First Model - Beretta M9 pistol

Bloodfoxx

Hey Guys!

This is my first post here as well as my first self made model, although I have been lurking around this forum for quite a while (The work here is AMAZING). I have used blender before, but all my previous work has been just following tutorials and making and making simple things with cubes and spheres.

Anyway, here is the model and any help improving it or advice would be greatly appreciated! (I plan on making a low poly model and using in the Unity game engine, so i hopefully will be baking maps, texturing it and animating it soon!





and here was the reference i used


I also had a hard time finding good references for the front and back of the gun, so i no idea what it looked like or how wide it was supposed to be

C86G

Hmm...
Not bad, but many parts just don´t fit. You should really get some more ref [buy the gun ; ) ]
Did the perspective image get stretched or did you model it that flat? The main barrel is a cylinder indeed.

The beretta is just a nice object to model. I made one myself as a very first hard surface lowpoly model and i learned so much from it.
Finish it and have fun!

Brian "Panda" Choi

Yeah, that barrel is small . . . .

Benton

What tutorials did you follow?! Cause for a first model that is awesome!

Tim270

Your technical ability for the modeling is good, you just really need to do a reference pass as a lot of the parts are out of scale and overall the gun is too thin, especially the slide.

Are you planning to bake this?

Bloodfoxx

yeah as I said I couldnt find a front or back reference, and looking back at it now it does look really thin. Thanks for pointing that out! ill try to fix it when i get the time.

And Tim270, yes i plan on making a low poly model and backing out some normal maps, it would be cool to get it into a game engine

Groove619

Here you can download archive with a lot of Beretta references from different angles.

Polygoblin

I don't know where you live, but if you're in the US, it is a fairly common gun found at shooting ranges. If you have access to one near you, go in and ask to check it out. It may seem weird, but just tell them you're a game artist and they'll love to talk to you about it and show you the details of it. Those guys LOVE talking about guns I did this for the Glock19 I did btw. I was even able to rent it and get hands-on.

Bloodfoxx

Hello again, ive done a low poly and baked some normals to it.


and here are the wires. (not sure how the do this in Blender, just took a shreenshot in edit mode)



It has 1722 polys, not sure how much if converted to triangles

Bloodfoxx

humm not sure what happened to the black bit at the front, i think it might just be the AO map baking wrong

nufftalon

The handle of the gun feels flat to me. I would give it more volume. I am referring to your second picture you had posted. You should always spend alot of time gathering reference. I would never advise to guess angles if your not sure how they look in reality it always comes out wrong trust me I know.

Bloodfoxx

I agree, i should of found some more references before getting into it. But i did change some stuff on the high poly before making the low poly, like a wider barrel ect, and i gave the handle a little more width from that first picture so hopefully thats better

Ill try to get some more pictures up soon, and hopefully start texturing!

Bloodfoxx

Also, for Benton:

What tutorials did you follow?! Cause for a first model that is awesome!

Thanks! i mostly just did tutorials from www.cgcookie.com and www.blenderguru.com. I also did that Shotgun tutorial that was posted on here not too long ago, and that was awesome!