Guns (swiss ones too!) updated for more frenchness

LordScottish · Jan 2007

I posted these before on the bottom of another thread, but I was hoping to get more feedback on my first freelance job for a game. So here's a new thread!
Close to 3000 polies each and a 1024x1024 diffusemap, they are for Alliance - the silent war
The lenses for the scopes are just placeholders.

poopinmymouth · Jan 2007

Such sexy rendering of metal. I think I'll make you an honorary American, just like William Tell. :-)

You really nailed the specular on these guys, and it makes them look super crisp, and the volume reads excellently. Go go Swiss cheese power.

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CrazyButcher · Jan 2007

is that the Sig you guys have at home

very nice work

LordScottish · Jan 2007

Yes, that's the sig551 or the Stgw90 as we call it

Thanks a lot Ben (BUT WILLHELM TELL WAS SWISS!)

motives · Jan 2007

really awesome job man.. The only thing i can come to think of is that on the Sig you might have wanted to fake a little bevel on the edge of them holes there on the frontgrip. They look really sharp and "polygonious" right now

anyways.. made it into my inspiration folder, the mosin rocks!

Jesse Moody · Jan 2007

That is the sexy...

Nate Broach · Jan 2007

Awesome, any chance of seeing the textures?

arshlevon · Jan 2007

i am usually not too impressed with weapons, but these are phenomenal, really amazing texture work.. just the right amount of wear and tear for a functional weapon, it really gets to me when people make guns covered in scratches and every protruding corner is scuffed, this is very believable wear and tear.. would be neat to see some wires if you can show..

good job!!

jgarland · Jan 2007

Really, really great job. The textures really pull it off. The spec map looks phenomenal.

Keep it up, and congrats on your first freelance job.

LordScottish · Feb 2007

Thanks a lot!

The hightlights are what I spend most time on. On simple objects like guns, they are responsible for a big part of the realism.
No wires or textures unfortunately, but another weapon. This one was the first I did for Windward Mark Interactive and I think I improved while doing the others, that's why this one has a more generic metal texture.
It's a licensed israeli FN FAL reproduction with australian sights.

EarthQuake · Feb 2007

Ahhh the joys of baked in lighting, really miss it sometimes.... nice work.

LordScottish · Feb 2007

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In my experience baked in lighting can still be very useful. I paint the highlights and the lighting in the spec map mainly instead of the diffusemap. This way the final result in the game will more often look the typical way we think things should look, although it's not completely realistic with the lighting from the map.
I can fake one of the aspects of normal maps this way and save polies I'd need to make things really round. And the objects read a bit better if they have the highlights we're used to on them.
In this example the highlights you notice are painted on the specmap almost exactly this way with some very subtle basespecular.
Edit: Wheels are not going to be animated

Brice Vandemoortele · Feb 2007

This tank is amazing! Especially caterpillars

Any chance to see more and bigger? including flats or wire? pliizzz

3D-j · Feb 2007

Great models, once im done with my AK47 ill post it. Only thing i can see in the game is that the wepaon are very blown out. Do you have the engine to check out the weapons when lit by its type of lighting? Maybe its just the screenshots.

LordScottish · Feb 2007

Thanks! No, unfortunately I couldn't test the model and texture in the engine. What do you mean by blown out?

@Brice: Here's the tank, I can post wires later. It was one of 3 models.
http://scotty.inri.ch/armee/haubitze.jpg
http://scotty.inri.ch/armee/duro.jpg
http://scotty.inri.ch/armee/schuepa2k.jpg

Brice Vandemoortele · Feb 2007

awesome

Guns (swiss ones too!) updated for more frenchness

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