Revolver Tutorial - Industry ready weapon and attachment creation for video games
Hello everyone! 👋🙂 Tim from ChamferZone here. Today, I am excited to share with you the chapter overview for the all new weapon tutorial available at
Gumroad chamferzone.gumroad.com/l/Rev...
Artstation www.artstation.com/a/8792543
Flipped Normals flippednormals.com/downloads/...
The Revolver Tutorial is an all new, state of the art weapon tutorial for the Blender era as well as Marmoset Toolbag 4 and Substance Painter for baking, texturing and portfolio ready renders. Create a customizable revolver together with two mountable attachment pieces for it: a flashlight and a reflex scope as you would find it almost any FPS video game these days. As we go through the various modeling stages we will make use of all the latest tools, modifiers, plugins and techniques that help us do the best job possible. We built the revolver fully detachable: you can even take the rail off.
Instructor Biography
I'm Tim - Sr. 3D Artist with 14 years of industry experience having worked on numerous games at Crytek, Ubisoft and Digital Extremes as well as being my own boss at ChamferZone which is centered around creating tutorials and 3D assets. In my tutorials I'll show you every step for creating AAA quality 3D Game Art to get you industry ready too! 💪🤝🙂
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Instant buy, not just for the great tutorial but for you, Tim. Your hard work has to be supported!
I recently discovered your KZhead Channel. I have no income, but, for the first time, I can afford a tutorial, and it's yours. You teach really well and, from one artist to another, I would like to contribute for your effort. Thank you.
Cannot wait to get it, your tutorials are fantastic Tim !
Super excited about this tutorial! Your AK tutorial taught me so much about hard surface, will definitely be following this one as well. Thanks Tim!
This looks incredible.Your courses are really helping me thank you so much.Its time to pre order.
Wow! You never stop to amazed me. You're the man Tim.
Amazing, Tim! Vielen Dank! So much Blender love, too! :) Currently working through your AK tutorial, but on Blender and a different Model of AK. But modeling alongside you with the problem zones, like the fire selector switch is really helping me.
WOW!! Tim, that looks AWESOME mate!! Well done!!
This is EPIC!!! Hopefully i can follow in Maya. Tim you are amazing and your tutorials are very helpful and inspirational.
Bought it! It's a perfect fit for my current workflow and it'll get me to some next level hard surface modeling
Your AK tut lead me toward getting my first job. I am currently working in Blender and may havta take a peep at this one. Always great tutorials. Cheers Tim!
Hi, thank you for developing this course, I just bought it, I hope to get a lot out of it to improve their modeling skills, texturing, as well as the ability to make a beautiful rendering:)
Just finished the Revolver tut, i lurned so much, thank you and i am waiting for the next one, hope its comming soon :)
Blender continues to surprise me with how it gets better and better every year, it's a joy to use as well!
I was waiting for something from you since months now ! Thanks so much for this, i'll preorder it Right now (y)
Wow Tim you impress me everytime I respect you alot I am used to 3dsmax but with blender which is for free i dont have to worrry about licences in the future! I have started my journey wayback with the kukri knife and ak47 tutorials and i dont know where i would be without your tutorials.
Soon as I found this I instantly bought it. LETS GO!! 🔥
Just got back into 3D modeling for the first time since 2017 when I did some of your older 3DS Max tutorials. Wanted to see if you had anything new. Looks like you have made the switch to Blender. Might have to give learning Blender a go sometime soon!! Never see a problem with adding more tools to the tool bag. This weapon seems like it's going to cover a lot of unique shapes, and things that I struggle with now. Glad to see you're still at it, Tim!!
Cool, I've been recently learning blender so perfect project to dive into.
Always loved your tutos on 3DSmax. Glad this one is on blender ! ;).
i'm gonna buy this, no doubt, this is such high quality and for me, it's not only about the gun, because i will get lots of experience out of this too, so the money will be worth it.
despite the fact I'm in love with 3ds Max (also because of your amazing tutorials) and plan to use it for this tutorial too, I'm purchasing it for supporting your work (and still hope to see game ready vehicle tutorial haha)
Just WOW! Amazing!
Tim, hearing you're sticking with Blender breaks this Max devotees heart. But I respect you enough to buy and watch this series. I'll see just how good your new workflow is. Nice to see your face bro.
