update:
hello

practicing the hard surface , not the most difficult choice but its a start
the M1 carbine

or I am so far,I got some pinching in the handle and I can not eliminate this







thanks for viewing

can you show the wireframe of where its pinching?

little update ,gunstock is done but with more detail comes more issue



and wires of issues


thanks

update ,almost finish

little update

ready for sculpt ,any crits before I start sculpting?

done for the low poly and unwarp , after a baking test ,I have few question
I had lost of issue on my baking ,after some search on polycount I follow all advices for nice hard surface baking (split uv at every hard edges and smoothing group)

but now I have no idea how texture this one ,because I have got lot of seams
any advices ?

thanks

I'm not a gun guy but I think the high-poly is looking nice and your bake turned out well, so all that's left to mess up is the textures and the materials. It seems like there might be too many polys in the body of the thing, and at 7.5K's, you might want to consider ratcheting down that number.

thanks ,I tried to reduce the polycount ,its 6400 tri now
I have planned a little damage sculpt pass before the final bake

tetxure update

rebake from mudbox ,and correcting some issue
I need a little help for pushing the texture ,for me its done but its yet a little flat
any advice or crtits

thanks

I looked a bit over your model and i noticed you have too many tris were you dont' need them.A couple examples :

Just to let you know, iirc there is no bayonet lug on the M1 Carbine, only on the M2s.

Also, it seems to be quite thin.

little texture update on the metal,added some rust and dirt
still some work on the wood

@respawnrt : I reduce a little bit the polycount ,its 6400 tris now



@Boyso ,yes my main ref is a m2 apparently and its indeed a little thin ,I use only a side ref in 3dsmax (bad I know) ,I tried to enlarge a little ,its better now?




any crits or advice on the texture?
thanks

Texture looks great to me, awesome job.

I'm glad you reduced the polycount.As for the wood texturing it looks ok maybe look at this polycounter's work, Milenia.He does some cool wood texture work
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100984

wood grains might be too small. at least most ref pics i looked at had bigger grains.

@respawnrt ,thanks for the link ,very helpful tutorial
some refinement on the wood an its done for me
@blaisoid ,yes indeed maybe too small when I look again my refs ,but I want to move on and

final

details



thanks for viewing