that I have now.

The whole gun weighs about 7 pounds, and about 50% of that is in the front. Holding it straight out like Gordon holds it for longer than about 30 seconds is really strenuous, which is why I hold it against my hip. But even then I tend to carry it vertical and hold on to the underside of the barrel when I'm walking, and if I'm standing I'll hold it straight down by the rear grip.

That's fantastic, great job.

msleeper wrote:
There are ~160 LEDs in total, powered by a 9 volt supply, currently I'm using 8x AAs to give me plenty of battery life. I'm probably going to redo all of the lighting using RGB programmable LED strips, so that 1.) I can cut down on the rat nest of a wiring job that's on the interior and 2.) I can give the blue the proper electric white-aqua glow and not a watery/icy blue glow that I have now.

Ha nice. Already it seems you beat NECA where I expect them to make it out of plastic and use C batteries. Great work.

msleeper wrote:
The whole gun weighs about 7 pounds, and about 50% of that is in the front. Holding it straight out like Gordon holds it for longer than about 30 seconds is really strenuous, which is why I hold it against my hip. But even then I tend to carry it vertical and hold on to the underside of the barrel when I'm walking, and if I'm standing I'll hold it straight down by the rear grip.

I remember Alyx holding it against her hip in episode 2. I think how Alyx holds it is much more represented of the actual weight then how Gordon holds it. So I think you got it right.

I seriously doubt NECA's is going to change color. My bet is that they will release a blue variant later on. I also have a suspicion that theirs will be more than a little bit smaller than mine. I actually used the times that Alyx holds it, specifically the scene when she first gives it to you because she holds it vertically, to determine how large to scale it.

(And yes, I own the Alyx Black Mesa hoodie.)

The way she holds it in Ep2 does seem more natural. Though if you look in the HL2:DM animations, characters hold the left hand by the barrel probably because it's just reusing a rifle animation.

The front barrel "fans" are made from laser cut acrylic. The zero point crystal bars and the entire rear half of the gun are 3D printed, which I then made silicone molds of and pulled resin casts out of. The crystals are solid, made of a semi translucent material. The rear part is 1/4" to 1/2" thick hollow resin. All in all it's sturdy as hell.

I have the full photolog here from start to finish.

msleeper wrote:
The left handle isn't totally finished yet, right now I just have the 4" bolt that whatever I am going to use for the actual handle will slip over.

Yeah, I was talking about that.

I try not to go out of state

This one is in my state; I don't think it'd be big enough to attend if it were out of state and I don't really ever go to conventions in general. There's a first time for everything.

Still looking at the pictures; its just all-around impressive. I can't think of anything else to say.