S.T.A.L.K.E.R knife [beginner]

sasu665

I'm trying modeling for few years but my skills is on level beginner (I think so)
I'm big fan of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and i made a knife model from game. Please - rate it and tell me what's wrong

JamesTKirk

Well the blade shape looks a bit weird. You should probably stick closer to reference.

Nosslak

It would be easier to see problems if you were to render it with a darker and glossier material. Right now the bevels look like they're too small, but right now it's hard to tell from your renders.

I've played a lot of Stalker, but they're old games and the weapons weren't very iconic so I don't remember what they looked like, so it'd also be a good idea to post a picture of what you're going for as well.

sasu665

I fixed the blade. It's more straight now (I think it's better). Please, if you see some wrong things or parts on it, tell me. I hope it will be my best model so i wanna do it perfect. I need to spend a lot of time on watching tutorials of texturing :poly122:





Here's my reference image. (I'm doing 3rd)

Gheromo

Looks good. Are you trying to make it high poly? If yes you should smooth your mesh either with turbosmooth in 3dsmax or with SubD in Maya or equivalents in other 3d apps.

pes

would you show the wireframe?

sasu665

It's hard to do perfect model in Anim8or so sorry about quality. Renders is in Blender. I can't use smooth cause it looks ugly and I don't know why. I'm still learning so i will try to use your evry advice.

KnechtRuprecht

Work closer to your reference. This part here is wrong:

Compare it to other Bayonets.
You can Smooth thinks in Blender correctly by using the Edgesplit Modifier from the Modifier panel. Just select it and hit "Smooth" at the left hand side in the Tools directory.

RobeOmega

KnechtRuprecht wrote: »

Work closer to your reference. This part here is wrong:

Compare it to other Bayonets.
You can Smooth thinks in Blender correctly by using the Edgesplit Modifier from the Modifier panel. Just select it and hit "Smooth" at the left hand side in the Tools directory.

Or just use the new split functions in blender

sasu665

i've added smooth and i can't see difference. Maybe grip is ugly. I will add new images with fixed blade, because i have week PC and rendering is very long.
Thanks for any tips

sasu665

I've made new grip. It's hard to modeling on my PC. I saw Blue Screen of Death three times today. It sucks as my modeling skills :poly141:. Thanks again for spending time on commenting my hardships. You are awesome
Please, if you see some wrong things or parts on it, tell me.

sasu665

Here is wireframe with new grip. Three pictures was rendered in half hour. It's slow i know:).


Thanks for support.

sasu665

Thanks for advice ProjectEagleeye
And again i've made new grip and again i think it's better. I've rendered wireframe too and as you can see it isn't as dark pinch as before


And what do you think about knife. I mean what do you think about entire model. And one more question: Is it good idea to texture it?

P.S.
sorry about my language. I'm from Poland and my English isn't good :poly136:

ivanzu

You don't have to render in that high resolution,1280x1024 would be fine and would cut down render times by half.
Looking nice,waiting for low poly.

sasu665

At the moment i don't know what to do with it, cause i can't texturing .
Maybe I will do another model. Any ideas? But no character:poly124:

billymcguffin

Do you want to learn to texture? If you do, you might as well start now. The modern PBR workflow is pretty new so it can be hard to find tutorials for it, but this is a great resource for learning it:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=136390

Here's a more traditional workflow that's pretty good. It goes through the whole creation process and I think it'd be quite valuable to see:
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/next-gen-weapon-creation-part-1-the-high-poly-model--cg-782

The texturing in this tutorial is not PBR, but I think it gives a good idea of what's involved; combined with the PBR bible, you should get the hang of things nicely I think.

If you want to move on to modelling a new project, I would highly recommend that you move completely into Blender for modelling if you haven't yet. Anim8or is so far behind blender in every aspect as far as I know, so it's just holding you back. https://blendercookie.com has some great intro to modeling tutorials for blender if you'd like to get started there.

Good Luck!

sasu665

Whats better? Blender or 3ds Max 2009? And of course what's easier?

billymcguffin

I prefer Blender, but that's what I've always used. Max is pretty industry standard, although 2009 is a bit outdated.

sasu665

Hey there!
Much time has passed. I was training my skills in Blender and i had an accident:(

I've made a sabre model and texture it. I think it isn't bad. What do you think about it? I wanna do knife from S.T.A.L.K.E.R again. I will texture it and i hope it will be great:)