Ye ol'Blaster (image heavy)
polycounter lvl 19
Hey people.
My first complete model+texture project since ages. Intended as a FPS player weapon. Critique is welcome and appreciated.
Main reference is a random "medieval crossbow" image from google. Materials in texture are from cgtextures.com. Used Maya, Photoshop, Crazybump and xNormal. Lots of time spent on learning while doing.
My first complete model+texture project since ages. Intended as a FPS player weapon. Critique is welcome and appreciated.
Main reference is a random "medieval crossbow" image from google. Materials in texture are from cgtextures.com. Used Maya, Photoshop, Crazybump and xNormal. Lots of time spent on learning while doing.
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The texture is what's letting it down a bit now, IMHO. It feels like a strange mix between realistic and cartoony, but not in a way that seems intentional.
It's possible that the way you've lit the render isn't helping either. In general it looks very bright (faaaar too bright for a medieval crossbow, it's made of treated wood, tends to be much darker and more reddish than yellow).
The wood grain feels far too thick and it's inconsistent too - you've just slapped the wood grain over all the details, like that panel on the top of the stock, so it looks like a fake plastic toy instead of a real thing.
I think if you took another pass at the textures and rendering setup and either went all-out stylised (TF2 maybe?) or all-out realistic (grainy wood, chipped metal etc) then you'd end up with a nicer result. Probably wouldn't take that long to do a good pass over the texture either if you had a good idea of what you were aiming for.
Keep it up!
I will change the lighting to make it a bit darker. Texture will be refined to look more gritty and used, will redo the wood texture.
Pixelgoat> Can't remember, but I don't think so. I probably tweaked it a whole lot in other ways though. [url="http://www.cgtextures.com/texview2.php?id=19795&PHPSESSID=b5d773cf25850f676c921b1258c2a9d4]Here's[/url] the original wood texture.
Yeah I noticed this morning. Seems like my ISPs webhosting isn't all that reliable, at least not lately. Works now as I am writing this.
http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/screenshots/phl/49564401.jpg
It's subtle, has no real wood grain, but you know it's wood. Not saying you need to do that with your crossbow, but it does call for a lot more subtlety.
Right now its kinda plain. The model is neat. you just need to eye on the wood details which is more prominent. The wood might look more Raw and bumpy,like its hand made and might even have some taped or something wrapped around.
Cheers
Vj