+200 blocks for creating blasters and all sorts of cool firearms and sci-fi guns in Asset Forge.

The blocks are designed to work seamlessly with the blaster blocks made by Kenney.

Dowload link: https://zeusgameassets.itch.io/blaster-creation-kit-for-asset-forge

Updates and Future Plans

We have tons of ideas for more gun parts, we will be releasing updates for the months to come. You are also welcome to suggest your own ideas.

We do our best to test everything in Asset Forge, Blender, Unity and Unreal Engine 4, if some stealthy glitch manages to slip through the cracks, just inform us about it and we will fix it in the next update.

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Pricing

You can pay what you want, which means you can get this completely free of charge.

If you feel that this kit adds significant value to your work, you can send money our way, every cent goes into making more awesome stuff. 

We have plans for more blocks and more collections. With more funds, we can work faster and give you even more toys to play with.

License

This product is published with our Zeus Game Assets Royalty Free license. More info at the bottom of this post.

The screenshots below were taken during the development phase before the initial release:

Why this project?

I consider myself a decent 3D artist, I'm not the best, but I can model a lot of stuff in Blender and create realistic looking textures in Substance Painter (If you'd like to see some of my work, I sell 3D ww2 warplane assets on my itch.io store). 

So in theory, I don't need to use tools like Asset Forge.

Although I know my way around Blender, I've always dreamed of a software that can instantly manifest my ideas, without spending hours just to see how one idea will turn out.

Asset Forge is pretty darn close to that dream. And it's getting better with every update.

I fell in love with Asset Forge right from the day I bought it. It already has a lot of blocks, but it wasn't enough for me, I was hungry for more. I wanted more toys to play with, i.e more blocks!

This is why I decided to make MORE BLOCKS: to give you more toys to play with. As simple as that.

License

In short: you are buying a non-exclusive, perpetual license to use our assets in an unlimited number of free and commercial games, apps, videos, or for educational purposes. This applies to free and paid assets, and includes all assets sold on zeusgameassets.com, and on our itch.io online marketplace.

You are not allowed to sell, share, transfer, give away, sublicense, or redistribute an asset sold or given away by us on any website or marketplace under any circumstances, even if you modify the asset. For that you'll need written consent from us. You are not allowed to let your end-users extract the assets in their original form and use them outside of the relevant end product.

These assets were made to help users make content for their games, videos or educational programs. Using these assets to make models and sell them or give them away is not allowed.

Please read the full terms and conditions here.

Just added some cool magazines, a carry handle, and more blocks of all sorts.

In the screenshots below, I used blocks that were meant for the front of the gun as stock, which resulted in a weird but very sci-fi look.

Oh, and I also made a grenade launcher.

Today I created two new scopes and a few stocks.

I created a long and a short version of one of the stocks, and I don't know if you can see it, but I used the same short stock block at the front and the back of one of the rifles, and it looks surprisingly fine.

Today I learned a new term: Magazine Well, it's the slot where the magazine is inserted, and I created a bunch of them.

I also made variations on the medium blaster center block, I made thinner blocks, which are perfect for assault and marksman rifles.

In the screenshots below you can also see some stocks I made yesterday but didn't include in yesterday's screenshots.

The third gun has "jaws" at the front, the 4 blocks are separate so you can customize the look as much as you want. I made another jaw block, maybe I'll show it later after modeling more blocks.

I didn't dedicate much time to the large blaster blocks last week, so I came up with a few ideas for the front blocks :

(all images below were rendered in Blender using EEVEE, I'll take screenshots from Asset Forge later)

I also made more blocks for the medium blaster (stock, magazine well and wireframe upper half), and some detail blocks for all blasters, I'll make more detail blocks like tubes and such because they add so much visual interest to the model.

I made even more barrel-related blocks, the goal is to allow maximum customization of the barrel so I made more variations.

I also started making bayonets:

OK, THANKS

Hey guys,

There was a lot of good progress this week, we have reached 190 blocks. And we are closer than ever to the release date.

I've updated the original post with some info on my plans for the release.

As I said in the OP, my goal is not only to make +200 blocks, it's also to recreate a specific number of guns in Asset Forge to prove the usability of the blocks, that way I keep a minimalistic list of high quality blocks, and discard the rest.

These are the first 2 guns, I also have a timelapse video for you (at the bottom of this post), here are some pretty pictures:

It goes without saying that these guns will be available in the downloadable archive as .model files.

Let me know what you think either here, on Twitter or on Youtube.

I made a sniper rifle, a shotgun and a pistol using the same blocks as a starting point, these are further proofs of concept of our Blaster Creation Kit and will also be included in the downloadable package.

Just for fun: I tried making an x-wing fighter just to see how good the blocks I made will look on a spaceship, I'll let you be the judge of that.

I should have mentioned that while imagining this kit a few weeks ago, I created a virtual world in my head where there are different gun manufacturers, each with their own style and purpose, almost every block in this kit was "made" by one of these manufacturers:

• Viper, Scorpion, Coyote: makes assault rifles, snipers, pistols and smgs for almost everyone, including mercenaries, private militaries, outlaws, space pirates, etc. The Coyote is inspired by the real-world M4 and its variants, the Scorpion is inspired by the AK, and the Viper a mix between the Vector and lots of SMGs.
• Sentinel: makes weapons for the galactic regular army, the guns look average and are designed to be mass produced.
• Predator, Valentine, Prometheus: makes big guns like light machineguns and rocket launchers
• Brute, Hercules: specialized in shotguns, makes guns from metal scraps scavenged throughout the galaxy
• Carmine: Makes weapons for a primitive race that still heavily relies on physical strength in battle.
• Guardian: highly sophisticated weapon parts made by a synthetic race that seeks perfection, and of course, wants to exterminate every living thing in the galaxy.

So I created a Guardian Railgun, it's not 100% Guardian, since it has a Valentine stock and grip, well, you'll understand what I'm saying soon enough.

I also went ahead and recorded some of my modeling work, just for fun.

I just finished modeling the Coyote blocks, I had to remodel some stuff this morning, so the end result is slightly different from what you might see in the speed-modeling videos.

With the new blocks we've reached a total of 206 blocks today, so the first objective is accomplished. I still have some cool gun designs I want to include in the initial release, I'll try to do that, or I can always add it in a future update, because ...

This kit releases in 4 days, give or take, so mark your calendars. I have many more ideas for gun parts, but practically speaking, I believe it's better to release those as updates, this kit will evolve thanks to your feedback, and I want you to get your hands on it as soon as possible.

Here are some screenshots of the new blocks with the second part of the speed-modeling video.

Blaster Creation Kit is now available!

Grab it here

Happy to announce that the  1.1 update is in the works. I'm calling it the rocket launcher update, I'll let you guess why...

I'm adding some blocks that I feel were missing in the initial release, and some new blocks to make even cooler sci-fi guns.

I don't have a particular release date in mind, but it's coming pretty soon.

I welcome your suggestions, happy forging!

More screenshots of the new blocks below, the update currently has 50 blocks, I may add a few more blocks before hitting the publish button, anyway, the release is imminent, stay tuned!

Update 1.1 is now available ladies and gentlemen, details here: https://zeusgameassets.itch.io/blaster-creation-kit-for-asset-forge/devlog/18000...