My new LMG

PIraT

Hi!,
Here's my new LMG, based on Russian RPD.
Rendered in Marmoset. Comments and critic are welcome

Kaine123

Damn fine work! I'm curious if you have any tips to give on how you achieved the different materials.

Also I looked at your portfolio and you have a misspelling on the title of "assalut gun" and "mamroset toolbag" on your about page. I would suggest you maybe skim for more errors on your site.

AlexRodriguez

Those materials are amazing, would love to see some material flats or a workflow how you did it, as the modeling looks great never seen that gun before

SaboR1996

Damn that wood is sexy. Can we have some low poly wires please

slosh

I just saw this on artstation...very impressive.

Kosai106

Looks sweet!

Buuuut...

Odeca

Agree, I'd like to spy your textures flats as well! Top notch work!

Fridock

Daaaaamng loos so good - we definitely need some flats.
And what's the tri count on that?

PIraT

Thanks guys!

@Kaine123 - oh, i never thought that someone reads this Thanks!
@Kosai106 - i forgot about it :C but it's out of FPP view...

Wire (35k tri): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27384435/Portfolio/wire.jpg

Textures (rescaled from 4K): http://piratportfolio.boo.pl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/texture_sheet.jpg

CougarJo

Beautiful work, materials are sweet Thanks for the texture sheets!

Veezen

Great textures At first time I thought that you used dDo for this.

PIraT

Because i used it. And after that, I mix them with plenty of photos and overpainted at the end ;]

The Lone Penguin

Love some of the subtle metal variation between the parts and the attention to detail on the wood. Great work!

Veezen

PIraT wrote: »

Because i used it. And after that, I mix them with plenty of photos and overpainted at the end ;]

Ahh I see ... nevermind even if you have used dDo for this it looks really great

Thanks for texture sheets

ferrettank

Wow, your materials and modelling are AMAZING! I can definitely see the story of the weapon through its textures.

There are a few things that stuck out for me, I labeled them in the picture.



Anyways, keep up the good work !

Envart

This is ace.

Fwap

Dude, that some straight up attention to detail stuff right here.
Amazing, love the bit of heat oxidization on the barrel.

Mathis

Real nice weapon, good job !

Colditz

Of course there are many variants of that weapon, made in the States, Russia, China, Egypt and from anywhere else. This leads to minor different details and different markings. There are at least four different Russian builds.

I don't know which reference you used, but I see many small false proportions (gas pistons area) and a few wrong details (muzzle, nuts). The cleaning rod is carried on the left side of the receiver, not on both sides. You have the area on both sides, but the cleaning rod only on the left.

The entire model is still awesome and the texture is really good work! :thumbup:

ZippZopp

great work. I really enjoy subtle color variation and gloss variations on the barrel. it reads really well

Joltya

Looks sick! Tagging so I can see this later.

Oniram

fantastic job!

reedweinstock

Damn!! That's awesome man. I would love to see your texture flats.

AlexRodriguez

Wire (35k tri): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...folio/wire.jpg

Textures (rescaled from 4K): http://piratportfolio.boo.pl/wordpre...ture_sheet.jpg

He posted his flats

PIraT

Thanks again!

@ferrettank - Yup, i agree with "left side of picture", specially about fabric normal map xD. But I can't agree with top wear of wood. If I add there more edge wear it could be "too much" and also, what it's more importat - could made this part too flat and boring. I mainly damaged side-part (not top), beacuse it make wooden grip more "solid/sharp" rather than round. I understand your ponit - in real life, probably we can get edge wear on the top, it's much more natural, but visually it will be worse.

@Colditz - You have great eye, and knowledge about weapons! For me, the most important thing in creating a gun, it's GIVING AN EXPRESSION about gun, not reproduce it, 1:1 from real world. FPP view determine MANY MANY changes of proportions. And also some of changes are determined by technice (like mirror for exaple (to reduce used place on UV) ;] Foresight - for instance - is completly redesigned, because original could be totaly unplayable in videogame.

