Hello everyone, so I joined polycount a little while ago for the polycount contest for csgo. Since then I haven't made use of this site... however I have a few questions which all fall under texturing.
•Does anyone have any tutorials/videos that explains the different elements that make a realistic skin?
•Does anyone know of a site or place I can view nothing but weapon textures people have made(outside of csgo)?
•I would love to view any portfolio's any of you have for weapon specific textures. Do any of you have something like that?
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http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Texturing
I don't know about a site just for weapon textures. But if you search this site for weapons, you'll find a bunch of examples.
http://polycount.com/search?adv=&search=gun
You can also try searching for specific guns.
If you find a thread with a nice skin, dig into the artist's other Topics (threads they've made) to see more. And if you dig into their portfolio links you'll probably find even more.
You can check our Polycount Recaps for noteworthy weapons, and dig down into those.
http://polycount.com/categories/pcnewsfeed
http://polygoo.com/
https://www.artstation.com/artist/benbolton
https://www.artstation.com/artist/blackmetal
https://www.artstation.com/artist/chillydog3d
https://www.artstation.com/artist/darkomiladinovikj
https://www.artstation.com/artist/bcog
Plenty of other good ones on Artstation; I would recommend checking the "Following" sections of some of the aforementioned artists.