[WIP] M4 carbine

AiLeiKe

Hey everyone, 

I've recently finished the low poly and the high poly of this model. Here are some quick renders made in 3ds Max. I decided to leave out the hatch and the forward assist simply because I found it more aesthetically pleasing. I'll be doing the UVs in the following days and will post updates as I progress. The low poly has 54 589 tris in total. Any feedback or suggestions are welcomed! 

Low Poly

A Closer look at some parts







High Poly















Wireframe

MarcoAntonio

Nice Work !!
Can´t wait to see the high poly!

AiLeiKe

The highpoly is actually in the mid section  The renders are not super since they were just quick ones. Almost done with the UVs should be done wednesday since I wont have time tmr!

MarcoAntonio

that´s the high poly??? mmmmm.... you should work more on its edges. They are way too sharp and because of this the weapon will not interact well with the light.

Zablorg

I'm not seeing much in the way of supporting edges in the lowpoly for controlling raycast direction. Do you intend to make a separate version with such loops, bake it, and then perform an Object->Tangent space conversion to apply the resulting map to the original?

AiLeiKe

@MarcoAntonio I will make some modification's to the high poly and post them here once i'll be done unwrapping the UVs. 

@Zablorg I was planning to use Marmoset's paint skew to solve that problem. 

EDIT : I thought about it and your way might be better than painting over so many pieces. I'll be trying that first

AiLeiKe

 Alright I'm done with the UVs! I made two UV sets so I would have enough room for the interior/exterior and enough quality. Going to start reworking my high-poly now to make it smoother.

Sear

Awesome work man! You have really went hardcore in the details on the weapon. Not often you see the inner workings of a 3d model gun. I agree with the other people on making the edges softer (some of them look paper thin). Once this is finished though it will be a masterpiece.

AiLeiKe

Thanks man! I left some parts out here and there haha. So before I re-work my entire high poly I smoothed out the lower receiver. I bumped the chamfer amount from 0.5 to 1.4. How does it look now? It seems much better to me. 

OLD HIGH-POLY


SMOOTHER VERSION

ChrisFraser

Ace pack job on those UV's! 

MarcoAntonio

Yes, the smoother version looks better to me as well. When you define the edge radius you have to take in mind which is going to be your texture resolution and how far in your weapon going to be from the camera.A lower texture resolution will require a bigger edge radius. Of course you don´t want to go too far.Just get the needed chamfer so the details could be seen in the normals. Besides, a sharp edge will give aliasing artifacts at certain distance. The more sharpen the edge is, the closest this artifacts  will appear.

AiLeiKe

Thanks chris it took quite some time! 

I see what you mean marco, It makes much more sense to me now thanks for the explanation!

AiLeiKe

Finished reworking the high-poly and started to do some test bakes. In the end, I used a non-average and average baking in substance designer for the bakes. I'll be able to start texturing tmr! 

High-Poly



Test Bakes

AiLeiKe

Finished the textures! Here are 2 quick renders I made.