WIP - District 9 SMG

RyRyB

I've been poking at this for the better part of the past 2 months now during free time. Still lots to do but am looking for feedback from the fine artists here at PC.






List of to-dos:
- Geo cleanup/optimization
- Texture
- Cleanup minor bake anomalies (AO from floating geo, etc.)

Thanks in advance!

Concept by Greg Broadmore of Weta Workshop (http://www.gregbroadmore.com/)

Apostolon

Awesome work so far! This looks like a fun gun to model.

RyRyB

Got a chance to noodle away at the texture. More to come!

megalmn2000

Cylinders has too much loops. You can get the same smoothing with half of them with the normal map. The rest looks good for the moment.

RyRyB

Thanks for the reply! There's a lot of optimization still to do; the list keeps getting bigger and bigger.

HAL

I only agree for the smaller ones at the side of the gun, the larger ones in the back and the two in the front are alright.

Serp

The rest of the guns on your site look great, you seem to know what you're doing.

Rick_D

why is there a cylinder blocking the barrel?

RyRyB

why is there a cylinder blocking the barrel?

That way the enemies don't know which direction the gun shoots!

j/k

HAL: Yeah, I'll probably reduce down the ones in front since I'm assuming it will rarely be seen, especially at the base of the cylinders. Essentially the cylinders are still the high poly cages and I'm just bouncing around fixing stuff as I move around the mesh.

Serp: Ha! Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing too! Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for the replies! Here's quick texture update from this morning before I move onto worky work.



Still lots to do and cleanup and I just noticed the writing on the mag is rotated incorrectly...

RyRyB

Another texture update. Still need to optimize but nearing the finish line for this one.





Cheers!

Perfectblue

Flats when you are completed please.

RyRyB

Finally got some time in the wee hours of the morning to work on this. I have some minor fixes to the texture that I didn't catch because I hadn't had my coffee and then I'll be on optimizing.

It's sitting around 6600 tris at the moment and should be well under 6k when I'm done.





Thanks for looking.

Cheers!

sltrOlsson

Ah how i love the designs of these weapons! The bake and model looks good. So does the diffuse, but you lack material defenition. It just feels like unmotivated plastic all over the place.

What shader are you using in the viewport? Maybe check Marmoset toolbag out for presentation? Anyhow, you should work more with the specular and add a gloss map. A start would be mixing in some blues in the specular to get a more whiteish highlight.

RyRyB

sltrOlsson: Yeah, you are right. I have used Marmoset in the past but the 30 day trial ran out. Almost purchased the license this morning in fact. Aside from that, I'm just using a Blinn in Maya. I'll definitely give the specular another round or three. Thanks for the feedback!

sltrOlsson

Yeah, i hate the blinn.. Use something like Kodde shader 2.0 or something. It's a CGFX shader. It's great..

RyRyB

Excellent, thanks for the heads up. Never heard of it before.

RyRyB

Started reworking the specular the other day after purchasing the Marmoset Toolbag. I haven't gotten too far on it but the results so far are good!

I'm having to retool how I work on specular, so I focused just on a single part until I got it looking good. I blacked out the rest of the specular, so the rest of the weapon is very flat looking until I can get around to fixing it up.

Progress so far:


Thanks again for any input!

sltrOlsson

I say it's a very good base. But you have to little variance. Maybe put some oil blops and smudges in there to?