M4 Silverheart

8 of M4 Silverheart's 13 textures are large enough to carry artwork. Each one is analysed separately, so you can put a crew logo on the receiver and a different mark on the magazine without the two fighting for the same space.

Its largest sheet is pty_silverheart_m4 at 2048×2048 in D3DFMT_DXT5. That is the surface most of the rifle body samples from, and it is where a decal reads biggest in game.

At 379,025 triangles — roughly 75,805 per model file — this is one of the heavier pieces in the library. Dense meshes give the placement search a lot of surface normals to work from, so the side panels come out cleanly defined.

2 normal maps are present, so surface detail — rivets, grooves, stippling — keeps reacting to light through whatever you paint on top. Artwork only ever touches the diffuse sheet.

Its textures span 2 compression formats (D3DFMT_DXT5, D3DFMT_DXT1). Each edited sheet is written back in the format it already used, so the rebuilt dictionary is structurally identical to the original.

Because M4 Silverheart carries self-lit parts, its glow shell is drawn additively with the emissive alpha as the mask — the neon reads as neon rather than washing the whole rifle white.

With 8 separate diffuse sheets, this model splits its body across several dictionaries — useful if you want different parts of the rifle branded differently.

Assault rifles and carbines are the weapons players stare at longest in a firefight, so they carry a server brand better than anything else in the loadout.