AshuraDX

Well okay , I spent over 12 hours at this today, the last 2 of them on some effects stuff which is not done yet and therefore not visible on these images

I really like the way the textures turned out , even though thry could be higher res at the handle, sadly I noticed this too late and was to lazy to redo everything after adjusting the UV maps

6 Hours of work at the Highpoly model :

The model still has a few bumps here and there around the screws/bolts which I'll probably fix in photoshop once I baked my normal map

now, the same model with a bit more color :

 

Time to work at the Highpoly Tsuba

Started working at Jetstream "Minuano" Sam's High Frequency Blade, the Murasama, from Metal Gear Rising.

The easy part is allready done :

 

 

Still lacks UV maps, the fun part will be the creation of the highpoly mesh

we only have a helmet so far...

Woah! Nice work! Don't worry about it too much. If you didn't think it looked good, then it probably didn't.

Allright, feel free to reskin it if you wish though

Currently thinking of modeling a few swords from Metal Gear Rising, if you want a red blade you'll probably like one of them

http://www.enizr.com/media/52982/Metal%20Gear%20Rising%20Revengeance%20Samuel%20Concept%20Art%20(3).jpg

The resource cannot be found apparently ;_;

 

Looks superb, when the link works I'll go download it

whoops, had a typo in there, thanks !

forgot to check the link before submitting

it works now

Finished

and published, hope you guys like it

@@therfiles I made the blade red temporarily and didn't like it that much , if you really want a version with a red blade let me know and I'll get crackin at it

@@Omicron the blade length doesn't look so odd ingame, but if more requests for that come up I'll do it

finished texturing it

 

EDIT :

Imgur gallery with more pics

also showing the highpoly model

https://jkhub.org/albums/5M4At

Damn, wonder if it's usable and available to buy.

 

it's usable, atleast all of the Man at arms weapons have been so far, but they are not for sale - sadly

hm... i'll try that red blade thing

blade might appear too long , but it should match the default lightsaberblade length from Jedi Academy (about 4 times the hilt)

if it really is too long I'll shorten it later, as that's not too much work

Hello everybody , you might have seen my recent status update allready but incase you didn't :
I just stumbled across this :

 
I really like that design and decided to start modeling it, quality wise I'm aiming for the same level of detail as with my ahsoka hilt
while still trieing to stay as low as possible with the vertex count, the hardest piece to create, without wasting a shitload of vertices and tris on while maintaining a smooth, rounded look, is the tsuba , which I just finished

 

 

I'll probably release 2 versions , one with the katana blade and the other with a regular lightsaber blade in place

Chibi Kyle Katarn ?

Or select face/polygon and hit "Z", then "W" and drag the axis you want with the mouse to extrude. (I'm trying to get used to using the keyboard shortcuts.) Thanks @@AshuraDX! I find that Silo really isn't a bad software (so far). It's buggy with adding the reference images on my Mac, but it works fine on Linux. It's also really easy to fully customise to your liking.

 

Silo certainly is not a bad program, i've just grown so used to 3ds max that I barely use it, even though I just noticed that my Silo2 (on Steam) was somehow upgraded to the professional version O.o

upload the model to sketchfab

Anyway that model will need some proper smoothing groups or it will look very wierd, if people try to use it without rend2

the shaidng will end up looking like on that untextured model , which is something nobody wants

I could slap it onto my Jedi HM.

if you wish, I could pass you a .max file with the weighted head, I just need to know your max version

not bad for a first model !

while I own Silo 2 myself, I never actually used it to create a new model, only to make changes to models I made in max

I'll keep an eye on your work here, If you need help anywhere let me know

 

Edit : just had a look at my silo, to extrude simply select a face, then hit the extrude button on the top left, now a small yellow/orange ball should appear in the middle of your selected face/polygon click and drag that ball to extrude

I have a devaronian mercenary @@DT85 could easily carry that head over to a few other models if I didn't have to reweight the imported models, which is what kept me from putting that head on other models

http://jedibetrayal.com/

 

This project is dead though

 

pretty much, yes

woah , tone down those surface chips a lot , they look way to sparkly atm

othwerwise that's not bad , I'd add a lil more dirt in those cavitys

http://handbrake.fr/

should do the job

wow , I never had trouble with xnormal

nice work , I guess you'll now switch to nDo2 to create the stock&grip details ?

Strange - now I too have the same wierd lit from back thing in both , SP and MP

 

as you can see both AT-ST's are lit stronger from their backside even though their alignment in the world is completely different and this doesn't match the direction the sun light in that area is coming from in any way , they are also completely uneffected by any other light sources in the map nor the lightsaber's dynamic light which is pretty odd, in my opinion

nice idea , I'm digging that - I could throw an unstable saber blade fx in the mix if there's enough interest

i'll get some screenshots later as the ones I currently have are taken with a model I can show as of now