Rooxon

Damn you're fast.

Only when I've got the time A bit of music besides 3ds and I'm done with modeling sooner than I know. the rest is around an hour of work for the textures, so yeah. Also, I'm saving time by applying materials to the high poly then baking down even the colors and whatever I want to have on my models rough look. Later I edit them by putting the baked maps together in Photoshop and fixing normal maps and so on with the help of the smudge tool. Once that's done, I just add a few masks for now in substance and that's it, but I plan on learning and mastering substance. When I do, my models will pretty much look like AshuraDX's or so I hope at least.  I reckon there's many details I still lack, that every surface SCHOULD show what material it is and so on. Even though I would know what I want to create in my head, I'm not yet familiar enough with Substance to actually know how to do all those various things.

but it's also true I got a totaly new motivation once I learned high poly modeling and baking. I love to spend my time now creating things, whereas before I only enjoyed it.

@@Kualan Here you go!

https://jkhub.org/files/file/2300-jedi-temple-guard39s-lightsaber-pike/

Hey there! Glad to see new faces around, allthough I expected a few more since the humble bundle was really a great thing.

@@Onysfx haha I missed this line of yours Anyway, MrRizaz, welcome!

Yeah, it's a shame. We could try to bring people back into it a bit... but that's not what I came here for. I came to say WELCOME to @@gardar15 and I hope you enjoy your stay here as much as we do.

I'm curious, what can we look forward to from you after the Lightsaber Pike?

I have to decide, haven't for sure yet... the lightsaber pike is fairly easy and has lots of different materials I plan to learn creating in substance. If you're interested in what requests I'll be working on, well, after the lightsaber pike I'll maybe do one more request (if you're interested in what order I make them, I'm trying hard to stay fair. I make them in the way they were posted but up until now I've left out one request because of two very good reasons, if I've already done a request for someone and that same person requests something else, it goes to the very back of my list). Otherwise, I plan on finishing the textures in the Mixed Sabers Pack and start working on the Singles, since I've got all 6 additional hilts picked out at this point. After that it'll be the Dual Sabers, once Zefilus manages to come up with enough hilts. Once my weapons part in my projects is finished, I'll start working on guns that are not being made by someone else yet. At the same time, I'll be working on the weapons for The Dark Pastime and finish my part for it, so that the team doesn't need to worry about weapons anymore. 

But this is just a general plan, things may change depending on situations and circumstances. On my to-do list, I've got teaming up with Mr. Zz planned for a restarted Texture Overhaul, weapons for The Dark Pastime and my own project at the moment. Also, I'll help one of our members create a new face for the...elder model, since he needs it for a mod of his.

That's about it. Oh, I think I'll go and try playing around with DT's stormtrooper's textures and make a few reskins. I planned to create my own reskin of it anyway, since there's a few specific things I'd like to see on it but I don't on those existing released skins.

EDIT: Actually, expect a ThrowablesHD (Trip Mines, Thermal Detonator etc.) release sometime soon. I'll do those three throwable weapons in JKA right off the bat, once I finish the lightsaber pike.  Schouldn't be too much work, two or three days schould be enough for all three.

well, there you go!

That's what I'm thinking, too. @ Circa has put together a very nice pack regarding that:

haha truffle doesn't hold back Well I've been wanting to see such a trooper for some time. Great work!

@@Torki @
 

https://jkhub.org/files/file/2297-kanan39s-lightsaber/

Now it's Ligthsaber Pike time.

@, to be honest, look; I'm working on my skills and 6 concepts for singles, 9 concepts for duals, besides this I'm doing requests, besides both I promised Mr. Zz I'd start working with him on the texture overhaul, besides this I'll be working weapons for The Dark Pastime... actually there's lots of stuff going on for me right now. Especially learning substance is vital for the overhaul work. 

There's a great pack already out there, so I'm not completely sure I'd do it, but on the other hand maybe I will and have them hilts prepped with normal maps for when rend2 arrives in it's complete glory. If I decide to take it up, you'd need to understand it would be on the very end of my to-do list.

@@Rooxon you're computer isn't a beast...

 

It's the chosen one!

Okay, that's overdoing it. It is exceptionally good though, it really is. I'm playing all Assassin's Creed games, up to AC3 now, no lag, with every setting on max/ultra!

