[WIP] Newbie Piece - Steyr Aug

[hamzaaa]

I added a cable to the flashlight and some fixations:


Also I want to model the duct tape around the grip as seen here:


I started sculpting that in Zbrush but I am new to the app and this is my first sculpt ever. I need advise!

[airage]

Looking really good so far, nice touch with the tape. Are you going to do lowpoly / textures as well?

[swag]

Wow, this is really looking a lot better.

Good work and nice touch with the tape like airage said.

[hamzaaa]

Thanks guys!

So I call the tape done. The sculpt isn't great but I am quite happy with it, in the FPS view it will be pretty small anyways. Have a look at the Max import. Zbrush's decimation Master is a great plugin! My initial sculpt was 1.7 million polys and I got it down to 100k polys.



Next steps are finalizing the high poly and starting with the low poly... the fun is over

[hamzaaa]

Ok I will call the high poly done, there are still things which aren't great but I have to move and get the low poly going..

[Polygoblin]

Looks great, man Excellent work. LOVE the sculpted tape. You nailed it.

[BuLL]

@Hamzaa..Tbqh..I`d lose the name m8,or change it...Google is a fine tool for looking up names btw.

[Polygoblin]

Bull, it's a Steyr AUG. This is an established gun with an established name. Wouldn't make a bunch of sense to change it...

[hamzaaa]

@Polygoblin: Thanks man! I really appreciate it
@Bull: What Polygoblin said, I didn't make the name up myself, this weapon is actually real and called like that.

[hamzaaa]

So I started with the low, I took the main body first to just melt it down and test unwrap it. What I realise is, that I have massive problems figuring out how to unwrap this thing. Any help? Here is how I got it down so far:





I tried to unwrap it as a whole first which didn't work out, next I tried to cut off the handle which was kinda strange too.. I don't know how to approach this I am so damn unexperienced with low poly and unwrap >_>
And any tips on melting it down even further?