Worried your future (custom) gun might look like crap? A great solution!

[Corbet]

Next winter I'm gonna be making a mag from scratch, and I've been thinking, what if there was a program or a website that lets you customize a gun to see what it will look like. It lets you choose the collor of the ULE, chrome or black on the intelliframe, color of the grips, the foregrip, the drop foward, ect. Anyone else think that AGD should create some type of program like this for there site?

[McSweedish]

TERRIFIC IDEA SIR!!

[AL3X OAKL3Y]

thats a great idea.
there used to be a site where you could do that wiht tippmanns and it was kinda handy
good idea to do:)

[Kevmaster]

whos this AGP company you speak of?

[FalconGuy016]

Its a good idea, and not hard, a lot of websites use it (and some quite good)

(AGD :))

[Vash02]

Oh man that would be sweet. I've often thought about what my gun will look like in the end.

[halo13]

1.) Would this program work for all markers or just AGD markers?

2.) Will it incorperate all parts you can possably buy or just the more popular ones?

3.) Will it be simple to add more parts and take away ones that have been discontinued?

4.) how will you get all the images and colors to fit?

5.) How will you do fades or custom color jobs?

Now for the hard questions:
Has someone ever done this before? If not why?
If so was it successfull, if not why did it fail?

[rx2]

It is quite possible, IF you want to take the time to do it, especially considering the thousands of aftermarket parts available. Then comes the point of whether or not it would be worth the effort. As for companies or retailers, that would mean it would have to increase sales. That is unless there is some kind, masochistic soul out there willing to compile it and constantly maintain it, for free or cheap. Of course, I could forsee a large, joint effort, where many work under certain guidelines for one goal.

That does bring up another point of keeping it current. That wouldn't be easy with an all-inclusive format.

[Brak]

called photoshop

[Prairie]

This would be rather simple to do with a combination of photoshop,flash mx, and a little scaling.

Plus some good photographs...

really not as big a deal as its being made out to be.

[halo13]

Actually, unless you somehow take or make the photos yourself, you would have to ask each company to send you a picture of their product. You would also have to give them explicit instructions on what angles to use, lighting, ect. Photoshop is also a good tool but you can't rotate a 2D image in 3D space. The program has its limits. And its not good for getting an exact image of things, its just good for a rough idea.

The most efficient way to do this would be to get a 3D plotter. That way you could get a computer model of the product and scale it or rotate it whatever way you want. Although you would need a somewhat unlimited ammount of time and money.

I'm not saying its impossable I'm just saying its probably not worth the time, and if someone put it something like this together it probably wouldn't be that compleate or work that well. Your imagination is the cheapest and fastest way to get results.

[elpimpo]

Originally posted by Kevmaster
whos this AGP company you speak of?

i was womdering the exact same thing

[halo13]

Originally posted by elpimpo


i was womdering the exact same thing

womdering?

[MidnightRider]

Here is a fun little link. Not much but sure is fun to see how the changes change the velocity/ball breaks/cost/noise etc etc etc.

Have Fun

http://simulator.iwarp.com/#

Peace.

MR.

[IcantBelieveit]

ALOT of wheel distributors use this exact type of website. so you can see what the custom wheels will look like on your particular vehicle. and whith the vast variety and companies that makes wheel...and the vast variety of cars and trucks...i can assure you it is no easy task to maintain nor to start up