Gladius (WIP) C&C needed

HashBrownHamish

I'm working on modelling a Roman Gladius with the mesh quality for a 1st person game or a highly detailed 3rd person game.

I've finished the high poly models and i have just UV'd the scabard the blade and handle and baked the base textures and normals but before i move onto texturing i wanted to get some feedback just in case i need to make adjustements.

Here is the reference (not exactly going for this)



*LATEST*

So i moved everything to one texture space and the model is still looking alright. I'm having trouble figuring out how to tackle texturing this (i'm going for portfolio quality here). (PS: Diffuse and gloss here. No Metalness map applied)

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nickcomeau

2048x2048 textures are massive. I would suggest making it all on one texture. There's no way that each piece can or should take up a whole individual 2048 texture.

HashBrownHamish

Bump (soz)

Tetranome

It looks nice, you have some good varying detail going on in the normal map, but what will really bring this prop to life will be your textures. I'll check back and leave what feedback I can when they're posted!

I would suggest you investigate the polycounts of current-gen weapon assets just to make sure you're close, as anyone viewing your portfolio will want to see wireframes and counts.

HashBrownHamish

First texture pass. Just blocking in those colors and looking for proper gloss, metalness values before going into Substance Painter

Tetranome

Here's a texturing tutorial I meant to include in my inital reply, but couldn't find.
It's a little outdated but the fundementals are there.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnh01WJOK8o[/ame]

HashBrownHamish

Ok did some more work on the textures and it's looking pretty good in my opinion. Tho i must admit the metals color still seems a bit off

HashBrownHamish

I think this is nearly done. I'm not happy with the laurels tho