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Fan Area => Fan Art => Topic started by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 11:40:39 am

Title: My first sword model
Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 11:40:39 am

NO REALLY ITS MY FRIST....
this took me about 2 hours to put together tell me what you all think.... I personly love it cuz i made it :P


(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/5973/thesword5ml.th.jpg) (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thesword5ml.jpg)

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Post by: Rolf Blacksmith on September 22, 2005, 11:55:02 am

Read \"Rumo\"?

Reminds me of the sword/knife Rumo has ...

Do you have the dimensions of the sword?

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Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 11:56:47 am

its your run of the mill
 longsword..... 36 inch blade hand and a half handel....

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Post by: r.guppy on September 22, 2005, 12:25:12 pm

for your first try it is very good well done :)

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Post by: ArcaneFalcon on September 22, 2005, 12:31:40 pm

I like the model very much except for one minor issue (besides the fact that it would be impossible to construct :P).  I think the guard and handle are a bit thin.  The handle should be completely round, not oval or (in this case) popsicle stick shaped.  Giving the guard some more beef would be nice too.  It looks like it would snap under a decent blow right now.  Everything else looks pretty good imho, nice work.

:emerald:

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Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 12:39:09 pm

hey thanks for the input people i\'ll make the changes when i am not burnt out on my 3d render software......

THANKS ALOT I REALLY MEAN IT

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Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 01:21:56 pm

actually the blade can be constructed i personly have seen meny a sword with that style blade and they hold up rather well in battle ready high carbon steel....

and if you have actually head a real sword in your hand you\'ll notice that the handle is in fact ovel and not round to better acomadate your hand and or hands... i get have you mean by making the helt thicker after i got the picture all done and ready i thought it looked kind of funny till a guild mate pointed that same fact out to me...

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Post by: Neryam on September 22, 2005, 02:14:24 pm

Ahh hehe.. looks great!! Isn\'t that called a sword-breaker? I think so.

And yes hilts are almost always oval. Samurai swords too :D We actually have a samurai sword in our house..

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Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 02:54:58 pm

yeah . have a number of swords in my house as well... my long sword my 2 katana and my wakashsi and tanto :P

but i plan on doing more models soon... :P

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Post by: Gravalden on September 22, 2005, 06:54:03 pm

after about 20 minutes of vert pushing and tweeking here is the revamp of it....... looks alot better

(http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4671/thesword2revamp6ky.th.jpg) (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thesword2revamp6ky.jpg)

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Post by: Draklar on September 22, 2005, 07:13:29 pm

Shouldn\'t the greenish ball thingy (don\'t know how it\'s called in english) be a bit bigger? I mean because of the balancing issues...

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Post by: ArcaneFalcon on September 22, 2005, 09:37:33 pm

I think it looks much better, except that it no longer looks like a hand and a half.

:emerald:

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Post by: JellyWerker on September 22, 2005, 09:54:56 pm

poly count?

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Post by: Keyaz on September 22, 2005, 10:49:48 pm

twould improve with a nice texture on it too :)

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Post by: darkw00t on September 22, 2005, 11:32:38 pm

you have changed the thickness of the hilt which is good, it is lokking pretty good now, you could decide to have some leather straps around your hilt and you could (it already looks good) make the gem at the bottom alittle bright greener (if you want to make an emerald) but it is a good sword especially for a first try

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Post by: Sikarda on September 23, 2005, 01:14:46 am

Wow, that is awesome, I really like that style of blade!, I am working on a similar shaped blade in Illustrator, just haven\'t had time to finish. Too much study and AA!

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Post by: dying_inside on September 23, 2005, 07:24:49 am

it looks really cool. maybe you could widen the handle and guard a bit though.  they look a  bit flimsy.   oh and how  many polyygons ?
oh you have ok. nice work.  now you need to lengthen the handle a slight bit becuase it now seems a bit too small and  pushed in.   little bit of legthening and that would be one hell of a first try.

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Post by: Gravalden on September 23, 2005, 08:11:21 am

the poly count on it is 4.....
the blade
the hillt
the handel
the pummel

i\'ll make the handel a bit longer and  i might try and make the blade look like damaskin steel for the people that don\'t know what that is.... its high carbon steel that looks like it has a wood grain in it the colors are a steel grey blue with a black grain...

oh and darkw00t its not a gem at the bottom it is a gold pummel the same matireal as the hillt

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Post by: Gravalden on September 23, 2005, 08:47:45 am

(http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/4251/revamp2thesword9rm.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

here it is after making th pummel larger and the handel longer.......:P hey thinks for the help people i\'m really new to the whole 3d modeling thing... can you believe i have only been using blender for about 2 weeks now.. i still have alot to learn..... just wait for the stuff that will come :P

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Post by: darkw00t on September 23, 2005, 11:42:57 am

i like a long hilt, pummel and gem, sry i meant the same thing iot is just that a lot of famous renowned swords have gems on the bottom as te pummel, it is a good sword though

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Post by: Gravalden on September 23, 2005, 01:06:43 pm

yeah the gem thing sounds cool but this is but a frist try remember... i\'ll make other models with gems and knot work and engraving and other things but for now i\'m keeping it simple

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Post by: darkw00t on September 23, 2005, 01:26:19 pm

yes, it is very good sword for a 1st try though

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Post by: JellyWerker on September 23, 2005, 04:16:15 pm

some good examples of low poly swords are the models done by user frederikh.

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Post by: Cyl on September 23, 2005, 05:05:57 pm

Hmm I\'ve written down a few tips bout keeping the poly count low, some time ago...

http://planeshift.oodlz.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=15714&boardid=22&sid=460a803a9d9a62ca8f3c278f636a4ccc

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Post by: Gravalden on September 25, 2005, 08:24:34 pm

there are far to meny polys in this sword....... it was ment as a frist try on making them no intent on trying to get it in plane shift.....

but i will soon be posting one that i would like to see in plane shift :P
 but thats up to the devs