FHQ WIP Thread (contains lots of images)

[Scarecrow398]

Very nice, you can see your detail in your models getting better and better with time :P

[SuicideCommando]

Aimpoint looks great Alwarren. I agree with what Scarecrow said.

[Alwarren]

I had a bit more time to work on the weapons recently, so here are two new screenshots. This is the new frontgrip and Aimpoint CompM2 in desert camo.


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I also reworked the desert camo on the ACR. Minor weirdness on the brass deflector and on the barrel. Aimpoint front reflection filter is only frontfacing, so it doesn't block view from behind.

[Sup3r6F0ur]

OMG I CAN'T WAIT! Keep it up Alwarren. Quick question though, are the acog scopes going to have a reflex cqb sight on top of them? If not, well, i think you should do that.

[Scarecrow398]

Wow, the honeycombe/killflash looks amazing, nice job.

[fluttershy]

Nice work Al,

found a minor mistake: the flashhiders front isnt textured as well as the front piece of the gasblock. Plus it seems like the ambidextrous charging handle is missin ^^

[Alwarren]

OMG I CAN'T WAIT! Keep it up Alwarren. Quick question though, are the acog scopes going to have a reflex cqb sight on top of them? If not, well, i think you should do that.

Thanks Yes, the ACOG scopes will have a red dot on top. Since you asked for it, here's a picture of the hires version, untextured yet:

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EDIT: Hmmm, looking at my reference pictures again, I think the CQB sight is a bit too small.. It needs to be wider, and the base needs to be a bit higher.

Wow, the honeycombe/killflash looks amazing, nice job.

Thanks It's merely a bump map, the thing is a single triangle fan.

found a minor mistake: the flashhiders front isnt textured as well as the front piece of the gasblock. Plus it seems like the ambidextrous charging handle is missin ^^

Thanks fluttershy Yeah, it looks like there is a texture missing, but it's actually the specular highlight being too bright, making it appear white. I will tone down the shininess of the barrel, it shouldn't be that shiny anyway.
About the charging handle, all pictures of the ACR I have seen have only one charging handle on the left side, and a small stub on the other side. You can actually move the handle to the other side. I guess I should make the stub at the right side a bit longer, but if you look really close, you can see it

I also made the charging handle non-reciprocating during normal fire, since that is one of the ACR's features. It will only go back when the magazine is empty, and the bolt will stay open.

By the way, I tried the ATACS camo you send me, but no matter what I did the result looked greenish, so I reworked my own camo a bit since it looked more desertish

[Scarecrow398]

That Acog looks very nice but im still going to be a asshole :P
Looks like you doctor was based off a knock off?

Le here is a Doctor example:


its a seprate sight with detachable 'Wings' to prevent damage when knocked:
http://www.docterusa.com/_mgxroot/page_10775.html

[RobertHammer]

Alwarren - very nice going , i like that ,but i have suggestions for you

1. always use quality and proper reference pics , like this site http://www.pixagogo.com/DeicideNBF

2. you should work on the textures , not just paste Camo on it and done - also make the normal map a little bit more visible

I hope you understand what i mean and good luck with your work

[Alwarren]

That Acog looks very nice but im still going to be a asshole :P
Looks like you doctor was based off a knock off?

Le here is a Doctor example:
http://i.imgur.com/NbgvT.jpg

its a seprate sight with detachable 'Wings' to prevent damage when knocked:
http://www.docterusa.com/_mgxroot/page_10775.html

Actually, my CQB sight was based off the Trijicon RMR sight, seen here mounted on an ACOG, not the Docter sight (It's Docter, by the way, not the medic, to be an asshole myself :P)

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Alwarren - very nice going , i like that ,but i have suggestions for you

1. always use quality and proper reference pics , like this site http://www.pixagogo.com/DeicideNBF

2. you should work on the textures , not just paste Camo on it and done - also make the normal map a little bit more visible

I hope you understand what i mean and good luck with your work

Thanks for the link, and thanks a lot for the input. You obviously have a LOT more experience with this stuff than I have

I didn't know that web site, I usually look up images on Google Image search. Unfortunately, that more than once turns up Airsoft replicas. For the ACOG and Aimpoint, I went directly to Trijicon's and Aimpoint's web sites for references.

Texture work is my weakest point. I can't paint even if my life depended on it. I usually try to go with the camo paint and then add things like mud splats, text/serial numbers, and other stuff like that, but my abilities are VERY limited with that. Also, I usually unwrap them automatically with Blender because I paint then with blender as well - with an appropriate weighting on Area, most of the larger areas like the sides of the receiver end up being unwrapped pretty well. Bottom line, though, I don't think I can do much better with the textures

I am not quite sure what you mean with making the normal map more visible?