Hello Adam, appreciate it but don't see it as such a bad thing. Ultimately it will benefit you to know both Max and Blender but after a decade of working with Max to me it's been nothing but enjoyable to be working with Blender now and there's no downside to it. The tools are great, the modeling is fluid and on top of that it's free. Blender has a lot going for it and that's what makes it interesting to me as a tutorial creator too.
Please make more tutorial. Blender keep evolving and we need new update tut. I have bought the AK course from you. I will be buying this revolver class as well and hopefully we have more Blender modeling course coming out!
incredible! i just started to learn blender so it is just in time.
You are amazing and fantastic master of cg so much waiting for your newer weapon tutorial
Can't wait to watch it!
It will be my Christmas present :) Currently I'm "fighting" with your previous Blender tutorials :) Thank you Tim for your awesome work!
Glad to hear it Błażej and yes I understand. The fight is always part of the learning. I've been there too and I try my best to make it as "smooth" as possible in the tutorials but of course I know it's never a breeze to get though ;) But the end result is the reward and the more you do it the easier it will get :) 💪
@@ChamferZone Tim, thank you for your response :) I really like your tutorials for not skipping any part of the process! By the way greetings from Gdańsk (Poland). If you will be visiting Gdańsk, would be nice to catch a beer or something :)
I see everyone move to blender ) after 10 years of professional using 3ds max I decided also move to blender and was not disappointed. amazing tool and probably in near future it'll be industry standard.
I Dont normaly Pre order products, but since you introduce me to 3ds Max i just did the pre order for this course.
This is treasure.. Can't wait for release...
Looks great!👍
Looks awesome!
This course just looks so 😩🤌, I hope I’ll be able to afford this course in the coming months. Unfortunately I don’t think I can afford the baking software
Id love to see a course on cars or just general vehicle modeling for games
Dude amazing
oh man, you are awesome, I'll waiting for it
I just got your other tutorials and was happy to see that you have a tutorial for texturing within Marmoset Toolbag 4. I'm still wrapping my head around texturing in Toolbag but, would I be able to apply the same techniques that you'll use in Substance Painter to Toolbag 4?
Pre-ordered! :)
As a lifelong Max user (on and off for 20 years!) I'm finding it really difficult to switch to Blender, just because of the weird way it works sometimes (and the default key layout - eugh) but your earlier tutorials definitely help with that. Maybe this will be the thing that finally makes me switch.
Hello Dave, I've been quite a bit hesitant too in the beginning and it was mostly a buddy from Digital Extremes - Kronk at the ChamferZone discord ;) - that sold me hard onto it and when I saw him work in Blender I just liked what I saw. Now fast-forwarding to today I am really happy having done that switch. It's very rewarding once you get into the flow for it. To me Blender feels very fluid, the tools are great and it's a enjoyable experience. That is not supposed to discredit Max or anything but it's just nice having this as an alternative to choose from and also not having to worry about licenses. I can highly recommend you giving it another try too :)
I feel the same way, but having seen almost all of your videos, and now knowing it will change your workflow... I already blindly believe that it has many advantages...
I also started out in 3dsmax for a few years (I remember watching tims grenade tutorial back when we had the first substance painter, before it became industry standard xD) and I tried to switch to blender twice and failed both times, but I saw 2.8 when it came out and decided to try again, and by then I had learned enough in 3D to realise blender can do everything other programs can, and now I enjoy using it. Plus all the plugins and stuff, like hairtool for making game ready hair and many other plugins, are cheaper than buying 3dsmax for a year, so, totally worth the effort to learn. Also worth looking into ui and keyboard tutorials, to learn how to customize it to feel more like 3ds max, and also program some handy shortcuts to whatever you want.
You now what? First step is dificult but next steps are very excited. 3ds max -> Modo -> Blender. It's was best choice. You must try. Believe me...Blender's world is like...pink glasses on your nose, travel to the your destination. I think...i spend too much time in 3dsMax. Blender is free and amazing.
I used 3DS Max for 19 years myself for games design primarily... I swore that I'd NEVER use Blender and advised people not to use it because of how terrible its interface was. However - I'm eating my words right now. Back in February I saw that Blenders interface and features had undergone a massive overhaul as of 2.8 and, as an artist, I was really impressed by the way it now looked. So I installed it and gave it a go after watching a few "New to Blender" tutorials. I've since given up 3DS Max and now highly recommend Blender to everybody. In some ways I'm much faster in Blender than I was in 3DS and it just offers far more to me as an artist.
