Electro Venom Gun

HTLu

Hi,

Starting a new project and here are a start of what I have for concepts.

I'm making a handgun with purpose to shoot something that will sting target, and then the player can get to close range and inject the victim with venom for the kill.

here is a start out reference sheets/inspiration, and sketches of my concept.

I'm liking the middle concept more then the other so far.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated thank you!.








my sketches

spectre1130

great start! Nice concepts.

HTLu

Thank you!!

HTLu

Here is and update on the concept sheet. I've gathered and point out the materials, color, and pieces to give an idea of what gun would look like in general.

MrNinjutsu

Looking like a real nice design, I'll be keeping a close eye on this one!

Snader

Why can't it just shoot the venom? Right now you have to shoot and then stab, which seems like double effort to me.

BeatKitano

Yes, Venomous darts... That would be much better, silent (EM rail propeled darts), useable from long range and deadly. The perfect assassination weapon.

HTLu

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MrNinjutsu on Today 01:09 AM
Looking like a real nice design, I'll be keeping a close eye on this one!


Thank you! I'll do my best. Feedback along the way is also very welcome

HTLu

Snader wrote: »

Why can't it just shoot the venom? Right now you have to shoot and then stab, which seems like double effort to me.

Thank you for the feedback . I'm not sure how I could design it more interesting and different if the concept is just to shoot venom...Like it would just be a gun with venom (liquid ?).
Well I'll see what I can do, but if you have suggestions for specific designs that's also welcome.

HTLu

BeatKitano wrote: »

Yes, Venomous darts... That would be much better, silent (EM rail propeled darts), useable from long range and deadly. The perfect assassination weapon.

Thank you for the feedback. Greatly appreciated.

HTLu

MrNinjutsu wrote: »

Looking like a real nice design, I'll be keeping a close eye on this one!

Thank you! I'll do my best. Feedback along the way is also very welcome

HTLu

Update on Venom-Dart Handgun.


This Follows more of the derringer idea with the gun being smaller and compact and the two variety of venom darts.

I'm liking the concept with the purple venom more ( oh and color is not permanent its just for identification)



I will Start blocking in a Model tomorrow. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Snader

Purple one looks nice, but has a very small trigger. (or it's not the size of a derringer)

HTLu

Snader wrote: »

Purple one looks nice, but has a very small trigger. (or it's not the size of a derringer)

Thanks,
I'll fix the trigger in in the model

HTLu

New Updates.

Fixed Concept sheet and Started Hi-poly I'll be posting from start to finish so feedback/suggestions is always welcome of course.

HTLu

Hi!
Here is update of the venom gun in hipoly form.

Donavonyoung

Very neat concept. There seem to be some normal issues along the handle of the gun.

HTLu

Donavonyoung wrote: »

Very neat concept. There seem to be some normal issues along the handle of the gun.

Thank you! The handle got some edge loop issues, so I'm going to fix that soon.

Computron

Also, edges are inconsistent.

That grip looks painful to hold and the gunn just looks like a box.
Some of your concepts in the mood board have such awesom inorganic curved shapes, do that. It really exercises your sub-d skills and sticks out on a portfolio.

HTLu

Hi,

New Updates on gun. I redid the handle and some stuff.

HTLu

Computron wrote: »

Also, edges are inconsistent.

That grip looks painful to hold and the gunn just looks like a box.
Some of your concepts in the mood board have such awesom inorganic curved shapes, do that. It really exercises your sub-d skills and sticks out on a portfolio.

Thanks for the feedback,

HTLu

SasoChicken wrote: »

Good concept, but that handle looks just painful to hold. I can't see a full five-fingered hand fitting onto it, and it's just really squared and seems like it would be very uncomfortable. The overall modeling though looks really nice and the actual barrel and parts other than the handle are looking great

thanks for the feedback!

HTLu

Hi,
Heres an update on hipoly. I'm on the process of baking normals onto a lowpoly.






I'm not getting such a good normal bake so if theres any crits or advice that would be greatly appreciated.
NOt sure why there is so much noise on the render.

Blaisoid

you need to set smoothing groups correctly and divide the UV chunks according to them.
i think it's covered somewhere in this thread, or check the polycount wiki.

HTLu

Blaisoid wrote: »

you need to set smoothing groups correctly and divide the UV chunks according to them.
i think it's covered somewhere in this thread, or check the polycount wiki.

Thank you

HTLu

Updates:

Normals fixed? and reapplied to lowpoly

Quack!

Your normals look completely broken. They look inverted. Are you displaying this in the same program you are baking in?

If not, you need to make sure you normals are the same handedness in your baker and your viewer. Also make sure you triangulate your model if you are exporting to anything, programs auto triangulate polys very differently. Also, make sure your smoothing groups are set by your uv islands. There are a few exceptions to this rule, but it is a good start.

HTLu

Quack! wrote: »

Your normals look completely broken. They look inverted. Are you displaying this in the same program you are baking in?

If not, you need to make sure you normals are the same handedness in your baker and your viewer. Also make sure you triangulate your model if you are exporting to anything, programs auto triangulate polys very differently. Also, make sure your smoothing groups are set by your uv islands. There are a few exceptions to this rule, but it is a good start.

Thanks for the feedback.
Yes I'm displaying it in the same program I'm baking it. This is 3dsmax, render. I don't know but i think part of the issue is because I baked AO with normals on,

Here is a fixed render. of Ao applied baked from default material set up.

HTLu

UPdate of lowpoly render eith AO and normals map applied in materials.



(with only Ao material , no normals)

HTLu

Just Normals apply in materials

HTLu

Sorry another updatle... I forgot to set renders on Catmul-Rom, and Hammersley ,

HTLu

Base texture,

Feedback please

Mark Dygert

I think you had a good thing going with the grip before, it needed a little work but what you have now just looks unusable and painful.

HTLu

Mark Dygert wrote: »

I think you had a good thing going with the grip before, it needed a little work but what you have now just looks unusable and painful.

Thanks for the feedback that is greatly appreciated. I'll make changes on the grip once I've got more time for refining.

HTLu

Update with textures
I'll refine the model in the future, for now since deadline draw near I just have to texture this for now.

UDK shot


Max Render:

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