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Tutorials Workflow for Next-gen game asset	_______________Current Projects___________________ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011 M1 Garand The latest gun model for NextGen Reality is the classic M1 Garand. One of the most famous guns of WWII. I had done a low poly version of this one a while back that never got used so I started with that model and then built on to it from there. Had all kinds of trouble with the normals on this though. Took me more then a week to find away around the issue. Never did figure out what the problem was but just had to find a work around. Basically the normals were all flipped in odd ways. Each one had one color channel that was displaying wrong. Normally you can fix this easily by flipping the offending color channel in Photoshop, but for some reason that had no effect on the model. I would flip the channel in PS and then it should update the new normals in max but no change could ever be seen. If I flipped the normals in max they would work fine but I need it so I don't have to flip them in the shader. It was a big mess that doesn't make any sense. Needless to say I had to convert the normal map to a bump map since nothing I tried would get the normals to display right. The bump map worked pretty goof though. Almost can't tell its just a bump, although I did blow them way out in these renders. The final result won't be nearly as bumpy. Tuesday, May 10, 2011 Sharps 1874 45/50 Buffalo rifle The Sharps 1874 45/50 cal rifle. This rifle is largely considered the gun that won the west. It was one first high powered long distance rifles, and some consider it the first sniper rifle even though it was mainly used to kill buffalo at long range. This was a pretty fun model to do and not very hard either. As far as guns go, the general shapes on this one are a lot easier. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011 Nextgen PPSH 41 sub machine gun PPSH 41. The Russian equivalent of a tommy gun. Although American tommy guns date from the 20's, the Russians used this gun mainly through WWII and beyond. 9707 triangles with 204x294 Normals, diffuse and specular maps. Took a little less then 30 hours to complete. This was also one of my first attempts at using cavity maps, which I employed to help get faster highlights. Very useful little maps, will be using them a lot more in the future. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011 Nextgen Mosin Nagant Dragoon Mosin Nagant Dragoon. Soviet military issue. 9445 triangles. Diffuse, normal and specular maps at 2048x2048. Took about 30 hours to complete the model. Still working to get better results out my normals but getting better at the process. SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011 Nextgen Ak74 assault rifle The next weapon in this series, an AK74 assault rifle. The model is 9667 triangles, 2048 diffuse, specular and normal map. Took 4.5 days to complete. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011 Nextgen m1911 .45 cal pistol This gun was done for a client test, to see if they liked my work. Fortunately they did, so there will likely be more weapons like it to come. This gun is a classic model of the M1911 .45 cal pistol. It has been standard issue in the military since WWI and still in service today. I was able to obtain technical schematics of the weapon parts and as a result the model is perfect scale to the real thing and has all the working parts, well the ones that will be visible in game anyway. The model itself is 4660 polys and has a 1024x1024 diffuse, specular and normal map. Older Posts	Projects (listed by date) Interstellar Train - 6/10 - W.I.P Buck Hunter iPhone weapons - 4/10 - 5/10 The Secret Passage - 2/10 - 3/10 Train Station - 2/10 Bathroom Pre-Vis - 1/10 - 2/10 Food Prop models -2/10 The Gardener - 4/09 - 7/09 Project Phi, Riot Cop - 9/09 Project Phi, Lamia - 4/09 - 7/09

Tutorials

_______________Current Projects___________________

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011

M1 Garand

The latest gun model for NextGen Reality is the classic M1 Garand. One of the most famous guns of WWII. I had done a low poly version of this one a while back that never got used so I started with that model and then built on to it from there.

Had all kinds of trouble with the normals on this though. Took me more then a week to find away around the issue. Never did figure out what the problem was but just had to find a work around.

Basically the normals were all flipped in odd ways. Each one had one color channel that was displaying wrong. Normally you can fix this easily by flipping the offending color channel in Photoshop, but for some reason that had no effect on the model. I would flip the channel in PS and then it should update the new normals in max but no change could ever be seen. If I flipped the normals in max they would work fine but I need it so I don't have to flip them in the shader. It was a big mess that doesn't make any sense.

Needless to say I had to convert the normal map to a bump map since nothing I tried would get the normals to display right. The bump map worked pretty goof though. Almost can't tell its just a bump, although I did blow them way out in these renders. The final result won't be nearly as bumpy.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Sharps 1874 45/50 Buffalo rifle

The Sharps 1874 45/50 cal rifle. This rifle is largely considered the gun that won the west. It was one first high powered long distance rifles, and some consider it the first sniper rifle even though it was mainly used to kill buffalo at long range.
This was a pretty fun model to do and not very hard either. As far as guns go, the general shapes on this one are a lot easier.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011

Nextgen PPSH 41 sub machine gun

PPSH 41. The Russian equivalent of a tommy gun. Although American tommy guns date from the 20's, the Russians used this gun mainly through WWII and beyond. 9707 triangles with 204x294 Normals, diffuse and specular maps. Took a little less then 30 hours to complete. This was also one of my first attempts at using cavity maps, which I employed to help get faster highlights. Very useful little maps, will be using them a lot more in the future.

TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011

Nextgen Mosin Nagant Dragoon

Mosin Nagant Dragoon. Soviet military issue. 9445 triangles. Diffuse, normal and specular maps at 2048x2048. Took about 30 hours to complete the model. Still working to get better results out my normals but getting better at the process.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2011

Nextgen Ak74 assault rifle

The next weapon in this series, an AK74 assault rifle. The model is 9667 triangles, 2048 diffuse, specular and normal map. Took 4.5 days to complete.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Nextgen m1911 .45 cal pistol

This gun was done for a client test, to see if they liked my work. Fortunately they did, so there will likely be more weapons like it to come.
This gun is a classic model of the M1911 .45 cal pistol. It has been standard issue in the military since WWI and still in service today. I was able to obtain technical schematics of the weapon parts and as a result the model is perfect scale to the real thing and has all the working parts, well the ones that will be visible in game anyway. The model itself is 4660 polys and has a 1024x1024 diffuse, specular and normal map.

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