Ruger Mini-14
polycounter lvl 18
I compiled this into The Specialists (A Half-Life modification)
It has around 1500 polies or somewhat and uses three 512 maps.
It has around 1500 polies or somewhat and uses three 512 maps.
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It really doesn't look like it needs 3 x 512x512 maps, though. Any chance of seeing the flats?
I first noticed the barrel on the end was much too skinny. With a little google research, it looks like you need some more details on the side and bottom (though the bottom is less important). I'm sure you could squeeze all of this on one 512 map.
The stock takes up ~50% of one of the 512 maps and it still looks pretty low-res. Although I bet I could squeeze the magazine map into one of the others, or just scale it down (why do I need a 512 for something you rarely see upclose?)
But yeah, I realise I'm missing quite a few details, but this is my first serious model in 3ds and most good reference I could find was of the older Liberty model, most of which is totally different from this one.
The stock looks low-res enough as is, and it's as big as it possibly can be whilst still inside the game's texture size limit.
Anyway Kitteh,its a start but I think it could be much better,firstly, yeah 3 512 textures is far to exsessive for this. A good artist would be able to fit what you have got on a single 512 and not loose much detail.
Secondly you need to push your highlights more and make them of varing consistency.Also im noticing the use of black and white for shadows this is a nono...try and get more colour into it....as the artist words are....no black is ever a pure black.
Id like to see you,lighten all the black areas up an add more detail,while doing this think which directions the light will come from and highlight the areas that will be hit directly by this light..add gloss,gradients etc and hopefully your new detail won't get sucked into the pure black you seem to have going now.
hope this helps
john
Also ive heard/seen the work of some of those people you mentioned,the best have appeared on many top CS:S review sites and I can't deny they are damn good at what they do ...but I also can't stand people mouthing off for attention or using bad language for no reason or post just to say how much someones mod sucks.
Meh I guess if I ignore most of the comments there and jsut look at the good stuff something useful will come out of it.
Edit:- or maybe im to stuck up for my own good and really should take a chill pill
John
I also agree with AfroLeft, that seam with the wood grain should be fixed, since it's right there in front of the camera. I'd do a continuous map of the top faces there and attach them to the faces on the left side to avoid seams.
And I agree with what others have said. Three 512 maps are waaaaaaay too much for a HL1 weapon model. In my opinion, You could very well compile them all into a 1024 map.
Kitteh: Oh, right... I guess you're an industry professional? Chris Holden (cholden) and Rhinokey are both game artists by trade, as am I. But never mind what we say, you know best, I'm sure!
Kitteh: Oh, right... I guess you're an industry professional? Chris Holden (cholden) and Rhinokey are both game artists by trade, as am I. But never mind what we say, you know best, I'm sure!
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I think that you guys are jumping on this man about texture space when what you should be concentrating on taking what he has done and try to work with him. I think that the amount of detail he has it could be on a 512x512 mesh if skinned right. For a first person weapon with a stock that big I would agree that a 512x512 mesh is inadequate, these days a 1024 or more is standard. I think that the skin looks pretty bland and could use some more detail, you metal is bland and your wood is blurry. Try to skin it with a constand light source comming from one direction not wherever you think it looks good. Best of luck with you next texture. My best advice would be to keep practicing
PS: The quality of the skin could also reflect the UV maps because the model from first glance looks mediocre
I wish him the best, but the first thing you need to learn, is that you need to learn,
Try making a few things using one 64x texture map. Learn to use every pixel to push a detail and then you can say what can and cant be done in a 512x texture.
i don't mean to be bashing kits work, on the whole it is a decent model, and a decent texture, and if he woulda simply said "yes i'm sure i coulda done it in less space, but this is what i wanted to do" then it woulda been fine. but blatantly saying it was impossible, is the quickest way possible to stunt his growth as an artist.