AKS-74U

Millenia

Finished:

Figured I should probably pop this in its own thread.

Gonna use it for several games - CSS, CSGO, STALKER, GTA4, F:NV (maybe FO3 too) at least. And it'll probably also be a portfolio piece :P

maxivz

The hp model is looking really good so far, i would love to see it in stalker

Rednaz

Love this gun! looks like you got a pretty solid start

gauss

looking good so far, good edge strength for baking

Millenia

Thanks guys! Here's a bit more progress. Only stock, mag and some stuff on the other side left.

Millenia

Almost done, aside from some small things and the other side. Any crits? Be harsh :P

Millenia

gilesruscoe

Nice highpoly man! Textures should look great if your fonv thread is anything to go by.

gauss

should bake really well, nice work.

Docm30

This should become the new example for how the edges should look on a high-poly.

Nice job.

maxivz

If i just could model like this, this looks amaizing millenia! whats your rendering settings, they look really good for showcasing an hp model

Millenia

Thanks guys, much appreciated!

maxivz wrote: »

If i just could model like this, this looks amaizing millenia! whats your rendering settings, they look really good for showcasing an hp model

It's just literally default scanline renderer with skylight, light tracer, one omni and simple mats. Doesn't get much simpler than that!

Quack!

Looks great millienia. Can't wait to see your texture work on it. Why are you taking it into so many engines?

Millenia

Quack! wrote: »

Looks great millienia. Can't wait to see your texture work on it. Why are you taking it into so many engines?

Well, I like to mod several games and when I have something I can use across many of them, why not :poly142:

Especially as I rarely bother to model something from scratch!

Millenia

Arac

Looks great millenia!

Can you post a wireframe of your low poly?

Millenia

Sure!

Alberto Rdrgz

Great HP work man! this looks amazing!

Lonewolf

really nice work man

=D

Blur.

Epic work as always Mill.

Millenia

Okay, finished tweaking the low, rebaked normals and added some details. Texture time!

Oniram

that bake is f-ing beautiful!!

Stromberg90

Nice bake, bad glow
Looking forward to seeing how you will texture this, wish you would do something else than a AK though.

gauss

outstanding work man. you know you're looking at a good bake when you're not sure if you're looking at LP at all until you hunt around the silhouette

Millenia

Early

Oniram

nice dude. super nice. wood material is reading pretty well. how damage are you planning to go on this? itd be nice to kinda see a clean version of a gun for once.

Millenia

Otherwise I might do a bit cleaner, but I wanna use the same texture in games like STALKER and Fallout so I kinda need some damage

Millenia

A bit more..

TychoVII

Wow, this is asonishingly good. Please for the love of god, give us some insight into your texturing process! Especially dat wood. Ohhh dat wood.

Havoc89

Very impressive texture work. Looking fantastic. Now I'm curious though, is this in Marmoset?

Jessica Dinh

Whoaaa, I the texturing :0 Esp. the wood!!

Millenia

Havoc89 wrote: »

Very impressive texture work. Looking fantastic. Now I'm curious though, is this in Marmoset?

The latest shot is in Marmoset, the previous one is in Max (3p shader).

TychoVII wrote: »

Wow, this is asonishingly good. Please for the love of god, give us some incite into your texturing process! Especially dat wood. Ohhh dat wood.

Well I dunno lol I just keep messing around with the textures until it looks good to me :poly142:
The wood is entirely hand-painted, though.

Jessica Dinh wrote: »

Whoaaa, I the texturing :0 Esp. the wood!!

Thanks Jessica

WIP maps if you guys wanna take a looksie

TychoVII

Millenia wrote: »

Well I dunno lol I just keep messing around with the textures until it looks good to me :poly142:
The wood is entirely hand-painted, though.

WIP maps if you guys wanna take a looksie

The wood diffuse is great but that spec just seems to bring it to life. Such great surface quality. Do you use any custom PS brushes? How long would you say you spent on the wood alone? I really like the stock as well, where the coating is worn off on top. Just high quality stuff, and thanks for letting us take a look at your maps!

