hi,

don't know why i'm giving away so many models in the last weeks^^

here is a ninja sword, skinned.


Maya 7 rendered (mental ray):



Ingame (Ogre 3D Engine):



Model Properties:





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DOWNLOAD NINJA SWORD


have fun and tell me how you like it,

chris



EDIT: ah, and before people start claiming that i did something wrong with the shape, here is the original:

Really nice sword Christoph_B! You painted the skin yourself right? It looks good. However, specs aren't good I'm afraid because the skin isn't square and is far too wide. 1024 width is excessive and for that size, you could have included a lot more quality which is lacking. My swords use 256x256 and I think they have the same level of quality in terms of resolution. Still, good work there and kind of you to contribute for free nevertheless .

Also, the bitdepth is 24bit, not 16bit . How come your MED model properties box is different to mine? Where is your skin size info (oh it's cause it's Ogre 3D Engine)?

Nice ninja sword Christof_B.
It's looks great in the engine and the skinning
is good.
About the sword, it could use more pointy,
sharpy end if you ask me but as you said,
you made it look like the picture which looks
quite good.

Great job

thx, and because you are so nice , you get another (quick) model, a medieval one:

256x256 square 16 bit color skin to make tozzy happy


Maya rendered (mental ray):




Ingame (Ogre 3D Engine):




Properties (it's the current med's properties window):





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DOWNLOAD MEDIEVAL SWORD

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256x256 square 16 bit color skin to make tozzy happy

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Really nice sword again Christoph_B! You painted the skin yourself again right? It looks good. However, specs still aren't good I'm afraid because you could have reduced the skin to 128x128 with the existing level of quality. Both sides of the model use the same texture so you had no need to paint this twice. For that size, you could have included 2 times more quality. Still, good work there and kind of you to contribute for free nevertheless .

Tip: Never waste space on a uv map!

yeah, i thought about mapping overlapping uvs, but i have to get used to make a clean uv map because you need it when making normal maps.

and yes, i painted both skins in photoshop.

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yeah, i thought about mapping overlapping uvs, but i have to get used to make a clean uv map because you need it when making normal maps.

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There's nothing wrong with your map, apart from the fact you wasted space there . You could still use normalmapping even with overlapping UVs so I don't see there should be a problem . You're doing well, more on the painting part.

no, when having overlapping uvs the normalmap gets distorted. trust me, i've tested it

Ah ok . I'll have to remember this for when I do any normal mapping. I've never used normal mapping before so I don't know about things like that. I just presumed . Thanks for that info .

Found this on google (not that I don't trust you; just wanted to see what it said about distortion ):

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Overlapping UVs will cause horrible artifacts and actually make the normal map calculation take much longer.

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So yep, you're right .

Nice sword Chritof_B, this one looks
more dangerous than the other one