Hammmer of the Naaru

[Deolrin]

Some WIP's of my latest model - a Hammer of the Naaru.

Keep in mind there is no texture yet.

Images

With wireframe:

 

[Taylor Mouse]

Nice, how many polys ?

T.

 

[Deolrin]

396 triangles, I realize it might be a bit too much...

 

[AIagremm]

Awesome model! ^^
If only there was a texture.

Really useful for draenei.

 

[D a w n]

you could work much more with alpha channels( the parts that hold the hammer stone) or with billboards( the gem at the end of the weapon) :>

 

[Deolrin]

Well, I plan to use in-game texture, and I doubt there are such textures in-game.

Anyhow, a little update - I have finished the wrap on the crystals and made the hammer crystal levitate up and down in the animation. I'm not sure what texture I should use for the main shaft and everything else than the crystal, though - I'm fully open for suggestions.

Images

View attachment 97095

 

[AIagremm]

BTW, you will just have to make a pedestal for it when you will be finished.

You'll need a normal WCIII item pedestal, but with a yellow skin which has different, more draeneic runes... or not

 

[Revolve]

Nice one

Will be really useful for RPGs etc.
Just try to keep it at a low filesize ^^

 

[chilla_killa]

Nice, I love remaking WOW weapons, too. But my problem is also the UV Mapping and texturing.

 

[Taylor Mouse]

depending on the program you use, in MAX unwrapping is easy I think

here is a small nice tut:

http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/unwrap.php

or this one

http://waylon-art.com/uvw_tutorial/uvwtut_01.html

T.

 

[Deolrin]

I'm using Milkshape 3D to model and Oinkerwinkle's Vertex Modify to unwrap.

 

[Devine]

Oinkerwinkle's Vertex Modify to unwrap.

lolwhy?
alsso, some of the faces should be "ctrl + E'd"

 

[Deolrin]

Well, I never really figured out how to wrap in Milkshape, or make materials use a Warcraft texture... And, CTRL+E? What it does?

(Perhaps it would be better if you'd explain in MSN, though...)

 

[chilla_killa]

Wrapping in Milkshape is easy. For using ingame textures, export the textures with magos and save as bmp then use it as a material, assign it to your groups and select the faces you want to texture. Now press ctrl+t for opening the texture manager (or whatever it's called) now you can scale rotate move the vertices to the right place until everything is textured.