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  • Vayne4800
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    The Axe is ingame now. Special thanks to Motenai's Cavity Action file for PS. That thing works magic.

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  • darkkyo
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    @Vayne - It looks really cool! Only thing is I can't help but feel like it looks waaay too heavy for her. Does it look natural when she swings it to attack?

    Edit: I guess the only thing that might look weird is late game when she attacks super fast... Could look fine though, just need to see it in motion.
  • Vayne4800
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    @darkkyo: I understand your concern. Keep in mind that Sven at late game also swings his uber swords so fast too. Added, she is Legion Commander. She can handle it. Non technical justifications aside, we have other plans to address that.
  • Reza
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    Any suggestions before I submit?

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  • Vextrakt
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    Reza wrote: »
    Any suggestions before I submit?

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    Your normal or masks are messed up... you have almost no highlights on the weapon, or its super weak. Compare your weapon to her armor.
  • Reza
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    Thanks, that's true
    I tweaked the masks and texture but I think the normals are fine :)
    P.S. Somewhere I read that shadow blade is out of stone not metal, that's why it's not really reflective.

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  • Reza
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    Guys I'm getting a very weird error
    just 2-3 seconds of the beginning of the game the blade is on the ground :(
    I placed my low poly exactly where the default blade is positioned...

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  • Reyne
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    That happens for every character and every weapon. It's fine :D
  • Baddcog
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    Baddcog wrote: »
    Trying to improve so why not start at the beginning, by painting a concept. Probably my first.

    (my scale is a little off, mainly the handle is too big, but I can take care of that in 3d)

    Could use crits:Voodoo_Wraith_sword_concept%20copy.jpg

    any crits on the weapon?
  • Ben.HCT
    Recently, I looked into other types of polearm weapons, and what caught my eye in particular was a variation called the Morning Star, a type of mace used to pierce armour in combat. So I had a mess around in 3DS Max to come up with a design that could be used by LC, keeping in mind the dimensions of the default weapon.

    This is what I have so far:

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    I think I'm going to be putting my focus into developing this idea for a while. Once I'm happy with the base mesh I'll be able to sculpt in some other details - mostly battle damage, but some surface work along the pole could prove beneficial.
  • cagdasx44
    This is where I went with my LC weapon. I think this is my best work by far. This ia only the color map I am triying to learn about cavity and other maps as well as learn how to merge them into an awesomeness. I still need to do lod1 by hand.
    Feel free to feedback.
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  • Baddcog
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    this is the edge I said you should bevel.
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    Would give you some nice highlights
  • Kraken
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    Here is high-poly for gyro bomb. My cooperation with multitud3.
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  • Baddcog
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    sculpt progress on my WK sword
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  • Tvidotto
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    motenai wrote: »
    Just finished texturing this...this is only the color map

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    the dark blade is looking really nice, it helps counter a little the size of the weapon and make it more fitable (in my opinion) to the character, great work till now
    Vayne4800 wrote: »
    The Axe is ingame now. Special thanks to Motenai's Cavity Action file for PS. That thing works magic.

    what is that cavity action?? =]
    Baddcog wrote: »
    any crits on the weapon?

    i would suggest to no go for bones anymore, there is a possible problem with chinese marked and he is not skeleton king anymore, he is wraith king!, you could keep the sillhouete but change the bones to other things, maybe gems or metal pieces..

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    i kept the work on the relic sword. its almost done i think
    any suggestions?
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  • WipEout
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    Figured I'd try my hand at some Dota2 stuff. This is my first attempt at this, so I figure one item shouldn't be complicated. Plus contests are always good motivators! :D

    It looks like LC's banners aren't getting much love, so I'll try my hand at that.

    Any favorites/suggestions?

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    I think angelic valkyrie is my inspiration...

    Otherwise, I initially thought I'd make a weapon for Wraith King, but that seems to be the most popular choice (not that that's a bad thing, just not my thing). Maybe if I get LC's banners done in time I'll try to get my ideas for WK's sword down further.

