DeJedix Monastary

[Icefalcon]

Yes I have the same problem, are your pic .png files? Cause mine were and I never had that problem before, maybe these forums dont allow you to post .png files though I have no idea why...

[Kintall]

Lovely swordies the design is really cool,  whacha gunna do next?

[Jedi]

You\'re getting it too, Icefalcon? My pics aren\'t .png, but it still shouldn\'t be a problem. I\'m thinking the boards have developed a glitch. All of my other pics were .jpg and they [http://img]\'ed fine.

Hmmm, oh well. I\'m the the admins will get around to fixing it.

As for what I\'m going to do next...I\'m really not sure. I usually don\'t plan my desings; I just sit down and start modeling. I think, though, that I might make a Katana next, in the spirit of ninja-hood. You see, I rented Ninja Gaiden this weekend and it is just too cool.

[lynx_lupo]

All is very nice , but we want the ToTJ!!!  

And the forum doesn\'t support PNGs.

[Icefalcon]

Originally posted by lynx_lupo
And the forum doesn\'t support PNGs.

Aha, well theres my problem, it should support PNG...I fount they have a better quality than JPG. Whenever I export an image from Gimp into a JPG file, there are these little colored pixles around my image it I have a white background, PNG doesnt do that...

[Elegrand]

Just to point something out, Katanas weren\'t used by ninjas. They were used by Samurai.

[Jedi]

I know, but Ryu Hayabusa (which, unlike in the game, is correctly pronounced \"L\'you\' Ha-yabu-sa\" (There is no \'r\' in Japanese. It is pronounced \'l\'.) ) uses a Katana, so it\'s all good.

(BTW: Ninja were rogue Samurai who had been disowned by their daimyos)

Yes, yes, lynx, my good man. I\'m working on it. I\'m almost finished chapter 6. I\'ll post it tomorrow or the next day. It\'s just a little slow going trying to get back into the groove of things.

And just to show you that my word is good for something, low and behold, a Katana.



(Note to self: remember to up the resolution on the rendering. Low rez pix are driving me crazy.)

[Vassago]

Actually, masterless warriors was called ronin, a ninja is a kind of monk really (it would be the closest resemblance), but yeah you could test me in japanese knowledge, check the sig...

[lynx_lupo]

Nice katana, but...    

Very nice :tup:
Just the shaft looks weird on the lowest pic - somewhat tin-y and bent.

[Monketh]

Originally posted by Jedi
I know, but Ryu Hayabusa (which, unlike in the game, is correctly pronounced \"L\'you\' Ha-yabu-sa\" (There is no \'r\' in Japanese. It is pronounced \'l\'.) ) uses a Katana, so it\'s all good.

I thought they called japanese english \"engrish\", because they don\'t have an \'L\'...

Nice katana btw.

[Icefalcon]

Yes thats what I thought too, I think you got it backwards...

And Jedi, Very nice katana, whats the polycount?

[Jedi]

Oops, you\'re right, Vassago, I got them mixed up. >.< Damn, I haven\'t read Shogun in so long. *Sigh* guess I\'d better read it again.

I\'m pretty sure there\'s no \'r\' in Japanese. I have a Jap friend who is teaching me the language and he told me that there isn\'t.

Thanks for the compliments. Now before I tell you how many faces the sword has, let me tell you a bit about myself. Whenever I finish modelling something and want to render it for show, MeshSmooth is my best friend. Yes, I tend to overkill quite a bit. It\'s just a practice of mine. I want to avoid any \'sharoies\' in my finished render, so ya. Anyways, the sword and the scabbard total 48150 individual faces.

No new pix today (I did get a new sig, though), I had to focus on getting Ch 6 of my TotJ done. You can check it out in the Role Playing Forum if you\'re interested.

Thanks for the comments.

[Kintall]

likey likey sword, very katana-ee maybe start the blades curve a little further up though maybe

and ther is in the japanese language no R but they have an R ish one its kinda like an R D hybrid thing

and they dont have any way of ending a word on a consonent exept N

cooler still is the country isnt even called Japan... the names completely different (sorta like Germany, its called Doichland, but with better spelling)

fun fcts from flying fool

[Zephyrus]

Originally posted by Vassago
Actually, masterless warriors was called ronin, a ninja is a kind of monk really (it would be the closest resemblance), but yeah you could test me in japanese knowledge, check the sig...

Ninjas were more accurately members of a secret society who trained in the secret martial art of Ninjitsu (which was first developed in china). Unlike Samurai most ninjas were mere peasents, however there were several famous ronin who became ninja. Ninja were not necessarily assassins, but a lot of Ninja clans turned to assassination / thuggery / mafia like syndicates because it earned them a lot of money. Most ninja clans died out in wars with Shoguns. And all the remaining ninja clans disapeared into secrecy mid 19th century. Who knows if they are still out there, I imagine they rely more on guns now though.

Katana simply means \'sword\' in Japanese, so yes ninja used katanas. The difference was in craftsmanship, Ninja swords were cheap, often shorter and straighter than the Samurai\'s. This was simply because ninja were generally peasents and couldnt afford high quality steel/smiths. If a ninja could better a samurai he would take his sword, simply because they were far far better.

[Jedi]

DAMNIT! I had a huge reply written up and my crappy-ace browser crashed! Piece of sh*t!

Oh well, here\'s my new pic.

The handle is made from bone and the blades were forged in manually.



It\'s pretty rough, but it\'s more of a concept than a showpiece.

Here goes again, I\'ll sumarize with jot-notes:

- literal translation of \'sword\' = \'ken\'
- thus \'shuliken\' (pronounced \"shoo-lee-ken\") = thrown sword
- \'shu\' = hand, \'li\' = ?, \'ken\' = sword

- Jap has five vowels: a, i, u, e, o
- pronounced as read in this sentence:

Ah, we soon get old.
a --- i --- u --- e --- o

- from there combos are made by adding one or two consonants:

ka, ki, ku, ke, ko
sa, si (shi), su, se, so
ga, gi, gu, ge, go (\'g\' soft as in \'garden\')
etc.

- words formed by combining these

sake (soy wine)
yuki (snow)

- double vowels can occur, in which case the word is read with a slight pause as in \'bookkeeping\'

yuuki (courage)

- only stand-alone consonant = \'n\' (as Kintall said)
- kana (letter) very similar to english \'h\'

- thus \'ken\' is \'ke\' and \'n\'

My knowledge of japanese is limited, but I\'m hoping to improve.