RSRR Bulldog

[TheEdge 14]

Actually working on iron sights for this, and then the low poly and bake, textures aswell.

http://i.imgur.com/DD4M9Oq.jpg (148 kB)

[bigpickle 0]

nice!

[bad benson 1733]

wow. what a beauty. and nice presentation. can't wait to see it ingame. keep it up!

[miketim 20]

Nice, never heard of this gun... but I think I did once :confused:

Its a shotgun right?

[da12thMonkey 1943]

Nice, never heard of this gun... but I think I did once :confused:

Its a shotgun right?

No, it's an M14/M1A 7.62mm rifle in a bullpup chassis.

The real Bulldog 762 platform is made by a company called Short Rifle Stock Systems Inc. (SRSS)

http://www.shortrifles.com/

Nice work Edge, as with all your other models

[TheEdge 14]

Thank you, more details to the wep are on the way, even if i learn how get this models into the game, i can make more.

[mordeaniischaos 3]

Awesome. Very nice model, and a fitting addition to ArmA 3. Looking forward to it.

[TheEdge 14]

I worked with some attachments for this model.

http://i.imgur.com/51W9XSq.jpg (201 kB)

http://i.imgur.com/BBEnzeD.jpg (173 kB)

[bagpiperguy 74]

Looks good a BF4 fav of mine :)

[babylonjoke 22]

I've seen some of your works on gamebanana, TOP quality works! Keep it up!

[Night 1]

OOOoooooo. Bullpups are awesome. Good work.

[AveryTheKitty 2626]

This looks so sexy. I need it!

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

Wow, wish I could have someone make a Masada that looks as good as this sexy beast. Dude your work is beyond top class. Keep it up, love the way it's looking so far.

[TheEdge 14]

If someone could give me a hand with this, somebody need to tell me if the edges are too sharp, i saw many portfolios from many other people and their edges are sharp, but some people disagree with sharp edges, and they want soft edges, if i do soft edges, they say the model looks like is plastiline made, i dont understand for what kind of edges i need to work, btw thank you to all interested in my work.

[babylonjoke 22]

Well, a lot of people tends to make sharp edges on the HP only for render purposes

But when it's about bake it's always better to keep all edges soft as much as you can on the HP. Afterall you don't need to care about the HP looking, it needs to be functional. You need to care only about the results after bake on the LP and if the edges are too sharp the bake it's going to be pretty much useless.

The best way to discover if they are too sharp anyway it's by test-baking.

Remember :

1)all edge +90° needs to be hard(sharp) edges on the low poly and they needs to be separated in the UV

2) Always triangualte the LP mesh before bake

But I bet you already know these stuffs

[x3kj 1247]

i saw many portfolios from many other people and their edges are sharp, but some people disagree with sharp edges, and they want soft edges, if i do soft edges, they say the model looks like is plastiline made, i dont understand for what kind of edges i need to work, btw thank you to all interested in my work.

Make a test texture bake at your targeted resolution for a simple object of rifle (e.g. main receiver) and check if the resulting normal map looks good ingame closeup and from a little distance. Too large of an edge and it looks fake, too small and you could as well have not created a HP as the smoothed edge is not visible.

[TheEdge 14]

Make a test texture bake at your targeted resolution for a simple object of rifle (e.g. main receiver) and check if the resulting normal map looks good ingame closeup and from a little distance. Too large of an edge and it looks fake, too small and you could as well have not created a HP as the smoothed edge is not visible.

I made the edges sharp when they need to, for example plastics like grips or stock butt, goes soft, but metals and others, goes with little bit hard edges, because i baked in the past models with very soft edges and the model looks like a toy, all rounded, thats why iam asking, if i make sharp edges, in the bake looks rounded how they need to go, thank you for the answers.

[PuFu 4591]

it all depends on the baked result, and not on the way you have set the edges, no matter how realistically you did that:

1. the end result is depended of course of the resolution of your texture maps, the UV islands (in fact taking full advantage of the UV resolution, proper packing and if certain UVs are normalized in relation to each other or not)

2. If you are using the support edge + smooth solution then you can just lower the iteration one notch

3. If you are using the OpenSubD solution, then it is easier since you can have a better control over your crease sets, so you can go back and forth without loosing any resolution.

In 99% of the cases, a way to small edge is not gonna show properly in your bakes. Besides the resolution, you also need to take into consideration the AA solutions, mip-maps etc. For instance, all the paralel to the UV coordinates are a lot sharper than any diagonal edge in the same UVW space.

TL;DR: it needs to be somewhere inbetween i guess. Rule of thumb is if the edges show really nice (realistic) in your viewport, chances are that the bake will look look shit. :P

[TheEdge 14]

Hey guys, i know is too late but when i have time i finish anything, already did the low poly,bake and textures (not the best) and the final polycount is 7200 polys/tris.

http://i.imgur.com/N3SlS0g.jpg (122 kB)

http://i.imgur.com/9SFdOFC.jpg (140 kB)

[fluttershy 2]

For all the holes inside the model that is a really low count of polys, well done (i never really got the hang of low poly optimisation).

The texture could use a little more black on the attached rails to gain a bit more contrast in relation to the big bulky body. I think dirt and dust is not really needed, the light scratches on the housing are sufficient.

[AveryTheKitty 2626]

I think it looks fine. Nice work. :)

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

Great to see some progress, it looks perfect! Can't wait to fire this thing!

[babylonjoke 22]

Bake came out pretty sweet! Very good man, very good!

[sabre 244]

Looks real nice mate, I think some dustyness would look good on it in some of the details, I think it suits things a whole lot better for ArmA to give them that used/in use look.

Easily and quickly achieved using your AO and some quick edits as you probably know.

Look forward to more progress :)