M-79 Grenade launcher

mr gelmir · Jul 2012

LATEST PROGRESS:

ORIGINAL POST:

Heya polycount. With school being out for summer and all, I was getting bored and thought; "hey let's make a portfolio piece instead of goofing off." Being delayed by a summer camp and a side job, I've made bits of progress over time. I'll just dump my progress up until now here for you guys to criticize. As I want this to be a portfolio piece, you can tear it apart as you wish and nitpick all you want...

I chose a gun to begin with, and the looks of the M-79 appealed to me. Here's a reference pic for you guys.
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first off, the high poly, with and without wires

Next off the lowpoly and texture. This texture is still work in progress. Some things I wish to alter drastically are the wood (follows the flow of the stock instead of being just straight wood, as pointed out by a friend) and its specular (I was experimenting with some different colors to see what it would do). I'll also add some more wear on the metal. The glossmap is still in it's first iteration for most parts.

texture flats. Don't mind the basic glossmap and the color of the wood in the spec.

and a final image, just for fun and giggles. A quick test of a 'possible' alternate color scheme.

As I already mentioned, all comments, criticism and questions are more than welcome. Thanks for your time!

Constructor · Jul 2012

That's one nice grenade launcher. Really well done.

Bek · Jul 2012

Really good work on the ironsight, low poly looks great.

Hang10 · Jul 2012

Like you said the spec could use some work and I agree with your friend about the wood grain following the stock.

Side note the tiger pattern looks cool.

mr gelmir · Aug 2012

So, here's an update. Redid the wood, it looks varnished now, which is good I guess. Anyways, a picture says more than a thousand words, so here are about four-thousand words for you guys:

Any comments etc are welcome =D

S_ource · Aug 2012

Metal is really grungy but wood looks brand new, i would also make the specular darker on the wood.

AlexCatMasterSupreme · Aug 2012

Wood looks really weird.

Reale · Aug 2012

I personally dont like how red the wood is... and also if you varnish something it would have a consistent sheen over the wood (except for damaged and handled areas)which means it would also be shiny over the actual wood grain itself (it needs to be the same shade over the gloss as it would hold the same gloss) instead of it looking varnished it looks like you are treating the wood with some sort of oil...

check out millenias weapon tutorial as his stock is really nice http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100984

[edit] - notice the use of the words wood and would... I use them often...

manilamerc · Aug 2012

I wish I could model like you! well done! but tbh I liked the brown wood better.

If you don't mind could you comment on my Christian Bale character?(the one with 22 replies)please and thank you

The Lone Penguin · Aug 2012

Not to say it again but...dat wood. It's really throwin me off and very distracting from the overall work. Also the grain seems weird, those stocks are made out of a solid piece of wood so the grain would be straight all the way across. The way it is now it seems like it follows the shape of the stock. The way you originally had it looks better, but on that as well you should fix the grain so it's consistent across the stock.
http://world.guns.ru/userfiles/images/grenade/gl06/m79-2.jpg

Ehsan Gamer · Aug 2012

Good Job .

There is problem with UV's for wood but this has been fixed in the update . and also wood texture need some attention .

Boyso · Aug 2012

I'd say, make the wood darker and less saturated in the diffuse. Darker and less constrasted in the spec.

The metal is a bit grungy IMO, but otherwise, it looks good and you have a nice bake!

Lonewolf · Aug 2012

your modeling is great but the way u present it need some work
use bigger renders, different light setup

and i would lose the green spec from the wood, and lower it

but its pretty cool work dude

mr gelmir · Aug 2012

@Reale: I watched those vids on my second screen while modelling, I'll check the texturing one again when I'lll rework the wood. btw, I would use wood and would a lot as well if I wouldn't mix them up.
@PenGuin1362: I tried fixing the grain, and I believe the newer version is somewhat better than the original in that aspect. I will try to make it match even more, although my UV layout makes it hard for me.
@Bouyso: I will, thanks. Might take a look at the grunge in the metal as well, although I kind of like it now... Thank you indestructive texturing!
@Lonewolf: thanks, feels good coming from you. I know I have some work to do when it comes to presenting my work. Hints/tutorials are always welcome. ATM I'm using Xoliul with a fairly basic 3-point light set-up and some reflections. The newer (lower) version of the wood doesn't have that much of a green-coloured spec I believe? The first version had. And like I said before, I will darken the spec on the wood.

Thanks to everyone for their comments, expect an update somewhere soon!

mr gelmir · Aug 2012

Hey guys, here's the promised update. I redid the spec and gloss on the wood, so no more wood grain there. I also took higher res shots, played a bit with the lighting and the presentation.

Comments on whatever are welcome and appreciated!

[EDIT] replaced photubucket images with the ones from google+ they are a bit bigger now =D [/EDIT]

mr gelmir · Aug 2012

just bumping, because I added some bigger pics

Der Hollander · Aug 2012

Looking good, my only crit at the moment is maybe brighten up those renders a bit? The model is kind of blending into the background a bit. I can make out the details, but it might help your presentation pop a bit more if you have a very clear value difference between the asset and the background.

Nice looking nade launcher, loving the spec on that metal.

mr gelmir · Aug 2012

Are those better?
Thanks for the suggestion

M-79 Grenade launcher

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