ZM-Weapons: LR-300 skinned

wannabe · Aug 2005

Yeah, another weapon... I know. I found this one unfinished though and didn't want to leave it like that.

Sucky Render (Maybe I'll do a new one):

Milkshape screenshot (100% self-illumination):

How do you like it?

(Hope I didn't post twice now

... i am confused)

shotgun · Aug 2005

actually, this is seroiusly, seriously good looking
i dont think the render is sucky but if the crates where realistically scaled (they r very small relatively to grass/weapon) it would look better

only picky crit i can hope to give is that the text on the weapon looks a little ouf of place, i think just reduce the contrast (or layer opacity, prob same result) and it would be fine

good job

Sett · Aug 2005

Nice.

Wells · Aug 2005

seriously one of the best weapon skins I've seen

MoP · Aug 2005

Nice to see some new stuff from you.

Something I noticed as a bit weird is the stock (the bit at the opposite end of the barrel, anyway, I don't know technical terms!

) - it lacks a lot of contrast compared to the rest... you've got a lot of darks and pure black in the middle and around the front end, but at the back it's all midtone - maybe if you darkened the shadows and the holes in the stock it would be more consistent? It looks fine in the renders with the hard dark shadows, but if you're not raytracing shadows (like in a game for example) it'd probably look a little odd.

I also think you could give a better idea of depth on the greenish (plastic?) bit with the hand grip and drilled holes - the holes are just circles of pure black, if you did a nice gradient fade with correct cylinder shading in each of the 5 round holes on each side there, it'd look a lot more like real holes drilled in the plastic rather than just black dots or holes in paper.

Generally very good though, I'd be interested to see how it looked with a subtle GI bake and proper specular map?

rawkstar · Aug 2005

hey man, saw your work in a few other places online, you're badass, good to see you posting here on polycount, the gun looks good

_Shimmer · Aug 2005

welcome back wannabe!
As it is, your skins rock. I am curious if you could handle that all with next-gen stuff like specmaps and normalmaps. Give it a try and show us.

And, start modelling!

Joshua Stubbles · Aug 2005

I think there is a little too much color variation in it. I mean, the green foregrip is there, naturally. But both pieces of the stock are differant, as is the grip and main body. Everything is a differant tone, making it look more like a scavenged weapon. Most weapons are actually pretty monotone (aside from metal discolorations).

Overall though I'd say it's pretty damn nice

motives · Aug 2005

awesome, any chance of a flat?

Option · Aug 2005

Hey wannabe, nice to see another CDG member posting here (I'm Borealis over there), gotta say, this is an awesome skin, hope it gets a good compile and a release for the aug. Quality work right here.

X-One · Aug 2005

Very nice, one of the best weapon skins I've seen.

firestarter · Aug 2005

Your weapon skins` some of the best work to get posted around here... immaculate, and always a pleasure to see.
But, yeah that grass and them crates suck

How about some open ammo/gun cases to fill the background if you have to?

Blaizer · Aug 2005

welcome back and nice texturing here. You should texture others things and not so many weapons

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EarthQuake · Aug 2005

Excelent work, but i have to agree with blaizer here. I would love to see you try something other than a gun, like a character or something... It seems like such a waste tallent to only do weapon skins again and again. I know this personally, from like 2000-2003 all i modeled/textured was weapons. This can pretty much be said about a lot of the good artists that post on CDG.