D9 antigravity gun
polycounter lvl 17
I don't know what this gun is called...but i loved it. I can hardly find any reference pictures of it...so i'm improvising on alot of it.
I'm changing the handle when i get to it.
I'm changing the handle when i get to it.
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i'll post some up when i've finished the highpoly.
Here's the finished Highpoly. I'm going to start on the Lowpoly.
Show em textures man!
http://www.j6x2.com/2009/09/15/district-9-gun-2/
very stout.
Any help?
I know you modeled this in Max but
Is it being baked in Xnormal?
Cage? No Cage?
Overlapping where?
Whats your LP look like?
Smoothing Groups?
there is a cage
no overlapping
and with smoothing groups, i usually put each piece on it's own smoothing group unless there's a 90 degree angle or more
here's the LP
Green means chamfer. Its only done on places with low geo and places you want to catch highlights and help your smoothing groups for normals.
Red means remove geo. Your cylinders seem really heavy on the geo when it dosnt help the shilhouete at all. Or its to small to be worth the 20 sided cylindar.
It also seems like you tapered off some of the cylinders as they got smaller like on the front two piston things but not on any of the rest.
EDIT: how dose this guy look from first person mode? I know you didnt design the gun but it would be an added plus if it looked great from that view too.
At least from my experience this will result in a way easier mesh to unwrap.
Also clean up that mess at the indent you have there Oo
The other thing I would do, and I'm assuming you're doing this but just in case, break the mesh down into it's main elements and bake each one individually.
I tend to go with what HAL said over Anthony and use smoothing groups instead of chamfers, just make sure you don't have any near 90 degree intersections wrapped into the same shell, it can cause issues and weird smoothing errors.