Steyr TMP

Devi8ing

Greetings everyone! I'm posting up a work in progress of my Steyr TMP. Currently I have the high and I've done the low twice. I'm having gradient issues on my normals and I can't figure out why. I've made the gun in 3ds Max and added a smooth modifier on the high. I also did set some smoothing groups on the low. Can someone point me in the right direction?



Top left: High rendered
Top right: High (turbosmooth)
Bottom: Low

nizu

Hi, Maybe the low needs more work on smoothing groups ? more sharp edges, easy to miss.

Just happened to me , that i paid close attention to the smoothing of hipoly , and missed some important sharp edges on the lowpoly affecting the baked map.
The gradients in the square-ring in top right of map could come from bad smoothing of the lowpoly ..

n88tr

barrel shroud looks way too thin

EarthQuake

Your normal map looks fine, those gradients are there to account for the smoothing of your lowpoly mesh. Its impossible to help any further than that without seeing the normal map applied to the low with a realtime shader.

D.Carmine

A bit off topic but I think the low poly looks great. In terms of that issue you are getting with the normal map I can't seem to find a problem with it.

Your best bet is to do what EarthQuake suggested.

Great looking gun by the way.

Andreas

Don't those bevelled lines up front go inwards?



I modelled this a while back; some quite complicated modelling involved with it isn't there Best of luck.