[Chivalry] - Agatha Knight - Final Guard set

Nolt

Going to be doing a Helmet and weapon in this final guard set! So let's get started.

Some quick sketches of ideas.



Started sculpting an one of my ideas and am taking it from there!

jackalope

I'm a big fan of those feathers and lion pin. Nice job.

Nolt

Thanks! I am still thinking on the best way to do the feathers, to make them metalic or actual feathers. Since the rules say you can't use opacity maps.... not sure yet

elwebbaro

Love the composition that you've got going there. Hopefully the lowpoly mesh will turn out just as well.

Joost

Yeah I think it will have to be metal. They don't really read as feathers atm, I thought they were leaves at first.

The helmet looks really cool already though!

zetheros

I like it! Your professionalism shows in this model. Maybe make the feathers longer though? I like the lion signet.

Nolt

Thanks all! Yeah I still have some work to do on the feathers. I just started detailing some of the areas

dzibarik

this looks sharp

j4polaris

Really digging the look. Excited to see how things develop!

Chimpanzer

Dat faceplate

Jesse Walsh

Oh man! Looks like Act Raiser with those feathers. Awesome!

Nolt

I think I have the sculpt pretty much done. If anyone has critiques, that would be great, otherwise I will start moving on to the low poly. Also... did not realize the weapon set needed a shield... TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!! I'll get one figured out

jackalope

I like it!
I'm not sure how, or if it will look good, but maybe curve the feathers in such a way that you can see them a little better from the front? Just a thought.

Lucas Annunziata

9thKnight wrote: »

Also... did not realize the weapon set needed a shield... TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!!

A shield is not necessary to make a 'complete' set, you just need to make a helmet and sword for a set

Nolt

jackalope- yeah I was thinking about that. I messed with it a bit in zbrush, but wasn't entirely sure. Maybe I will give that another try. Thanks

Lucas Annunziata - Thanks! If there's time maybe I'll do one anyway

Deathstick

9thKnight wrote: »

I think I have the sculpt pretty much done. If anyone has critiques, that would be great, otherwise I will start moving on to the low poly. Also... did not realize the weapon set needed a shield... TO THE DRAWING BOARD!!! I'll get one figured out

Hello beautiful

(nice job!)

Nolt

Deathstick Thanks!

Nolt

Quick update to the helmet. I have the low poly at exactly 1200 tris which is the limit (unless I am mistaken.... Anyway, I think I will be moving on to the weapon and maybe a shield and texture them all at once just so I can move between color studies and such at the same time.

Notes

Its too bad the helmet is only limited to only 1200 tris...I can see the 5000 tri limit on the weapons being too high and the helmet too low. But aside from that, the holes on the mask can use a bevel so it bakes down well enough to show in the diffuse cause the game doesn't support alpha masks.

mr.craft

Love the details, nice concept and model. good luck

Nolt

Notes Yeah, I was hoping to have enough left to make the holes but it's not that much of a sacrifice so it's ok.

mr.craft Thanks! I'll do what I can and hope for the best!

Nolt

Figured I would post my AO and Normal bakes along with my UVs. Still working on some sword concept stuff and blocking it out.

Noth

I think I see some UV overlap from here. Might want to give some space for padding, these will very likely get scaled down for LOD models. You'll definitely get some bleed then.

http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/Edge_padding

soulstice

Helmet is looking great, keep it up!

Nolt

@Noth, good eye! Now that I look at it, that is actually an old UV set! I had noticed that when I was stitching together my bakes and had reconfigured the UVs. But I will go ahead and do a couple compression test to make sure that even at a compressed LOD, it still looks good. Thanks!

@soulstice Thanks! I'll keep doing my best

Nolt

Just started my sword. Getting a good block out going. Have a couple of ideas but not sure which one I want to go with so I will play around a bit... Suggestions would be appreciated

jackalope

I think the overall shape is solid, but I'm not a fan of the pill shaped notches. Maybe consider something else?

Nolt

jackalope wrote: »

I think the overall shape is solid, but I'm not a fan of the pill shaped notches. Maybe consider something else?

Thanks! Was going for blood grooves on the blade but maybe I will try something else.

Sophax

Is this for the longsword or the SoW?

Not realy a fan of the dips in the blade either

- I would just go with a flat side and some nice ingravings instead



-It would be cool to have a lions head as the pommel so it matches the helmet.

Something like this.



-Perhaps the hilt needs some more characteristics aswel like in your reference art work you provided. 1 lion head on each side of the hilt would be pretty cool.

- Some kind of ingravings would be realy nice touch

Nolt

@Sophax! Thanks for the input. I think I will be trying something different with the blade. I have been wanting to put some lions heads on there so I think I have an idea for putting them on the sides. Might have to sketch it out really quick.

Nolt

Decided to go back to the drawing board and sketch out a couple more ideas for the hilt and pommel. I think I have a better direction as to where I want to go now.

jackalope

Sweet sketches.
I favor 2 and 3 for that cool cross guard design.

Nolt

Thanks, yeah those are the two that I am leaning towards. Definitely good thing I went back to the drawing board to figure things out a bit more.

Nolt

More progress on the sword sculpt after reexamining what I wanted to do with it.

soulstice

number two is a great choice, nice progress so far!

jackalope

Very cool. Keep it up

ambitious_nomad

This sword is looking really good! Can't wait to see more.

Dylan Brady

nice work!

Nolt

Thanks guys! Here's some more progress as I move forward.

JO420

Really cool looking blade it looks like it can bite.

Nolt

I think I am just about done with the sculpt, not sure what else really to do with it so I think I am going to be moving onto the low poly.

Notes

Part of me still feels like it should be like this :P

Nolt

Thanks, Notes! Understandable, I was playing with a bunch of different blade designs. I just felt drawn to having that little swoosh in it. If I don't like it, should be really easy to change.

Nolt

Just got my retop finished. A bit over 3k but well below the 5k. Thinking about adding in some more polys for the Agathian cross on the guard as right now it would just be baked into the normal. Suggestions?

Nolt

Just got my bakes done for the sword. I think I might texture them and then move onto a shield if I have time..... Or maybe just move onto a shield... not sure..

ambitious_nomad

Nice bakes can't wait to see it textured and in the engine. Also looking forward to your shield!

Loren Broach

Man, you're getting the job done quick! It's looking great.

Nolt

ambitious_nomad wrote: »

Nice bakes can't wait to see it textured and in the engine. Also looking forward to your shield!

Thanks! I'll have to go check out how to import these so I'll hit up the tut page. Still working on the shield concept at the mo!

Keen wrote: »

Man, you're getting the job done quick! It's looking great.

Thanks, Keen! Gotta keep trucking if I want all of it done. I would like to do a couple more items for the contest if there's time.

jackalope

I think you should totally knock out the helmet and sword. They are really solid and if you get them all textured and in engine you don't have to worry about running out of time and rushing your primary submission.
But that's just my opinion. Great work so far!

Nolt

jackalope wrote: »

I think you should totally knock out the helmet and sword. They are really solid and if you get them all textured and in engine you don't have to worry about running out of time and rushing your primary submission.
But that's just my opinion. Great work so far!

Yeah that's how I kind of feel about it..... I need to go get a copy of Chivalry first though to get all that imported and checked out.

Nolt

So would anyone out there be able to give me some help getting stuff in engine. Do I need to have Chivalry downloaded and installed first and then open some of it's content in UDK or something? And do I have to have a certain version of UDK installed as I have one a bit older? Any help would be great thanks!