Hello forum members.

Even though this is still work in progress, I would like to introduce you ahead of time to the Black Knightess. She is nearing completion and will soon be available on my website, and probably also on Dexsoft-Games.

The character includes basic animations for walking, running, idle, attacking, blocking and death.
Color maps, normal maps and specular maps.
FBX, .X and .mdl versions of the character will be included in the package.




Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Really nice model youve got there, and so are your other models Ive seen. The face is really well done, the rest is well modeled but the texture is a bit bland and looks the same, maybe add some colour variations and smaller details. You have some serious skills there, I cant wait to see more from you.

Cheers, Ryan.

wow! very nice (and your other characters as well).. is there an animation preview

nice one.

very nice.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. The character will be available early next week, at least from my website. I'm not sure when Dexsoft will put it up on theirs. I will post some vids of the animation on my website once I'm done with everything. I'll let you guys know once they are up !

I'm missing the shine of the plate armor a bit - maybe could be done with a shader afterwards.
Apart from that it's really nice work.

[annoyance mode]
Does the chain mail have a zipper?
I would not fasten the breat armor around the neck like she did - would be *very* painful.
[/annoyance mode]

Very nice work. I like the models. I guess it's not important in a game but I'm thinking the sword on the back would be angled more and closer to the shoulder in real life. Pulling the sword out of the sheath, over your head seems dangerous and difficult. Actually even over a shoulder you'd have to be careful not to cut your own neck. Anyway very cool models.

Thanks. The sheath is actually built into the shield. But it's no problem to rotate the shield a bit to either side, so the sword handle would be closer to
the shoulder. Yes, the chain mail has a zipper :-) Actually I wasn't really planning to create anything realistic, I had fantasy in mind when I came up with the design.
I noticed that people from the west (sorry, I'm from Asia) are much more critical if it comes to realism in games. Maybe we are a bit more tolerant, hence in Asian MMORPGS or in general, you see a lot of female humans/elves with skimpy armor that hardly protects anything. But I tried to come up with something which also suits the western taste. I hope I had some success.
I'm not too familiar with MED yet, but you should be able to assign a shader to the armor which recreates some shininess.
Thanks for all the feedback !

Don't worry, that's fine.

Games are made for having unrealistic otherwise impossible experiences.
At least that's my opinion

I just keep looking at any medieval weapon/armor stuff and think about usability and realism.