Borderlands Weapons Crate

TheRod

Decided to have a go at making weapons crate from borderlands as I found a really good ref and look like a fun hard surface challenge. Will be planning on texturing, either borderlands style or more realistic im unsure atm. Also planning on animating it opening up

Here's what I got so far



This is the Ref I will be following. Jimmy Barnett Artist

TheRod

progress

EdHanley

Hey Rodrigo, I absolutely love the borderlands art style so looking forward to watching this develop. I'm not sure if your experienced in this style or not but if your new then there is another PC thread where somebody breaks down their process, might be useful... Here it is anyway http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=135111

Keep up the good work.

Ed

TheRod

Hey Ed, thanks for the link will check it out! might be good have sum variation on my portfolio. Will keep this thread updated

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willehrendreich

what a great looking AO pass. everything is clearly readable, this mesh looks very nice.

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JBarnett

Very cool! That was one of my favorite pieces to work on from that project. I will be keeping an eye on this. Let me know if you have any questions about it or borderlands in general!

Dan Powell

Just saw this on 1,000 Hours - really nice man!

MrD4rth

Awesome work. seen the progress from 10k on glad to have found it on here! great job, thu and thu

aaronmwolford

Great work! Any plans of mimicking the fabric interior similar to the concept? It's a great contrast to the metal.

TheRod

JBarnett wrote: »

Very cool! That was one of my favorite pieces to work on from that project. I will be keeping an eye on this. Let me know if you have any questions about it or borderlands in general!

Sweet man, yeh will do might have question when it comes to texturing it :P will keep in touch haha actually, was wondering about the leathery interior, how did you go about doing that? xD

TheRod

aaronmwolford wrote: »

Great work! Any plans of mimicking the fabric interior similar to the concept? It's a great contrast to the metal.

Yeh will be doign the leathery interior when i get my cintiq working haha also when i have figured out how to do it

TheRod

Started working on the leather interior, had trouble getting my cintiq working so haven't continued in a while but here it goes

beefaroni

Yep, looking really solid so far. I think at this point nailing the the bakes and textures will make this a great piece. Depending on where you want to work, doing an updated borderlands style could be a good exercise for stylized. Otherwise, I'd love to see some realistic texturing.

Also, if you plan to animate it opening, you should bake your AO map with it open all of the way. Also, any hinges that cast shadows need to be exploded for the AO bake. Basically, you don't want the viewer to see static AO baked in if it shouldn't be there in the animations.

For example, when your model is opened now, there is a ton of AO on the inside of the mesh. That AO shouldn't be present when the model is opened that much and will look off to the viewer/player.

TheRod

I usually dont bake AO on pieces that move but yeh Once I make the low poly will spend alot of time baking n getting that souffl

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beefaroni wrote: »

Yep, looking really solid so far. I think at this point nailing the the bakes and textures will make this a great piece. Depending on where you want to work, doing an updated borderlands style could be a good exercise for stylized. Otherwise, I'd love to see some realistic texturing.

Also, if you plan to animate it opening, you should bake your AO map with it open all of the way. Also, any hinges that cast shadows need to be exploded for the AO bake. Basically, you don't want the viewer to see static AO baked in if it shouldn't be there in the animations.

For example, when your model is opened now, there is a ton of AO on the inside of the mesh. That AO shouldn't be present when the model is opened that much and will look off to the viewer/player.

Not sure I quite understood waht ur trying to say here XD, I was thinking of converting Normal map into Ao for certain parts, not sure if that a correct way to doing it

xChris

TheRod wrote: »

Not sure I quite understood waht ur trying to say here XD, I was thinking of converting Normal map into Ao for certain parts, not sure if that a correct way to doing it

He meant getting rid of the ao in this image. [/QUOTE]

When it opens/animates, the interior shouldn't be so dark as the lighting conditions would change.

beefaroni

xChris wrote: »

When it opens/animates, the interior shouldn't be so dark as the lighting conditions would change.

Exactly :thumbup:

BARDLER

beefaroni wrote: »

Exactly :thumbup:

Depends on the pipeline and how the AO will be used. If you are doing a PBR pipeline the AO is correct because it is an indirect lighting mask, and when direct light hits any part of the model the AO won't do anything. So even if the lighting environment changes, the AO is still correct.

xChris

beefaroni wrote: »

Exactly :thumbup:

:thumbup:

BARDLER wrote: »

Depends on the pipeline and how the AO will be used. If you are doing a PBR pipeline the AO is correct because it is an indirect lighting mask, and when direct light hits any part of the model the AO won't do anything. So even if the lighting environment changes, the AO is still correct.

This is also true :thumbup:

Jack M.

Yeah, as long as you don't add the AO to the diffuse and for example add it to the AO slot in unreal or marmoset it should be fine.

It would probably be best to bake it in the most open position it will be in in so the AO bake will be as accurate as possible (if the lid is closed no one will see the interior).

TheRod

Jack M. wrote: »

Yeah, as long as you don't add the AO to the diffuse and for example add it to the AO slot in unreal or marmoset it should be fine.

It would probably be best to bake it in the most open position it will be in in so the AO bake will be as accurate as possible (if the lid is closed no one will see the interior).

YEh I was thinkin that also but will have to bake the lids seperate since they will create AO between the lid n the body, so when its closed there will be a shadow around the top of the body if you get what i mean

Dripz

This is seriously a mean piece of work! I love it! I just recently started 3d modeling and after numerous tutorials started my own little model and this inspired me to make a bomb idea! Love the looks of your model so far!

TheRod

Cglewis

thats looking really nice man the inner cloth came out really well!
The enitre piece looks relally goood i cant wait to see the final product!

TheRod

Thanks man, still few bit left to sculpt n tweak b4 i retop n bake!

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Baking part 1

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Baking done! tomorrow the texturing begins... still don't know what style though haha

JBarnett

Bakes turned out great! I am probably partial, but I vote you go borderlands style! Would be cool to see this thing done realistic though. Good luck and looking forward to the end results.

TheRod

JBarnett wrote: »

Bakes turned out great! I am probably partial, but I vote you go borderlands style! Would be cool to see this thing done realistic though. Good luck and looking forward to the end results.

Thanks Jimmy! I'm gonna give the realistic texturing a shot first, then I'll try get my head around the whole borderlands style xD its completely dif to what I'm used to so will need time to learn it first

TheRod

Here's some very early stages of texturing just to see if you guys think it's alright

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Still working on the main green areas, haven't gone into the other materials much at all yet

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Using toon shader in substance xD

aaronmwolford

Your bakes came out really nice. I like the idea of texturing it in both styles. Keep it up!

beefaroni

Not really a fan of the cartoon/borderlands texture style.

You made this real clean model and got some great bakes out of it. The texture as it sits right now takes away from all the small details that you put into the piece. I'd definitely go semi-dirty/lightly worn realism.