Gun Model WIP
Heya guys,
I'm working on a model for my high-poly modeling final project for class; I chose to do a gun, with the prop "Mercy" from the game Darksiders as my reference to work off of. I just thought it was an interesting model to try with some pretty cool aspects and shapes.
Here's my high and low poly models:
And, here's my low poly with my normal map applied (and the normal map itself, in case anyone was interested in seeing that):
I do apologize in advance if the images are really big; when I rescale them, they don't seem to keep the scale I set them too. ):
Feedback and critique is greatly appreciated! I'm starting on my textures now, so any tips on some good texture ideas would also be really cool. Thanks, guys!
I'm working on a model for my high-poly modeling final project for class; I chose to do a gun, with the prop "Mercy" from the game Darksiders as my reference to work off of. I just thought it was an interesting model to try with some pretty cool aspects and shapes.
Here's my high and low poly models:
And, here's my low poly with my normal map applied (and the normal map itself, in case anyone was interested in seeing that):
I do apologize in advance if the images are really big; when I rescale them, they don't seem to keep the scale I set them too. ):
Feedback and critique is greatly appreciated! I'm starting on my textures now, so any tips on some good texture ideas would also be really cool. Thanks, guys!
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I don't quite know what you mean... can you elaborate for me?
Got to a finishing point with my prop. Here's a shot of my color map with some AO and other stuff:
Aaand, here's my finished prop from UDK with some specularity going and everything:
Any other critique and comments would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, guys!
Get cracking on some real texture painting.
The grip needs more love. Grooves, design, something.
You had a bunch of really cool ideas for a design style stuff along the barrel...there's no reason you couldn't paint that stuff in Photoshop and overlay it, including the normals.
Get some color variation in there. The entire gun shouldn't be "silvery-gray". Some parts should be darker, others lighter, others made of a different surface entirely. Google "pistol" and look at some interesting color choices available.
If you wanted to go for gray "chromy" look on parts of it, you could add some subtle reflection as well.
Do a search on this forum for "gun" and other related terms and look at the wealth of feedback and suggestions other people have made for previous gun models before yours.
Thanks for the input! I'll definitely use these pointers!
Alright cool, thanks!
Also, like others said, you really need to break up all of the grey with more color and texture detail.
Cool, thanks for the input! I'll see what I can do!
I worked a lot more on the textures, and I tried to break up the shapes of the metals with color variations and put in more texture detail in the metals and grip, as Ott and Razgriz suggested. I also added in the design I had referenced from the concept image I used on the barrel of the gun, also as Ott suggested I do.
As for my normal map, I wasn't able to get much more out of it due to a really crappily-working and always-lagging computer, but I'm still working on that to see what I can do.
Here's my new textures and screenshots of my model done in UDK:
Thank you guys for your critique, I think it looks a lot better than what I had before, I really appreciate it! Any other critiques would be awesome!