I also have a funny anegdote from my life - few years ago, when i worked in a studio, i cooperated with one of programer, who set up guns in egine (you know, damage point, etc) One day we chat about guns proportions . I said him about my idea of creating gun, and he told me: " But you know man, some people are like him..." (and send me this link - (look at the end of post).
So the most important is to give an expression, visual clerity, feeling of shape in fpp (if it a kind of big gun, pistol, rocket launcher?) and many other... 1:1 realism it's less important ;]

But i understand your point, you probably have much bigger knowledge about this gun than me. I admire that

Video: [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UgOvJVol8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UgOvJVol8[/ame]

PIraT

Here's the new one
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27384435/Portfolio/texture_sheet.jpg

Colditz

PIraT wrote: »

@Colditz - You have great eye, and knowledge about weapons! For me, the most important thing in creating a gun, it's GIVING AN EXPRESSION about gun, not reproduce it, 1:1 from real world. FPP view determine MANY MANY changes of proportions. And also some of changes are determined by technice (like mirror for exaple (to reduce used place on UV) ;] Foresight - for instance - is completly redesigned, because original could be totaly unplayable in videogame.

I also have a funny anegdote from my life - few years ago, when i worked in a studio, i cooperated with one of programer, who set up guns in egine (you know, damage point, etc) One day we chat about guns proportions . I said him about my idea of creating gun, and he told me: " But you know man, some people are like him..." (and send me this link - (look at the end of post).
So the most important is to give an expression, visual clerity, feeling of shape in fpp (if it a kind of big gun, pistol, rocket launcher?) and many other... 1:1 realism it's less important ;]

Haha, nice video. Only thing is that I'm not American. :poly114: Anway, I know what you mean. In the industry work is more like that, time pressure, deadlines and everything, important thing is how it looks and not that every detail or proportion is 100%. I work on things in my spare time and don't have to care about any deadlines.

PIraT

Colditz wrote: »

Haha, nice video. Only thing is that I'm not American. :poly114: Anway, I know what you mean. In the industry work is more like that, time pressure, deadlines and everything, important thing is how it looks and not that every detail or proportion is 100%. I work on things in my spare time and don't have to care about any deadlines.

I wasn't about you I just thought back it and i it's quite funny, so i decided to post it.

And i should add one more thing - One part of the artist work it's to convert "real" shapes into "game shapes" by manipulating proportions etc.

Colditz

Sure if you need to create a normal map you have do adjust a few edges to get a better result. Many artist choose to adjust the weapons sight for a better view, but in my opinion is if a weapon sight is bad, its bad. This makes weapons weapons different (besides rate of fire, recoil and capacity). The manufacturer intended to do it this way, and so it is. On many old weapons like STEN MK.II, MAS38 or the UD42 the rear sight is so small, you can't almost look through it when you have it in front of your eyes. I don't know how they got used to that at this time.

PIraT

Colditz wrote: »

Sure if you need to create a normal map you have do adjust a few edges to get a better result.

Yes, but not only, sometimes you need "go deeper"

Colditz wrote: »

Many artist choose to adjust the weapons sight for a better view, but in my opinion is if a weapon sight is bad, its bad.

No, it doesn't work that way. If in game, you have weapon with bad designed 'sight elements' , no one want to play with it.

Colditz

At least I know why some of the weapons of Deadfall looked so strange to me

But real good weapon choice in there, I really enjoyed the game.

PIraT

Colditz wrote: »

At least I know why some of the weapons of Deadfall looked so strange to me

But real good weapon choice in there, I really enjoyed the game.

I tell you something in secret -> some of them have bad "sight design" ;D

But i learnt a lot from that time .

Colditz wrote: »

But real good weapon choice in there, I really enjoyed the game.

It mostly depended on my boss, but i also had something to say in the choice. Thanks!

Rodrigomf

Great Job ! Stunning Weapon!!