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    C&C always welcome & appreciated!
  • Baddcog
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    Ah well, thanks for the crit, but now that I'm basically done I'm gonna see it through to the end.
  • WipEout
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    Tvidotto wrote: »
    i kept the work on the relic sword. its almost done i think
    any suggestions?
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    I suggest you quit being a badass-- you're making me feel bad about myself :D

    Seriously, though, that's a rad sword! My only suggestion would be to try to adjust the colors of the physical part of the sword, as the hilt, grip, and broken blade feel a little too similar in color. Maybe slightly darken the center of the blade and give the handle a darker leather wrap? Otherwise I got nothin'.
  • WipEout
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    Baddcog wrote: »
    Ah well, thanks for the crit, but now that I'm basically done I'm gonna see it through to the end.


    I get the concern about the Chinese market, but to be fair, WK's stock sword has a spine running up the center of the blade as well...
  • cagdasx44
    Baddcog wrote: »
    this is the edge I said you should bevel.
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    Would give you some nice highlights

    I dont think I can do that, my tris is on limit.
  • Baddcog
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    If you do it to your high poly you can bake that to your low
  • Konras
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    @Tvidotto My only suggestion for your Relic would be maybe to make it more gold/yellow to match the armor of Wright more. Now it looks a little bit like it would be made out of copper metal. Other than that it looks really bad ass!!
  • Rowinish
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    Almost done with this concept. Can't decide which of these designs are more successful.
    Feedback would be great!
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  • Coyo.Te
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    Tvidotto wrote: »
    the dark blade is looking really nice, it helps counter a little the size of the weapon and make it more fitable (in my opinion) to the character, great work till now



    what is that cavity action?? =]



    i would suggest to no go for bones anymore, there is a possible problem with chinese marked and he is not skeleton king anymore, he is wraith king!, you could keep the sillhouete but change the bones to other things, maybe gems or metal pieces..

    ----

    i kept the work on the relic sword. its almost done i think
    any suggestions?
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    I suggest you change the particle outline to a more particle volume like blade, so it doesnt look like something is supposed to be there, but rather, something really is there.. its just glowing.
  • MagnoHusein
    Baddcog wrote: »
    any crits on the weapon?

    Like Tvidotto said, there's no reason to do a bone sword. First of all, China Store, second, check WK lore, he gave up from bones because it perishes so he went to an energy form (wraith/ghost) which makes more sense if you are speaking of immortality.
  • belkun
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    Like Tvidotto said, there's no reason to do a bone sword. First of all, China Store, second, check WK lore, he gave up from bones because it perishes so he went to an energy form (wraith/ghost) which makes more sense if you are speaking of immortality.

    I think that a nod for good old Skeleton King is definitely not bad, especially since most of WK's stuff actually have bones as nods to SK, however, I do agree on the Chinese market point, specially because the bones are not as stylized as the ones on his current items. Here's a link to his current equipment for reference: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Template:Equipment_Wraith_King
  • BladeofEvilsBane
    Rowinish wrote: »
    Almost done with this concept. Can't decide which of these designs are more successful.
    Feedback would be great!
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    I'm not sold on the frontal view, the silhouette breaks from the shape language he has (and the gold in that shape looks a bit like marilyn monroe hair). I like first sideview a lot though!
  • Selaznog
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    Woo! Finally came up with I design I like. I didn't finish colouring it because I wanna get to modeling asap
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  • Oroboros
    Finally got around to doing a WK sword for the comp!

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  • Prophet9
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    Concept by SLIMEface:
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    My LoD0 model in Max:

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    Here is my sculpt:

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    And... the final product:

    Ballistic Goggles by Prophet9 and SLIMEFace

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    My entry into this months comp. :)

    Cheers all!
  • FlashL
    Started modelling, increased the size of the horns so they read better.

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    & a quick paint over for damage detail

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  • kite212
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    Oroboros wrote: »
    Finally got around to doing a WK sword for the comp!

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    That is one sexy sword :thumbup:
  • Reyne
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    There is some great work happening here.

    You are all making me cry

    :P

    Here is what I have so far....

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  • Vayne4800
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    Tvidotto wrote: »
    what is that cavity action?? =]

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    i kept the work on the relic sword. its almost done i think
    any suggestions?

    It is basically similar to what you would get when you use a normal map and bake a cavity map from it within nDo. This cavity map is much more subtle that the one you bake in XNormal. The tool linked by Motenai (link in here and also in Motenai's thread) does a better job since it also generates a very subtle highlight map with it too. The result, imo, is far superior to what I have seen yet.

