Custom .308 Sniper Rifle

reedweinstock

Been working on this for the past month. I'm almost done uv mapping. Ill be posting more soon. Comments and critiques are more than welcome.

• McMillan G30/GA Precision Templar Short Action
• McMillan A3-5 Adjustable
• US Opitcs ER-25 Scope T-PAL w/ Sunshade
• Larue OBR QD Scope Mount
• Bottom Metal: Stiller DBM/ Badger Ordnance M5
• 5 round AICS magazine
• Surefire Muzzle Brake
• Harris Bipod

Thanks
Reed

reedweinstock

UV's are %99 done im just having trouble retopoing the spring on the bipod. here's the dropbox link. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5y3in4ylb4s3bwq/spring.obj


Thanks,
Reed

Pedro Amorim

For the spring, I would just make the middle part a solid cylinder with the little hooks coming of it.

reedweinstock

@Pedro: That's what i thought i just wanted to double check.

reedweinstock

Been awhile since I have worked on this project (Had to teach myself and entire math class Lol) Ive fixed all the uvs so they are more optimized now. The posted some links to sketchfab. Can anyone tell me if they uvs look optimized?



Bipod
https://skfb.ly/AXEK

Scope
https://skfb.ly/AXEI

Rifle
https://skfb.ly/AXEJ

Thanks
Reed

DWalker

When people talk about "optimizing UVs", they usually mean ensuring the coordinates fit neatly within the square texture, with as little empty space as possible. It'd help if you posted the texture sheets.

One thing to keep in mind is that every piece doesn't need to have the same scale. Important parts, parts that are (generally) closer to the camera, or have fine details - such as text - should be larger, while those that will remain distant or are uniform can be much smaller. In your scope, for instance, the lens and knobs should occupy more space of the texture sheet than the tube.

You've textured (and modeled, but that's less important these days) some parts that will always be hidden - the part of the bipod that is bolted to the bottom of the rifle and the inside of scope, for example. If the player will never see something, it shouldn't be in the model.

The Lone Penguin

Going to echo the point about making sure pieces of the gun closer to the player/camera get higher priority for UV space, definitely important. I'd say those extra parts being modeled isn't really all that bad, depends on your world model I guess, but they definitely don't need unique uv space.

reedweinstock

scope


rifle


bipod

reedweinstock

Changes made

• Action is now a Remington 700 style
• 700 Tactical Bolt knob
• Got rid of the sling (didn't like it and it looked weird)
• Upped the polycount of two of the knobs on the scope
• Optimized some of the UV's a bit more

Finished the LP and bakes. Ready to start texturing this bad boy

DWalker

The zoom knob looks a bit off. You might want to add lens covers.

reedweinstock

@DWalker I would have to redo my entire uvs of my scope to do covers. Whats off about the knob?

This was the reference i used. Its straight from the US Optics catalog.

skyline5gtr

The model looks good, but why are you using 3 UV sheets ? How "low" is your low poly?

DWalker

The edges of the eyepiece should be beveled, not flat, and the separation between the eyepiece and the tube looks too large.

Placing the scope on its own sheet makes sense - it's literally in the player's face, and it has a lot of small details.

The bipod, however, is quite distant from the player and doesn't have a whole lot going on. You could combine it with the rifle, or just use a much lower resolution (probably 1/4 or less).

Render everything in-game, or at least in a game-representative camera (i.e. identical position and highest-expected screen resolution) using a simple checker-board texture. This will give you a fairly accurate idea of how much texture space to allocate to each piece. If you have more than 1 texel/pixel, then you're wasting space.

reedweinstock

@skyline5gtr In fps like COD and Battlefield scopes and accessories generally get there own uv sheet so that they can be used across multiple weapons. Rifle will have 2k, Scope will be 1k, and the bipod will be 512.

Rifle: 6981
Scope:6678
Bipod :2791
Total: 16550

reedweinstock

Almost done just have to add a few things like detail to the normals and edge padding. Let me know what you guys think.


Reed

EarthQuake

Looking real slick, I love how clean and polished it looks. It could use some specific wear to give it a little character though.

reedweinstock

Thanks Joe that means alot coming from you! I was going for a realistic amount wear Your right. Im having a hard time with the variation for the stock. I think might add some dried mud on the bipod legs.

Reed

reedweinstock

If there are no further objections I'm calling this one done

ghaztehschmexeh

noice

got dat weathering looking good

Oniram

this looks great! good job!

skyline5gtr

Awesome, only thing is you might want to fix OPTICS on the scope, its mirrored backwards.

Did you use ddo to texture ? Could you break this down a bit looks awesome

Drgreenethumb

Looking great man... I am currently working on a very similar rile, the Remington 700 vtr. Will post a thread soon. This is great tho love the stock

X³²Lapis

That is one awesome looking Remington 700

reedweinstock

Thanks everyone! This was featured in Marmoset's weekly artist highlight last week. I'm very happy with how it turned out!

@skyline5gtr: Ill probably do a break down within the next week. I only used ddo for some minor dust but i had to edit it manually and I kit bashed a few of the base surface texture patterns. The rest was all me. The "optics" is mirrored because the scope uses mirrored uv's.

Thanks
Reed

failhappy

Beautiful rifle!

I made an R700 a couple of years back in my first year at uni, I wish it was even half as good as this.

reedweinstock

Thanks everyone for all the great feedback! I received a lot for great feedback when i was at GDC. Wyeth Johnson (art director at epic games) said that i need to do my renders in UE4, Cry engine, Unity, etc (No Marmoset), make sure my props look like they were thrown in the back of a truck, show humanization (kill tally marks, tape, etc) ,diversify my projects (vehicles & sci-fi).