Practice of game props creation

fullpinkdog

Hi Polycount!

I decided to work more on my skill of game assets creation - work more on clean topology, nice shape, proper UV and so on

I will post here my progress and hope someone will have some time or inclination to leave any feedback

Assets creation pretty much big topic to discuss and i continiue learning stuff, so i will happy to hear any feedback about models i will post here

Feel free to share your thoughts about anything
Thank you for your time!
So, i guess i will start with my latest model - dualshock 3 - polycount 2.4k :

JamesBrisnehan

Looking at the Dual-shock collection I've got sitting next to me I would say that you're very close, but a few little things could be worked on.
The tops of the analog sticks and the home button should be more rounded (more like a hill, less like a plateau) with a more uniform roughness/micro-surface.
The directional buttons should be taller. IRL they are about 2mm, yours are about .5mm tall. The face buttons could be a bit taller too.
The edge from where the trigger and shoulder buttons extrude should be hardened.

The tilled bump map you have across the whole model seems unnecessary. The tiling is too obvious, plus these controllers are pretty smooth.
I think your model could use some more polygons (if this is a portfolio piece/hero prop.) Some curves look pretty blocky in your close-ups. 
You should probably divide up those N-gons (polygons with more than 4 sides) on your analog sticks, face buttons and home buttons. Most modelers don't like to see N-gons.

fullpinkdog

@JamesBrisnehan wow, thank you for this feedback man
Yeah i see you point, i also just now have noticed that it has big gap in those places

About tiled bump map, I don't think it's so unnecessary - you can see something like this on this ref

What do you think? But I agree that tiling is too obvious, I think I just need different pattern 

And yeah, I agree with everything else, thank you again

JamesBrisnehan

I think that kind of fine texture detail would look better in the micro-surface (roughens) layer.

fullpinkdog

@JamesBrisnehan I actually never thought about this way to do this, hmm
But I remembered about Gaussian noise map and it makes these bumps much better, i think

Anyway, i've applied your feedback to the mesh and it already looks much better in my opinion! thank you ------ now it's 3.2k tris

fullpinkdog

hello polycount, it's been awhile since my last post in this thread. 

if anyone interested in what happened - I have participated in Cyberpunk Challenge by ExpPoints and DiNusty communities. And i got second place(woo hoo), so cool experience, i can't really explain all my emotions because i have a bad english(haha). But now, after i had some rest, i decided to continue this thread
For this one, i gonna be completely transparent, i was inspired by latest [WIP] [Environment] Mad bomber's basement update
I was trying to make good form, keep things logic, make a cool textures and of course i tried my best to make a good looking asset, but anyway i'll be happy if anyone will leave any feedback or any comment

2481 tris:

My refs

fullpinkdog

It's actually WIP, i think to change textures a bit 

fullpinkdog

fixed geo of the grip a bit for better form and fixed textures of the rust a bit(no big changes really, just for the final post for this prop), gonna start make new prop. as always - critique appreciated

 

fullpinkdog

Next one, the middle part was kind of tough to model in a proper way(feel free to leave any kind of feedback)

me refs:

fullpinkdog

next one is walkie-talkie, feel free to drop any comment about it

refs: https://youtu.be/ezOM_0dRRn4 by Cane T
very cool works - https://www.artstation.com/goggles

lluc21

Looks great!

Apofex

fullpinkdog said:

next one is walkie-talkie, feel free to drop any comment about it

refs: https://youtu.be/ezOM_0dRRn4 by Cane T
very cool works - https://www.artstation.com/goggles

It's scary to imagine how much time did you spend. Great work!

BohSheh

Hey there, the walkie-talkie looks great , here is some of my feedback.
1)Screen looks too clean to me compare to the other parts.
2)Add grudge and scratches on the red arrow.

fullpinkdog

@Apofex not so much honostly, it was about 4 days 8-10h/day 
@BohSheh good call man, but here is a thing - there is a plane with glass material above the screen, and this glass material *really* dirty in roughness channel, but i guess because there is no light directed into the screen you can not really see this

about scratches - also a good idea, didn't even thought about this, thank you!

BohSheh

@fullpinkdog Perhaps its not about the roughness , its the transparency . When dirt accumulate , it block the light beneath the screen from passing through , hence less transparency

fullpinkdog

hey, here is the next prop, interesting how it's gonna turn out in the end
refs: I think I wont to copy entire thing, but the overall look would be like this i guess

For now i done with first iteration of proxy mesh as basis for highpoly-mesh:

gonna make fast highpoly to see how overall silhouette is look like

fullpinkdog

I like where it goes. There is a lot of details I wanna add on a texturing stage, so it's kind of looks poor in terms of details. For now i will polishing some things on high poly mesh

fullpinkdog

I think HP getting better