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Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 10:18 pm
by Timmaigh
matej wrote:Timmaigh wrote:Brilliant, the texturing of the scope is jawdropping. But why Vintorez? Its such an awful looking rifle... PSG-1 or M14 EBR next please
Thanks (and to all others).
I find Vintorez a very interesting exotic design (I like the buttstock and big integral silencer). With the scope attached it looks less ugly than without. The next thing will probably be the
AS Val, because I will be able to reuse most of the model. In the future I was already thinking of
OC-14 or
SVU (
I obviously have a thing for ugly-looking Russian firearms 
). The M14 EBR looks nice & 'techy', but I think it would be a big modelling challenge (but there are probably a lot more reference images and drawings around)...
BTW, I was hoping to finish it for this week, but I found some better reference images and had to remodel some parts which were not accurately done. Also the original model is one year old and I had less experience back then, so there was also a lot of mesh cleaning to do before I UV unwrap.
BTW2, I must give my thanks & credit to KardeN, who is sharing
a ton of hi-res pictures of Russian small arms & gear on his
photo-blog. I wonder where is he employed...?
So if you need such reference pics, check it out.
LOL, obviously you do indeed. Anyway, looking forward to the render of the final model.
Thanks for the links, looks interesting.
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:12 pm
by infernoVFX
Matej the scope is insane - just awesome
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:22 pm
by Hatak
Respect from Russia.
Very cool!
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:20 pm
by matej
infernoVFX & Hatak; thanks & спасибо. I appreciate the comments.
Here it is, the first final renders of this project. Path tracing ~10min, HDRI illumination, rendered with transparency and then composited with a background. Damn it was a lot of work, but the end result is probably worth it. I will do some real shots (non composited) in the future with this models, so stay tuned
Clay renders to better appreciate the model since I put a lot of effort into it. I like it how the pure clay mode still keeps bump & norm info.
The modeling is still not 100% accurate (just 90%) and I could still do tweaks to textures & materials. But somewhere I read that the CG artists work is never done - and this is soooo true! If you don't want to get stuck in an infinite loop of corrections & improvements of your render, then you must set a finishing line and try to be satisfied with the results.
Anyway, I need a break.
Have fun.
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 12:45 pm
by Daniel
Whoa!
That looks fantastic! I really need to start learning to texture like that! Modelling's always been my strong suit, but I've always found texturing to be a daunting and boring task.
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 4:40 am
by radiance
Awesome work
This was my favorite rifle in STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single head-shots
Radiance
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:59 am
by matej
@Daniel, thanks. My preferred part of CG was always shading - creating materials & textures. Of course painting textures can sometimes be daunting, but so can be modeling
@Radiance, oh yes, Stalker: SOC - really great game. Vintorez with SP6 armor piercing bullets (on the first page
) and that Monolith guys at the end didn't stand a chance
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:50 am
by radiance
matej wrote:@Daniel, thanks. My preferred part of CG was always shading - creating materials & textures. Of course painting textures can sometimes be daunting, but so can be modeling
@Radiance, oh yes, Stalker: SOC - really great game. Vintorez with SP6 armor piercing bullets (on the first page
) and that Monolith guys at the end didn't stand a chance
Yeah, the last part was awesome, where you choose to escape, and go over all the rooftops sniping monoliths
Radiance
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 11:47 pm
by Scog
Can you detail your texturing process to us? The results are very impressive.
Also how many polys is the model?
Re: Matej's Gallery
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 7:05 am
by matej
The last scene is 962.475 tris in Octane. The texturing process is really nothing special; create the model, UV unwrap it, export the uv grid to GIMP, clean & prepare a base texture, paint your details (scratches, dust, etc..) according to the uv grid (I might do some texture painting in Blender, just to outline the regions where I'll draw the details later in GIMP), combine the custom paintings with the base texture into spec, bump or mix maps.
The process of creating materials in Octane is a little more involving. I go heavily with material macros & nodes, I try to reuse textures as much as possible, prefer to mix or multiply grayscale maps with color nodes over using RGB maps, etc... I also use the mix material a lot. The result of all this is that this scene fits into 520MB of RAM, so it's easily render-able on lower-end graphic cards.
The morale is:
Learn to use Octane nodes because they are cool and at the same time you'll save yourself buying a 4GB Quadro