steapunk gun

low_seb

Hello

I am new on polycount, and it is my first thread
I working since 5 year in the cg industry but more in fx
we pass at the realtime with unity and its a first training

just a old design of a steampunk gun,but more 1900 and art nouveau style



I started the highpoly and I am happy with the general shape and look
but some details are missing





thanks for reading an sorry for the faults , I not confortable with english

update

low_seb

a advance on my gun
yet a little more details and almost ready to bring into Zbrush

Cap Hotkill

Dont forget to model the inside of the barrel. :P

low_seb

yes ,he come the inside of the barrel





and the opening system
the barrel don't turn and the shell are use all at the same time

low_seb

anyone have a idea for improve my model ?
for my its time to bring in zbrush






thanks for viewing

Cap Hotkill

The images are not showing, to improve it you should add more sharpness to it, and then when you bring it to zbrush you only have to add subtle details.

Can you post some wires?

low_seb

a wire

the piece upper the main body is crappy ,I need to reshape it before Zbrush

low_seb

sorry for the mess

the images should be online now

Cap Hotkill

Use imageshack.us to upload your images, is far better than dropbox.

low_seb

someone could confirm that my images are online
I fight with this images uploader
thanks


wire

Cap Hotkill

yeah, your images are showing.
When you get it on Zbrush you may want to collapse it in subtools by groups. that way you will not have troubles with densities.

low_seb

hello

A progress on my gun

I make the baking but some little issue remains
and I start the texure ,I am happy with the wood and the metal

viewed in unity
it realy need a secular color map in it shader presets

verybad

the barrel metal could use some harder specularity, currently it's looking more like stone.

Cap Hotkill

Try not to add Noise and dust details on your normal map, keep them for your specular or difuse

Kitteh

I think the brass is a bit too saturated, it looks like it's painted with yellow paint

Also the brass bits might look cool with some engravings, they're a bit bland at the moment.

LMP

Kitteh wrote: »

I think the brass is a bit too saturated, it looks like it's painted with yellow paint

Also the brass bits might look cool with some engravings, they're a bit bland at the moment.

I double what is said here, desaturate the brass some, possibly the green and the wood as well.

jmt

I know next to nothing about guns, but it wouldn't work if those are supposed to be bullets. The chamber in a revolver rotates, aligning the bullet with the hammer and barrel. 3 bullets couldn't fire out of this sort of gun simultaneously. If those are supposed to be glowing energy cylinders, you should make them look more like that (brighter, more obvious and less in the shape of a revolver). There are some very cool parts of this design, but the main concept seems sort of muddied by what I mentioned. Maybe it's just me.

What other people mentioned is true as well. You should work on the color balance and be a little less heavy-handed with the normal map.

low_seb

thanks for the advices

@jmt
In fact ,the shell are not moving parts ,its just a 3 liquid mix in a chamber
the shell are not aligned with the barrel and the rear part is a comprimed air tank
the air push three liquid into the chamber
I agree that system look like too much to a classic revolver system



I tried a other thing for my render ,unity presets shaders isnt great for presentation


viewport grab 3dsmax with xoliul shader

Low

Is the handle made of wood?

If positive the specular needs to drop.
If it is supposed to be vernished, then drop the normal's details a bit.

Kitteh

Whatever new shader thing you added looks bad, it's making your grip look like shiny transparent plastic. Also the wear and stuff in the normal map is too strong now, especially on the brass.

LMP

you definitely need to get some gloss control in there

SouthpawSid

I almost like the shiny of the metals with the new shader, but the wood reads horrid. It was better even before. For sure wouldn't hurt to turn down the spec on everything, and really working to nail the wood on the handle.

low_seb

hello
after learn a lot about baking(thanks to polycounters) ,i decide to rework this one
new high poly , optimize my low and my uv's and a new bake




no spec yet ,just start the diffuse (very wip)
thanks for viewing

JoshVanZuylen

I like your high bake mate, looks awesome!

It looks like you might have some hard normals on the finger guard?

low_seb

thanks

some minor update on texture ,not work yet on wood and fight with the brass
i have some issue on my model ,I cant find where come from

the issues



and some render

Dimfist

Looks like smoothing groups

low_seb

no , i check the smoothing group in max and they are perfecly fine , its not the normal either
its appears only in marmost ,very weird


some texture update

Strandy

Fantastic work low_seb. I'm a big fan of steam punk.

low_seb

almost done , figth with gloss map in marmoset

low_seb

call it done