PC-CSGO - M4A4 | Trooper

Jeby_Persern

Read Below for the design process. Completed weapon:
Link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693142573
The Storm Trooper, from the Star Wars movies are one of the most iconic characters introduced to sci-fi during the 70's and 80's. As such, I thought it a good idea to attempt to create an M4, a weapon vaguely reminiscent of the Storm troopers own blasters, with a similar feel.

I started on paper, which I don't have here to upload, but they were just concepts. The real work began painting the 3d model in photoshop, roughly how i wanted it, and then beginning to select and fill those areas to create masks with later. Currently I'm using the default texture inverted, as it works well, though in the end I will create a separate texture, with a more plasticy feel.

Drafting areas Texture:

Testing masked areas on the weapon.


Feel free to comment and provide insight or criticism, I'd love to hear it.

Jeby_Persern

After some fiddling around and a movie, I got back into it, hiding my old planning map, as some points on it were obscure or not where i wanted them to be. I then started on a new one. All in green should be about where the white plasticy look will be.


Any ideas about the Grip and magazine would be greatly appreciated

Jeby_Persern

I completed the previous stage, and have moved onto fine tuning, before eventually getting around to creating the dedicated textures. Here's some things I need to fix:
And here's another view of it so far.

Jeby_Persern

All placement is finished, texture is coming along alright. Need to fix the back still. I want to get rid of the blueish light in the middle. The firing chamber area looks sweet though.

Jeby_Persern

The Skins pretty much finished, I'm getting ready to submit. Looks like this:

Jeby_Persern

Skin Complete and uploaded. Workshop link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693142573

Ezikyl

I feel like it needs much more detail, especially to suit the classified skin rarity.

Jeby_Persern

Ezikyl said:

I feel like it needs much more detail, especially to suit the classified skin rarity.

Possibly, I had considered more, but the idea was the stark cleanness, such as that seen in the reference material. I was more relying on the contrast seen more often in higher tiers for its own high tier, compared to more muted low tier weapons. To be honest, I would have made it a purple if i could, but I feel like it could work as a restricted tier wep.