Sci-fi Rifle [WIP Thread]

Ryan Smith

Hey guys,

I've never made a weapon before so i figured i'd give it a shot. 

Modelling in 3DS Max 2104, will bake and texture with the substance suite, then bring it into UE4 for fancy render times.

Concept by YONG: The bottom one.



Progress on HP so far, about 2 - 3 hours in.



The plan here is try to nail decent the edge flow as well as i can. I'm not laying in any supporting edges until the shape is correct. Every time i try to get too complex too quickly i end up being overwhelmed by verts whenever i need to reshape something.

Another thing that is helping is making use of the Conform tool - i'll make a simple curved primitive to help guide some of the shapes like you're seeing at the top. It seems to be working well so far. 

Ryan Smith

Here's tonight's progress on the high poly. About 8 hours in. Some of the curvy surfaces are hard to get smooth. Had to re-make the trigger guard with better topology to get rid of denty and blobby artifacts. I'll probably have to work the body of the rifle a bit more as well to get nice topological flow. Oh well.

kohg

Nice. Looking forward for more.

Ryan Smith

About 10 - 12 hours in. Almost done with the barrel, still need to do the asymmetrical details on the flip side of the gun. Moving slower than i thought I would on this but it's been really fun so far. 

Demonith

Ryan Smith said:

Here's tonight's progress on the high poly. About 8 hours in. Some of the curvy surfaces are hard to get smooth. Had to re-make the trigger guard with better topology to get rid of denty and blobby artifacts. I'll probably have to work the body of the rifle a bit more as well to get nice topological flow. Oh well.

How did u get the material so cool ?

Dethling

Nice concept, nice work so far.
Only critic I had would be about the round part on the side:
I would soften up the edge of it a little bit, so make the edge more round.

Can't wait to see it finished.

Ryan Smith

Demonith: It's just a couple of default max materials with a skylight rendering in the viewport. Nothing real fancy going on there.

Here's the latest WIP shot - high poly is about 95% done, need to do some touch ups and detailing. Might clean up some forms in z-brush and then head off to lowpoly land. 

WarrenM

I love that spherical thing with the gear inside.  Great shape.

Ryan Smith

Been working on and off on this thing. Finally finished the lowpoly and unwrapped it with IPackThat. 

Here are some renders with BASE layer textures on it. It's still a huge WIP. I plan on taking the texture pretty far.

Dethling

I think the edge damage is far to uniform. It looks like you simply throw a "Edge wear" generator onto your texture.

Try to modify it according to the material and check with real world examples at which areas of a weapon wear damage normally occurs.

EDIT: My mistake, didn't recognized that this is just the base texture. I'm really looking forward to the finished version.

P.S.: Neither less this is no reason at all to be insulting S6...

s6

Dethling said:

I think the edge damage is far to uniform. It looks like you simply throw a "Edge wear" generator onto your texture.

Try to modify it according to the material and check with real world examples at which areas of a weapon wear damage normally occurs.

*Stupid joke*
Jk
Shits looking swag homie. Keep the texture goin. 

Ryan Smith

Hey guys, I've finished this guy up.

Sketchfab Model Here:

model

Dethling

Realy nice work.
Great texture, great model.