unreal/quake style fps gun

lildragn

hmm where do you load it? lol I mean cool and all but where?

Neox

it's more like a melee gun, to bitchslap your enemies in the face!

imb3nt

I'm really liking where this is going! Great job so far. :thumbup:

ae.

looks great man, my only crit is on the design itself it looks like it would be a bitch to hold.

cant wait to see what you do with the textures

ivars

SHEPEIRO wrote:

new max splits the cage along the smoothing groups so that the cage is pushed out along the 2 norms, therefore not capturing pixels along the join and causing a seam, if the cage doesnt do this it pushes along the joined/average norm and captures everything

For all you maya users: you can toggle between the two using either "Surface normals" or "Geometry normals" in the advanced rollout of the transfer maps settigns. Just thought it might be helpfull to know :P

Racer445

threw it in ue3 quickly. my normal is really useless for some reason and the textures are looking very downsized and shitty. ideas?

gonna get a friend to animate and put it in crysis soon tho

timwiese

If your textures are 2048x2048, try importing them in the LOD group of skybox, this way it won't sample them down when you import them.

The gun is looking pretty frickin sweet tho.

00Zero

eh i hate that stupid texture downsizing. does it no matter if its 2048 or 256.

yea its pretty cool.

try bumping up your normals using a multiply.

Racer445

Thanks. I'll try that out tomorrow along with a bunch of other stuff.

Racer445

rebaked in object space. still need to fix some errors but i just wanted to show because its nice and smooooth

dolemite

Maybe up the spec on the places where the paint is chipped? It seems to be equal in specularity to the painted areas.

Sweet gun!

Racer445

also here it is in the viewport with some painted on glow

vj_box

Looks sexy,keep it coming.You just need to work on the material setup in unreal ed.it takes some time to achieve the desired results.You also need to multiply the normal map,as some one mentioned.That way your normal map pops out.And make sure you select the Normal map compression in the list box when you import the TGAs. I guess its tc_normalmap.Each of the maps have different settings in the list box.
Did you also share the construction sheets for this,i guess i did nt see that. wires,texture pages etc.
Vj

OBlastradiusO

That's looks a lot better now that its texture. Keep it going.

snake85027

something about it reminds me of deadspace, anyway looking really good now, a lot sharper and subtle.

konstruct

*drool* I was a little worried that big shape in the middle was too plain for its silhouette, but the texture made it all Ay-okay.

Is this a realtime screen grab? and if so, what engine?

edit*oop I saw you wrote viewport, so I assume max?

Racer445

eq took some pics for me in marmoset

pior

Hey Racer! Looking great.
What did you use to preview object space normals with? I know that the Marmoset can do it but like Konstruct says, it sound slike you did it in a 3D app. Or maybe UT3 has a OS node?

Racer445

I used an edit of doylle's 3ds max viewport shader found on game-artist.net, which has object space normal map support. UT3 does have object space support as well.

EarthQuake

I think you can find a few max shaders that support OS maps these days really.

Snefer

Marmoset turns it yellow? :O

On a more serious note, it looks very good. Personally I would like more dirt and grime considering how worn the metal is, right now it looks worn down but clean. Still, awesome work!

Lonewolf

textures feels pretty good dude

mLichy

It's looking much better now, nice job. I like the edge rubs, but there could be maybe a little more, especially around the grips, and make them more pronounced in the spec map. Also your emmisive could really be a 256 I'm sure and look just fine. Another trick that works well that we do at work, is to take your diffuse and make it about half the size of the bump, and generally you don't notice much of a difference.

EarthQuake

Really if its just a portfolio piece there is no need to do hardcore optimization imo. Now if he's working on a project thats hurting for video memory, yeah, thats an option.