[WIP] Lowoly pistol

C

Hi there!

First thread on the PC forum, and also my first serious project.

I'm making a pistol based on the Rapier 9mm (a movie prop from 'Romeo and Juliet' by Baz Luhrmann).

First of all the high poly model, and the low poly. Lot of details will go into the normal map.
The low poly has a tris count of arround 2100.

C

This is the final result
I'm not that convinced of the shiny metal, but maybe I change it later. Now I'm working on something different.

btw: does anyone know how to get rid of the problem with anti-aliasing in viewport grabs?

C86G

"anti-aliasing in viewport grabs?"

A quick one: take a screen grab twice the size you actually want it and reduce it by half.

Snader

In 3ds Max, aliasing only appears at places where you've split the geometry. This means separate objects, of course, but also texture islands and smoothing groups. So you should in the future try to have as few splits as possible, and thus have as few artifacts as possible. Of course that won't fix the issue completely, but it will improve things to look better in any engine regardless of its AA capabilities.

C

thanks! will pay attention on that later on!

SouthpawSid

not going to lie, I had to Google the name on your gun to see if it actually exists. I've never seen such a weird looking front end with the way the extended barrel sticks out like that. So weird, lol.

You're modeling isn't too bad at all, but the texturing and mateial definition needs work. Try and capture some of the grunge you see in this photo of the weapon and I think the piece would be a lit nicer than a clean gun.

http://www.yourprops.com/Tybalt-s-Rapier-9mm-other-replicas-prop-weapons-Romeo-Juliet-1996-prop-56786.html

SouthpawSid

you might as well take this thing all the way and add the red dot! haha

http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/4/42/RJ-00682.jpg/600px-RJ-00682.jpg

C

Thanks! I'll definitly take a look at it in the upcomming weeks!