Flashlight | mattportfolio

Animation Breakdown

I have animated this modes for a first person game, The model has 5 different animated states, these are:

- Deploy and turn flashlight on.

- Idle with flashlight turned on.

- Idle with flashlight turned off.

- Flashlight run out of charge.

- Replace flashlight battery.

These animated states are shown below.

Animation Sets

Maya Rigging Set Up

The rig for this model is broken down in to two separate skeletons, the first one is for the view arms that interact with the flashlight, the rig for the arms is a standard biped rig from Maya Human IK tools. The rig for the flashlight was created from scratch. The root bone of the flashlight rig is connected to the arms rig, allowing the hand to control the flashlight.

This model was created using Maya 2017, then textured using Substance Painter 2.

This was made as part of a college project, We needed a flashlight to help players find their way around the abandoned mansion. I started be creating the basic shaped in Maya, I then researched technology from around 1930 this influenced the model, I also pulled a lot of inspiration from the game series "Fallout". I then used Maya to unwrap the model, I used normal maps to do all the fine detail on this model because I needed to keep the model low-poly as it will be used in a game.

I finally used substance painter to texture the model. All the textures used a PBR Metal Rough with Alpha Blending shading model. The welding done on the normal model was created using a tool I made in Substance Designer 5. The finished textures are exported in 2K resolution because I wanted the model to be optimised for a game engine.

How was this made?

Textures breakdown

Raw UV map from Maya

This is the UV map I created in Maya for this model before exporting my model to substance painter.

Reference/Inspiration images

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Edison Mrk 1 Flashlight

This is a concept for a first generation flashlight based on the work of Thomas Edison. I made this for a game project I am working on with some college friends. The project is a horror game, and the flashlight to find your way through an abandoned mansion.

This was made completely from scratch using no reference images, I looked at other flashlights from a similar time period but the concept is completely original.