M1 Thompson Machine Gun.

Hayden Zammit

I don't have any guns in my folio, so I've been working on this the last 2 days. Its a bit of a mix of a few different references I found on the net, but I still want it to look pretty authentic.

I've almost finished the high poly. Just a few things I want to fix up. There are some details I'm going to add with nDo later. Here's some shots out of maya with some rough AO baked in. I'm using the cool new Direct X 11 shader.

Unless anyone notices something major that I've missed in the high poly, I'm going to start the low poly soon.

Crits very appreciated.

Hayden Zammit

More progress on this. Finished the low poly and learnt a heap about smooth and hard edges with normal maps. Haven't tried dDo yet, so I'm going to try and use that for some of that texture. Also going to add some extra details to the ammo clip in nDo.

Here are a few shots of the bakes inside marmoset:

Hayden Zammit

Finished this up. I didn't get too much into dDo. I liked it for creating a nice base texture. Kinda got a bit confused with how to work it.

Now I'm going to go back and fix up a shotgun that I got stuck with before this weapon.

dolemite

the barrel is WAY too long.


Not quite buying the wood grain.

KartoonHead

The material definition is a bit off, and as others have said, but more importantly your HP is actually incorrectly proportioned so you should jump back there and sort that out first. I'd also recommend that you revise your baking technique, many of your edges show smoothing errors or seams in the normal map, most noticeably in the iron-sights shot. Check out the HandPlane website if you're a little rusty.

Racer445

just noting that the short magazine is a very common thing, so i wouldn't change it. the long barrel needs to go though, it throws off the proportions in FPS view.

Hayden Zammit

Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm going to fix the barrel. The barrel was annoying me too, but the main ref I was working off had it that long. Didn't realize that a few of the other refs had a shorter barrel.

KartoonHead - I'll see what I can do about improving the materials. I'm baking in Maya and rendering in marmoset. Could you show me where you see some of the smoothing errors on the model? The main purpose of this piece was to get a better understanding of normal maps. Do you mean parts like this edge I've pointed to?

thanks.

Hayden Zammit

bump.

VESIUS

Should make varients, such as a rifle version (Long version) and the normal SMG version, would be cool.

RedRogueXIII

For your consideration

Note the rounded edging at the top of the receiver, and the differences in overall width.

More refs always help :

http://www.gunbroker.com/All/BI.aspx?Keywords=m1a1
http://www.deactivated-guns.co.uk/archive.htm
http://detail-photos.jugem.jp/?search=m1a1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68250469@N02/
http://www.nramuseum.org/the-museum/the-galleries/ever-vigilant/case-64-world-war-ii-us/us-auto-ordnance-thompson-m1a1-submachine-gun.aspx
http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/deactivated-thompson-m1a1-smg-SN.-866.html
http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/deactivated-thompson-m1a1-smg-SN.-299.html
http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/deactivated-thompson-m1a1-SMG-SN.-341.html
http://www.dandbmilitaria.com/Thompson-M1A1-Fore-Grip.html
http://www.coloradoclass3.com/m1a1_pictures.htm

Metal texture seems too light and too reliant on random cloud shapes.
Long barrel is only authentic to the modern semi auto 1927 reproductions and those are usually based on the original 1928 model instead of the simplified M1A1.