[WIP] Weapon Art - McMillan CS5 (Sniper)
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The McMillan CS5 is a weapon I have been working on and off for while in my spare time and I wanted to start posting my progress so far.
Blockout stage is completed for the whole gun.
Midpoly versions of parts that are completed so far.
I wanted to refresh my memory on my whole workflow pipeline so I decided to take the magazine to completion. This is the baked version of my lowpoly.
The textured version so far of the magazine. I plan to add more macro wear but I'm also not entirely happy with the results so far, will go through more passes and get some more feedback on this part.
The references that I use.
And that's it for now. I plan to find some free time to keep working on the mag textures and then I'll decide if I want to make a post for that as a warmup or just keep going with the gun as a whole.
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Blockout stage is completed for the whole gun.
Midpoly versions of parts that are completed so far.
I wanted to refresh my memory on my whole workflow pipeline so I decided to take the magazine to completion. This is the baked version of my lowpoly.
The textured version so far of the magazine. I plan to add more macro wear but I'm also not entirely happy with the results so far, will go through more passes and get some more feedback on this part.
The references that I use.
And that's it for now. I plan to find some free time to keep working on the mag textures and then I'll decide if I want to make a post for that as a warmup or just keep going with the gun as a whole.
Shameless ArtStation plug: https://www.artstation.com/alexanderlindberg
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I decided to cut out making the bipod for the weapon to save on time. I also want to render the weapon in Unreal and with that, also create a camo skin system with the material layering system in that game engine. In my head, I imagine it working and looking like the skin system in Counter-Strike but it will depend on how I go about it with the blueprints. As I've already made a modern weapon in black material, I felt like I need to make something different with this project to make it stand out from being just another weapon art piece. Since this sniper rifle has variants to it in its parts, I also wish to model those other variants so I can make a system in Unreal that can switch out differents parts like attachments in a game.
The next step will be to create the low poly and bake the gun (which I hope I can do before my winter break but we'll see). As always, I'm open to any feedback!
Maybe the reference is faulty?
The low poly landed around 32k tris. Here are some images with wireframe and texel density showing:
I haven't dealth with normal map skewing yet as I will not move on to texturing directly like I normally would. The next step will be to figure out how I make this camo skin system work in unreal and with which materials to try it out with. Alternatively, I instead make the different variations of the gun parts as I know how to do it.
Only proper texturing and normal map skewing have to be handled before this is complete. On top of that, I also want to make a sort of skin variant for the original version of the gun but I have yet to decide if it's going to be a camo skin or something else. The plan is to figure that out and learn how to properly texture it while also making it look presentable.
Ronin artwork made by a friend of mine, I just projected it on to the side of the gun. I am basing the colors and rest of the design on this artwork.
In the image above of the gun with the base materials, I followed a tutorial on making a fish eye lens for the camera to push for that extra cinematic realism. I looks like it creates jagged edges though which means I'll either have to find a better tutorial or scrap it. Below is an earlier render without the fish eye:
I only have the rest of the week to make any more changes before needing to switch to a different project but I hope to push the design of the skin before I put a hold on this project. I'm glad though that it is starting to reach an end.