Sci-fi Rifle Project
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So the last 3 weeks i have been working halftime on a highpoly for a sniper-rifle, based on my own concept. During the 3 coming weeks I will Texture it and possibly animate it.
So I was thinking that I would give it some urban camouflage textures with a digital pattern.
Any feedback is appreciated.
So I was thinking that I would give it some urban camouflage textures with a digital pattern.
Any feedback is appreciated.
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reminds me of an Nerf gun... Cool
Would like to see a damaged paint texture on it. Sci-fi gun tends to be too clean...impress me
And getting loads of artifacts, of cause.
Not sure if I should post problems here or if I should move them to the technical talks.
The problem areas:
I can tall the normals were baked with the model combined and perhaps some of the problem lies in that the cage was too large and dwarfed some of your minute details?
Also I've found that in maya, I'm never happy with my occlusion bakes and always get terrible seams like what you're showing. The occlusion on each individual UV shell is always a bit too small and creates black seams on the border edges. xNormal has been good to me though.
I've gotten some of your diagonal artifacts from things like overlapping UV shells. How many of those shells that are creating the artifacts are overlapping?
For your baking issues, read through the stickied normals topic in Tech Talk. For the most part, hard edges along the 90 degree angles + UV splits + UV gutter space/padding will fix you up.
I had heard that maya and xnormals used diffrent techniques whith cages, I think that is what resulted in those double edges.
I don't have any screens to show right now though.
Oh! and of cause I allso switched from baking in maya 2013 to 2012, wich at the moment seem a lot more stable.
So here are some final renders, rendered in mayas viewport 2.0.
If you have any feedback or critique to give on the texture. Please do so.
What references were you using for the textures? This rifle looks like it has seen zero hours in the field in most areas, and then we can see some wear on the decals on the magazine. It feels a little inconsistent. It looks like you may still be having shading errors on the rails.
Can we also get a close-up of the grip? Looks cool! I love all the little touches you've added. The digital round counter on the magazine is sweet. The forms for the bipod are sexy. Really love this piece!
Could you show some textures please
I ran into some problems working on scratches and wear, and my time ran out, so I had to go with what I had on that front.
Do any of you have any good techniques for dealing with scratches along uv-edges?
And I had some trouble with the material feel also. I tried to get a "painted metal" look on the digital pattern. Do you think I should increase or lower the ammount of specular for this effect?
Thanks for all the feedback.
I decided to remake the textures, so I polished the high and low-poly models and baked new normal and ambient maps.
I also decided to change the colorscheme as well. And so I wonder what you guys think of the new colors.
I personally don't like the digital camo texture as i feel it adds to much noise to
the model. A 2-3 tone color scheme should be enough to sell it well. I like it more clean.
Cheers.
Also I still feel i can't get the material to feel correct. It would be great if i had real life references instead of photos, but that is of no matter.
I am also starting to wonder if the texture is too low res. I am currently using a 2k texture, I don't want to go up to 4k. I guess I could have optimized the uv's better.
In addition you should take a look at how you create and how distribute the wear. At the moment it looks a bit random.
I dont think that a 2k map is too low res. On the other hand your Uv looks ok. Do you use a compression for your normal maps? they look blurry/wobbly.
Regarding Material definition. Think about how the surface could be defined.
is it some kind of plastic? Is there a rubberized surface to make it easier to grab? microdetails like noise in the plastics surface? those could break up the material surface as well and ease the specular on the hard plastic parts (I guess its plastic).
You could also add nice wear to a surface like that, wear would appear like the surface has beeen polished in those areas.
I haven't worked through all parts of it yet but.
Should it have more contrast?
Yes!!! Contrast that sucker.
And the specular:
I guess it still needs more scratches to make it more interesting, and the metal could use a bit more love.
It's a powerfull tool, but I guess I still need to tweak the results a lot.
I don't think I will use these textures, maybe I will use more ddo with my next project.