i guess im posting quite a lot, but i feel its also because ive been productive so maybe thats a good thing

preview of the pistol, lowpoly plus low res bakes:



picture that with sights and of course not so many jaggies/crisper definition. Any ideas? as with the rifle im open to some suggestions, others would be too much work at this point, but i'd still like to hear them.

interesting fact... I was able to build the low low poly (lod version), this version, and the high poly version in the time it took just to render the ao for that rifle, if that gives any insight to my constant complaint about render time.

It reminds me of the pistol from Kingpin

Looks great so far

@lostclimate
Your models are just beautiful


@ratchet
These are some good ideas I´ll keep them in mind, thanks!
As lostclimate said, this is still a testlevel. I´ll start with the level as soon as evrything works as it should

drawing near a usable state:

that looks great!

As i said, just awesome!

Ok, as much as i dont want to I think im going to call the texturing done. I baked the lod version as well as you can see, at a distance it should look pretty similar.



I could do more, but after a 7 hour ao bake, many hours texturing and modeling it several times (lod, mid and high poly) Im running out of inspiration for it and to be honest im tired of looking at it

EDIT: well im done except doing the spec map but that shouldnt take long

btw, the color difference is different lighting, didnt really think about making them the same when i was capturing the screens.

also i dont like that the forum resizes the pictures, you can right click view image to see the full size and the texture in better detail.

@losticmate:
7 hours of waiting , that's not reasonnable !
What tool did you use ? Perhaps you put too much hight settings ? You could do a fastest bake on blender that patin on top of it if needed perhaps ?
Even for complete high scenes, there are fast renderers today !
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Your rifle is really good , ready for game

For the gun, the sort of little knife in the front , i find it
bad placed if it it designed to a closed hand attack with it !
Make it more efficient , put it under the canon part, it will be more realistic in terms of usage

Like the accessory at the bottom line on the picture :

well my processor is a little outdated, and it is a 4096^2 map with 4x aa so it is expected to take a long time but still frustrating. what i was going to ask alibaba if he'd consider is making the pistol a dual wielded weapon that can also act as sort of a katar as well