Deforges improvement thread
polycounter lvl 11
ayyyy lmao,
I'm getting back into 3D after a long hiatus. I've been in a skillset limbo where I'm only sort of decent at 3D, I haven't really pushed myself to make more challenging objects, that needs to change.
In the past the stuff I've posted I think gets lumped into "well it's ok" category by the community and I don't get much feedback even though I can achieve a world of improvement. I've joined a project to get some stuff to work on and will be posting my progress on those items. I'll also post my thoughts on what I am doing so people can correct not just what I'm doing, but how I am doing things. Big thanks to Alexcatmastersupreme and the community in general.
I'm getting back into 3D after a long hiatus. I've been in a skillset limbo where I'm only sort of decent at 3D, I haven't really pushed myself to make more challenging objects, that needs to change.
In the past the stuff I've posted I think gets lumped into "well it's ok" category by the community and I don't get much feedback even though I can achieve a world of improvement. I've joined a project to get some stuff to work on and will be posting my progress on those items. I'll also post my thoughts on what I am doing so people can correct not just what I'm doing, but how I am doing things. Big thanks to Alexcatmastersupreme and the community in general.
Heatseeker
Last update:
High poly:
Thoughts - Overall shapes are very simple. Team seems to want to keep things as close to original model as possible. I think I chose to do this first because it was simple and I could ease myself back into 3D. Next model will be more complex in terms of modeling.
Bake:
thoughts - besides some poor baking on the strap, I think the bake came out well. Should have increased uv space around some more first person components.
Texture:
thoughts - still working on this. This is where I struggle the most. I'm also unsure about how to best show off this thing inside marmoset.
For one thing, I feel like it's too dark and the main metal should be more saturated BUT if I increase the brightness of the albedo I lose saturation and vice versa. I need some more larger area details like large scratches but I also don't want this thing to look like it got the shit kicked out of it.
Don't have texture flats at the moment, will post later. I have the main metal of the barrel as an insulator in my metal map because it is painted, scratched areas are white.
High poly:
Thoughts - Overall shapes are very simple. Team seems to want to keep things as close to original model as possible. I think I chose to do this first because it was simple and I could ease myself back into 3D. Next model will be more complex in terms of modeling.
Bake:
thoughts - besides some poor baking on the strap, I think the bake came out well. Should have increased uv space around some more first person components.
Texture:
thoughts - still working on this. This is where I struggle the most. I'm also unsure about how to best show off this thing inside marmoset.
For one thing, I feel like it's too dark and the main metal should be more saturated BUT if I increase the brightness of the albedo I lose saturation and vice versa. I need some more larger area details like large scratches but I also don't want this thing to look like it got the shit kicked out of it.
Don't have texture flats at the moment, will post later. I have the main metal of the barrel as an insulator in my metal map because it is painted, scratched areas are white.
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Main gun I will have to recreate. This has some interesting shapes and I think it will be a pretty fun to model. I will supplement the gun with some parts of the m14 rifle.
will update as I go.
also a quick markup of what to add before I begin on the high poly.
I got a little excited and subdivded some parts to make sure the topo would work out. I want to do some cool compound shapes with the scope and add some more pieces to it.
I also definitely want to add a should strap that's somehow formed around the stock or barrel.