Let's make WEAPON mods!

[Hackattack]

B looks like the greatsword from fable 1 if your wondering what it reminds you of. Actually it looks exactly like it: http://fable.wikia.com/wiki/Greatsword

[Spiney]

Dam! I almost forgot about this. I still have to do those unwraps for you. Expect them in like a few days maybe.

[KrisCrash]

Spiney: Only if you are enjoying to do them! I mean I could probably do it myself if it's trouble, none of these will be as difficult as that warhammer

Hackattack: Oh indeed! The blade is the same! I think I've seen it for more than that, though. Maybe it's a classic 'brute sword' sort of deal.

Kalle: That could work! Nice and classic. Maybe with the BAN as an emboss on the 'hit' side, so it stamps it onto the enemy. I must remember to mirror it then.

[Spiney]

Oh it's no trouble for me. I've got six weeks to work on Oblivion mods; my own and yours. Plus UV unwrapping is my favourite part of the 3D process (texturing the least because of my inability to do it).

[Hackattack]

By the way great modeling, keep up the work. Im not much of a modder myself, but you make blender look easy. Nice stuff

[Spiney]

Well here's the unwrap for the Battle Axe:

Spoiler:

Made as seamless as I possibly could. I'll send you the model and unwrap image (the actual unwrap image is a .tga vector image).

You like?

EDIT: Also added a collision box as well.

[KrisCrash]

Yeah that could work, but I think it will be hard to make textures for.
It might be easier to make the texture if it is aligned (symmetrically) to vertical, plus if you DID use that V seam, you could get a seam less on the handle

[Spiney]

Okay, I'll re-align it to be completely vertical. Though I don't know what you mean by the second statement.

[KrisCrash]

Between the handle and the head there's like an upside down V shape that doesn't really add anything to the shape, I was thinking of putting some decoration there, and thought it an ideal place to cut up the UV map. And then the handle could be in 1 piece, with 1 seam facing away from the player. I must have forgotten to say this, sorry :[
But hey, let's just try it! Since it's a symmetrical map around that edge, maybe it won't show a lot? Are they very difficult to work with?

[Spiney]

Okay, I'm still a little confused here. Do you want me to cut the map in half here? (The red line)

[Shadow]

Wow, all these weapons look nice!

[KrisCrash]

Spiney: yep!

Shadow: Thanks!

Happy holidays to you all, I am going away until sunday or so. Have fun eating turkey/pork roast/duck/fish and flaying paper

[Spiney]

Just to clarify before I send you the file. Is this what you wanted?

Spoiler:

[KrisCrash]

Yes that's what I meant. Leaves more space, doesn't it?

[Spiney]

Okay, I'll send you the files.

[KrisCrash]

Thanks! Who is that lizard on your banner by the way? You have so many drawings of her

Sorry for the long time silence, I haven't been working on it AT ALL.

Dusted off this old, old mesh
Now I don't really think it fits into any of the series I have so far, but it should be alright for its own thing.


guess I'll have to dig around the project folder and get some sort of summary of how far I am.

[KalleFlaxx]

Wow. I... I wanna swing that sword. Now.

[BFG]

Well, I have a pretty good idea of how that sword could be used, but we weren't going to discuss that publicly
Looks awesome!

[Spiney]

Thanks! Who is that lizard on your banner by the way? You have so many drawings of her

'Tis a comic character by from a web-comic called Las Lindas. I don't draw any of these, credit goes to her artist Chalo. I just user her as a theme.

But as to your sword, it looks amazing. Would you need any help making the unwrap?

[KrisCrash]

Thanks for the nice feedback, any idea what to call it? It's an old design of mine, I think it was called something that means Ebony, but that's not gonna work here, obviously. It's carried by a sort of war or destruction god, but it doesn't have to have a DARK and SINISTER name, or even a name that means anything.
Adamantium pike hammer

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It has .. 8,000 polygons right now, so not game friendly ;D I just want to get good at making bumpy detail with subdivision, then bake normals. Yeah I'm scared of zbrush. But these ripples are probably easy enough to paint in photoshop to generate good normals. It's just an emboss after all. Don't know what else to say, it's very work-in-progress for now.

Wow. I... I wanna swing that sword. Now.

whoah, I can do faster but I can't do now ;D thanks though

Well, I have a pretty good idea of how that sword could be used, but we weren't going to discuss that publicly
Looks awesome!

it's 1½x size Daedric claymore. Your move.

Thanks! Who is that lizard on your banner by the way? You have so many drawings of her

'Tis a comic character by from a web-comic called Las Lindas. I don't draw any of these, credit goes to her artist Chalo. I just user her as a theme.

But as to your sword, it looks amazing. Would you need any help making the unwrap?

Okay! Hey that sounds familiar, maybe I asked you before :B

Hm, if 3dsmax stops crashing, then no. But thanks any way. I am starting to get better hang of it. Sort of.

[Spiney]

But as to your sword, it looks amazing. Would you need any help making the unwrap?

Okay! Hey that sounds familiar, maybe I asked you before :B

Hm, if 3dsmax stops crashing, then no. But thanks any way. I am starting to get better hang of it. Sort of.

Heh, gotta love Blender's 30MBs of stability. Though it's unwrap features are sort of lacking. There's a lot of hand-placed work involved, not that I don't like it.

Just yodel if you need a hand.

[KrisCrash]

Pretty much the same with 3dsmax, as far as manual efforts go. But you can probably get Roadkill or something to help. There are LOTS of uv tools if one bothers, hehe.

Yeah, it might either be crashing 'cause the object is complex, but it hasn't been a problem before. I also split off the gem and that unwrapped fine on its own, so it's not the file that is broken.

also here's some chunks that I have in the scene that I don't really know if I like or what I will use for. I'll definitely try to make a magic staff and a spear, though.. a battle staff (bo staff?) or halberd could replace either of those, or also happen.. or a long rod with a club head, sounds like a good weapon too. The number 3 goes through most of it. Never quite sure how to mesh those rings in.

[Spiney]

There's UV tools?! I really gotta look into that.

And at those chunks, they could be the tips of staves, or even just really snazzy end pieces. The far right one looks like it could be some sort of hilt maybe.

[KrisCrash]

yeah, would be a BIG hilt though?

Learned some tricks, maybe Ionis can use this.. if you generate your normal map from the colour map it tends to get a bit flat, so here's a deepening trick:

Test:

[BFG]

Wow, I'm drooling! I've really got to improve my Nifskope and Blender skills. Even seemingly simple items like books are a challenge for me right now.

Kriscrash, given your crazy-busy RL schedule, I'm amazed you've made so much progress. And I wanted to ask: would you be interested in having someone skilled like InsantiySorrow develop an Adamantium armor set in parallel with your weapon set? From other forums I've seen that there's a lot of interest in a complete Adamantium set, but it appears no Oblivion Adamantium weapons exist, and the only armor set I could find--in Vvardenfell Imports--I frankly wasn't all that impressed with.
Of course I'm asking this selfishly, as I'd love to use both the armor and weapons in WEPON, but that's your decision.
Thanks!