The Stinger (Reborn Lightsaber) - WeaponsHD 1.1

The original model was awful. It just didn't look right. This version is a great improvement and makes the Stinger finally appear like a lightsaber.

The 1.0 version is on it's way, just making a few more tests!

in the very words of Ozzy Osbourne "It is about fucking time!"

but didn't you already make a stinger with red shaders and stuff? in that hd weapons pack?

in the very words of Ozzy Osbourne "It is about fucking time!"

but didn't you already make a stinger with red shaders and stuff? in that hd weapons pack?

Yes, I did. Well, compare the quality of these two hilts released now with the hilts from those packs and you'll quickly realize why I restarted the project. Rather than working on fixing those shabby models, I can just do them a lot better from scratch, with better face savings, positions, better topology etc. What's more, some were pretty subjective! I mean, I made them like I wanted to make them so they weren't recreations in the true sense of the word.  At that point I was drawing on the UV map from a sheer new file in Photoshop and used nothing else than brushes and filters to make my textures. Now I bake the base textures, add material properties to the model in Substance Painter, adding details in Photoshop and Painter as well a little bit, then finally combine it all together in Photoshop into a diffusion and specular map for JKA.  The models to-come will leave the old packs in a big, black shadow! Also, I'll take the old ones down once I finish the new packs! Check my topic for more info!

Yes, I did. Well, compare the quality of these two hilts released now with the hilts from those packs and you'll quickly realize why I restarted the project. Rather than working on fixing those shabby models, I can just do them a lot better from scratch, with better face savings, positions, better topology etc. What's more, some were pretty subjective! I mean, I made them like I wanted to make them so they weren't recreations in the true sense of the word.  At that point I was drawing on the UV map from a sheer new file in Photoshop and used nothing else than brushes and filters to make my textures. Now I bake the base textures, add material properties to the model in Substance Painter, adding details in Photoshop and Painter as well a little bit, then finally combine it all together in Photoshop into a diffusion and specular map for JKA.  The models to-come will leave the old packs in a big, black shadow! Also, I'll take the old ones down once I finish the new packs! Check my topic for more info!

Well, the single-blades (the ones useable by Jaden) were great - I personally loved the Consul hilt! The 'hidden' ones (Luke, Desann, etc.), as well as the double-blades were not so good IMO. Can't wait for the 'update'

Lowered the resolution to 1k (1024x1024px) for the 1.1 version, I drew additional texture specifics to the texture, added the bent normal map trick, fixed my layer stacking and re-did the bakes. After which I took some more time to fix up the diffuse and specular maps completely. Now the texture looks nicer but nothing like the faulty one from 1.0!  Did the same for The Outcast with some additional model tweaking to lower the face count a bit!