Polaris30, those guns are amazing, zbrush is such an awesome application. 
thank you for the compliments by the way, but i must say, my work really isn’t very good :o 
the name of the engine im using is NexGen, when its done being writen if you want i’ll give you some links so you can check it out if you are interested in using it yourself.
im not completely new to making games, i’ve done some work with Reality Factory/Genisis3D for about half a year now, im just now starting to get how to do the modeling and level design though. ive had to put all of my work except for this game on hold though, since ive go other responsibilites too.
i can actually do mechanical things well, its the organic stuff that stumps me. ive been working for months on the main character for this game, and i’ve just now finished the uniform, which actually came out surprisingly well. now i just gotta work on his head, which i have to do myself since he is basically me in 3D , but a lot cooler 
Ron Harris, now that i think about it, i really like the way that the Polaran came out. lets stick with what you have there with a few changes:
-use the original head model, i really like that
-add a little connector like thing at the bottom right(left from the front view) corner for him to refil his suit with the gas he breathes.
-add the arm cover things
-leave thr arms and legs the way they are except for the fingers having the suction cup ends and forget the tentacle and hook things
-listen carefully to this one: the area around lights needs to dip in and then the lights need to curve out as kind of a dome, they will be semi transparent glass, with the aid of an HLSL shader made in Render Monkey(i’ll handle that later), and they have a colored light inside that alternates in this pattern(which i will also take care of, this is just to give you an idea): blue, fade, green, fade, blue, fade, etc. and the little display thing is a heartbeat measurer that i hope to give an accurate reading based on how scared this guy gets through the aid of Lua scripting. this is the part you need to know: they can be broken, thats right, all of the lights can be broken, so we need something under them
-realized i forgot to mention, the game is called Star Force and the little symbol thing that is on the suit this badguy wears is the symbol for the Alliance, basically it’s just a sword through two stars with another star in the background, symbolising the Alliances capitol star system, alpha centauri which has two main stars and a third secondary star.
-thank you for taking the time to do this by the way, you dont know how thankful i am, keep up the awesome work.
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Zbrush has some Excellent metal, and wood shaders with it, you can take the shaders and bake them right onto the weapons, to make a painted texture…
lemme know your thoughts…
