Steel Sword | Morroblivion

Back to working after having a beloved family member pass away. Started working on the Steel Longsword. Finished the low-poly mesh in about 45 minutes, moving on to sculpt the high-poly for normal map baking and then going to make the textures, will keep updating as these get done.The low-poly comes in at exactly 300 poly's.

Pic of old swords for reference

http://images.uesp.net/2/2e/MW_Weapons_Longswords.jpg

Front view

http://s1137.beta.photobucket.com/user/usmcreaper/media/3D%20work/steels...

Feedback is very welcome, want it to look the best it can after all.

Last edited by grumpycat on 8 Dec 2013 - 19:17.

Looks great to me so far!

Not dead btw, jsut having a

Not dead btw, just having a real time right now trying to work on this with balancing School and my military stuff. School gets out in a few weeks, so I'll be cranking out assets left and right. Doing what I can in the meantime.

Ok so I managed to get the

Ok so I managed to get the sculpt done a bit, now is the time for feedback. Heres a link to the current sculpt togo with the High-Poly mesh.

http://s1137.beta.photobucket.com/user/usmcreaper/media/Untitled.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Any thoughts so far?

EDIT: If youd like to see a certain area in more detail, just let me know. Although this CAPTCHA process is really buggy for me right now>.> took me 5 mins to post this lol.

Looks pretty good to me, but

Looks pretty good to me, but I'm no mesh expert. That's the one on the bottom of that original Morrowind weapons screenshot right?

Looks good to me! What

Looks good to me! What program are you using? Sorry if its like 3DSMax or Blender, I can't tell on this iPad.

Shadow:Yes, I'm trying to get

Shadow:Yes, I'm trying to get it as close as I can to the original Steel Longsword.

Clint: Currently using a combination of 3DSMax and ZBrush, and will bring in Photoshop for textures once I ge to that stage.

Ah ok, I got you. Looks good,

Ah ok, I got you. Looks good, looking forward to seeing the texture.

Yea my complete process is

Yea my complete process is 3DSMax for the base poly, both a high- and low- version, creating a sculpt from the high-poly using ZBrush, bringing that back in, baking the low and high together using xNormal, then a basic texture map, then refinging versions of that for specular and opacity maps. Of course with 11-week segments of school I rarely get to use the full process, so there will doubtless be some bugfixing to do.