Need help/crit springfield rifle

feathers

hello polycount, I've been a lurker here for a while now and I thought I'd make my first post. I'm self taught and still pretty amature. Comments and critiques would be very welcome. Right now I'm working on a American civil war era 1861 Springfield model. I have a diffuse/normal/ and colored spec map but I can't seem to get the desired look in udk. It better in the marmoset tool bag but It just looks flat and boring in udk. I want to make the metal look more like metal and less like a grey plastic.

diffuse


In unreal

camza

Your pics aren't loading for me. What site have you hosted them on?

octokitty

you should try imgur.com

feathers

weird they work for me I'll re-upload them

Oniram

sometimes to get things looking the way you want in UDK you have to mess with the material editor a bit more than just plugging diffuse spec and normal. though for the time being.. id say just test how it looks in marmoset. especially if its just for a port piece.

as of now the texture looks pretty boring and uninteresting. could we also see the normal and spec map.. that may help a bit.

feathers

spec

normal (not much ATM)

Also I'd like get it looking nice in unreal because this gun is for a mod.

Cap Hotkill

Make the metal Darker, way darker, Get a coloured specular to imitate the darkening and colour gradients made by heating and then cooling on oil, make your wood more interesting, it would be better if you used photosourced wood or something more of the line of that gun.