[WIP] Canon AT-1

Temppe

Hello. I've been lurking around here for a while. This is my first post. Let me start by introducing myself a bit. I've been modeling and texturing as a hobbyist for about 16 years, but only in the last 4 years have I really gotten serious about improving my work to a professional standard. I drifted towards doing high poly work but decided recently that I want to ultimately get into games. So I started this project. I haven't done anything for real time rendering since I did v-models for Quake as a teenager. Obviously things have changed a lot since then, so I may need guidance when it comes to modling and baking the low poly. If anyone wants to see some of my previous work, my Art Sation is https://www.artstation.com/temppe

This project is a small one, to familiarise myself with the process of high to low baking. It's my housemate's Canon AT-1 film camera. I have completed the top, back and bottom of the high poly.

I'm doing a few hours here and a few there between work and other commitments - so progress will be slow! Also, I intend to use Substance Painter to texture it when the time comes. I've never used Painter before, so again progress will be slow!

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The front is complete. This camera has a fixed lens, so I won't need to model the inside of the lens mount or anything.

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Right, the high poly is finished.



Up to now, this has been pretty easy. However, I'm going to start the low poly now, so I'm about to enter uncharted territory!

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I've made the body of the camera in low poly. I've assigned the smoothing groups though I haven't started unwrapping yet. These are just screen shots from the 3ds Max viewport.The triangle count stands at 820 so far.

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Oops, duplicate post.

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More work on the low poly. I realised that it would have been a good idea to give myself a polygon budget before I started. Right now it stands at 4,851. The number that I had given in my previous post was wrong - I was counting polygons, not triangles.



I did a normal map test on the viewfinder and it turned out alright. I haven't unwrapped anything else yet.

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Bleh... UVs, the most exciting task in the whole CG world...
These are preliminary, I've split the islands by smoothing group. Eventually this part will be lumped in with all the rest. Also, where the lens is mounted, I think I'll eventually use that UV space for something else.

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I had to suspend this project for a little while... but I'm back!

I've finished the bakes in Substance Painter. There are a couple of artefacts around the viewfinder because the geometry isn't baker-friendly. Other than that I'm ready to start working on the materials.

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Pretty much finished. It is throwing up strange artefacts around the text though. It looks like image compression but even when I use uncompressed .tiff it still shows up...

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More images.