M4

Yesmaam

Hello Polycount!
I have been wandering the forum for quite some time and thought it was time for me to post something. This is a M4 i have been working on for some time and it's supposed to be a portfolio piece and it's supposed to be used in an fps game.

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Low ( 10025 tris ) is it low enough? and should i try to rearrange the tris?







Any comments or critic would be appreciated

megalmn2000

I think 10K is enough.
Don't forget to put your smoothing groups for baking! Otherwise, you'll have bad surprises.

Oniram

im wondering.. if you remove the scope and ironsight from the low poly, how drastically does the tri count drop. youve got way too many polygons on the scope, grip (not the attached one but the one that is part of the body), and muzzle flash hider. id say it could still be reduced quite a bit. probably down to 7-8k.. if not less.

RedRogueXIII

- HP Edges are too hard/sharp
- Picatinny optic mounting rails are proportioned wrong, and only the top half is cut out.
- Seems along the vert grip and pistol grip (intentional?)
- Something odd about the charging handle, but then again there are tons of after market parts so idk.
- For LP cut down on the muzzle break, grip, the optic has much more visibility so leave it.

sltrOlsson

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Saying that all the edges is to sharp is wrong. I would say most of the edges on the smaller details, like the handles stripes, the little buttons and screws and what not on the sight is to small and so on. A good rule of thumb is, if it starts to pixelate and get jagged in the viewport, it's to small. Now this is a first person gun so that's your starting point.

Think about how the camera will capture this. The stock won't be visible until reload or similar and the barrel will always be far away. Think about were to put them good old details with that in mind. Talking about the LP ofc..

Really great to see some new stuff from you! How's everything going?

mr_ace

the model looks great, but the renders are doing it a big disservice, there's too little contrast and no highlights to give a sense of the detail, I'd try and get a better shader / lighting setup together to show your work off better

Mgoblue412

I think you could cut down some tris if you make the rails that your scope and front grip are one. Also I think you can normal the "ribs" that are on the main grip of the gun.

Yesmaam

Update:
Hello and thanks for the feedback:)

@Oniram
without the scope and irongsight it comes down to 5631 tris

@RedRogueXIII
-I'm working on loosen up some of the supporting edges on the highpoly.
-As for the rails i have changed so only the top part is cut out, have not looked in on the proportions of the rails yet
-the seams has been fixed.

@mr_ace
the render setup for the moment is non existing it is only screen grabs from maya at the moment.

@Mgoblue412
im sorry but i did not understand what part you meant with "I think you could cut down some tris if you make the rails that your scope and front grip are one" and regarding the "ribs" I would like to keep them since they add to the silhouette and I think it is quite characteristic to the grip.

@sltrOlsson
haha i thought It was time for me to come out of my shell^^ Otherwise everything is moving on nicely. I will keep that rule of thumb in mind when i rework the high poly.

as for the lowpoly i have reduced the grip but kept the tris on the scope since it will be visible at all times.
the only thing is that I'm not sure of is the muzzle i reduced it in two different versions and maybe you can tell me which will work best? or if i should rework it in another way.







the low poly is now down to 9265 tris

n88tr

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sltrOlsson

I think that it would be a good call cutting that flash muscle down like that last one and just make the wholes 100% black in the texture. It's something that wouldn't be visible anyhow.

As for renders i would set up a quick three point light setup, google it, and use a blinn with a broad falloff and like 50% specular with a semi dark diffuse.

I've also used a fully emissive sphere with finalGather enabled for lightning.

Yesmaam

Hello it's been a while but i have been doing some work on the texture for the m4 and i was hopeing to get some feedback on it.
Texture sheets are diffuse/specc/normal all size 2048






Any feedback or comments are appreciated

Brygelsmack

I think the textures look pretty low res for 2048, especially for the parts closer to the camera (see pic). Remember to give stuff closer to the player more UV space. Speaking of which, can we see them? The UVs that is.

mikelee

nice work

like the level of detail on your m4

im also working on an m4 still more work to do tho