thread where I post stuff and get feedback

Kaine123

Hey there all you duders and dudettes! I like makin' 3d art and I thought I'd make a Polycount thread where I could post all my art and stuff as I made it.

here's some wip stuff/doodles that i'm thinking about finishing






here's some art ive made that i think looks good





at the moment im working on the pirates, vikings, and knights 2 game. my job is pretty much to bring all the weapons to 2015 standards. all this stuff is at various stages of being worked on
pirate saber work in progress

tanegashima art test i did to be part of the team

flintlock rifle

viking battleaxe


tell me what you think! I'm currently working on bringing the battleaxe into the source engine (ech) and building the lowpoly mesh for the flintlock.

Artstation

Grubber

I really like your texturing work. What programs do you use for it?

Kaine123

Everything I've done so far besides the battleaxe was done manually in Photoshop. The battleaxe is my first tiem using ddo.

felicitousArtisan

Wow that texturing though. I love the oil staining on the old rifle there. Incredible attention to detail really makes these weapons look used. The microsurface detail on that pistol too! I always find weapons in games either look too new and shiny or they look really rusty and grungey, but you've hit a fantastic middle ground here. I'd love to see your albedo and roughness maps!

Kaine123

felicitousArtisan wrote: »

Wow that texturing though. I love the oil staining on the old rifle there. Incredible attention to detail really makes these weapons look used. The microsurface detail on that pistol too! I always find weapons in games either look too new and shiny or they look really rusty and grungey, but you've hit a fantastic middle ground here. I'd love to see your albedo and roughness maps!

It's not oil staining, it's meant to be case hardening.

felicitousArtisan

Well I learned something about guns today. You've clearly done your research with proper reference to get them looking so convincing.

Kaine123

In hindsight more people than not seemed to not know what case hardening is so I probably should've chosen a different kind of material

Kaine123

Kaine123

mmmm, pineapples

Kaine123

does anyone know how to best fix these seems in ddo?

4bidn

Not in Ddo. But inside your 3d suite. That I know of, the causes of seams like this are, the smoothing groups on the low poly or the Unwrap. I would start with the smoothing groups and to test just make the top and sides one group.(Max) I am a max user. Or with Maya make a soft edge. Rebake.


If there is a break in the UV islands at that location, than that will be treated as hard edge and can create a seam. Increase padding for UV islands, you could just paint in a neutral normal value in photoshop to test out. Also if one of the edges are too close to outside border of the map, then the engine can pull in pure white or black and create a seam.


Anyhow, beautiful texture you have posted there. I agree with others as everything has that right amount of wear and tear.

Kaine123

lol i never realized i had edge padding in xnormal set to 0, silly me. i am a dummy

Kaine123

grenade materials heavy w.i.p.

Kaine123

You can view the grenade here with Marmoset Viewer on my artstation!

Kaine123

crossbow work in progress for pvk2, expect a timelapse video up soon

Kaine123

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTJyf8xHr8[/ame]

here's the timelapse

Kaine123

i tossed together a compilation of all the models ive done for PVK2 for a media release on their site