L129A1 "Sharpshooter" Rifle
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Probably the thing I'm most happy with creating so far, so thought I'd make a thread for it.
Model is the L129A1 "Sharpshooter" Rifle in service with the British Armed Forces, Also added a TA648-308 ACOG with RM01 Mounted on top, Plus a Folding Grip mounted under the barrel.
This model was created for use in an Arma III Mod, Will post a few screenshots of it in game at some point, once its all in and working. Model led in 3DS Max, Textured in Substance Painter, Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 3.
Model is the L129A1 "Sharpshooter" Rifle in service with the British Armed Forces, Also added a TA648-308 ACOG with RM01 Mounted on top, Plus a Folding Grip mounted under the barrel.
This model was created for use in an Arma III Mod, Will post a few screenshots of it in game at some point, once its all in and working. Model led in 3DS Max, Textured in Substance Painter, Rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 3.
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Greetings fellow Arma enthusiast.
Some crits: The edges on the model are extremely sharp, which doesn't read too well. Additionally many edges seem to have black lines (did you bake with an averaged projection cage?) — this is most obvious on the magazine. Other areas suffer from aliasing; I didn't bother painting them all as it should be obvious. The edge wear and grime could use a bit of tweaking; some areas are completely clean while others are splattered with grunge.
Some materials are also quite bland; again the magazine is an obvious example. Also I wouldn't recommend having DOF on in half the pics if you're looking for crits. For the texel density stuff, it's generally better to give islands an equal (or near equal) texel density, because mismatches are easy to spot, even by non-artists. I know in arma the hand will cover the grip most of the time anyway, but you do see it when the gun is on the ground. Plus it looks bad in renders.
Also did you make the rails to spec or are they just eyeballed?
Here's a cheeky WIP image of it in game...
VΓΛ:D, this will be in included in the 3CB Weapons Pack at some point in the future.
I would agree with Bek on the magazine, which could use stuff like dust or grease and perhaps some highlights; also the overall grunge placement could definitely use some work - as it is it looks decent, but in places it could be toned down (like on mostly planar surfaces) and in concave/convex areas needs more.
Getting your texel density right is an easy thing to address, at least if you're aware of it you can address it. Set up your initial checker texture to an easily readable size and go from there!
re: texel density, if your modeling app doesn't have native tools for it there will almost certainly be a script. Once I unwrap my pieces I guesstimate a texel density and apply it to all islands, quickly pack the largest peices and see if it looks like it'll fit. If not, I adjust texel density again. This cuts down on wasted time packing things, realising there's wasted space, having to scale thing up and shuffle it all around again.
edit: also I just saw this gun was on Forgotten Weapons recently. Pretty neat. There's also a small gallery of pictures in the accompanying blog post.