First actual work post, be brutal - crit anything you see. Just finished up the lowpoly, unwrap and bake headaches tomorrow. Low-res is about 2850 tris. For an indie shooter. The magazine is pretty awful if you ask me, but it's hardly gonna get seen so I'm not too bothered.
Yeah, the reasoning behind my modelling the slide grooves onto the lowpoly was that when it's seen ingame (first-person perspective) the face normals of the vertical sides of the slide will be pointing almost perpendicular to the player camera's view. Its my understanding that normalmaps work very weakly when viewed at…