Ritual dagger

Rokugan

Hey guys, I worked on this concept for the monthly 2D challenge and I was quite happy with the result, so I decided to bring it further and started modeling it from my concept. I'm quite the newb but I'm slowly getting the grasp over some basic stuff. Any comment and critique is welcome! (I'm having so much fun with this )

Concept:





Quick wire render(triangulate):



The model in maya:



Sketchfab:
[SKETCHFAB]538c464fe4894c5585e807b757127d06[/SKETCHFAB]

DougClayton4231

Cool concept

Rokugan

I started UV mapping the model, I have to say that UVs are my weakest subject.
I'm not even sure that I'm doing good, any help would be great. For now I just planar/camera mapped the blade

DougClayton4231

To maximize the UV space, I'd definitely mirror the model across the center seam (where the two edges of the blade meet) and make another seam straight across where the hilt meets the handle.

Rokugan

For what concern the hilt and handle I can do that, but unfortunately the blade is not symettrical Btw I'm really struggling with the skull, i have no idea how to map it without getting distortion

fatihG_

Hey man,

I would probably reduce the amount of polygons on the blade itself and put it in the handle. The handle looks way too facetted compared to the blade imo.

About unwrapping the skull, check the attachments.
That being said a little bit of stretching should not be an issue.

Hope that helped.

Rokugan

hey bb0x, thanks for the feed! I did something similar with the skull but I wasn't really happy with the result, maybe i'll try to put on a temp texture painted in PS to see if the stretch is that bad. Now I followed some of your advices and came up with this:



I halved the polycount of the blade(now the whole thing is 700 tris) and connected it to the hilt, then I cutted the hilt in half and mirrored it to save UVspace. I think that after testing with the skull's UVs I can start to paint the textures!

fatihG_

Here's what

Rokugan

Thanks again bb0x, I applied some of your suggestions, execpt for the handle cause I want it to be a little more flat.

I finished the UV and started a basic color blockout