Millenia

http://up.millenia3d.net/up/brushes.abr

Razgriz

Sticking fingerprints in the Spec is a neat idea, I haven't seen that before, but it's barely visible on your model, and they seem somewhat randomly scattered about. Adding it to the gloss as well (or vice versa?) and boosting it's prominence might help a bit.

Overall, great work!

joeriv

Great work, and as others have said, that wood is really well done.

And a thanks for posting the texture sheets ^^

roosterMAP

Very nice textures! Your spec is way brighter than I thought it would be... but if it looks good, then that's all that counts.

Racer445

the most important thing to address right now are your base materials. at the moment they all look pretty much the same because, as you can see in your texture sheets, your spec and gloss have pretty much no tonal variation. since you're using a gloss map, tonal separation is extra important.

i think what's happened here is because of this, to make a worn looking weapon you've added lots of messy little shapes instead of just really pushing your simple shapes and materials. one particular example of this is your wood material--where instead of making a nice wood material and then fading the crap out of the edges, and adding a few nice chunky scratches or whatever to the coating, you just added a bunch of random scratch shapes which completely obscure the highlight. it's disjointed if anything.

also because of this, your details are blending in. i've told you this before; details should be brighter in the spec and darkened in the gloss for maximum effect. it's not realistic but it makes them stand out.

so yeah, to make a worn item is not to add more stuff, but taking your existing materials and pushing them a lot. i'd strongly consider cleaning it up and focusing on edge wear, especially on the wood. bringing out the soft edges on the metal will help a lot too.

Millenia

Yeah to be honest I'm probably gonna redo the damage completely with some tricks I've learned at work, I'm not too satisfied with it atm :I

Avanthera

Def some improvement to be had with Racers advice, but high, bake, and textures are all pretty awesome so far! Just keep pushing it!

TychoVII

Very kind of you to share you brushes. Much appreciated. Also I wouldn't pay attention to anything that Racer guy says. I'm pretty sure he's new around here and doesn't know what he's talkin about :poly124:

theSixtyEight

TychoVII wrote: »

Very kind of you to share you brushes. Much appreciated. Also I wouldn't pay attention to anything that Racer guy says. I'm pretty sure he's new around here and doesn't know what he's talkin about :poly124:

Racer is great artist! He has awesome tutorials, and his work is amazing!

Millenia

TychoVII wrote: »

Very kind of you to share you brushes. Much appreciated. Also I wouldn't pay attention to anything that Racer guy says. I'm pretty sure he's new around here and doesn't know what he's talkin about :poly124:

I appreciate the fact he takes time to criticize my work when there is a lot of room for improvement. As much as I like positive feedback as well, it won't help me improve as an artist

cptSwing

i think that was sarcasm

Millenia

Sarcasm is hard to convey over internet

TychoVII

Millenia wrote: »

I appreciate the fact he takes time to criticize my work when there is a lot of room for improvement. As much as I like positive feedback as well, it won't help me improve as an artist

Yeah, I've learned a lot from Racer's videos and if I actually had anything to post on PC I'd appreciate every bit of criticism I got. (And yes it was sarcasm, sorry for the confusion)

BuLL

As much as I understand Racer`s point`s bud.The fact is.."That`s your skinning style".
I`d much rather see "your own"(take on a skin)..tbh..
It`s all well and good following tut`s by other artist`s,but you CANNOT BEAT individuality...Ie..If everyone skinned like racer,It would become a tad boring.(No offence intended Racer)but I`m sure you understand my point...No, his textures aren`t perfect(who`s are?).but they have millenia written all over them and that`s my point.
Loving the skin M..Fault`s and all;)

Millenia

Restarted it pretty much aside from the base textures, still quite early:

mr_ace

are you planning on releasing a gun pack for cs:go or something? I think your guns look much better than the valve guns, and I'd much rather play with them

Millenia

I'm releasing them individually but if I do manage to get a replacement for every slot I'll release them as a convinient pack.

walklikethis

looking very slick man Did you have to do a custom reload animation? or are you using a pre existing one? The wood doesn't have quite the finish as it did before, but i am sure you are aware of this.