King is back.
Tim this is the one I've been waiting for. Thank you so much for putting your time into this. Cannot wait to get started!
Plan to buy this tomorrow and start, looks like it’s around 19 hours of watch time, there’s gonna be a lot of pausing and going back, but expect it will take me around 40 hours. That means I can get it done in 1-2 weeks. The reason I’m buying this isn’t because I want a revolver as a portfolio piece, but rather to learn the method of creating weapons. I’ve seen a lot of people agree (mainly talking to people within the industry on ArtStation) that (if your using blender for weapon creation) this is the best method. So I’m hoping this will give me the skills and no how to create advanced weapons of my own. I’ve been using blender (regularly) for about a year or so and would consider myself an intermediate level. Very excited about this course. One thing I highly recommend for anyone thinking about getting this course is that if you do TAKE NOTES! I’ve followed tutorials in the past that I have bought and forgot half the stuff a few weeks later. The goal of this course is to teach you to make weapons of your own and learn the workflow, not to “create a revolver” Also, have never used marmoset before, so I’m excited about that. I swear 90% of the hardsurface models I see on ArtStation are rendered in marmoset. It’s a great tool and was planning on buying it anyway. If anyone see this comment at a later time and wants to know how it went, let me know and I’ll give you the run down
Done! it was an amazing tutorial thank you, Tim What's next?
Long time follower of your work so looking forward giving this new Blender workflow (...already pre-ordered a copy :) ) a try as opposed to Max. Cheers Tim
Hello sacboi, thanks for the preorder! I am sure you're gonna love the remesher workflow. I'll be making a special episode about it too for youtube :)
I don't know why my brain did this, but when I first heard your voice I pictured your hair being darker. Also sweet, new tutorial.
Hey Tim! Awesome tutorial! Would you wanna come on the podcast and talk about your work?
Great tutorials ❤️ I would like to see kar 98 tutorial so we can know hoe to get the organic shape of the wooden stock and the detailed parts ❤️🔥
Instant buy!
wish this course would go on sale. i only do hobby level stuff for renders, not designing anything for games. so its hard to justify $40.
hope this course will be available on artstation market
Hi Tim, will you make only Blender tutorials from now on? I've recently bought a couple of your 3ds max tutorials and I really love this software.
Nicely done. Can you kindly release this tutorial in 3ds max. Thank you
Hi Tim, Thank you so much for making this incredible course, Will the course be available on Udemy?
Instant buy as always
This tutorial is looking great since blender is so hard to me compared to MAYA.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey I have a question, in what role type portfolio i can put this type of thing? Like a 3d Modeler for games?, Product design? Maybe something related to films? please help.
Nice！
Imma buy it rn
Hey Tim. I see you like the Remesher workflow for making your high poly mesh. Have you tried using the Bevel modifier using the Bevel Weight feature (right next to Mean Crease) to mark where your sharp edges will appear, as well as how sharp they will be. I think this workflow is simpler, faster to load and yet more powerful then Remesher workflow. Or am I wrong somehow?
I think (maybe I am wrong) remesher is chosen because you don't have to worry about weird pinching effects which will occur while beveling. i could be wrong though
Quick question... Is it gonna be possible to only get the texturing part of the tutorial as in the ak course, or is it only a comple bundle? Thank you! :D
im using 3ds max for past 7 years, i have 1 question do you recommend us to shift from max to blender? obviously according to your experience
Hey Tim, can I ask what format will I get when I purchase this course? is it a downloadable video or an online library?
Hi, I'm thinking of purchasing this course because it looks really great but I wanted to ask if it's possible to make it without Marmoset Toolbag
Looks great Tim, I’d get it except that the texturing is all in Substance, would you consider also adding doing the texturing in Marmoset?
Hey Dan! I was giving that plenty of thought because I really like the Marmoset Texturing but I decided to stick to Substance Painter for now because it has so many procedural textures and tools such as adding text etc for which we make use in that tutorial so basically a few things would have been much harder to achieve with Marmo Texturing. I do like it though which is why I made the grenade texturing tutorial and I hope they further improve at the procedural front. I'd love to make the next big tutorial in Marmoset for texturing if it's all there :)
I hear you, but to be fair for text at least you can just import alphas into MT and stamp, which is what you have to to in SP anyhow if you want to use anything other than the built in fonts (with the cool inbuilt text-stamp too). At any rate since the goal is learning here having a MT section would be a valuable addition to the course.
