Ak-74m modern russian rifle

BLACKMETAL

Hi everyone! I recently started making ak-74m russian rifle, here's the hipoly i've made so far.











Wires:
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/507a654574ffe7da3f41d24b1ea35562/oak_wir4.jpg ;http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/507a654574ffe7da3f41d24b1ea35562/oak_wir5.jpg

I plan to make more hipolys of russian arms and after that make lowpolys with textures for all of it.

EarthQuake

Cool, whats with the big cylinder sticking out the back of the buttstock? Looks like it would be uncomfortable.

HornyRhino

great stuff man

GarageBay9

EarthQuake wrote: »

Cool, whats with the big cylinder sticking out the back of the buttstock? Looks like it would be uncomfortable.

That button unlatches the stock when it's folded and locked in place by the latch-hook on the left side of the receiver up by the rear sight. It's gently spring loaded, so it gets pushed into the stock whenever you shoulder the rifle and you don't even feel it.

IronHawk

Nice work man.

BLACKMETAL

IronHawk, HornyRhino, thanks!

EarthQuake, it's just rubber button, as said you dont even notice it.

GarageBay9, right.

gauss

Everything checks out. Very exacting detail, nicely done. Got plans for a low poly bake?

bbob

Wow, you made internals?

sltrOlsson

Porn!

gauss

bbob: dude definitely went the extra mile, but it actually does make sense for modeling an AK. Most of the interals are pretty well visible from the ejection port, there's not too much work to get the rest of it.

But that underplays the fact that the got the piston recoil spring sagging just so. Bravo

MEGALOS

siiihiiihiicckkkkk dude! what program are you using??

BLACKMETAL

Gauss, sure but only when i finish some other highpoly weapons.

Bbob, yes but not all, only that visible somehow.

SltrOlsson, glad you like it.

MEGALOS, i use maya 2011.

Jungsik

Im loving the blue spec render

BLACKMETAL

Recently finished RGS-50M 50mm grenade launcher in 2,5 days, tried to improve fast modelling skills.





Additional screens
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs1.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs2.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs3.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs4.jpg

Wires:
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs_setka.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/a8ef7b960326159f8d10877dfa27569e/orgs_setka2.jpg

gauss

I wanted to chime back in and say how impressed I am looking at this now by the fidelity of the bakelite mag. I modeled one of those and I thought I was getting a little excessive with detail, but you actually managed to capture the material and all the quirky little byproducts and subtle depressions from the manufacturing process.

And the new model keeps up the consistency of quality, well done.

BadgerBaiter

This is beautiful. Here endeth the lesson.

Lovely render.

Also makes me want to try and model a gun when I get a chance... any suggestions on what may be a good one to start off with? Sorry to ninja in on your thread

BLACKMETAL

Gauss, thanks, i just got good refs. Something like this http://foto.mail.ru/mail/photoshooter/1103 .

BadgerBaiter, thanks, try this one http://foto.mail.ru/mail/photoshooter/2 .

BLACKMETAL

Baking normals done, still have to configure some ao stuff, then texturing:






10k tris.

Boyso

Amazing!

Really clean bake as well.

Could you post some wires when you get the time

One thing I did notice is your recoil spring seems to be to tight around the "tube"

It looks like circles around instead of a "spring"

Or change a bit the tube design : http://www.arizonaresponsesystems.com/notes/notesak/aktroubleshoot/akts11.jpg

bbob

Holy crapsicle!

That transferred well; am interested in wires as well..

Alphavader

rly nice, wich programms do you use ?

Sebeuroc

Very nice work mate, beautiful stuff.

BLACKMETAL

Boyso, yep you are right, but you wont see that place on lowpoly at all.
bbob, Sebeuroc , thanks!
Wires:

Xendance

Boyso wrote: »

Amazing!

Really clean bake as well.

Could you post some wires when you get the time

One thing I did notice is your recoil spring seems to be to tight around the "tube"

It looks like circles around instead of a "spring"

Or change a bit the tube design : http://www.arizonaresponsesystems.com/notes/notesak/aktroubleshoot/akts11.jpg

The spring is tight in real life.

Cap Hotkill

Xendance wrote: »

The spring is tight in real life.

Were is tight? If it was tight it would not have any headroom to move.
Its only tight when the lock goes back and compresses the spring.

GarageBay9

Cap Hotkill wrote: »

Were is tight? If it was tight it would not have any headroom to move.
Its only tight when the lock goes back and compresses the spring.

Nope, he's got it right for the AK-100 series rifles, I've got the bolt carrier spring from my Izmash Saiga in front of me and his looks EXACTLY like it. Nice work, Blackmetal!

