Argh Just remember plan everything out in advance...

Im really having difficulty now. Its one thing to build something from scratch but another to modify existing work...

I cant seem to figure out how im going to add the pin to the gun.. I thought about not adding it at all however that will ruin alot of the realism. I had the animations all planed and almost set up but then came across the issue of opening and closing the cylinder.

I hadnt originally planned for the cylinder to open wasnt till after I decided that would be a cool idea. Now I cant for the life of me figure out a decent way to do it... Ive tryed a few ways and either they look like crap or they add way to many polys to the gun.. Almost weighing in at 1750 polys I dont really want to add too much more to it.

Ive found a few places where I Can rid a few of the polys with out changing much of the shape if at all but still not enough to knock it down to where adding an additional 200 or so polys wont be noticed.

A very important thing to remember to any new modelers out there PLAN AHEAD!!!

Know what you plan on doing before doing it. It will save that much more time in the end. If I had planned ahead I might of been fine tuning everything by now but Ive been stuck for the past day just trying new ways to change the mesh to fit the animation needs.

Im seriously debating starting over again. Just afraid that I wont acheive the same results. Ugh No idea what to do... Hopefully Ill figure it out before I get too frustrated and give up...

Anyways just wanted to share my frustration with everyone. I Wish the best of luck to both of you and Im glad you didnt make the same mistake I did grimber.

Btw Hows the progress coming along? Also how many polys you got so far?