Glock17 gen3. Yeah, one more glock.

Nevermind1567

Hi everyone!
Sorry for overusing this handgun, but recently I had luck firing one (I'ts not so easy where I'm from). That determined my choice. That's my second attempt of modeling something using subdivision. First one remains unfinished. ) So that's what I've got for the moment. Planning to make detailed low-poly. I know about over-hardened edges, I'll fix it if the bugs occur while baking.
Any crits and comments are welcome. )
Please excuse my English.
BTW here's link to my blog: http://alexander-zadorin.blogspot.com/

Gazu

Looks nice for me.
How do you modelled in the shapes that i have marked red:


Have some Wires?

Nevermind1567

Here are some wires, somehow in 'passionate pink' color theme. )
Topology scares me here and there, but I keep working on it.
Gazu, any problems it the areas u marked?

Gazu

Thanks for the Wire

I modelled this weapon too and the marked areas was my problem areas ^^
Your ones is nice

RobeOmega

Some of your edges are too sharp.
A quick thing I do to check is zoom out a bit and see if the corner looks rounded or sharp

Nevermind1567

Robeomega, thanks I'll make them smoother.
Been practicing baking normal maps. Soo much harder than organic objects. Almost drove me nuts wile I was trying to achieve satisfactory result.

CandyStripes05

looks great so far! i made a glock too and it was a good learning experience for me

RobeOmega

Your more rounded edges look smooth however the tight ones still read as tight.On 1080p if you have it in first person view most likely you cannot even see those rounded corners and it looks like a sharp corner. You have to sometimes make the decision that although in real life the edges may not be that rounded in a certain area. However this is a game and if the gun looks smooth then it is all good.

Say if you do not understand I may not have phrased it very clearly.

Nevermind1567

Robeomega, thanks, I understood. I'll pay attention to sharp corners in further projects. I guess I'll forgive myself this time. )
Here's the low poly with normals and ao. A bit less than 3k tris, 2048 maps.
I sure could cut down a plenty of polys and work more on uvs packing... But I'm already spent too much time on that one.
Unfortunately the site that seems to have good texturing tutorial is down for more than a week. (

Pedro Amorim

Never forget FPV shots of the weapon. That is afterall the place where a gun will go

Gazu

Nice Job!

Envart

Looks like a solid bake, would be nice to see the normal map though!

Nevermind1567

Thanks for feedback! I'll post normal map a bit later.
This one doesn't go anywhere like FPS.
It's made just for practice, so the aim was to make it look nice from all sides, not only rear-left. )

CandyStripes05

Nevermind1567 wrote: »

Thanks for feedback! I'll post normal map a bit later.
This one doesn't go anywhere like FPS.
It's made just for practice, so the aim was to make it look nice from all sides, not only rear-left. )

doesn't hurt to post a FPV though

Nevermind1567

true. doesn't hurt a bit. )
something like this?


and here's normal map, had to finish some magazine details.

Nevermind1567

Spent some time on materials setup and slide texturing.
How do you like FDE color scheme?

Nevermind1567

I think this one is finished. At least I'm done with it. ) I know I went a bit overboard with wearing, but for now It's only way for me to make textures look more alive or something.

luge

i feel like you need some more reflection in the top piece. i mean specularity...

Nevermind1567

I guess you were right, thanks.
Worked a bit with metal parts.
Better now I hope. )

luge

yup, thats looking a lot more like metal. the rest of it looks pretty good. maybe ad some scratches in the plastic around some of the switches. not too much though, make it subtle.

switz

I think your previous spec levels on the top part were better - it's beginning to look like chrome as it is now.

luge

i think adding some slight noise to it will make it look less like chrome. a very subtle noise. but yeah, looking at the gun again, i think i was wrong before about the spec. and that your previous spec might have been better. but i think a slight noise in either instance will make it look better.

like you can see here:

Nam.Nguyen

luge was right when he said something is wrong with the specular, but bright it up doesn't fix the problem, try to make some variation on it

the dirt on the handle is stand out, look unnatural

and yeah, put on some noise, but very subtle

luge

yeah, i think the problem with the brightness, but the physically specularity. on your model, its pretty tight. where as the specularity of the actual metal is not so tight and blooms out more while not being extremely bright. but that could be a false reading from the images i've seen with the way they set up their lighting. would be helpful if i actually had one to look at it the light moves across it.