@@DanMcLaughlin Yes there would have been ways to work around it and I also make use of plenty of alpha textures instead of the text tool but there are more "procedural" things where SP has the upper hand right now. I certainly look forward to see that changing though. Marmoset Texturing has a lot going for it, it's a bit of a diamond in the rough right now.
@@ChamferZone Got it. FWIW SP is problematic because to really get use out of it you need a subscription to get library access (I have a Steam indie). Bigger issue for me is that I find it way more work to get satisfying results in SP than Marmoset. Rather than the flat ‘click space’ of MT, SP requires lots of digging around, and half the time a slider or control doesn’t have any affect anyhow. Ultimately it’s preference, both are sophisticated enough that you can get equivalent results either way. Well anyhow if you can supplement the channel with more MT content that would be very helpful, not a lot out there still on MT4.
Looks great! Is it suitable for those who never used Blender before? Edit - Nevermind, I've found your Bledner tutorial. :D
Hi Danny, awesome :) Yes, I try to make all my tutorials so that anyone can follow. That doesn't mean that it will be "easy" to follow through but in general most actions we do are quite repetitive so if I do something in the tutorial that maybe you don't quite understand when you first follow it, it might become more clear after the 5th time you do it as to WHY we're doing it. This is the natural learning process that will happen then :) And yes the fundamentals course is important, I also included it to the revolver tutorial to make sure people see it and get the chance to watch it if they haven't already. Just to familiarize yourself with all the tools and modifiers and other basics.
omg take my money !
I use max for 10years with many jobs, already have high experience, also i dont mind the price or plugin, honestly tell me should I totally change the workflow to blender??? and reason, thanks
cool
modeling was great but the part of marmoset tutorial iam unable to follow the tutorial, when i press bake my baking is a complete mess.
Would I be able to follow along using 3DS Max?
Are you using only vanilla blender functionality in this tut?
Does anyone know or recommend using quad remember of the remesh (blender version) that is used it the tutorial?
Hello. I hope you are well friend. I would like to know something before buying it. If you teach how to export it to any graphic engine?
If you do not have acces to marmoset, would the baking in substance still be good enough?
Hello, I would recommend against it because you'll have a difficult time fixing the skewing in Painter. Marmoset just lets you paint over it. You could always get the 30 day free trial for Marmo too unless you already used that up but in general the Marmo baker is the best there is currently.
@@ChamferZone Is it also possible to pay with paypal as i don't see the option anywere when i want to pre order it
Tim, just out of curiosity, why use Blender and not 3d Max? Autodesk has now their own version of remesher in Max, and I find it very easy and intuitive to use.
Hello George, it's a frequent question people are asking and I understand it of course. Currently I am noticing that plenty very noticeable video game studios/publishers have a big interest in learning Blender. Blender 2.8 was the release that kind of marked that shift in my opinion due to appealing new UI among other things and ever since then Blender has been in hot demand not only for personal users but also for studios that not only provide funding for it (Epic, Ubisoft etc.) but are also interested in using it. In fact I am currently about to prepare a workshop for a well known video game publisher where I will be giving lessons in Blender. 🙂 Like I was writing under the fundamentals course as a comment.. in most cases the place you work for would/should be 100% okay with you using Blender for the average modeling. There's absolutely no reason that would speak against you using it because ultimately what matters is the end result in FBX format (well in most cases). What software you are using to get there does usually not matter to anyone unless there are maybe some VERY specific reasons why you would have to stick to one software only. Like maybe making use of some specific tools that you need to export/import towards their engine but even then you could do all the modeling in Blender and simply import it back for the finishing touches into the other software. In my whole career span there would hardly ever have been any objecting reasons and I been using Blender at my previous work place as well as plenty of other artists. It's actually being encouraged rather then being made an issue. This is not supposed to mean.. use THIS software over the other but ultimately you can use whatever software you prefer and feel comfortable in. Blender has two great things going for it.. it's free.. and excellent on top of that.
@@ChamferZone 100% agree why would anyone limit their self to 1 DCC I personally use Maya but I started 3D with Blender and I still use it often. some things are simply faster for me in Blender and somethings make more since to me in Maya... I also use substance painter, marmoset, ZBrush and just started Houdini. If you can learn and make things easier on yourself go for it!
