Flintlock pistol - feedback needed

Nikola_Roglic

Hello everyone, 

I made this flintlock pistol wanting it to look worn but not overdo it. 
I tried building the materials from scratch in painter. For the wood I used the texture but layered it, changed roughness etc.
Details, ornaments were sculpted in zbrush.
For the topology I used Zremesher as this is a personal piece and I wanted to practice texturing the most. 

Any feedback is welcome. 

Thank you.
Nikola Roglic 

Bobby_the_Goblin

Hey! I think this looks great personally

One small change I feel may benefit the model is to bring the overall roughness of the wood up very slightly. Not by much, however the issue I see at the moment is that the wooden texture looks a bit too leathery.

Besides this, as I mentioned, I think the model looks good and the textures capture the damaged look well. Good job!

Crazy_pixel

Hmm ... currently I can't bearly see a difference between the metal and wood parts. The Roughness looks almost the same and contrast and colour wise its also more an even value.

I looked for a real flint pistol and put this besides your rendered version.
The right version is just the black and white version and you can see that the real pistol has a higher contrast. 

Nikola_Roglic

Thanks for the comments everyone. I used a bit rougher looking reference for this but yes I could change up the roughness a bit. I am going to bring the wood slightly up and reduce roughness on the metal parts. Thank you for advice. I am going to post the update later in the day when I get time. 
Thank you again.

Nikola_Roglic

Here are the changes, on the first image the upper one is old and bottom is new variation. On the second image is just the new variation. 

Steve0105

Hey. I could see some tiny seams along the normal edges. Perhaps it's my eyes playing tricks, but are the smoothing groups/sharp edges baking fine?

Nikola_Roglic

The bake was fine I think, maybe it is something else.

Crazy_pixel

 Much better   

Eric Chadwick

Hey this is a great piece, and I agree with the changes.

I think you could push your roughness map a lot further though, and increase realism. It's really hard to polish metal and wood down in the crevices, so those areas accumulate grime more. An easy way is to bake occlusion and curvature passes and mix those into your roughness, diffuse, and AO maps.