Ballista Mark-2
A futuristic redesign of the FN Ballista, with a suite of attachments and a plasma-firing conversion. This was my first asset made using Plasticity, and also my first weapon with a modern style.
I spent a lot of time optimising UVs to ensure a visually consistent texel density across the weapon since each of the attachments uses separate texture sets. Additionally, I finally got a solid grasp on weighted normals, and how much they can do to improve bakes and LOD quality.
Textured in substance painter, low-poly and renders done with Blender.
.338 Lapua conversion profile
.338 Lapua conversion with attachments
Plasma conversion profile
Standard barrel and compensator.
Standard barrel fitted with a suppressor.
Heavy 'FMJ' barrel fitted with muzzle brake.
Plasma conversion barrel with an iron sight fitted.
Standard stock pad.
Lightweight stock pad.
Laser sight module fitted to the plasma barrel.
.338 Lapua Magnum cartridges.
16W electronic magazines.
'Armaments Nationaux' logo iterations. I eventually landed on this 'hammer' design, which implies an extended historical background.
Base weapon and plasma conversion concept. A lot of this changed as I was creating the high-poly.
