nice. where are the textures from?

awesome! nice work.

Woooooosh! o.O

Model looks nice, but is not very useful in it's current state. I mean I'm an experienced game dev, but not even I have any idea how to even make this model show in blender, it is just black and cycles render cannot be used ingame anyway. Additionally the model is all in little pieces, so for someone to use it, he would have to create a new blend files so there is no more confusing setups, import all the stuff into it, combine the meshes into one, set it to realtime renderer and then it may show properly and may be exported to be used in a game. I may forgive that it is not rigged, animated etc, but this is just a mess.

It is not about the skill, it is about thinking, if anybody else actually can use that thing, I'm kind of tired of opening fubared blend files I cannot do anything with.

No, you are not supposed to work with fbx since it is a proprietary format and until recently it could not be imported in Blender, I noticed it works now, but you still have your 30 different objects and have to setup materials etc.

It is very simple, a game ready asset is usually 1 mesh, 1 material and realtime render.

You can just make a 4096x2048 texture, would fit perfectly.

You don't have to fix anything, I just wanted to tell you, that it can get quite annoying to always open up fubared blend files you have no idea what to do with.

The workflow is pretty much the same for all game engines, 1 mesh, 1 material optimized for real time render, not blender render or cycles.

A true game ready asset would require a rig and animations as well as LOD levels and collision meshes, but I do not demand that since that is hard work, it would be fine if you simply provide a working blend file on your next projects, nothing fancy, thats all I suggest.

you never stop whinning on the work of other people, do you?

It is not about whining it is about common sense, if nobody offers critique for improvement Opengameart will still be filled with mostly unusable art assets.

Agreed. Constructive criticm is important. For example: Duion, your cirtiques were getting pretty salty. It's possible to offer critical advice without sounding quite so ungratefully angry. Striving for more useful assets on OGA is completely defeated if no one feels welcome here. farcodev, you're not wrong to be critical of Duion's comments, but Duion did change tone to a more friendly suggestion at the end. That is a better way to provide feedback. AlienDev, thank you for being so willing to hear criticsm and improve your completely free asset that you were under no obligation to provide in the first place. We appreciate it.

Looks pretty good to me and I think you made it quite clear it was designed for Unity Engine.

I also wouldn't worry about producing "game-ready" art or even "blender-ready" art -- make what works for you and people will either find a use for it or they won't.

That said, your props pack isn't ready for general distribution just yet -- for that, I do think you'll need more cross-platform compatibility or additional features, like rigging, animation, or a themed set.    Your models and textures look good tho - not sure where you are in the "learning" process, but I'd say you're ready to move to "game-ready" if you so choose.

I'm new to 3D assets, finally taking the step up from 2d. Is this ready to go in Unity 2017? I'd like to use it for a sci fi feature, but I don't need it any time soon. You can take your time with it if there's still more to add :)

Yes! That would be terrific! Thank you. In fact I think it's good enough you could consider putting it in the Asset Store as a free Asset. I'm sure it would get a lot of use!

The fact that the material is black in Blender just means you have to add a texture to that slot. It doesn't matter, this is clearly well made.

I would like to advise you though, you should make sure to notify those that come to models like this that they're made to be modular. Apparently some people would call this "fubared", because they don't understand what a model like this would look like. Make it clear in the description from now on to avoid that issue.

Regardless, this looks pretty cool! I would like to see more of this kind of thing.

Yes it is okay to have two materials, but it is better performance to have one, it reduces drawcalls.

Drawcalls are number of meshes multiplied by materials, drawcalls affect performance more than polycount, that is why it is always the best option to have 1 mesh and 1 material.

It is also no big deal to redo the textures into one, you just create a 4096x2048 texture and copy both your textures into it, then you go into your model and just move the complete UV layout over to where the new texture it, if you zoom in in Blender UV editor you can make it perfectly align, all this should not take more than an hour and much less if you are experienced with it.

Two weeks and eight hours per day just for the unwrapping is far too long, when I feel like unwrapping takes too long, I just hit auto unwrap, check for stretched areas, fix them manually and call it done, that is less than an hour.

Even if you are perfectionist and want to properly unwrap it all by hand, it should not take you more than a couple of hours.

In my models you can see a quite ideal setup, you get the model in 1 mesh and 1 material and when you open the blend file you see exactly what you see in the preview screenshot which is also exactly what you see when you export it and import into a game engine and if you export it to Torque3D it will even work out of the box with no adjustments.

That's interesting Duion, I wasn't aware of that. While I still don't think it impacts the quality of the model significantly enough to say that it's broken. As far as I can tell, this model is relatively well made. 

I understand your concern, but you don't seem to know much about how Unreal Engine works, which makes your criticism quite unhelpful. Constructive Criticism should always guide the subject to a better outcome, it would seem that your complaints will not make that happen.

You should try to learn more about the tools that the creator is using if you're going to comment on the quality of their content, that way you can get the results you want. Being negative and not constructive will only keep good things like this from coming to OGA. Be respectful of the fact that people give this level of quality content out for free.

I'm not saying, on the other hand, that I wouldn't personally use one material/texture for the entire model. In Unreal Engine 4 even, it would be a lot cleaner to have one material mapped to the model and have that material include Material Functions. No quality would be lost, as the Material Functions would simply be the original materials, but gathered together within the base material.

This would save a lot of people a lot of time in Unreal Engine alone, as if you simply wanted to change certain things, like you could include a "Color" parameter to change the color of the whole thing at once, it'd be incredibly easy to do.

Regardless, I  don't think that a single 4k texture would always look too good on a larger model. All the same, I think it'd be best to use one texture, one material slot in Blender, and create a solid material that includes Material Functions. That's professional quality right there. 

AlienDev, if you have the time, please look at this: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Materials/Functions/index.html

You can circumvent the complaints about the model's state, while just as functional in it's current state, by using these. Epic used them in most of their starter content for the engine.

My point was just, that if you open the blend file you see nothing, you have to first switch to 3D view and still see nothing, then you add textures and still see nothing, then you realize all the settings are messed with and you have no idea how to fix them.

I'm quite a professional at blender, but not even I have any idea how to work with that blend file, as I only make realtime assets and never use cycles render. So if even I am lost with this, how much more lost the average user will be?

Duion, yeah, that makes sense. You should be able to open the Blend file right up and work from there. While the FBX works fine, having the blend file should mean that's it's easily usable as-is.

I would like to see these improvements be made from here on out, or for this to be updated to fix that. These kinds of things should be accesible by all users. Most will probably look at this and be turned away.