Another colt M1911

nomity · Jan 2016

hello everyone I am trying to make my second weapon. So i need any critique to help me improve. i'm making this old version of m1911

Colt1911rightside.jpg

here is my highpoly version

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/gx/s0ceqtazol1k.jpg

and here my low poly with UVs. for UVs i use headus uv and with autopack function but i wasnt happy with resault so i then manuali stack them. Also scale up parts which are more visible and vice versa, but know when i looking on uvs with distortion on there are wired things going on

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/if/jda36r4hg9t7.jpg

and here is sketch fab with my first try of baking normal maps

model
sorry for my english

allengingrich · Jan 2016

Good work so far. I'm on my first weapon (a 1911, no less), too. I was wondering how you were able to get such smoothing with that kind of edge flow (the tri, etc)? You can see I am doing something similar here: http://polycount.com/discussion/164002/1911-commander-wip-need-critiques

I'm in the process of going back and "quading" everything so I can edgeloop the edges before smoothing, but it seems you've done something different and I may not need to do that?

Thanks!

nomity · Jan 2016

yeah my workflow was make simple block out and then detailed part after part so i get HP after that i start making low poly then select all edges set to smooth edges and then cut UVs and set hard edges where i cut UVs

so to your question yes you should clean your mesh to make all the faces quads then add some support edges and then you can smooth your mesh and start making low poly

but i am just begginer not sure if this is best way how to do it

mrgesy · Feb 2016

Good work so far, but those UVs are not so nice. Why are so many shells randomly rotated? Such UV's can cause a lot of aliasing in your textures. Try to keep things straight, and don't be afraid to cut up the UVs to make them straight.

Looking at your model in Sketchfab, is that your low-poly? Why are you bolts and screws full 3D? They're a waste of polygons and should have been normal-mapped/baked.