Finally I got time to continue some 3D-Modelling and i decided to work on some weapons for my Kran.
Analogue to cherppows Banana-tutorial i tried to make my own shortsword/long dagger or whatever it'll look like and this came out:



My texturingskills turned out to be very poor 

So i decided to create only-one-material-weapons ... so texturing shoult be easier ^^
Tada! My only-some-kind-of-metall-sceptre:



and a little smoother



And here is my first question ... what is a "good" polycount for waepons in PS? And what about the angle between faces - is there a maximum angle for calculating the shadows in crystalspace? Some hints?

And finally - for now - i learned more about texturing, learned some gimp (very in-intuative handling) and build a "morning-star" or mace:



Due to polycount-purposes the "star" of the mace is - for now - a little bit "simple" and at the moment not textured - only metall-like. The whole morningstar has 176 faces.

And here some other questions appeared:
At the first picture of the morning star you can see some strange shadow-fragments around the star, which appear everytime i start PS with new items and vanish after the first movement. Why does this happen? Then my (from blender) exported file has a "<localshadows/>" quite at the end, which i have to delete all the time manually. Where does this come from and what to change in blender to avoid this? How to fit the handle into the hand? And are there any futher hints?

Hopefully you like my "art" 

I think i'll join the team too ... did some modelling in blender - no very good textureskills.
but i can activly join it in lets say 3 weeks. therewhile i can do smaller 3Dstuff.
registered at the psmcforum from now.
see you there...

is there any pool where to sent the models? or how is this project managed?
are there any "roadmaps" or smaller projects which need to be finished or is the KCP only a big pool for all kind of ideas?

Thats exactly the fact!
The ship model for example in the KCP is amazing ... and in my opinion could easily be implemented in planeshift.
the same for my cave. its really frustrating, that all that work only has two ways to get attention.
Show it in the forum to get some feedback - but never seen in ps -, or waiting month over month as a prospect only to get "experimental tasks" waiting for them to be reviewed and so on and so on ...
of course there should be some kind of qualitycheck, but not for that price ....
i'm unsure what to do now ... really wait till anything happens - or show my work to the community knowing, that talads plans are so fix, that this cave has no place in ps...

hi guys i got a question:
how is going to work or does work the water in PS / CS?

would also be interesting for me to know what properties are necessary for water in CS/PS

Its me again ....

thx that you liked my work.

how can i be usefull to this project?
give me some scetches and i'll try to 3D-modelling it. or are there other things i could do?

Wow ... thats matching .... im working on the scetch "Klyros Ground Farm" for about one month .. and this is what turned out at the moment ...
not really a Farm but decide yourself ...








i did it with blender and this was my first experience with 3D modelling ...

for questions or suggestions ask me at IRC

hopefully you like it ....