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darkxether

Hey guys my name is logan and i just got into modeling about four months ago and love it! Although i can never create nice looking textures. Do you guys have any tips to make theese guns really "pop"?

p.s. i know im only showing guns but i want to be able to do everything character , enviroments whats a good way to practise theese diffrent things?

http://imgur.com/a/cLmSR

Thanks

Valandar

"logana60's images are not publicly available."

Not much we can say, there.

almighty_gir

working link, Valandar: http://imgur.com/a/cLmSR

3 high poly gun screengrabs, no wireframes or anything, nothing finished, no lowpolies or textures...

my advice: pick one of those guns, make a low poly, bake some normals, get texturing, get feedback, learn, make better textures, then repeat for the other 2 guns.

Prtofdacrowd

Cant say much more than that!

respawnrt

To infinity and beyond Man you gotta look at reference before you start modeling things.Your guns look like they are too thin compared to the real ones.Get 200 photos before you start and look at all of them and figure all the angles And when you have a good overview start blocking while looking at reference.

darkxether

Thanks for the responses guys. all three of the guns are modeled in low poly with supporting edge loops then i just use smooth mesh preview to make the high polys. I have more pictures with the shotgun and mac10 textured ill add them right now.

@ respawnrt thanks for the feedback i will try and get a blueprint off of theblueprints.com or something similar.

respawnrt

A blueprint is a fine start, but you need real word reference photos to go along , as many as you can. hope that helps !

darkxether

Yes it does thanks.

also i will say it now i cant texture for the life of me.

i added the mac10 textured + wireframe

KartoonHead

do millenia's tutorial
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100984

Port-Seven

Polycount's wiki has a solid base of tutorials for texturing many different materials:

http://wiki.polycount.com/TexturingTutorials

darkxether

Wow the same gun i modeled thanks and thank you port-seven will look over them both.