Steampunk type gun

graylen · Sep 2011

I have been working on this for a few days, its hipoly at the moment but I am hoping to have it game res in the end. Any comments on how to improve will be welcome.

jeremiah_bigley · Sep 2011

well first thing I notice right off the bat is that your edges are too sharp to cast a decent normal map in the end. Ease up on some of your edgeloops so that they catch some better highlights...

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1426788&postcount=7

graylen · Sep 2011

Thanks! I will fix it.

jeremiah_bigley · Sep 2011

And maybe do a render of some sort... with an AO pass over it to get people drooling over your model. Screenshots aren't really turning anyone on around here

graylen · Sep 2011

Its just a hi-poly model

I didn't expect much reaction. still have to build the low poly and texture it. hopefully it will get a reaction then...

graylen · Sep 2011

finished the game res model, a bit higher poly then I was hoping for but I using opacity masks for the targets just didn't work properly.

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CerisierEnFleur · Sep 2011

Hi !

Nice model but you should definitely give some more work to the textures.

Define the metal a bit more. Define what the purple is (paint ?) and make the brass more brass looking I would say. Once you get those 3 materials right you will see a massive improvement in my opinion.

Scratches in the spec, slight color tint in the metal instead of pure grey, everything is good.

Check the texture sheet of some models which has good material definition, it is usually really instructive.

I did something a bit like this gun last year, it is not perfect but maybe it would help you

http://simonbesombes.blogspot.com/2010/04/speed-texturing-competition.html

graylen · Sep 2011

Thanks! ill check it out and see how to improve.

Steampunk type gun

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