Vladas 1992 Machine Pistol

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

First time doing sub-d! be gentle ;_;

this gun was too awesome to pass up. Highpoly is just about done, only a few more things to add.

couldn't figure out the way the charging handle worked so i nicked the sterling's, and the rear ironsight isnt very clear on the ref either.

Kosai106 · Feb 2013

It's not your first time doing sub-d, I remember seeing some of your DOTA work..! >_>

Looks good though! But yeah, the rear sight is tricky on this one. I'm not sure I can see how it should work either.

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

first time doing sub-d guns then =P

OddEyes · Feb 2013

really liking those ref images as material reference. Hoping you'll nail it, once you are texturing it.

BenHenry · Feb 2013

Spark, loving to see you are doing some sub-d work. Waiting for progress

PhoenixWolf · Feb 2013

can anyone explain how to create that detail on the right end of the reference. looks diamond shaped details.

Frump · Feb 2013

Looks good so far for a first-time sub-d.

You should show wips with a more shiny metallic shader so it's easier to see the surface and any potential smoothing errors.

I'd probably not have the handle wood intersecting with the gun body. You should model the back of that piece and have it touching, with a little undercut around the edges, so it looks like it's a piece screwed on rather than fused in. The edge around the back of the trigger guard where it meets the handle looks a bit soft too.

Also it looks like the holes on your barrel are smaller than on the reference. On the reference they're almost touched edge to edge with little space between.

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

time to start on the lowpoly

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

would love some c&c cause i'm sorta lost

Bek · Feb 2013

Reference image barrel looks much more chrome, so increase the gloss and get reflections in there if you can. Wood also needs to be more glossy as it looks varnished.

Have most of the grunge noise for the metal in the specular, possibly with a lower opacity copy of the grunge layers in diffuse.

djgardner · Feb 2013

^ yeah, make the barrel, clip, trigger (all things chrome) with an increased gloss.
You also missed the engravings (serial #, manufacture logo, etc), those add nice overall details to the model.
Overall I think it looks great.

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

Bek wrote: »

Reference image barrel looks much more chrome, so increase the gloss and get reflections in there if you can. Wood also needs to be more glossy as it looks varnished.

Have most of the grunge noise for the metal in the specular, possibly with a lower opacity copy of the grunge layers in diffuse.

what grunge brushes would you recommend?

Benton · Feb 2013

The shader needs to me much more shiny, not matte, if that helps :P

Bek · Feb 2013

Sparkwire wrote: »

what grunge brushes would you recommend?

This pack has some pretty good noisy brushes in it: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1145521&postcount=76

Otherwise just search around here, google, maybe even deviant art.

DWalker · Feb 2013

I like your metal texture, but the handle looks more like plastic than wood. With a weapon this worn, you could probably just apply a desaturated wood grain texture to the normal map, emphasizing the uneven wear between the harder and softer parts of the wood. You can also apply the wood texture to the specular map - darker wood is often shinier than the light bits.

Sparkwire · Feb 2013

worked on texture a bit, am i going in the right direction?

texture%20wip1.jpg

im gonna vector out the engravings and put those in the normal in a bit as well

sipher3325 · Mar 2013

noice

JoshWilkinson · Mar 2013

Texture's looking good. Your ref image has some gnarly greens mixed in with the dirt and grime. I'd add some of that to your texture

Sparkwire · Mar 2013

Getting there!

theSixtyEight · Mar 2013

looks great! I would add some crispy wear on those holes, mag and handle, also wood looks pretty new, so I would maybe desaturate it a little bit and add some dirt and scracthes

Sparkwire · Mar 2013

Crispy wear?

theSixtyEight · Mar 2013

you know such a hard scraped edges like here (just on edges) http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/574921/574921,1276689370,1/stock-photo-scraped-metal-wall-55365049.jpg

Blaisoid · Mar 2013

nice!

few things i noticed:
-trigger feels a bit thick
-that ring attatched to front of barrel looks cleaner than everything else
-holes look like they were painted black, if you look at the photo you can see that inner cylinder has highlights

St4lis · Mar 2013

I agree with Baisoid, but apart from that: awesome work! You've really managed to get a nice feel to it, and it sure is a fun gun.

OddEyes · Mar 2013

you nailed that texture pretty good!

Vladas 1992 Machine Pistol

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