Finishing up the wood texture. This texture has gone through many different rounds of feedback and revisions. I learned a ton about texturing wood and how wood attachments are processed. Happy to store this knowledge in my mind. Now onto the rest of the MP5.
Finishing up the UVs and retopo for the MP5. I have a few small tweaks and edits to finish off before moving on to the baking process. But here it is! My main retopo pass is complete at 81k tris. Textture are still temporary. Will start those from scratch in the next few days.
It has been a busy week! Haven't had nearly enough time to my MP5 project. But slowly chipping away. Testing out the retopo baking as I go to make sure I have a quality back with each item I retopo and unwrap. I intend to be texturing this by the end of the weekend. Also the textures are just smart materials I tossed on them to get an idea of how everything reads. Will start all the textures from scratch once I have finished up the retopo.
I have forgotten to update my blog over the last few days. Working on the retopo for the MP5. Using a combination of modeling in Blender and Retopoflow (add-on in Blender). Hope to finish it up in the next 2 days to then move on to the next phase.
Finishing up the HP mesh for the MP5. Did the primary modeling in Plasticity, utilizing Zbrush to polish up the mesh as needed and optimizing the topology to something more managable for the Retopo phase (in Blender). Excited to move on to the next phase of this project.
Finished up the Muzzle, forearm and barrels today. I am pretty happy about how the remaining pieces came together. Over the next couple of days I will finish up the HP process with Zbrush, adding subtle details, smoothing and finishing it off with a strap.
Didn't get to invest too much time to the MP5 today. But I did get the barrel and cocker lever finished up. I think everything is coming together nicely. Hope to finish the forearm and muzzle tomorrow, then moving to the micro details Monday (such as bolts and whatnot). So HP almost done!
I spent tome modeling the stock today. This presented me quite the challenge. Using Plasticity I had to reconsider how to create the ergonomic shape. It took several attempts. Ultimately I used a combination of lofting, booleans and bevels to get the desired results.
Finished up the receiver, added the rear receiver bracket, rear sight base, magazine and various brackets and bolts. Really struggled to figure out how to make the rear receiver brackets make sense and match the parts well. Ultimately I modeled out the shape I wanted, trimmed away the extra I didn't need then extruded the faces to give it the proper amount of thickness. Really like how it ended up. Cleaned up the outliner and naming convention for organization.
