Assault Rifle (Fictional)

Dethling · Aug 2015

Hi,

During the last weeks I worked on a fictional assault rifle.
I took inspirations from the HK243 & the ACR combined with a concept art of a friend.

The result so far.
Low Poly Renders (Max & Marmorset):

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High Poly

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Final Result with Textures (PBR R/S):
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Textures are 1x 4096 & 1x 2048 (Mag and front grip) [will be downsized for ingame use]
Vert Count 8.834

Comments & Critics welcome

skyline5gtr · Aug 2015

few images are not showing up

Dethling · Aug 2015

/fixed

Dethling · Aug 2015

Next would be a underbarrel shotgun/granate launcher.
First blockout:

olsey · Aug 2015

nice topology

Polygoblin · Aug 2015

neat design. looks like you used way more tris than you needed to on the lowpoly. so much of that geometry could be easily baked in. Nearly every screw, for example. something to consider going forward. also, is the carry handle across the top hollow inside? Looks like your line of sight is blocked if not.

Dethling · Aug 2015

I thought about baking the screws in, but I think as this should be a FPS weapon the player will see the screws silhouettes and thats why I decided to model them.
But yeah I agree that I should have re-check the geo to see where I can remove some more polys.

The carry handle itself is indeed hollow (similar to the one of the Famas), so the LoS is not blocked.

Thanks a lot for the feedback

Dethling · Aug 2015

Completed the high poly and the normal bake of the underbarrel shotgun today.
Additional details and surface details will be added with nDo and Substance painter.

Here is a picture of both version of the rifle (LowPoly with normal map only):

Dethling · Aug 2015

completed the final AO & Normal Bake for all three parts (Rifle, Frontgrip + Mag, Underbarrel launcher) today.
Next will be creating the required materials in Substance Designer/Painter.

Dethling · Aug 2015

Worked on the textures the last weeks and did several iterations. So far this is the one I like the most:

Dethling · Sep 2015

Finally, after some vacation breaks I finisched the rifle:

Comments & Critics welcome

Dethling · Oct 2015

Had to do some rework of my assault rifle as it should be customizable.
I also used this to optimize the poly-flow and did some texture work.

At the moment I completed the main body, the frontgrip, one mag variant and the holosight.
Next will be the stock, the top-rail (G36 style), differnt mag, iron sight and a underbarrel weapon.
The textures are still "fabric new" so I will add more scratches and wear damage to the texture once every part is done.

comments & critics welcome

P.S.: please ignore the "transparency" issue at the holo-cross, it's only this way in marmorset

Dethling · Oct 2015

Finished the "out of the box" texture of the assault rifle today:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/d8/zypwq58cra4n.jpg

Still some minor normal map issues, but this will be fixed soon.
The model consists of eight submodells (stock, main body, iron sight, holosight, top rail, magazin, front handle and muzzle), to make it customizable.
At the moment all rextures are 4K, but this will be adapted once it goes in engine.
Vert count 10.065 Verts / 9771 Polys

JamesBrady · Oct 2015

Looking good dude but there is soo much more you can do with this model!. You can really pump the textures up by even messing with the Gloss maps ie: finger prints on the metal parts, If I was you i would totally rough it up! Scratches, dirt, general wear and tear! Dont think any weapon comes back from the battlefield in pristine condition

Dethling · Oct 2015

Thanks a lot.
At the moment i only did the "brand new" texture. Next will be the "used" one (scratches, dirt, damage, color burn etc.)

Dethling · Nov 2015

Updated my artstation website with some more detail pictures (one sheet (including wireframes) for every exchangable part of the weapon:
https://dethling.artstation.com/portfolio/fictional-assault-rilfe

What do you think?
I'm still working at the texture and don't really know how to push it further, so I would be very happy about any sort of tips, tricks or tutorials.