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Don’t ask me, I have no idea.

In fact I’m terrible at naming anything. Well, until now every game project I was involved in (see vortexcruz.net for more info) never had a final name, with most names being jokes or just stupid – “Colina Silenciosa” = Silent Hill, so it was a joke on our own project, “Final Master: Bation” just stupid – and now “The Sniper Simulator Part1, no Part2 planned”, yep, that’s the ‘codename’.

Well, seems like I should waste a bit of time coming up with a bit of back story for the game and see if that helps on getting a final name.

Considering I’m still learning all this stuff (let’s pretend life is not a never ending learning process)

Yesterday I learned that “550/413 = 1” and it took a while to find why, until I found a post at the unity3d forum that said something about ‘Integer division’…

‘huh? integer division? what would be so special about it?’

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So, working on a sniper game, where I have to 3d model a small city environment – which includes endless loads of little objects and all that – what did I waste hours modeling?

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Still choosing a reference sniper, must be compact and lightweight.

After all, the – almost non-existent – back-story of the game does not include an organization behind our sniper, so rifles wouldn’t be dropped in the chosen place by someone else, he would have to carry his own, from home or whatever place he came from. Also, considering the game play – you choose your own place to shoot from – it wouldn’t even make sense to have a rifle dropped at 10 (or more) different places.

So we can be pretty sure he wouldn’t be carrying something like a CheyTac Intervention – this being, from memory the longest sniper I read about – sure it’s a nice rifle with good accuracy and a long range, but almost 1.4 meters of length and a weight over 14 kilograms it’s far from portable.

So I made a small (very small) list of suitable rifles:

Desert Tactical Arms ‘Stealth Recon Scout‘ — 7.62 NATO, Weight: 5 kg, 800mm long

TEI ‘M89SR‘ — 7.62 NATO, Weight: little over 5 kg, 850mm long

RPA ‘Rangemaster 7.62 STBY’ — 7.62 NATO, Weight: ≈7 kg including scope and bipod, 710mm long when folded

PGM ‘Ultima Ratio Commando II‘ — 7.62 NATO, Weight: ≈6 kg, ≈750mm long when folded

At least on paper – sorry, no real life experiences with rifles – these should be relatively easy to transport by hand in the middle of a city without being arrested on the first 10 seconds. All of them have an effective range of 800 m or more, except the RPA rifle. So all of them are good reference rifles to use on the game.