[WIP] Maverick Weapon

timspanjer

Hey everyone!
After years of assaulting my coworkers with the maverick nerf gun I decided to use it as the basis for my next weapon project. I’m planning to do a steampunk style version of this gun. As you can see below, so far I’m almost finished with the high-poly version of the base gun. Next I plan to add extra geometric details and elements before sculpting and painting. My end goal is to have a game ready weapon for UDK.

Thoughts and suggestions welcome




WIP model




Some of my reference.

Cibo

The muzzle and the chambers are not in one line. The weapon explode in your hand.

timspanjer

Good call Cibo. I'll take care of that before moving forward. Thanks!

timspanjer

Here is an update on the weapon. As you can see in the images I have gone away from the steam punk idea and am taking it more the sci-fi direction. Adding a digital sight and display on top. Crits and comments would be great before I bake this down.

Kungfujackrabbit

Tim,
Keep adding to this one and push the look and feel of the gun till it isnt even recognizable.I like the top addition to the slide

Dont be afraid to take pieces away if you find a more interesting shape or piece should be there. That will make this gun a great model.

IMHO
G

SnaFuBAR

add a stock to it like the old stechkins used to have?

timspanjer

@Kungfujackrabbitt - Thanks. I'll keep playing with it an see what I come up with.

@SnaFuBAR - Are you talking an attachment to the handle like this?


That could be a cool direction... Thanks guys!

SnaFuBAR

indeed i am.

timspanjer

Started on the diffuse map today.

timspanjer

Working on textures... Planning to add some lights and a color paint job to it next. Screen shots are from marmoset.

timspanjer

Texture update.. Any thoughts on the digital camo pattern? More? less? different color?

Moosebish

The model looks really great! Every time I look at it though I can't help but see it's true colors... http://www.twofedoras.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nerfmav.jpg

I'm not a huge fan of the digital camo, I liked the way it looked without it..

The handle seems sort of weird to me too. I'm not quite sure what material it is. Most of it looks so smooth, I read it as plastic. Most metal gun grips have some sort of pattern in them. But it would be cool to add some color to the piece and the handle would be a good place to do that, like the reference. If you didn't want to do the wood, leather would look cool too. But right now the whole thing is basically just gray scale..

TehSplatt

I love the digital camo haha

FullSynch

More attachments! It needs an underslung grenade launcher.

dpadam450

I hate digital camo, it ruins every gun. The first ones all sweet and you can see every scratch high detail. digital camo never brings out that and it just looks low res in the end.

timspanjer

@Moosebish - Thank you and thanks for the feedback
@FullSynch - I totally agree and have a few ideas for projectiles as well. Hoping to get some time for those soon...
@dpadam450 - I have toned it down a little and still not completely happy with it. Planning to revisit this.

ambershee

It looks great - give me a shout if you fancy implementing it as a functional weapon in UT3

Blaisoid

looks cool but i dunno about the camo. my brain interprets it as pixelated texture no matter how many times i try to convince it that this is based on real world camo.

game

the gun handle is to small compared to the front of the gun try making it bigger trust me played games for years now and it look awsome but the grip (handle) sould be bigger

The Lone Penguin

I think it looks fine as is. Love the color choices, lookin great Tim! I think the spec can use a bit more detail though