Full Weapon Creation Tutorial

[DEElekgolo]

I finally got around to uploading this. It's a pretty large download but contains around 7 hours of footage. This tutorial covers the complete creation of a modern weapon from start to finish. Everything is covered here including subd modeling, low poly creation, uving, baking, and texturing.

The sound isn't great but it will do.

I hope you enjoy!

Stuff I used:
3DS Max
Photoshop
8monkey Toolbag (http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=61346)
xNormal photoshop plugins (http://www.xnormal.net/1.aspx)

DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL HERE (http://racer445.com/pages/tutorials/ak-tutorial.php)

Final result:
http://racer445.com/media/tutorials/ak74u/render.jpg

http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?p=966646

Download the fuck out of it.

[Ki11a_FTW]

i should fucking look at this

[Chainsy]

Great thread, but wrong section, should be studio.

[SnaFuBAR]

moved to appropriate section.

[CSFLOYD]

This is some pretty cool beans, definantley going to check it out! Everyone download it! NOW!

[Malloy]

Looks like worthwhile output to watch the goddam video :P

p.s lolicious woodgrain

[Hunter]

Wow, I sooo wish I could do something like that.

[Joshflighter]

I doubt you ever will.


Thanks for the share dee, didnt see this there, downloading now.

[Disaster]

Wow, I sooo wish I could do something like that.

Thats easy :3

[DEElekgolo]

Yea, I noticed a lot of you never knew what subdiv modeling is. Some of you even thought that you had to use zbrush. And MANY of you just extruded to add detail.

[Hunter]

I know what subdiv is. Just need to learn it, then maybe I could make simular products, with some support from the community... Fear

[Disaster]

I know what subdiv is. Just need to learn it, then maybe I could make simular products, with some support from the community... Fear

Its not difficult to learn lol. You can pick it up in a day if you try. Just need to have extra edgeloops "reinforcing" the edges you want to make hard. I usually use 2 reinforcing each edge for a total of 3 edges. And its best to model in all quads so you can subdivide/smooth without any errors as triangles and ngons subdivide/smooth very awkwardly.

[Warsaw]

=O

Am download. Could definitely use this.

[SMASH]

Can someone post what his overall method is like: (Subd Modelling -> Render Normal -> Low Poly Modeling -> Texturing) or something like that so I can watch them and have in mind where he's going with this. If not you'll watch 7 hours just to get the jist and then rewatch the 7 hours to get the technical side of things.

[Roostervier]

You watch them in the order they are in.

Here's a pic:

http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/4383/order.png

[Advancebo]

o boy, unwrapping :D

[Hunter]

Wooo, finished downloading. Watching :P

[Joshflighter]

I started learning yesterday, this is SO awesome.

[kid908]

Yea, I noticed a lot of you never knew what subdiv modeling is. Some of you even thought that you had to use zbrush. And MANY of you just extruded to add detail.

OMFG subdiv was a fucking life saver when making organic objects (especially freeform character creation). I learned it a while back for max, and use it in every model (hmmm...which I'm lacking now. betta get started soon)

[legionaire45]

Lol, odd timing considering I just spent a week playing around with this on that glock.

Dl'ing - this turned out way better than my crappy little glock :3.

[Anton]

Yeah, I was directed to polycount by Fear (thanks bro) and came across that thread, yet the tutorial wasn't released. Glad to see it is now though!

[Hunter]

/me starts sub'ding models and texture baking...

[Corndogman]

the hell? Videos 6 and 10 aren't in the rar, and only 1-3 will extract.... the fuck?

E:
! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part2.rar: CRC failed in video4_lowpoly.avi. The file is corrupt
! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part2.rar: Unexpected end of archive
! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part3.rar: CRC failed in video5_unwrapping.avi. The file is corrupt
! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part3.rar: Unexpected end of archive
! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part4.rar: Unexpected end of archive

[Roostervier]

Did you download all six parts? Maybe you downloaded the same one twice or something without noticing and you're missing one. Also, try extracting from part 1 rather than just any of the parts.

[Corndogman]

Nope they're all the right ones, and I did extract from part one. Oh well, I'll figure it out later, or just redownload.

[Hunter]

I had to re download a few times because they kept on going corrupt. Just see which archives give you an error and download again.

e.g.


! C:\Users\Others\Documents\Downloads\Racer AK tut\racer_ak_tutorial.part2.rar: CRC failed in video4_lowpoly.avi. The file is corrupt

So download part2 again.

[killer9856]

Downloading. Eager to try it :)

[legionaire45]

I selected all of the different .rars at once and extracted and didn't have any problems with corrupted files.

[Corndogman]

As Did I, they were just corrupted. I redownloaded them and it works now. Great tut, I'm halfway through.

[Limited]

He shouldnt also split files up into sections, like modelling, texturing, unwrappnig etc. I only wanted to see the texturing one. To view any I gotta download 2.86GB of files =\

[Hunter]

I attempted at texture baking something, but failed :/ Can't be arsed tbh. It is a really godo tutorial though, I will watch again one day and learn properly.