L4A4 Bren - Don't you think you could have brought something a little more practical?

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L4A4 Bren - Don't you think you could have brought something a little more practical?

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Hey guys,

Been some time since our last PR: Falklands update so here is a little something we've been working on, the L4A4 Bren Light Machine Gun :D

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Many of you will be familiar with the Bren gun from WW2 but this is the more modern, updated version which fires the 7.62mm NATO round instead of the old .303 round. It was actually preferred to its replacement, the belt-fed GPMG, on account of its lighter weight and remained in British Army service up to the 1990s. During the Falklands War, 40 Commando Royal Marines carried one L4A4 Bren LMG and one L7A2 GPMG per section.
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Ingame it will be the primary weapon for the British Automatic Rifleman. Loaded with a 30 round magazine and a rate of fire of ~500 rpm, this relic will give its squad some much needed automatic fire support when moving up on the enemy.

This excellent model was made by {ZW}C-LOKE and then wonderfully textured by [R-DEV]Sabre-Oz, with myself doing the UVs, 3rd person models and exporting.


However this blog is also partly a request for help as we currently have no active animators on our team and without animations this weapon isn't going to behave or feel right ingame. As such anyone from the community who wishes to help out, even if you don't have any experience in animating before please let me know via PMs or by posting below and I'll set you up with everything you need but you can start off by watching Chuc's animation tutorial. There is also plenty of other tasks open to the community for anyone else who wants to help out in other areas or on other items :D


PS. There is a special e-cookie for who can guess where the blog title is from :D


EDIT: and for those of you who can't see how to aim this weapon this should clear things up for ya :)
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fubarEVOx
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Post by fubarEVOx »

Looking good! I sense, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" ;)
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Post by Rhino »

fubarEVOx;bt9763 wrote:Looking good! I sense, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" ;)
hehe indeed :)

here's your e-cookie
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Post by zombie-yellow »

I guess I lack some general knowledge :( I've never got any of your references Rhino lol

Real nice work on that gun though :D
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Post by Rhino »

zombie-yellow;bt9765 wrote:I guess I lack some general knowledge :( I've never got any of your references Rhino lol
At around 1:15 and watch out kiddies, bad Language and violence:

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Post by zombie-yellow »

I smell the sarcasm lol
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Post by fubarEVOx »

[R-DEV]Rhino;bt9764 wrote:hehe indeed :)

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Thank you, it looks delicious! :grin:
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Post by Kerryburgerking »

Will it have smokeless cartridges? ;)
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Post by Rhino »

Kerryburgerking;bt9769 wrote:Will it have smokeless cartridges? ;)
Think it was only the shotguns that didn't :p
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Post by maximi4444 »

Excuse me....maybe Im stupid or something....but if this model is meant for real..........then isnt the aim absolutely useless? Well there is a mag right in front of it....so I guess you cant aim very well through it when you see a mag....or am I wrong?
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Post by Rhino »

maximi4444;bt9771 wrote:Excuse me....maybe Im stupid or something....but if this model is meant for real..........then isnt the aim absolutely useless? Well there is a mag right in front of it....so I guess you cant aim very well through it when you see a mag....or am I wrong?
One aims down the side of the barrel, the round thing behind the mag that at first glance looks like the rear sight is actually the mag release leaver :)
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Don't worry pretty much everyone makes that mistake to begin with as the rear sight is pretty small and hard to see.
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Post by ChallengerCC »

Sweeeet
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Post by Microwaife »

Great model! :)

Now someone animate it!

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Post by 3===SPECTER===3 »

Damn that skin came out great! ;) I really hope we get someone to animate this, it's gonna be awesome
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Post by camo »

If only i saw this earlier, i could have got an ecookie, awesome model anyways.
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Post by Redamare »

......... O_O how does one see through the iron sights with a clip in the way? >.< *searches 1st page and finds the answer* ... LAWLS to self
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Post by Sgt.BountyOrig »

In the first picture the rear sight is right behind the magazine but in that last one it was down in line with the front sight.

Deployed/Undeployed or??
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Post by {ZW}C-LOKE »

Phenomenal! I was actually just thinking about nostalgic moments of modeling this last night, so quite a surprise to see this blog announcement this morning! Good stuff! Today is a great day, and an epic moment for PR:F!

So epic, I decided to share it with all of my G+ peoples, even!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/10523345045 ... XZmDKcuSdG

Just out of curiosity, how hard do you think it will be to do the animations? I've never done that before...

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Post by fubarEVOx »

camo_jnr_jnr;bt9776 wrote:If only i saw this earlier, i could have got an ecookie, awesome model anyways.
We can share it over a cup of tea.
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Post by Wayet »

looks awesome !
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