Modular G36 Rifle WIP

Cannibal Aardvark

Yet another gun thread - Unique, I know. 

Been working on this on-and-off for a little while now, got the hi-poly of the main weapon mostly done. Thinking of making it into a Fo4 mod, so I'm working on making it pretty modular. Excuse all the floaters, they're mostly just temporary.   

Some of my references




Wire frame shots available if anyone wants them, not gunna post them now to save cluttering up the post.

Up next is a thumbhole stock, a shorter handguard, and maybe a drum magazine. Then I'll bake it all down and move onto the accessories (sights, muzzle breaks, etc.).

Any and all C&C is welcome, no matter how small or large. I've been finding it pretty hard to find good reference material for this, it's mostly airsoft models - so I'm expecting I've probably got some things off.   

C86G

The colour/shader makes it hard to read. You may want to tweak the light or add some ambient occlusion.

Cannibal Aardvark

Oops, sorry. I'm so used to that material I forget that it's not great for previews. ^^

Are these better?

C86G

Yup, better! Now I can say the modeling looks solid. Good work!

Cannibal Aardvark

Thanks.

Shrike

Looks good for a start but many of the edges are way too soft and too uniform when looked as a whole. Different pieces have different edges, some may be razor sharp, some very soft, variation is important. Especially things like the picantinny certainly should not be too soft. In realtime we want to make edges softer relatively to their real world counterpart so the normals pick it up better, but not one size fits all.

Cannibal Aardvark

Gotten some more work done - the shortened handguard is mostly done now. The clip parts at the back still need to be attached to the rest, but I need to clean up some geo there first. There's also some creasing beneath the bottom I only just noticed, but that should be an easy fix.



@ShrikeAight, thanks for the tip. Normally people say my edges are too tight, so I guess I've gotten into a bad habit of just making everything super soft now. I've sharpened the edges up on the shorter handguard rails, is that an improvement or have I gone too far now?

dpadam450

Edges are still way too soft all around for me.The side grip/rails definitely should be really sharp, I don't know about the details of the rest of the gun but rails are always sharp.
http://i00.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/1477659752_1/Heavy-Duty-Tactical-Army-Force-AK-Side-Rail-Lock-Scope-Mount-Base-Gun-Accessories-For-AK.jpg

Cannibal Aardvark

Really? Wow, so I was wayyy off. :L
I'm just glad they're too soft - it's much easier to harden edges than it is to soften them. 

Which of these three would you say is best? Or maybe even tighter? I can't imagine much tighter, at that point I'm going to have trouble baking it nicely.

C86G

I was at the same point when I started my HK416 (though I never made a realtime version of it). I just made test bakes to see if the highpoly edges transfered well into a normal map.
All of these three versions work. On the first one only the softest angles are a bit too soft (to me). Version two looks nice.

Cannibal Aardvark

Alright, I might try and go for the second one then. All I did for that one was third my old edge loops, so it's easy enough for me to repeat for the other rails. I'll go over the rest of the metal parts and tighten them up, as well as tightening the polymer a little too, when I get a chance. Cheers.

Cannibal Aardvark

Ok, last little bit for tonight. Sharpened a bunch of edges, still got a fair few to do. Once that's all done, I'll move onto the next stock.

Cannibal Aardvark

New magazine, stock, and a silencer modelled out. Need to do some tweaking on the stock, but other than that ready to get on with unwrapping and baking. 


*Ignore the Muppet on the stock, that's just a deal I'm kermitting to.