[MARCH CONTEST] low poly Asian themed weapons

Mhh nice theme, i'll try to make something

Why was 512 a huge texture size? You've discouraged me now

I will kick in the balls the first who post a katana

Finished modeling, just need to make some purty maps for it:

295 tris:

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reference, in case you dont know wtf it is:

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Now to get photoshoppin'

The base is okey, but alot unoptimized.

The blade is fine, but look at the handle, you have 2 loops that does nothing at all to the model.

Also, you still have the "inside" or, "top" piece of the connecting piece between the stick and the blade. You should remove these things and you'll go down about 40-50tris.

The 2 loops in the handle add curvature to the handle. Not much of a curve, but I think it looks a lot better not being perfectly straight. If I were running out of polys I would take at least one of them out, but as it is, I think its fine.

The top of the connecting piece(elephant head in the photo) has to be there, otherwise there would be a hole between the connecting piece and the blade? The blade is significantly narrower than the connecting piece. I might rework that head a little bit to throw some more polys on the blade, I figure I need about 10 or so extra tris to smooth it out as much as I care to.

I thought it was a horse head at first so thats why it has an 'ear' on it, turns out its an elephant so I might fix it up a bit.

My WIP Weapon. Old School Ninja Turtle Style

This is the first weapon model I have ever done, hehe.

Nun-chucks

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Texture Map

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Add something to the grip, it's too boring. And I find the highlights too extreme.

Going to add symbols on the grip.

Looks fairly ok, symbols on the grip would be nice, and i think a nunchuck (spelling? ) could use a bit of a large chain between the two bars, now you'll end up slapping yourself all over the place i think

Quote from Pericolos0

stop rendering stuff with ambient occlusion/skylight, you're only fooling yourself..

Meh

sounds like texture tagging

The competition will be harsh

yay! hehe