    Regarding the particles. Is it enabled for WK, or did you do a custom one yourself? If the latter, can you explain how you went about doing it?
  • darkkyo
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    Vayne4800 wrote: »
    @darkkyo: I understand your concern. Keep in mind that Sven at late game also swings his uber swords so fast too. Added, she is Legion Commander. She can handle it. Non technical justifications aside, we have other plans to address that.

    Sweet! Can't wait to see it with color!!
  • Baddcog
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    Like Tvidotto said, there's no reason to do a bone sword. First of all, China Store, second, check WK lore, he gave up from bones because it perishes so he went to an energy form (wraith/ghost) which makes more sense if you are speaking of immortality.
    belkun wrote: »
    I think that a nod for good old Skeleton King is definitely not bad, especially since most of WK's stuff actually have bones as nods to SK, however, I do agree on the Chinese market point, specially because the bones are not as stylized as the ones on his current items. Here's a link to his current equipment for reference: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Template:Equipment_Wraith_King


    Ok, I should have read/understood the lore better. I had read about gore/Chinese market but don't feel bones are gory so didn't think that would have even been an issue. (I assumed maybe Valve removed SK because of the SK in Diablo3 being similar)

    I also understand the point of the other stylized bones. I just imported his base weapon, looked at it and came up with a concept. And as usual jumped in fast. (thnx for the link btw, I hadn't found that before)

    Still, I am wrapping this up. For me it's more about practice and learning than it is to win the competition/get this item in the store. Maybe next month I will pay more attention. I still feel that even though it may have been a bad design choice it still fits the character due to existing items.
    I have done very little sculpting before, this is probably the most I have done to date.

    That being said, I would love some crits on the actual model/sculpting/concept as all I have heard so far is my concept background lighting is off (not really anything to do with the concept though I will consider that in the future) and the Chinese/bone thing :D

    (I do want to work on the hand guard a tad more still)

    Current state:
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  • Reza
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    Oroboros wrote: »
    Finally got around to doing a WK sword for the comp!

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    Man this sword will really hurt. My head just hurt only by looking at it. Ouch!
    Awesome idea
  • vertical
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    Hey WipEout, I was already doing something similar to your #2 sword.
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  • Reza
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    I'm getting ready to submit it :)
    Any more suggestions?

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  • FlashL
    High poly progress~

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  • mihalceanu
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    Hey guys , I'll be joing in on the wraith king with a sword fit for a king:) (made a quick sketch whly on break at work , so no shading for this one :) )

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  • Rocket_Science
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    Feedback appreciated

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    OR

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  • cagdasx44
    I liked the bottom one but you can do it as versions.
  • belkun
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    @Rocket_Science

    I like the second one more. The first one looks too heavy, unbalanced and awkward to hold. Doesn't look like a weapon she would be able to use to attack, but instead just throw on her enemies due to its enormous size, haha.
  • Baddcog
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    FlashL, so bled out I can barely see anything but white.

    mihalceanu, nice concept.

    Rocket Science, the bottom is definitely better, but the shapoe of the back looks like it's missing something, maybe you could shrink that other piece way down and still keep it in there.Connection to the blade is now weird too.
  • WipEout
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    vertical wrote: »
    Hey WipEout, I was already doing something similar to your #2 sword.
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    Ha! No worries, yours looks far better than what I was planning for my #2 anyway! :D

    If/when I do go for WK's sword, I'm thinking something more along the lines of my 4, 5 or 7 designs-- I'm digging the hook-style sword right now!

    Nice work on your concept!!
  • quockhanhlk
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    A simple weapon concept for LC, in collab with ultimatec on this one, great works everyone :D

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    WipEout wrote: »
    Ha! No worries, yours looks far better than what I was planning for my #2 anyway! :D

    If/when I do go for WK's sword, I'm thinking something more along the lines of my 4, 5 or 7 designs-- I'm digging the hook-style sword right now!

    Nice work on your concept!!

    Thanks, I'd say, combine both 6 and 7?
  • Baddcog
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    normal done
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    lod0 at 600 tris
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