M1 Carbine

KnechtRuprecht

Currently working on a M1 Carbine.
Highpoly shots with placeholder textures.

Fridock

Outstanding look!
Can you tell how did you do those materials real briefly?

CougarJo

Very nice Looking forward to seeing the low!

ThaSlimShady

This is looking very promising! Really nice

KnechtRuprecht

Thanks for the reply guys

@FridockShir:
These materials are only placeholder, they get replaced in the lowpoly.
They are simple Diffuse/Gloss Shader nodes mixed, with a grunge texture in the roughness input (i rendered these in Cycles)

Fridock

@KnechtRuprecht
I see, thanks for reply!
Looking forward to see more of that

sargent99

The texture is clean.

s6

Renders look cool, and the gun looks nice, But for the sake of being able to read the high poly I would stick with a high spec grey material. That way people could critique edge width easier, and give you a little better feedback of the highpoly. highly reflective materials like the metal you have here make it difficult to find geometry errors like pulling and pinching.

KnechtRuprecht

Thanks! Yeah i will stick for the future with clay renders, the texture was just for shit and giggles.

Shrike

You could easily do both, one beauty shot and one for the topo , why leave it away it you enjoy doing it

KnechtRuprecht

Finished the lowpoly and the bake
Currently at 7895 tris with an 4096 x 2048 map (will resize it to an half later)

CougarJo

Sweet bake

KnechtRuprecht

Finished it

ThaSlimShady

Damn! Top notch work. I love the clean look it has. Everyone always takes the dirty route but this looks so much better Like it belongs in an old gun museum!

cR45h

The general flow of the wood grain is really ruining it for me. It looks too random and unnatural.

Mossbros

You always have such awesome looking normals, so envious.

One thing I would change, as suggested by cR45h is the wood grain and I would also maybe add some defects in your diffuse and normals.

I've never seen such a smooth brand new looking m1 carbine in my life, apart from the synthetic plastic ones.

KnechtRuprecht

Thanks guys
There is already some wood pattern in the normal. Also i painted in some discoloration, i think i have to make it stonger.
But why is my wood grain wrong? I checked some reference and it doesn't seem wrong...

Mossbros

I think it's just the fact the wood grain normal's aren't really effecting the light bounce angle, so it looks a bit too glossy without any imperfections.

AlexCatMasterSupreme

The wood needs work as far as grain, I think that it's really nice clean but I would make some sort of diorama to put it in or a stand or plaque so it looks like a collectors item. I think that would be awesome:) Really nice though I would just push it a bit further.

marcel gold

mate top notch work wood grain looking nice and lean i like how you even have put in the stamp on the back,its awesome.

cR45h

KnechtRuprecht wrote: »

There is already some wood pattern in the normal. Also i painted in some discoloration, i think i have to make it stonger.
But why is my wood grain wrong? I checked some reference and it doesn't seem wrong...

Right now the wood grain (the rings/wood pattern/howeveryouwhannacallit) doesn't look natural. It doesn't follow the shape of the wood. Looks like you just randomly slapped a photo without paying too much attention to it.

A few examples of what I mean;
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/M1_Carbine_Mk_I_-_USA_-_Arm%C3%A9museum.jpg
http://candrsenal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Field-Strip.png
http://ravelingroup.com/wordpress1/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/M1-Carbine-pic1.jpg
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/american-m1-carbine-21574941.jpg
Notice how the wood grain has a certain direction. Yours seems to be random giving it a pretty weird look.

KnechtRuprecht

Thanks for the pics mate, i will correct this