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MiniMage: It has a nice shape but it's lacking the actual blade portion, work on this.
MiniMage: It has a nice shape but it's lacking the actual blade portion, work on this.
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Obsidian Sword
- Author(s)
- Systemfre1
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- 120
- Created
- Jul 12, 2014
- Updated
- Jul 22, 2014
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Approved
This bundle is marked as useful / simple. Simplicity is bliss, low effort and/or may contain minor bugs.
I was inspired to create a set of weapons/armour.
And this is the first weapon in that installment of gear.
"A piece of obsidian rock, carved into a blade, as hard as steel and as sharp as diamond.
Although it may be heavier than a normal blade, it is unusually sturdy. A fine obsidian gem is
cast into the bottom of the hilt."
Mesh made by me.
Textures from Blizzard.
Thanks to Blood Raven for telling me how to create a billboard for the glow.
Please give credits if used, cheers.
Enjoy.
-Update 12/07/14-
Added a glow to the gem on the hilt.
Keywords:
Sword, Rock, Blade, Weapon, Heavy, Obsidian, Gem, Handle, Hilt, Black, Purple, Minecraft.
And this is the first weapon in that installment of gear.
"A piece of obsidian rock, carved into a blade, as hard as steel and as sharp as diamond.
Although it may be heavier than a normal blade, it is unusually sturdy. A fine obsidian gem is
cast into the bottom of the hilt."
Mesh made by me.
Textures from Blizzard.
Thanks to Blood Raven for telling me how to create a billboard for the glow.
Please give credits if used, cheers.
Enjoy.
-Update 12/07/14-
Added a glow to the gem on the hilt.
Keywords:
Sword, Rock, Blade, Weapon, Heavy, Obsidian, Gem, Handle, Hilt, Black, Purple, Minecraft.
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- Aug 1, 2010
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Looks really cool, though that blade does not look very sturdy with all these cracks on it 
I'd suggest a little billboarded glow for the gem (maybe Textures\Purple_Glow.blp) and perhaps some sort of texture animation for the blade (something like lava cracks or something?) Just a suggestion...
Otherwise, I really like how this looks and am interested to see how the rest of the set will turn out (that style really reminds me of draenei weapons from WoW
5/5 +rep
I'd suggest a little billboarded glow for the gem (maybe Textures\Purple_Glow.blp) and perhaps some sort of texture animation for the blade (something like lava cracks or something?) Just a suggestion...
Otherwise, I really like how this looks and am interested to see how the rest of the set will turn out (that style really reminds me of draenei weapons from WoW
5/5 +rep
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Yeah I thought that, but it's the best texture I can get for a dark rock sort of looking weapon.
How do I make something billboarded? I am not entirely sure how this is achieved, otherwise I would defiantly add a glow around the gem.
Lava probably won't happen lol
Thank you
How do I make something billboarded? I am not entirely sure how this is achieved, otherwise I would defiantly add a glow around the gem.
Lava probably won't happen lol
Thank you
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Well, add a 2D plane using the glow texture facing the camera (front of the model, or X axis) around the gem, then place a bone in its center (probably the center of the gem aswell), then bind the 2D plane to the bone. Then in Magos, go to Node Editor -> select the Bone you want to billboard, right click and Edit Node (or something like that, not just Edit), then check "billboarded".Yeah I thought that, but it's the best texture I can get for a dark rock sort of looking weapon.
How do I make something billboarded? I am not entirely sure how this is achieved, otherwise I would defiantly add a glow around the gem.
Lava probably won't happen lol
Thank you
P.S. The texture is fine
EDIT: That glow looks awesome, keep it up
Also I couldn't help but notice the lighting on the guard behaved a bit strange in Magos, though it adds some kind of charm to the whole model... How did you do that?
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Thank you Blood Raven!
It has been updated with a glow
It has been updated with a glow
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Damn you made me wanna play risen again...
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Good work.
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Great work Systemfre1.
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Fine sword.
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Looks like the lovechild of a medieval sword and a lead pipe. That blade seriously need work.
It just kinda looks like the blade portion lack the actual blade portion of the blade.
I don't really mind the cracks though, it's neat. Personally, my way to fix this would've been to add a row of triangles along the side that needs the blade,
connected them all and then wrapped that new blade portion with a shiny black texture. Like the infernal engine texture or something like that.
It would probably add quite the amount of polies, but at least I think this would be the best way to get something akin to the initial concept.
It just kinda looks like the blade portion lack the actual blade portion of the blade.
I don't really mind the cracks though, it's neat. Personally, my way to fix this would've been to add a row of triangles along the side that needs the blade,
connected them all and then wrapped that new blade portion with a shiny black texture. Like the infernal engine texture or something like that.
It would probably add quite the amount of polies, but at least I think this would be the best way to get something akin to the initial concept.
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I love the look of it! Looks old and tough!
