Katana

[FredrikH]

i can\'t realy figure out how it is wraped around so can anybody tell me if i should go with the left or the right wrapping

[FredrikH]

played around with some higher poly couts while trying to figure it out.
no textures on this one

43k polys :p
will get back to the texture tomorrow. right now i need some sleep

[tygerwilde]

NOW it\'s looking pretty sweet, the curve is just right, the wrap looks awesome. the handguard is rough but believeable. if you brought back the textures and gave the cutting edge the jagged burnish it would be near perfect.

[Icefalcon]

Yup, its lookin good  Keep it up

[Dameon]

Well, I am probably saying this for nothing, but unless you have the blade and the actual handle as two seperate 3D objects, you might have to UV map the whole model and texture the thing in Photoshop to get that graphic on the handle.

[Kintall]

that is looking lovely, maybe yo should make a Sheath to go with it?

good stuff

[FredrikH]

did some work at the handle texture

[Dameon]

Looking good, but there is really not much definition of where one side of the wrap starts and the other ends... like a line or something to define where the sides of the wrap are.

[FredrikH]

[Dameon]

There we go. Much better

[Cirque]

Love what you have done. Although the blade still seems a little off to me. Im not sure if this is possible but if you add a very, very light curve from the hilt or 1/4 down the blade to the tip it will look a little better. Or you could even have a completely straight blade. If you do a google search for the Kill Bill Sword then you may be able to use that as a reference. Some katanas also have a flat point.

If you add some fine threading, wrapping around, to the handle underneath the red binding it may give it that little bit extra.

Example of flat point.


*EDIT* Just looked at it again and its possible that the end of the blade looks wider than the blade near the hilt.

[Skizzik]

Very neatly done, I\'d say this is at least game-quality, but that remains to be seen until the release of CB.

[FredrikH]

close to finished

[Typies]

......thats looking pritty damn good. i like it much better than your long sword, mainly cause i love katanas/samurai swords

[tygerwilde]

just so you know, with the flat point it\'s not actually a katana. it\'s a special type of sword that was used exclusively by northern samurai. read that a few years ago in a japanese history book the japanese name for it is difficult to remember, but it literally translates to sword of the samurai.