[WIP] Glock 19

AB3LL1

Hello everyone, today I've finished the high poly of my Glock 19 model, my main goal is to add as much detail as I can while keeping it with a low poly count. Please feel free to leave any feedback!


I've made a simplified interior for the slide and frame.
The recoil spring is already compressed so when the slide is open I don't need to move it.

sacboi

Should bake nice, also weird how on these guns the working parts are visible between slide and pistol grip assembly - what budget are you aiming at for the low?

AB3LL1

Hi @sacboiI'm aiming for < 10K for the low.

AB3LL1

I've started the Low Poly stage, it's being a good learning experience to judge areas that will receive more or less geometry.
The new boolean system in Blender 2.91 is amazing!

sacboi

Looks good!

Also curious if you'd like too share any thoughts on Blender's updated boolean tool?

Just asking out of interest, because I'd made the switch recently across to 3ds, solely imo on the basis of it's more mature feature rich modifier stack for hard surface plus pro-boolean's for what I do are pure sorcery.  

AB3LL1

hey @sacboi thank you!

About the new boolean in Blender, it basically works much better under problematic mesh conditions like coplanar faces and overlapping edges, it now has two modes, Fast and Exact, fast is just like it was in previous versions, works quite fast but if you have some problematic mesh you need to do some workaround, with the new Exact mode it will work properly, however it's a little bit slower due to its calculation.

sacboi

Thank you for the quick reply and indeed quite informative, will follow along as this project develops.

Cheers.

DiamondDog

Haha, bro thats crazy i was doing almost same thing when i saw your post. High poly looks very clean, man. Im very interested to see your final renders

AB3LL1

@DiamondDog Wow that Glock is looking very cool man, your HP is very clean too!
Thank you, and I'm also going to be looking forward to see your progress on that great handgun.

AB3LL1

I forgot to update the thread but here is the final low poly already UV mapped.
The poly count is around 6,515 tris, it went waaaay below what I expected which is good but challenging for the normal map, I'm still learning better tricks to optimize the models.
 

AB3LL1

Here is the most difficult part that I'm doing right now, the polymer frame.
I'm trying to understand this material and replicate it but it always looks different on the refs, on some refs it will look very smooth and in others very crisp lol
Any feedbacks are always appreciated.

Fridock

You could bake Height Map from marmoset and use it when rendering with tessellation for extra detailed shots of the grip for example

AB3LL1

Hello @Fridock that is interesting! I'll be applying on my final render. Thank you