Matviy

Finally got back to this and got started in the wheels. Blender 4.5 was bugged with extrusions under certain conditions, but 4.5.4 fixed it. Also real life got in the way and I took some time to (poorly) participate in a render jam.

More progress on the car project. Non-destructive modelling makes my head hurt.

This is incredibly clean.

I'm replaying Alpha Protocol for the first time in a few years, and it's honestly better than I remember. I *really* like this game, and I'm kinda salty that we've never gotten another game like it since (it's been 16 years).

More progress on the body.

Here's how that hard surface course is going so far...

Looking forward to your tutorial on how to handle uh, hands holding weapons in Godot.

It's going to be a bit before I post any new art because I'm currently doing the @gamedevtv.bsky.social blender hard surface course and it's uh, a lot harder than all the other courses and tutorials I've done.

This looks uncomfortably like AI slop...

Also the loading gate is a separate part. For obvious reasons.

Oh hey. I finished modelling the shotgun. Trigger, bolt carrier, bolt release, and the barrel are all separate parts for animation (long recoil action)!

I'm working towards building out all the assets for a game idea I have (that I'll probably never finish) mainly as a way to just come up with ideas for models so I can practice and challenge myself. If I can get some portfolio pieces out of that it will be an added bonus.

Substance Painter allows for hand painting normal maps, and I found a brush for it that does screws and rivets.

Well uh, that went surprisingly quickly. I may actually finish this thing tomorrow...

Shout-out to the auto mirror blender addon for making my lif a million times easier.

Goal is for an early-mid 2000s PC/PS2 game look. Somewhere between FEAR, HL2, and Doom 3. For texturing I'm planning on having normal maps (for details like rivets), but not full PBR with metallic and roughness.

Already started on a new project. I feel like I actually learned a lot modelling the Gepard.

@joelespi.bsky.social finished my first gun project! Well, the modelling part anyways.

Finished modelling the Gepard SMG. 2657 tris for everything including the mag and the bullets. Done with it for now until I get my hands on Substance Painter.

I loved Alan Wake 2 for the same reasons that I love Kojima games. It's the video game equivalent of a pretentious arthouse film. Need more of that in my life.

Thank you. I really appreciate it. I've been planning on grabbing RizomUV for that because my last few adventures in unrapping in blender have been... Unpleasant.

Yeah after I finish this gun model I think I'm going to do Grant Abbitt's new hard surface course that doesn't use any special add-ons.

Very cool. I'm still just getting started and trying to figure out a good workflow for modelling guns.

Getting closer...

Do you use any plugins like machin3tools in your workflow?

Here's some light retopology gore.

Getting closer...

I played this somewhat recently and came away really missing that era of gaming. I wish we got a sequel fr.

Handguard and bolt carrier done. All I have left is the dustcover, mag, and then it's time for retopo...

And I did the barrel assembly. I think I'm going to tackle the handguard next.