van den Bergh rifle

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working on a thingy based on a thingy by felix van den bergh

czech out the ref -> https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XGW9a

big WIP still, deploy any c&c you feel like

Kattevoer

Ha! Van Den Bergh checking in!
Honored that you're taking a shot at this. If you want some c&c or pointers on the design, please feel free to pm me, post here, or add me on facebook. 
Looking good so far! 

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Kattevoer said:

Ha! Van Den Bergh checking in!
Honored that you're taking a shot at this. If you want some c&c or pointers on the design, please feel free to pm me, post here, or add me on facebook. 
Looking good so far!

glad you like it

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gfelton

This looks awesome, can't wait to see more!

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Results of some glass tinkering, trying to get the realistic optics feel of having multiple lenses (complex reflection) with different coatings

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gfelton

Daaaaamn the geometry on that scope is just...ugh so good! 

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kohg

goddamn does that scope look sexy

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kohg

You still only using photoshop for texturing?

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yes, but not for ideological reasons. substance is a good tool, but i already own PS and my software margin is $00.00. i use the means i have

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Maxilator

Amazing that you are managing to get such amazing textures using only ps!

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gfelton

The bakelite on the pistol grip isn't very convincing. That's all I can really say I'm satisfied with, as everything else is very well done! Your texture work is also fantastic given that you're working primarily in photoshop, very nice work.

kohg

The wood textures despite being faithful to the concept i don't really like it. I don't know if its to saturated or maybe it's the roughness map. It does look better in the desert road HDRI lighting. Same with the grip.

Bumblebee

that wear is too saturated imho. Doesnt fit.

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Kattevoer

Looking wonderful!

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Kroma!

Your textures are looking extra nice in this project (to me anyway). Are you doing anything differently from your normal workflow?

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polishing the textures, bakelite and wood mostly so far, got rid of the chromed barrel too because it feels more military without it

Amaury

From all the guns you've created I think this is your best one so far.

gfelton

I like this color scheme wayyyy better. Maybe throw some knurls on the grip, I feel like that would add some visual interest. 

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Amaury said:

From all the guns you've created I think this is your best one so far.

thx!

gfelton said:

I like this color scheme wayyyy better. Maybe throw some knurls on the grip, I feel like that would add some visual interest. 

yeah I'm thinking about it after looking at a bunch of AK grips

messing around with doing all the post-process stuff in toolbag, no photoshop on these, straight out the engine

kohg

The bakelite and wood look much better now, they were standing out too much and didn't quite look realistic, well, not anymore. Not sure if you changed anything in the bipod or if its just the lighting, but it also looks better, more dark and metallic.

Mathis

Looking very good Ben, nice design reference too - nicely done.

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wrapping this up. couple repeat images here, sorry. all in-engine shots.

gfelton

I love it dude, your texture work is spot on, and you deserve some credit for doing all that in Photoshop too

Mossbros

Such a cool looking rife, you are really pulling all high punches with these guns. Almost flawless imo. 

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JoshuaG said:

How did you get the red dot in Marmoset?

If you have your glass in another mesh and bake from the red dot sight, you can draw a red circle ( the crosshair) on the position were you like on your emmisive map (the red dot and the rest black)

Bek

Fantastic. My only criticism is the two screws on the bakelite grip; they're very obviously skewed from some angles because they're not cut into the handle, and I don't think it makes much sense design-wise to have screws there either (but that's debatable).

Also just curious, in the concept the magazine was a transparent plastic; why did you go for a steel mag instead? Obviously that can be uniquely textured in more interesting ways, but with ammo as weird as that surely you'd want to show it off as much as possible, right? :P

Justo

Incredible results man! Did you make this hp using your dynamesh + zbrush workflow?

Brian "Panda" Choi

Hey Ben, what do you use for your Boolean operations?

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Justo said:

Incredible results man! Did you make this hp using your dynamesh + zbrush workflow?

Yes, except for the most simple parts like screws.

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Hey Ben, what do you use for your Boolean operations?

The Proboolean object in Max

JoshuaG said:

How did you get the red dot in Marmoset?

It's an emissive material with an alpha dot texture on a plane floating inside the optic. Ideally you want a custom shader to draw at optical infinity through the glass but that can't be done in Marmoset to my knowledge.

Bek said:

Fantastic. My only criticism is the two screws on the bakelite grip; they're very obviously skewed from some angles because they're not cut into the handle, and I don't think it makes much sense design-wise to have screws there either (but that's debatable).

Yeah this was a bad decision. I should have modeled indents into the LP

Bek said:

Also just curious, in the concept the magazine was a transparent plastic; why did you go for a steel mag instead? Obviously that can be uniquely textured in more interesting ways, but with ammo as weird as that surely you'd want to show it off as much as possible, right? :P

idk lol