Basic First Person Arms

Community Marketplace
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I haven’t had much of a presence on these forums but I plan to change that.

After watching one of the Twitch live streams I decided to turn out a basic set of First person arms that I hope will be made available on the Marketplace.

I did all the Modeling Texturing Rigging and Implementation while I had a friend and former coworker do some animations.

Basic idea is for a set of arms that could be good to prototype a simple first person style game be it horror or survival.

I made a short video of what is included. If this is something that generates interest I would love to make more assets and perhaps
create a more advanced first person arm setup.

Basic first person arms for prototyping

Unreal Engine 4 Hierarchy

Mesh 20k Triangles / 5k Triangles LOD

18 Animations

SS Skin Shader and Simple Skin Shader
diffuse, normals, roughness 2048 x 2048

Bonus Props
**Flashlight 1400 Triangles
**Axe 370 Triangles
diffuse, normals, roughness metallic mask 1024 x 1024

https://evangaugh.artstation.com/

Criticisms and suggestions are welcome.

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I dont like how those hands looks like, seems like proportions screwed, look at the pinky. Also idle hand pose seems unnatural.

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I agree with that.

It’s a good start however, needs some work imho.

Think of it not as a prototype asset but of an asset people might actually use in a game and adjust the quality level to that.

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CriErr and order66. Thanks for the honest response.
I was aware of these issues. I’ll start Tweaking!

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Made an earlier response to this but I don’t see it showing up. so hoping this doesn’t make a double post.

I appreciate the input. I already have fixed most of the proportion issues and I’m doing some deformation tests now to try and achieve some better results.

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your earlier post was still moderated for some reason:)

ps, nice flashlight

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i dont know, do you need this thingor not, i just saw it on imgur, saved and forgot forever, but this might help you.

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Thanks CriErr I had already found some similar images but these are great reference as well.

thanks

I’ve done some preliminary deform tests with the base mesh of this hand its already a huge improvement, but still tweaking, I’m glad I went back to it.

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thats neat:)

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Good start!
Are weapon-anims planned?

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While I know this is a long shot, you might want to take a look into morph targets. Developers could use a slider and transition between thick muscled arms, and puny-baby-been-skipping-arm-day arms.

Looking fantastic as is. Hope to see it on the marketplace soon!

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Looks very nice :smiley:

Havoc does make a point, having morph targets for such these arms would be very helpful!

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Sorry for running silent I had to take this past weekend off from work.

I had sort of a long term plan to do an advanced arm pack if it seemed worth the time after this basic set. However a simple morph target and normal blend could be added.

I’m still dealing with deformation concerns. I’m trying to get these spot on for you all now. I’m still ~ a centimeter off here and there which I didn’t realize how big of an impact these minor difference would make when I did the first iteration of the model.

I was leaving weapon animations out primarily because for them to look good they sort of have to be molded to the weapon you’re holding and I wanted this to be a generic use case. I do have Tim Plates gun that could be easily setup for a rifle. But the only hand gun model I have is a star wars blaster pistol and that isn’t going to fly on the marketplace lol.

Ill leave you with some work in progress on the arm texture.

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Hey Crackjoe, any update on this?