[WIP] Thompson; How to move forward?

Tenebris · Jan 2015

Hello! I have been working on this Thompson for about 2 weeks now. My goal for this gun is to be around AAA quality, as I was inspired by Farcry 4's weapons and style.

I textured it in Substance Painter and rendered it in Marmoset Toolbag 2 (still learning both as well).

I would appreciate a critique on both the model and textures along with the marmoset render in general as I would like to improve both

Joltya · Jan 2015

How big are your texture sheets? They don't look like they have a whole lot of resolution.

Tenebris · Jan 2015

I believe it's around 1240 x 720? I'm sorry but the dimensions escape me.

Joltya · Jan 2015

That's an extremely odd resolution. 99.9% of texture sheets are square (or sometimes 2:1 rectangle) and they come in powers of two; 512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048, etc.

In a real world environment (i.e. an actual game studio) the size is determined by the type of game and how important the asset is. If it's a small, minor prop, it might get a 128 or a 256, while larger, more important pieces can get 1024 or more. I think most characters get two 2048 sheets. For portfolio pieces, the standard is usually 2048, so I'd go with that. That will allow you to fit more details and make the prop look a lot nicer than what you have right now.

Tenebris · Jan 2015

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood you; I thought you meant the images resolution. The texture sheet is actually 4096 x 4096 but I guess my details are just not refined enough?

Joltya · Jan 2015

Yeah that looks like it. I was thinking that it was a 512 map. I haven't messed around in Substance too much, so I don't really what's happening to cause that.

gsokol · Jan 2015

Uhhh, you sure thats a 4k texture? Looks very low rest to me. Could you post your texture?

BagelHero · Jan 2015

Yeah, that honestly looks like 512 or really poorly UV'd 1024. I would not have guessed at all that it's supposed to be 4096.

Also, save your images as PNG or use Photoshop's Save to Web function with a reasonable quality level, please, there's a lot of compression artifacts and it makes the quality look even worse.

Edit: You can also embed images by using the tags and a host like imgur.

Tenebris · Jan 2015

Thanks for all the critiques so far guys, I had no clue it looked like a 512.

@gskol: Here's the basecolor texture. I'll also post my UVs.
Basecolor -http://imgur.com/4HURFyT
UVs - http://imgur.com/igBzLhZ
4HURFyT

Jerc · Jan 2015

Is your document resolution in the Document Settings set to 4k or 512?
If you are just exporting at 4k but your doc resolution is set to 512, there is a bug in the current Painter build that upscales the texture instead of adding details, you need to set your doc to 4k before exporting.

Tenebris · Jan 2015

That's very interesting Jerc. I've had my settings set to 1024 and exporting 4k since my computer can't really handle working at 2k let alone 4k (it crashes at 4k).