Halo Plasma Pistol

After what feels like an eternity of modeling, it’s finally done: the Plasma Pistol!

I suddenly had the urge to recreate all Halo things ever, starting with Covenant weapons, which are my favorite weapon designs of all time.

For some reason, I just couldn’t get the handle right. I must have redone that part at least a thousand times until I was somewhat satisfied (and honestly, I’m still not completely happy with it, but the amount of time I spent redoing the handle was getting ridiculous).

And don’t even get me started on the normal map. Long story short: its shading caused all kinds of problems, which I eventually fixed by adding weighted normal modifiers and some extra edge loops here and there (this also took me way WAY too long to figure out).