Loading the MP5

[Lonewolf]

http://www.lonewolf3d.com/images/mp5New2011_pc.jpg

http://www.lonewolf3d.com/images/WST2p2.jpg

ok so now that the colt is gone =\ i was thinking about loading up the old mp5 i had
i wanna add grenade launcher and some more gear and looking for idea

so if u know about any cool looking gear like scope/sights/mounts/lasers etc.. please post some pics

on top of that i wanna add M203 or even go with that EGLM
(http://www.020mag.com/files/noticias/300508star.jpg)
i did some touchups for the texture for more realistic look
images taking with xoliul shader (real time) :D

so throw anything cool that u think might fit

XD

[Racer445]

sucks you lost the colt texture. hopefully you at least still have the flattened textures.

my original texture critiques still stand:

1. you have no material definition. everything is the exact same shiny gray grunge texture with the beach.dds cubemap covering it up. the reason why i love texturing guns is because of how many cool, strange materials i get to try and define to make something that stands out from the thousands of generic gray bullet spitting machines. it's very very possible--and often more impressive--to make a box standard gun look fantastic instead of adding tons of crap to it.

find some photos you can pull from! MP5's have lots of cool materials you can use. here's a few to get you started:

http://pix.pixagogo.com/S5ODTr!fWlbmRq6HdnDT1WK3!wOyrnNRiU0hBIzIhUw-W8FoQYnX7fJu!sV!uVkpDsNlub72OozvkZOsA5khe6h!0sqqoB Sdjp/01657.jpg
http://pix.pixagogo.com/S58UTKI1w3i7MGlIlS5NnOdjJ9yHtDmhYsITNyQ8NpNL5JONwV 4DBeyFPvgOw8kwd-fbfSkL-Fz1q8xs2zie81vuCDjPeBmM3g/P1010563.jpg
http://pix.pixagogo.com/S5ODTr!fWlbmQKKOE7l4wtA7QILBZPRnBXGeLUSqRaB8cZjanE nGmKyxQ0eZ0Kvr-kM5siNFdflU8iWBOt3htOly4bhpZ1nMQ6/04329.jpg
http://pix.pixagogo.com/S5ODTr!fWlbmRuHbadbMpQcxZO7Yt20bByur!zfBFoHmZz!a1X nO4idhUbpfyKG1l6Fn7LPduYjZQephXJPkopK8ggbs0!AY-R/01359.jpg
http://pix.pixagogo.com/S5b6AG0lkkBCI6iotzq!!b1oEygphoxF8UPnHlJWlUFGRvGs2b FfHP!-XjXL-LyrJbS4W1BE9ycjuVFrdMPsMZBfxiThhfeZA3SmT2fm4HxmDwi 5JizL2vNaqO2bcR81Dt/GD7DRKYXXFIELCNT26SK43FG4Q.jpg

i always start a texture by trying to define materials with just flat colors and a single omni with no additional reflections or anything. remember: lighting is the glue holding everything together, so make sure it's some strong epoxy and not elmer's. here's what i mean by a material blockout:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1725586/crits/materialblockout.jpg

2. your grunge doesn't have any structure. it's all this same dark grunge pattern with no thought to placement and no unique shapes to tie it all together. it's also heavily on the diffuse, so it looks oddly flat. guns are built to be resilient to wear, so they generally don't wear all around like this, but instead attract chips and wear around the edges and wear at points where humans interact with it.

go to http://www.pixagogo.com/DeicideNBF and look in the HK gallery pages and grab some images with cool unique wear, then analyze that and figure out how to make that using all of your texture maps.

3. beach.dds is wack!

it's just an observation, but i think you need to let go of your diffuse lighting-era techniques. back in the day you needed to add all of your material information in the diffuse including lighting in order to create a convincing texture--but this is 2011, we have the technology to represent those materials properly. when you cling to those old methods on a shader-driven texture, you will just get something that looks very flat and boring. a great example of this is white edge scrapes. we used to do this to fake specularity changes on edges that would be scraped away, but with the invention of the specular map we can utilize all of our maps to make exactly the same type of wear that is in your reference. adding those bright edges to the diffuse just looks silly.

[Lachtan]

Shit is hot, I'm loving the plastic pattern and your metal texture!

[Computron]

Well, don't leave us hanging! Give us a first person view.

[Lonewolf]

hmmt he materials are pretty much as i want them to be
the parts are very different in the way the shade, and i dont want too much contrast on materials cause ill end up with something look like a toy

+if u look on real pics, you can see its hard to seperate the maqterials of the weapon cause what its been through in the battlefield

on the scraps, i donno, when it scraped it expose the bare metal which has different color too, doing it on the specular wont be enough

:D

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4952/mp5mp.jpg

[Lonewolf]

tested the new toolbad with the mp5 today, though ill share the pics :P

http://www.lonewolf3d.com/images/Mp5/MP5_forest.jpg


http://www.lonewolf3d.com/images/Mp5/MP5_sunset.jpg


http://www.lonewolf3d.com/images/Mp5/MP5_house.jpg

[DarthBartus]

Aww man, that's groovy :3 You rock.

[EarthQuake]

I would work on the gloss for your plastic, right now its looking oily/wet, so yeah, a more darker/ more matte gloss setting there will probably help.

Also, disable those cheesy marmoset skyboxes =P

[Lonewolf]

i actually like the sky boxes lol

yea guess i can play some more with the textures, plastic is too shiny like u said

thanx for the feedback guys :thumbup:

[Joao Sapiro]

i think some of the edges in the HP are a bit too tight and it is showing in the lp , aminly in the scope and some parts near it , even if its not like in the real weapon , softening them up a tad would help the metal catch better edge highlights :)

[Lonewolf]

yea i noticed that i fixed it on the M4

:)

[EarthQuake]

i actually like the sky boxes lol

IMO unless you have a small environment or something, the skyboxes just look out of place. You know, like you just pasted the model on top of a random photo. There just isn't context for the skybox, so it looks disjointed to me.

[Sparkwire]

Are the edges on the scope/scope mount supposed to be that hard?

[Oniram]

looks nice. i think the materials show best with the forest env. though i do agree that the plastic is way too glossy.

[throttlekitty]

What's going on with the burst select knob? The texture on the body behind it seems to have some AO that stops a bit early giving it a floaty feel. Also if that knob is animated, you'll be left with a shadow the wing-arm of that knob where it used to sit.
Also mimicing what others said about the glossyness, it also makes that knob really stand out.

[Cap Hotkill]

You can always Blur the Skybox so it looks like if the focus was only on the gun.

[Spitfire]

Could we get some snippets of the Diff/Normal/spec?

as always looks totally badass