[WIP] Huge Minigun

Ruflse

So I thought I should make a thread about this and try to get some general feedback already.

This is the high poly (140k) minigun I've been making for about three-four days to learn hard surfaces and the first "big thing" I've done. I'm about to start with the low poly, which my goal is to keep under 20k.

Should I make a full retopo of the upper and lower part or try to lower the polycount by removing support edge loops? Would it look well if I do it the second way and end with some shading problems in the low poly and then do the baking? I'm still a little insecure about how to handle more complex hard surfaces.




I'm also in need for a name, just to not name it "Huge minigun"  

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Ruflse

I started the retopo.
After fighting with Topogun for three hours making the mouth of the weapon (first time using it), this is the result:

From 8099 to 446 tris.
I think I should have added more geo, the details are barely visible in the second image, but after wanting to break my head with a hammer I don't want to lose more time with that piece.
The part behind this one is next.

Ruflse

After days spent on the UVs and trying to bake the normal map and AO I think my only solution is giving this a Madworld looking vibe to make the normals look decent. These caps are the lp (30k polys) with normals and AO exagerated:




I'm probably gonna add some details in Painter.

Ruflse

I realised I should update a little more, so here is a small update of the texturing inside Iray with 2k textures (Painter lags a lot painting 4k).

Ruflse

Update with 4k textures:




I'll try to make some changes for the final render and maybe test it inside Unreal Engine.

Neox

this looks completely broken. maybe you should try it on a simpler project first.

Ruflse

Neox said:

this looks completely broken. maybe you should try it on a simpler project first.

Well, my intention was seeing how far could I go with a model and trying to make it presentable, not creating anything ultra-clean. I knew I was going to make a lot of mistakes, but I learned a lot.

Here are the final caps:

Eric Chadwick

Cool project, keep going!

However, please don't use PNGs. That last one is 6mb, pretty slow to load.
http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#make

Ruflse

Eric Chadwick said:

Cool project, keep going!

However, please don't use PNGs. That last one is 6mb, pretty slow to load.
http://polycount.com/discussion/63361/information-about-polycount-new-member-introductions/p1#make

Thanks Eric!
I forgot to save the last image as a JPG. It's changed now.