sci-fi revolver [WIP]
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Building a sci-fi revolver from the concept art of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. This is my mesh and wireframe. Final poly count is 4583 tris. Tweaking occlusion and then the texturing fun begins.
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Sorry man, noob here. Are you talking about this artifacting? Because those artifacts are from maya displaying my mesh funky in the perspective window. It happens every time there's a lot of geo in close proximity, maya displays it as though it's overlapping.
If you're referencing something else, I may need more help understanding what you mean.
This is just a visual thing for me but the T on the revolver I think should be point to the front of the gun and not down. Possibly add a emissive to the T's to make em emit a slight glow to them with what being a sci fi gun and all.
Here are my flats so you can better critique them
and my primary reference was a S&W revolver
www.atlantictactical.com/mmCATALOG/Images/rubber-pistol-grip.jpg
Only other thing I would say is that the trigger guard seems a little small for my liking, though that's very picky critique. Curse my fat fingers.
As for my workflow, the majority of my time was spent on the texture. I had never used gloss maps before and textured this asset using the video notes added above: http://www.nextgenhardsurface.com/index.php?pageid=racer445 A wonderful video on separating materials and an introduction to gloss maps. Unfortunately, I spent a good deal of time banging my head against the keyboard with the rubber; not a good material to start off gloss maps with.
The other thing I spent a lot of time on was creating scratches using a method I learned from this tut: http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/autodesk-3d-studio-max/next-gen-weapon-creation-day-4-diffuse-and-specular-textures/?search_index=2
Even if you don't have a model to texture, these are fantastic things to watch. Very dense in their info.
I dunno how much time you got on this one but you could model an empty shell casing next to the gun, have a bit of smoke coming out of the barrel, and one "T" not glowing indicating that a bullet has been fired...eh eh ^^
5331 tri...is there a floating vert somewhere??? :P
All and all nice work
also observing your primary gun (the revolver) I had a little look for a revolver with a similar brushed metal finish and couldnt find one.... you could note it down to being futuristic but that would be a lazy excuse. The model and concept are strong but the texture needs some more work.
And on the topic of the concrete-y metal, I swapped a texture that has a more consistent pattern. Of course, all of this is highly editable so any thoughts are appreciated and I can still push certain elements further. Thanks!
then I read over it all and it makes sense, your justification of how something reflects the light is true as proven by your image, the machining shows at certain light and isn't painted on... its machined INTO the metal, so light reflects that(the specular), not that it discolours the metal itself (the diffuse)
personally, I feel the "machining muted in the diffuse" is the strongest image of all of them (including the new metal image) but thats just my opinion, reach out and give some of the weapon guys a private message asking for crit, see if racer445 or Millenia can chip in
Your old texturing has a big believability hit because it doesn't look like you've textured it as if it's a gun-- it seems to be textured as if it's a garbage bin. The texturing looks like something that's been thrown around and kicked and stepped on and smashed against other hard things. That's fine for a bin but that's not how we treat guns, especially handguns. It should be fairly new metal with oil from hands and scuffing, but not look as if it's been used to jimmy open a bulkhead.
The new texturing looks a lot more like that, though I would even reduce the visibility of the *Edit: scratching on* the black metal sections.