Magnum - Improving my modeling skills

WarrenM

So I'm going to create a high poly model for a gun concept. I've never modeled a gun before so this will be a new challenge for me.

I'm using Modo and this is where we're starting from. I've already blocked it out and have started the basic subd.

Miles to go still, of course, but I'm going to post updates in here in the hopes that if I'm doing something really wrong somebody will correct me!

WarrenM

Wires so far:

WarrenM

My kingdom for more hours in my day. This is going slowly but it IS moving foward. 30 minutes here, 20 minutes there, etc.

RobeOmega

That wire frame

WarrenM

Can you expand on that? I've sort of been subscribing to the theory that if it shades correctly, I'm not caring all that much about poles and n-gons on flat surfaces. Is that wholly wrong?

RobeOmega

Good luck making the low poly and if im correct good luck baking that into a normal map I could be wrong about the 2nd one though

WarrenM

How would the wires on the high affect my ability to build the low poly?

Obscura

You are right, if it shades correctly, then its doesnt matter. But this is only an option on flat surfaces

PogoP

Robeomega, there is no need to be so rude. Expand on your critique and don't be so uninformative.

This is looking fine so far. You could have avoided a lot of hard work in your high poly if you'd just used floating geo for some of those holes! But you do have some floating geo in there already so I presume you know how it works.

WarrenM

Robeomega - Just for clarity, I'm not arguing against your crit! I'm just trying to dig deeper and figure out what the message was, that's all. Like, if you say my wires are messy that doesn't help me - if you explain why that would be a problem or how I might fix it, that would be more useful.

Obscura - OK, thanks, that's good to hear.

Pogo - Yeah, I'm trying to push myself a little with this and modeling in whatever holes and indents I can for the practice. You run into a goodly amount of pinching and bulging modeling that stuff in so it teaches you a lot about edge and vert positioning. But, having said that, a lot of the larger forms are separated into their own meshes and, as you noted, there are a few floaters here and there.