[WIP] M-5 Phalanx, heavy pistol, Cryengine 3

Axcel

HI, I'm creating pistol referencing on Bioware's concept art. Using 3ds max, polybump, cryengine 3. What do you think so far?










Pistol has around 7k tris. I wanted to be detailed. It's for portfolio purposes so handgrip is more detailed than it should be for a game. I'm planning also sculpt some details in zbrush and rebake normal map.

Mostly to those, who use polybump and cryengine 3 I have a question how to bake normal map of crevices visible in that pistol? Some of them have depth and some of them are outlet (HP model is made of several parts). I'm using polybump for baking but also I can manage 3ds max bake. I already spent a few hours just on that crevices. In that time I combined normal map from a few bakings with different settings, but that's not a method. I ask for tips someone with similar experience, how to setup polybump and cage model?

Axcel

Small update. First shader and flat colours.

scratches:

Axcel

Finished:

devonmousseau

looks fantastic, could we see a concept image?

Axcel

First image in this topic is a concept.

devonmousseau

Pussik wrote: »

First image in this topic is a concept.

Hf looks so good I couldn't even tell.

garriola83

It's a good model, kudos on the nice high poly modeling. But right now, the materials don't read well to me; I can't tell that if the parts are anodized metal, rubber, plastic, metallic coated, etc. Looking at your spec and gloss map, there really isn't much difference between the parts of the gun besides the grip. I would revisit the material properties of this. Good luck

Axcel

Thanks for comments. I will step back from this project for a while to gain some objective point of view, when I'll back and revise it in a near future (hopefully).
This gun in fact was step back from bigger project in the middle of which I'm right now.

RobeOmega

What I personally do now is I put the base materials on the model I.E no scratches or noise and try to get great material definition and build it up from there.

One example of this is this piece of artwork from Joeri Vromman.

As you can see it looks pretty good with just the base materials. However he then put lots more smaller details such as scratches and dirt in there.

Forgive me if I have phrased this badly.

Axcel

It's fine. Not a bad idea. I agree that model should look decent good even without subtle dirt, color variations and scratches. Switching off that layers could be good thing. Cuz they could distract you from achieving even higher level of realism coming for example from shader set-up.

devonmousseau what's the "hf"?