[WIP] EBR m-21 high poly
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The time has come for me to start another project for school. I am making a high poly gun to show my hard surface skills, and will be sculpting a mini scene for it when its done. I am looking for critiques more so about the modeling itself and not so much how accurate the gun is as I did take some artistic liberties. However if anything is glaring off, inaccurate or simply non-functioning please let me know. Forgive my sloppy presentation, not quite sure how to present/render high poly so I'll just do some screen grabs and ambient passes. Bring on the C&C! 
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Great work though, i look forward to seeing the ending product!
...It is round. That's the high poly. The one where it isn't round is the unsubd mesh.
Dragan: Yea you were probably looking at the low poly for the scope, as the high poly is rounded, but the lp could still use geometry.
Penguin: As Dragan said about the hard edge on the scope, and you are saying about other edges, they are all beveled (or chamfered as its called in max?), I just did them to tight and froze my objects so I lost the ability to change the bevels, if I have time I will remove the bevels by hand and re-do them. Im also hoping my final render will show them off better than an ambient occlusion pass.
SlrtOlsson: Yea as I said to Penguin, the bevels and details are there, just like you said too tight. On new pieces I have been doing larger details and softer edges.
Hoping to finish the stock and shoulder rest of the arm, at least I think that's what they are called, I'm a total noob with gun terminology
You probably need to cap off all of these holes you have, like in the rail area, as that will not bake well as is, unless you plan to model the holes in the lowpoly as well. Remember that any holes you make in the high generally need to be matched in the low.
Here is my work that I was supposed to finish yesterday, but just had a bad day. So here is the stock all finished
http://newindianridgemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Sandstone-Pics-4.26.09-004.jpg
http://bunnyvista.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/sandstone-wall.jpg
http://bunnyvista.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/img_7980.jpg
I use high-poly and trim dynamic brushes to sharpen up the corners.
To chip off your bricks, you can use clipping brushes in zbrush 4.
Getting off the computer for tonight, so I thought I would post where I ended with the touch up, hope I'm not spamming my thread with a micro update, but I think this is starter to look harder, thoughts?
So basically you know how you can set a morph target on an object, and the sculpt it, perhaps beat the pulp out of it, then use the morph brush to restore edges and such, like in creating chips in concrete? Well I VERY foolishly didn't set morph targets on stones, so is there a way to re-import each un-sculpted brick back in, then set my sculpted bricks morph target as the un-sculpted one? I hope this makes sense and is possible... I feel like I could fix my stones up with the morph brush and a square alpha.
As for your wall, you are roughing up the edges on the bricks far too much, take a look at this:
Bricks are brittle, breaking off in flakes and chunks, leaving sharp edges. Also, most of the surface noise are from impurities in the mould.
So what do you think of this? I still need to add the surface noise, but I tried getting the breaks and chips looking right, I think it's a step in the right direction, thoughts anyone?
Be careful though not to chip every single brick in your wall though, just warning as a precursory.
Racer445: Only some of the clips have that doodad, about half the pics of mine don't have it, like this one.
Here's where I'm at with the wall, getting sick of it, said f**k it, moving onto the ground piece, depending on time I may comeback and redo the wall...