Gallery Topic (post your favorite work, or WIP's)

[Con]

Make the legs plastic (of the smooth, finely textured variety):

1. Give it a darker gray tone
2. Add some noise, but not too much
3. Use the burn tool set to shadows to create some light shading
4. Use the dodge tool set to midtones to lightly define your highlights
5. Finish up with any necessary brightness/lightness/contrast/levels adjustments

Make the actual supporting column shiney metal:

1. Start out with a midtone gray
2. Use the sponge filter to give it some variety (not too contrasty, though)
3. Use the burn tool set to shadows or midtones with a soft brush to add in some streaks vertically along the shaft. Don't make it black, but as dark as something it may be reflecting. Also make sure that your streaks aren't too wide, remember, the UV is representing the entire circumference of your cylinder and the streaks will appear wider on your model.
4. Do the same with dodge set to highlights. Add more streaks. Make sure no two streaks are the same.
5. (optional) add some scratches or other details with a grungy or pixely brush. They look good on dodged streaks.
6. Make a new layer set to colour blend mode and grab a fairly soft and wide brush. Set the brush to a low opacity
7. Choose a light, desaturated blue tone and start brushing over one of your highlight streaks. Stop when it has a nice blue hint.
8. Repeat step 7 with a similar brown.
9. Perform necessary hue/saturation/lightness/brightness/contrast/levels adjustments.

[LinkandKvel]

The Walther P99 broken into seperate parts.

[LinkandKvel]

Does any one know what model geometry should be linked to what frames for pistols?

[DaneO'Roo]

looks good.

[ExAm]

what is that little pin hovering around the left of the trigger guard? Is that the firing pin? Hehe. Way off from where it should be :P

[LinkandKvel]

Referenced wrong. Thats why I asked if anyone knows what frames goes to what model geometry. Can someone please tell me. I also would like to kindly ask for help with skinning this. I don't want to mess it up with a bad skin. I want to make this gun as accurate as possible.

EDIT: Also note there is no barrel because I don't know it it's supposed to be attached to the model or what.

[phase]

All model geomerty that you want exported should be attached to your main frame.

[LinkandKvel]

All model geomerty that you want exported should be attached to your main frame.

I know that but my frames like slide release i'm having problems with. When I link those, they are for some reason at that spot where the cylinder is in the above pics.

[phase]

How about a pic of your frame set up to make it easyer to understand if you havn't fixed it already.

[Love De Lux]

Learning how to set up lights

EDIt : boo