Heckler & Koch - Mark 23

MarkGomez

Hello everyone! I've been recently working on the Mark 23 from H&K. I've recently been into weapons as seen on my portfolio. After going through Tim Bergholz for the AKM, I wanted to give this particular weapon a shot. Inspired by the MGS series here. I don't have any progress shots from the modeling portion but I've now started to take screenshots as far as where I am currently at. 

I've done the low and high poly and have now baked in SP. Noticed some issues with baking so I'll be doing a second pass through to fix anything I see. One thing was I forgot to copy a few pieces during the export. Mainly on the LAM attachment. Second thing is adding the normals for the grip and LAM as well. As soon as that goes through, I shall begin the texturing process. 

I will be posting progress here until done. 

neil_w2

sweet, i remember trying to build something like this before and it didnt turn out so good.  looking at the geometry gives me some ideas of how i could have approached it.  did you use normal maps for this?

MarkGomez

@neil_w2

Took me a bit to get some of the parts right honestly. This does currently have a normal map, AO, and thickness to name others, but it's missing details from the grip and some from the LAM attachment. I'll be looking to add this in as well.

JLHGameArt

Looking at this makes me realise I really need to sit down and build some one off props, I never do that. Model looks good to me, always fun trying to find a good place to kill edge loops from cylindrical sections. Looking forward to seeing a texture pass.

MarkGomez

@JLHGameArt

And I eventually need to get an environment going. Saw some of your work on it and I really dig. I need jump into some Zbrush myself as well. 

MarkGomez

Update #1:

Ran into some minor baking issues. After my initial unwrap, I went back to refine a few things as I had made some changes as well. So the unwrap was a bit wonky, which I fixed. Only issue now is the ID map. I shall be looking more into it as I was needing it to get some more details in.

MarkGomez

Update #2: A quick one before I head off for work. Started to mess with some of the textures. Obviously still much to work on but was trying to get an idea of how everything was going to shape up. Have some small artifacts to fix that have become apparent to me after slapping a texture one but no biggie. The following is where I left off.

MarkGomez

Finally had the chance to work on this further. Used Iray quickly in SP but ultimately want to put this in Marmoset to set this up much better.

MarkGomez

Some final renders of the Mark 23. I've played with it long enough so it's time to get on to the next one! Excited for a new project. C&C is always welcome as I'm always looking to better my work. Thanks!

mephi100fel

Wow! awesome

MarkGomez

mephi100fel said:

Wow! awesome

Thank you!!

MarkGomez

JoshuaG said:

On the next asset you make you need to soften up your edges significantly. Otherwise right now it looks like you have no high poly model at all. As far as textures go, they still have a ways to go.

Thanks! That's definitely some feedback I've received as far as edges go. Been afraid to just chamfer everything before, giving me really hard edges. Keeping this in mind going forward. Thanks for the advice and the visual there, helps to see what you mean.