Well, its solid colors, but its a texture...... Well it means I've got the UV and the material templating done, all thats left is the details and lighting and shading, you know, the hard part. I'm also trying to texture with photoshop instead of paintshop pro (psp), and hoping it will be better. Right now it feels harder because some things take 10 steps compared to 2 in psp, but hopefully I can get over it. Anyways, the weapon I've done is the imperial light repeater, designed to be as lightweight as possible, it combines a durasteel alloy caseless slug with a powerpack. It spins the round in a chamber to polarize it as it aligns it with the barrel which accelerates it away from the rifle. From this acceleration, the slug fragments but stay close together due to electromagnetic forces and causes both blaster bolt style damage along with the small flechette-like fragments penetration. The concept was a smaller, mobile, sustained fire surpression weapon capa...blah blah blah. Noone cares besides me I bet, so here's the model.



Whatcha think?

(ps better textures soon, promise!!)

Well dunno bout a light repeater. Looks more like a modern assault rifle. Looks great though!

The better half of the textures done.



Still some details to do and clean up some areas, but I'd say about 90% done. Whatcha think so far?

At first glance, it's hard to see it as Star Wars-y. I mean, it looks very our time.

I think it's absolutely awesome. i love the simple texturing. Looks realistic not overdone (which is probably what brings about ECHOMAN's comment). Only thing is, I think the stock needs work. I know it's supposed to look "lightweight" but it just doesn't seem to fith with the rest of the gun (and the back should probably be slightly rounded

Star wars guns are based on real guns, from the WWII era.

Ah, found the reference.

Leigh's pistol is actually a luger.



Hans is a mauser.



And the E-11 is a british sterling submachine gun. They grafted stuff onto them for close shots but there are stormies all over the place with unmodified sterlings. And they didn't change the mg-42s at all.



Incidentally, their modifications consisted of taking out the clip and threading rubber hoses through the holes in the outer barrel.

It's a good model, but it doesn't look SW at all. And as for the textures, in the second picture it still looks very plastic.

Imo, you need to look at some screenshots of the repeaters from all the Jedi Knight games to get some inspiration for textures...those solid colors do not work well.

I do admit, it turns out to be very modern looking because of the lack of do-dads and whachits which makes things more sci-fi looking, nor does it have the supersleek lines, both of which are droped for weight and simplicity. *shrugs* maybe I should call it the forerunner to the Imperial Repeater Rifle? XP
Gettleburger, in the repeater texture, most of the non-solid color (up to lum variation) is detail which is not modeled. However, here such detail I have mostly modeled in minus a few very shallow cutouts, granted tho this was not in the 2nd pic.

Anyways, here's the final result for the textures, I'm not really adding scratches since these are suppose to be fresh off the assembly line.



Whatcha think?

PS - Koobie, some parts are plastic, some are metal, so can you clarify what looks plastic? The whole model? The grips and selector?
JM, good reference pics

Leigh.......

The entire thing. Just doesn't look real enough to me. Most likely it's because of using solid colors for texturing. The front grip is more or less all right, though, but more details would've been nice there too.

Even "Fresh off the assembly line" weapons gotta have SOME texture to them... bumps, uneven light reflection, anything...

Well, here's it with some tweaks, primarily I increased the strength of the light/dark wash and the noise to attempt to give it some slight deformations as well as small bump noise. Additionally, many will notice the barrel is shorter, this was done according to an excellent suggestion by QM.



Whatcha think now?

The shorter barrel makes it look much better, I agree. Were you going for low poly count? That sight is bugging the hell out of me.

The stock bothers me. It looks like it should collapse, and it looks like it wouldn't sit on the shoulder right, it should be farther down I think.

The rest of the gun looks good, except for the low poly count.