[FINISHED] M2 Browning Machine Gun

Frigus · Oct 2019

Hi Polycount!
Modeling a game model for Unreal Engine 4. I decided to share with you the modeling stages. The Highpoly model is not finished yet. If you have any advices; I'd be happy if you share it with me.

Shrike · Oct 2019

modelling looks good but the edges are too sharp, this is going to look good in offline rendering but not in realtime, you'll get tons of aliasing

Frigus · Oct 2019

Shrike said:

modelling looks good but the edges are too sharp, this is going to look good in offline rendering but not in realtime, you'll get tons of aliasing

Thanks for your feedback! I will make it smooth.

Frigus · Feb 2020

lately but big update. I smoothed edges and make new interior pieces. Now I'm working on low poly model.

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Frigus · Apr 2020

LowPoly body texturing.

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Brian "Panda" Choi · Apr 2020

Focus on creating a "base roughness" that has variation in it on top of blocking in the few materials this gun has.

Frigus · Apr 2020

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

Focus on creating a "base roughness" that has variation in it on top of blocking in the few materials this gun has.

I'm trying that but I haven't much experience on texturing

Frigus · Apr 2020

Still trying to create good looking weapon surface.

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Frigus · Apr 2020

still trying to get good result

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Frigus · Apr 2020

DarthMaul said:

@Frigus looking better, but something about the glossiness seems off to me. Look at a few reference images and you will see it has a more matte look.

Definitely looks CGI still with the gloss, reduce it slightly and/or play around with the values. I like how you put some dirt/grime near the front edges, however you need to add some more overall. The surface could also use some sort of normal map/bump map. It still seems too smooth.
Keep working at it!

thanks for your advice I'll reduce glossiness and will add more dirt/dust and bump deformation. I'm still learning I always waiting comments like that thanks!

Totozoos · Apr 2020

Agree with DarthMaul. In this image you can see the contrast of the surface finish which is quite rough and how the highlights look when light bounces on curved surfaces. You can even make it look more shiny near places where the gun is handled and more matte where not. This would help breakup the overall look of the surface. Looking good.

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Frigus · Apr 2020

Totozoos said:

Agree with DarthMaul. In this image you can see the contrast of the surface finish which is quite rough and how the highlights look when light bounces on curved surfaces. You can even make it look more shiny near places where the gun is handled and more matte where not. This would help breakup the overall look of the surface. Looking good.

Many many thanks I'll try to make similiar to reference. Yes my material looking more glossy than this.