Quick-Crit 2008-2009

@ Hunter : Much of that is, to be honest, horrible. Some parts just look lie distorted primitives, when there should be a lot more shape to them. There's a lot of places where difference in detail is jarring (ex : front handle). I'd reccomend starting over with better ref, I don't think that it's worth salvaging.

Also, you don't need to cut>chamfer>extrude (or whatever you seem to be doing) all the time to get "details". In some place it just looks really bad. (Again, see handle. Also stock.) And if you *do* do that, at least try to make the smoothing clean.

@ Fear : Not bad, but not great. A lot of it looks too boxy.

Some fail.


Diffuse

Specular

Does unreal do specular differently because that doesn't look like a specular map at all. Plus I don't see any specular in the engine render.

Its me. Im a nub at unreal materials.

I see some specular. Great stuff, but to do the engine justice one would ideal put Zbrush sculpted meshes everywhere to make it look less boxy and more worn and realistic (as well as better textures).

Never thought of using zbrush for interiors. It always messed up the other side of the wall. Unless I use mudbox though. Ill try that next time.

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Originally Posted by SnaFuBAR

Reload animations.

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You could always just hide it with the animation.

Hunter. Do I spy errors in those grooves?

Also, Dee. Super tiled stuff is uggo.

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Originally Posted by Pooky

You could always just hide it with the animation.

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I believe it is very bad to restrict the animator to motions that hide bad parts of the model.

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Originally Posted by BobtheGreatII

Shotgun I made a few weeks ago in a couple of hours. Far from being done, but that's what we have the crit thread for. Things I'm looking for: An idea for details on the side, I don't like the stretched cylinders and a different mechanism for the revolver part to come out...

Anyway, it has batteries instead of shells, 4 revolving batteries; 2 shots each.
Old Model

http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4176/render1np2.png

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Still working on it. I'm curious if I should extend the rail on the top to the end of the gun... thoughts?
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/5628/newrenderit0.png