@@NumberWan I also noticed you need a force pike. You're lucky, I've already done it since it was requested here. Here it is:

uh actually, I was not only spawning them, fighting them. Like around 10 at a time were launching force powers at me and a few trying to stab me, fight actually I had to jump around all the time like crazy. Now read this: No lag.

That's true though I've been doing tests regarding that. I've had 40 Tavion npcs, with dual wielding kylo ren's. I don't know how this would be if you add some scripts like you say, but I didn't get any lag AT ALL. I do have a beast instead of a computer, true, but still, not even before have people reported any lag issues with my weapons. So I bet that we worry too much and that almost noone still has low-end computers. Any gamer has at least got a mid-end one themselves by now I think.

@@Rooxon That is great! Really nice job there.

 

Also wanted this for a while:

 

http://jkhub.org/topic/4658-request-new-cross-saber-for-jedi/

 

The pic there is the only reference I have on that, but it could possibly be made the same style as your Kylo Ren hilt, just longer and extended with short blue blades. I think this would make a nice addition to JKA, also giving you some extra experience and being unofficially part of the lightsaber lore of crossguard sabers.

SICK! I'm totally going to do that.

@@NumberWan

not good at drawing, so I made a simple lowpoly model of the hilt I've drawn a concept of. Just imagine lots of things that are realistic to the saber - in my head, the brown is leather, the white is actually brushed silver metal and the black is something like rubber. Also a holster ring and some additional buttons/lights are missing on the control box... or actually something that would give it meaning at all anyway, here's the concept, I call it the Handy:

Here it is. I imagine this being a simple-put-together hilt, which would mean that some primitive alien species would use it... or a newbie in the Jedi ways. Also, let's start talking about the Evil Genius and how to redraw him - or I could even recreate it if you wish, I work differently now then I did before. Last but not least, I would like to decide which of the characters get which hilt so that I know on which ones I need to focus on.

Or say that you don't like them and I'll do other ones  just don't think that you have to like it because I already made a model - to be honest, this was 5 minutes of work, so... no problem there.  look at the Darkness or Vigilante hilt, for example; those were around 2 days of work and they look like all my finished products will from now on. The model up there on the picture is a simple extrude bevel work and then material colors, that's all.

Thanks @@Langerd Been working hard on this one. It wasn't that complicated really, it's just I'm learning a completely new way of modeling. Wait actually the whole process is completely different and what I'm doing... now I'm just coming to terms with all this new stuff and with each hilt I make, I'll get quicker and better, I hope. Anyway, hilt uploaded. The next one is for @@Torki / @

And after this one, @@Kualan 's Lightsaber Pike.

haha yeah, true Zefilus's designs stepped up their game and so have I decided to go through hell for each saber, do high poly and low poly versions, bake the textures and the result is the Vigilante. It takes me around a day or two to finish one hilt like that, but it sure is worth it I think. Thanks for the feedback! More from other people are, of course, welcome!

Well yours Zefilus was a long time ago by now.

Can I say just one thing? Honestly @ we're working together regarding the concepts, you know about my saber request thread and you still post a completely new topic? Dude, just add a request there and since it's you, I could make a priority jump and do yours first.

Other than that, just say if you wanna see the one you posted in the first post or your concept. Either one is okay with me.

@@Bishwhe I'll leave that saber at the top of the third page out for now; one reason is because I recently did a request for you. The other, well, it's complicated to model in high-poly and AshuraDX has yet to help me out at that.
@@Veosar, that black orange-glowing hilt is in the making:

Keep in mind that it's going to change yet drastically. REALLY drastically, until it looks like on the reference picture! I also gotta delete those upper side parts, they're totaly faulty. Need to re-do them, but that's just what I've done in the past hour and a half.

when I read "hail", I was already thinking about a certain uncle, already dead actually, but he had this funny moustache and lost pretty much everytime to Vader in the epic rap battles of history on youtube  


Anyhow, hello there! Glad to still see new faces around.

haha so yes I was right, sorry @. It's allready in the making.

@ I have little doubt that I wouldn't be able to make it but nevertheless, I'm having trouble finding a picture of the hilt.

http://www.starwars.com/databank/kanan-s-lighstaber this is as close as I get, allthough look back through a few posts - I'm just about starting on another hilt, which is very similiar in appearence to the one you want!