H&K MP5 with Surefire Flashlight

Gazu

Hi Guys.

Finally i finished the AK 47:


And I think its time to open a new thread about the new weapon im working on. Its a H&K MP5 with Surefire Flashlight on the front. At the moment im not sure about how to texture the Flashlight. Will be a new experience for me.

Also i forgot to model in the Shell-Ejection. I mean its on the right side of the weapon, but what when the player has the opportunity to switch the weapon hand to the left side?
At the moment it´s just a fake Normal, but i think i will modell in this part,too, to gave the weapon on this spot more deepness.

Here some Screens which showing the current status:

HighPoly Screens:

















And here the Hammerslay/CatmullRom Bake:







The TrisCount is at 11,5 K and this is it so far.
Critique is welcome!

Greetings,
Gazu

JoshWilkinson

Haha I was expecting to see the Surefire flashlight on your MP5. Regardless, proportions of the MP5 look good and your AK came out very well (despite the drama all over that thread)

Xoliul

Try and get the shape of that stamped indent in the receiver right. everybody always gets that wrong. It's stamped, not milled so it tends to be much smoother and rounder.
feedback I gave someone else: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2057786&postcount=13
He never bothered to follow any of I think though.

NurmanZh

Mental ray rendring???

Gazu

@BringMeASunkist:
The Drama was Good. Learned a lot . Thx Dude!

@Xoliul:
Do you mean this part?:


@NurmanZh:
Nope

Stirls

Loving that AK. Beautiful work. The MP5, too! Wish I could make weapons on par with this,.

Are these images shot with an orthographic camera? The gun looks a bit funny from the last two, but the rest look normal. That said, it might also be the shadow/white background combo that's throwing me off.

Gazu

Thanks Stirls!
Yeah, you´re right.
Its a Mix of Perspective and Orthographic Screenshots

Xoliul

Yeah that part. That's a really bad refpic btw, you sure that's a real one? For replica airsoft ones it might be all sharp and square, not necessarily accurate.
Also i mainly bring it up because chunky and rounded just looks better, catches much better highlights.

Gazu

Thanks Xoliul. I have smoothed this part like you said.
The LowPoly is chamfered, and the HighPoly has no Support Edge anymore.
Screenshots soon.

I think i will start to model a Aimpoint.
Maybe this, but the shape looks a bit killer ^^

Gazu

The right Side of the Weapon looks now so: (Highpoly)

LowPoly with Normal applied:

At the moment im not really happy with the bake, because there are some black borders. Is it because of a too smoothed highpoly?
And yes, when rotating the sky, same black borders at same spots.

Gazu

Started the Texturing Process.
Theres a stupid Triangle i have to fix...(At the Handguard, funny,on this pic its not visible..)


Still some work on this one. But the finish line has started to get visible
The Flashlight is at the moment complete white in gloss and spec.
Like a Mirror. Dont know how wo make it 40% Transparent.


The Barell, the Rear Sight and some other Metall Parts are not touched at the moment. And the Handguard LowPoly has to be a bit deeper.

Bolec82

Very good work. Keep it up!

Gazu

Allright Guys. After round about 40 excruciating new Normal Bakes with Cage I think this gun has reached almost the finish line.
Critique would be nice to improve dat whole thing!





Thx and Greetings,
Gazu