futuristic munitions
insane polycounter
Found a cool dump of ammo concepts done by Tipa_ Graphic
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XGKz3
Really nice shapes and materials. I'm gonna make a few of them. Going a little heavy, just want a good result. This one's 2k tris and 512x1024
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XGKz3
Really nice shapes and materials. I'm gonna make a few of them. Going a little heavy, just want a good result. This one's 2k tris and 512x1024
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These should be some really nice looking munitions, can't wait to see the rest man
they're meant to be for small arms (at least for me, not sure what the concept artist intended). the tight FOV is probably making them seem ambiguous without any environmental context. for final shots a change of lens like this should make it more clear i think. maybe like a wooden surface to sit them on too, or a metal shelf, something with clear intrinsic scale
Right, bullets often do have quite small text, just physically impressed into the bottom of the cartridge. I think Dustin has a point that it seems different when painted. IDK. Just following the concept really, although he might have meant for them to be larger. Railguns are pretty big IRL. I honestly don't think the scale is a big deal here, camera lens and environment context change everything
doing an electro one next
As long as you're aware of the physical limitations of materials and always assign metals a diffuse value around 17/17/17 and dialectrics a specular value around 51/51/51, there is no difference on the authoring side which technique you use.
In production I think metalness is superior because it limits the mistakes that artists can make in choosing inaccurate values. It also allows you to reduce the number of textures by packing the metalness map into the alpha of one of the other maps, something you can't do with a specular map. On my own projects I pick between the two at random.