1842 Flintlock Pistol

aaronmwolford

Hey all,

Early WIP on a flintlock pistol, but I wanted to go ahead and get the conversation started. The high poly base is finished. Next step is to take it into Zbrush and create large gouges/scratches in the wood. The wow factor for this piece will come with the ornate filigree that I plan to add. Any thoughts as of yet?

CybranM

Are you planning to do all the scratches and such in zbrush or will you do them in the textures afterwards?
Model is looking good so far but according to the reference image you have the screw at the front has a flat head while you have made a groove in it.

aaronmwolford

Cybran, thanks for the feedback. I plan to only do the major scratches in zbrush and let the texture do the rest of the work. For example the scratches spreading from the lockplate.

As for the screw variation I am working with a couple variations of the same firearm, some of which have the flathead. Personally, I feel that the flathead grove allows for an additional place for shadow depth.

Tobbo

What's going on with the left side? Are you planning on using the bake from the right side for the left as well?

aaronmwolford

Tobbo the left side will be unique to the right. I can upload a reference of the left when I get home.

AlecMoody

If you sculpt all of the surface pitting you will be able to generate some very good masks in zbrush and use them for spec and gloss maps.

aaronmwolford

Finally got around to making some progress on this. C&C welcome.

The Rizzler

The first thing that struck me was how few polys make up some of the parts -



(The left ring looks like a baking error as well, or your texture bleeding over a uv boundary?) The budget for first person weapons nowadays can be way higher, like 10k-20k I think. Fill out some of those curves I'd say, unless you're operating under a strict self-inflicted budget
Other than that the textures are looking good so far. You could push your roughness on the wood wear at the moment as it doesn't stand out (decrease the roughness of the varnished wood, increase the roughness of the wear?)

Kaine123

That's not a flintlock, that's a caplock mechanism.

aaronmwolford

Kaine - Yep you're right! My whole life is a lie haha.

I fixed the faceting on some on the lock as well as added some contrast and pitting. Thoughts?

aaronmwolford

I've been re-working some older models textures for the sake of my portfolio. Here is an updated texture for the caplock.