BLACKMETAL

I'm having some problems with exporting model from maya to modo. Tryed different file formats fbx, obj, dae, 3ds but they all have bugs and artifacts. Best import was with fbx:
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/381f40f0eb3c893f10e96efd9136e34e/otrobla.jpg
http://s2.itrash.ru//idb/381f40f0eb3c893f10e96efd9136e34e/otrobla1.jpg
but it lost smoothing groups and some polygons.

Any thoughts will be really helpful.

Xendance

Cap Hotkill wrote: »

Were is tight? If it was tight it would not have any headroom to move.
Its only tight when the lock goes back and compresses the spring.

I didn't mean the compression, I meant how tightly it grabs around the cylinder.

TL;DR: It looks just like the one in my RK-62 I had in the army :P

ToxiQ

Try exporting with another model, if it has errors too you will probably need to reset maya and/or modo. As for the model, it looks really nice but I would like to see a stamped reciever instead of a milled one.

BLACKMETAL

Try exporting with another model, if it has errors too you will probably need to reset maya and/or modo.

I tried, but still getting bugs like this.

As for the model, it looks really nice but I would like to see a stamped reciever instead of a milled one.

Where do you see milled reciever?

ToxiQ

that shows what mean :

GarageBay9

ToxiQ, uh, he DOES have a stamped receiver modeled.

ToxiQ

Uh, I meant the upper reciever, It has no grooves.

BLACKMETAL

ToxiQ, take a look at this http://tantal.kalashnikov.guns.ru/variants.html . I've modelled modern one, it has no grooves.

Anyway, any ideas on modo import problem?

ToxiQ

Idk, really.
Maybe check for double faces, unwelded verts and such stuff.

BLACKMETAL

Little update, doing some basic texture:

Orgoth02

looking awesome man I can't wait until it is done

Sliterin

Blackmetal could you show us how it look on diffuse,spec and gloss ? I'm very intrested how you do it ( I think that I know, but please help me to prove it my head :DD ).
Cheers Sliterin ;]

BLACKMETAL

Finally got some time to finish ak.







Still need to do some parts for it like opics, grenade launcher and ect.

Sliterin, sorry didn't saw your reply, i used spec and diffuse.

RobertHammer

Best Ak-74M model ever seen - loving that detail and that specular map

supaclueless

REALLY awesome job on the texturing and Hard surface modelling...u nailed down a precise feel for the gun even though it is just a single color!...also shows me how much i need to learn

theSixtyEight

THQ with their STALKER and Metro 2033 can just envy...

Sliterin

BlackMetal - thank you very much :]
it looks very good and not complicated in texture, only peeled paint looks quite strange (from positive side). Do you take this peeling stuff from damaged weapons or from normal textures with peeled paint?

Olli.

BLACKMETAL wrote: »

Little update, doing some basic texture:

that is just epic. epic without bounds.

what rez are the textures?

- Livewire -

Fantastic attention to detail, any particular way you make those scratches look so good?

Envart

Lovely work. Could easily see this in bf3, your material defininition is fantastic - that metal really sings.

BLACKMETAL

RobertHammer, supaclueless, Paul68Rageous, Walrus, thanks glad you like it.

Sliterin, most of peeling i just painted in ps, and some took from normal textures.

Olli, emmmm it's 4096x4096 as i indicated it on last screen.

Havoc89

That is incredible. Very nice texture work and render.

Olli.

BLACKMETAL wrote: »

Olli, emmmm it's 4096x4096 as i indicated it on last screen.

sorry didnt spot that quite a high rez (probably not good for game engines) but that doesnt make the texture any less impressive

fantastic job.

roosterMAP

my goodness, that is a pretty texture. Wish I could make such realistic scratches.

Olli.

Xendance wrote: »

I didn't mean the compression, I meant how tightly it grabs around the cylinder.

TL;DR: It looks just like the one in my RK-62 I had in the army :P

the RK 62 has 2 variations, old and new. minor differences between the variations are the front handguard, rear iron sight, grip, and the carrier spring. The old version had the enclosed carrier spring design where the spring is held on to the rod by a piston like in this picture. The newer version had the spring and the rod seperate, most likely because of cheaper manufacturing cost and its a simpler design, meaning it doesnt jam as much. the new carrier spring design can be seen in this picture

you probably had the newer version as in the new version the spring fits on the rod tightly to prevent it falling off and getting lost during field stripping (as its not held on by a piston)

now for the actual point: the ak47 utilizes the version of the carrier spring with the piston, and as you can see from the picture above with the piston, the spring is quite loose on it.

/p