A Blender tutorial series has a bigger potential to make more money. Blender is free, the user base is much larger and there is not a lot of professional content for it.
@@ChamferZone , unfortunately, Blender makes a whole bunch of things to do so complicated.. The stuff i can do in 3Ds Max takes waaay more time here. I do agree that Blender is great for VFX and good at animation but accurate modelling isn't about Blender. Sure, it's free and there's no studio which will be against of using it but as.. let's say, an experienced user of 3Ds Max, every time as i'm starting to create a model which is't absolutely simple, i feel like i'm sitting on a chair which is flipped over.
@@arturartrtr7074 Of course, you will sucks to Blender at first. You need to learn the software, but it's not because YOU take a lot of time to do something that it means the software is bad. There's a lot of AAA studios switching to Blender, so that proves the software is fully capable for the game industry.
Hi Tim - Is this a download tut or can I stream this from Gumroad?
Or does anyone else know?
Its happening its happening im gonna cry😭😭
Does this utilize plugins like hardops/boxcutter? If not, do you think you'd ever consider producing a tutorial using such tools? I see it everywhere for blender but still have no idea what it's capable of. From what I do understand tho, I feel like itd pair very well with this remeshing workflow.
I also would be interested what are the benefits of using the remeshing workflow over just using the fast "boolean + weighted normals" workflow? By using HOPSCUTTER/MESHMACHINE and ignoring clean topo, this workflow is still the fastest IMHO?!
hola tendras un cupon de descuento?
R.i.p. 3ds max for chamfer zone. Another pro 3d artists converted to Blender! Let's gooo
Are you going to sell it on Cubebrush?
can a beginner in blender follows this tutorial?
Hello. I try to make all my tutorials so that anyone can follow. I recommend watching my free Introduction to Blender tutorial first, as well as the flashbang tutorial. You can find it here on KZhead. And like I was just saying to someone else on here, that doesn't mean that it will be "easy" to follow through but in general most actions we do are quite repetitive so if I do something in the tutorial that maybe you don't quite understand when you first follow it, it might become more clear after the 5th time you do it as to WHY we're doing it but I also comment on everything I do and why we do it. This is the natural learning process that will happen then :) I do my best to make these tutorials as approachable as possible for beginners and it works well for a lot of people over the past years.
@@ChamferZone thanks for the answer. I've preordered it ;)
Awesome course but kinda getting annoyed that we start with the bullet part first 😅 seems soo simple but hard to follow in real time
HI 很喜欢你的教程，请问这个教程会在中国上架吗？
直接买呗，大不了tb代买哈哈
Good afternoon. Please tell me how to buy your course if you live in Russia?
Germany
blender 4.0 tutorial please its too old for buying
I would totally buy more of these and brush up on my skills but we use Maya at work ! Can you do more Maya ?
Hello Dillon, sorry but presently I have no plans for a Maya tutorial anytime soon. We do have a few Maya users and a section for it on the ChamferZone Discord though which maybe will be helpful for you too? discord.gg/sAkTtKG
Blender is a bit shitty program, so I'm modelling this in Max.
It will be free or paid?
Hello Wasim, this is a paid tutorial course with a total span of almost 20 hours. However the final chapter which is making portfolio ready renders will be free to watch on KZhead as well as more free tutorials coming in the future to this channel.
@@ChamferZone So where is the link? I want to buy it. 😃
Not your ordinary Blender kid ;)
Just started this tutorial and realized that it makes too many comparison with 3ds max and after 5 minutes it put you to download some plugins that make Blender behave like 3ds max. But why? I think this tutorial is more for 3ds max users that want to switch to Blender and they complain like little cry babies
Hi from Russia and take my money)
In tutorial we will see how to make only high poly model or low poly too?
but isn't that to high poly for a game ?
NOW WER COOKING
Cool, but this technique is more for Zbrush. To use this in blender you need a powerful PC.
Hello, I understand that people are concerned about that but I am glad to say that this is not accurate. In the tutorial I will show ways to deal with the performance impact and I will also make a special youtube episode about it :) My PC is not powerful at all (6+ years) and I had zero issues.
no disrespect but 40 dollars for starter blender training? i am living in turkey and this amount seems absurd, of course its not your fault me living in turkey but man the blender is free and you are asking for 40 dollars for each training? from its newbie community that are living in a countries with struggling economy, this seemed a bit much to me, cant afford but thanks for sharing
Been looking for it pirated icl