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Posted by OtZman on Wed May 26th at 12:43pm 2004

This is a katana I've made using 3Ds max 6.


I haven't made the trees myself, I just generated them and the stump which the katana is stuck into is ugly as hell, I know, but it's only there to have something to stick the katana into.

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Posted by azelito on Wed May 26th at 2:49pm 2004

Its cool, are you gonna use it for anything? [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Wed May 26th at 3:14pm 2004

The model looks nice, as does the skin, but the lighting doesn't make it look very realistic. There is no real highlight on the blade, it looks kinda flat rather than reflective metal. [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 26th at 3:18pm 2004

Bit of a crappy tsuba on it, but if that's the way it's meant to be...



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Posted by OtZman on Wed May 26th at 3:46pm 2004

I don't think I'm going to use it for anything, just made it for practice.

What's "tsuba"? Is it the thing on the handel with the japanese character on it?

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Posted by Leperous on Wed May 26th at 3:57pm 2004

The hand guard - they're usually quite decorated and fancy, as an image search will show you.



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed May 26th at 4:09pm 2004

The bit at the end of the handle could do with being a little smoother. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed May 26th at 4:09pm 2004

Sometimes they even put on some partially see-through red cotton.

/me thinks of enter the dragon.

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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed May 26th at 5:14pm 2004

You still need a better texture for the metal part. A knife or sword just doesn't look like that - you need either loads of tiny scratches, or extrusion lines. Could you try taking a high-res photo of a big kitchen knife, then make that a tileable proper metal texture to use?



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu May 27th at 11:52am 2004

The Hamon is very boring on this sword too, musta been owned by some poor guy who couldn't afford a good swordsmith [addsig]



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Posted by Gwil on Thu May 27th at 4:48pm 2004

yeah, japanese swords should be fancy and striking - they were after all the very heart of feudalism back then!

spiff it up a little!

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Posted by OtZman on Thu May 27th at 5:14pm 2004

? posted by Myrk-
The Hamon is very boring on this sword too, musta been owned by some poor guy who couldn't afford a good swordsmith

What's a Hamon?

I guess it's quite a lot of things I need to fix to turn it from just quite good to very good

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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu May 27th at 6:08pm 2004

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? posted by OtZman


What's a Hamon?



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Posted by asterix_vader on Sat May 29th at 1:51am 2004

good job, otz! [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Sat May 29th at 2:41am 2004

Its like a line you get along the blade, usually from where the swordsmith has used different materials in the blade which form small crystals where the sword is stronger, but also more brittle. Tends to look a bit more white and be in wavey lines, you'll need to look closely at some swords to understand, but when you've skinned it on it will be good.

Also try putting a good ol' dragon engraving on the side of the blade, they always look cool

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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Sat May 29th at 2:59am 2004

Post the skin flats for the katana; it'll be easier to give better feedback. [addsig]




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