Sword of War - Cold Fury

JO420

Hello fellow digital Ironsmiths. I've been making a new weapon skin,for the Knight's Sword of War. The name brings to mind a solid ,well built 2 hander. Made for one thing,killing and nothing else.There is nothing beautiful in the act of killing men so why make a sword that is well decorated? Black leather and cold steel.

Still working on diffuse and blood mask,but the design is about what you see. What do you guys think?



High poly.

JasonLavoie

Yuh! That's a nice looking texture, good material reads! Maybe put a bit of spec on the hilt?

JO420

JasonLavoie wrote: »

Yuh! That's a nice looking texture, good material reads! Maybe put a bit of spec on the hilt?

That's the plan tomorrow:) That and blood.

pior

Very cool - it looks like a great fit, and perfectly believable too.

JO420

@Pior Thank you very much, that's the best compliment you can pay me.


The sword is up on the Workshop, please upvote or comment or both if you like it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=434517850

JO420

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GRAT0R

Another cool sword! damn dude you are on fire!!

JO420

GRAT0R wrote: »

Another cool sword! damn dude you are on fire!!

Just got a rush of inspirational juices,combined with free time.




Check it out in action.


[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZuC6SvP7IY[/ame]


Best part is when you load in the weapon for the first time and give it a go versus bots


Got this great screen cap firt time around

JasonLavoie

Loving it! Congrats on the submission!

Thane-

Great work! I was planning on going for the same rougher metal look, especially the blacker unshinny sections on the blade. Not such that it looked like it was pulled out of Mordor, but just that it was part of a series of blades i was thinking about making where a famous blacksmith left a set of unfinished swords in the back of his shop, later finished just enough to sell away after he died.

Would you mind telling me how you controlled the level of sheen to counteract the environment map of the default weapon material? My weapon is extremely reflective.

JO420

Thane- wrote: »

Great work! I was planning on going for the same rougher metal look, especially the blacker unshinny sections on the blade. Not such that it looked like it was pulled out of Mordor, but just that it was part of a series of blades i was thinking about making where a famous blacksmith left a set of unfinished swords in the back of his shop, later finished just enough to sell away after he died.

Would you mind telling me how you controlled the level of sheen to counteract the environment map of the default weapon material? My weapon is extremely reflective.

Thank you! The idea was to make a simple well designed looking sword that is made to simply just kill. So the Ironsmiths would not even bother to any sort of decoration or embellishments. It would be a sword that gets lost amongst the other CMW weapons.



Well the textures tend to multiply in effect the lighter they are , so if you make the diffuse too bright ,by the time the specular comes into play in their material,it can be too shiny. So I keep the diffuse looking real dark and I do not go too overboard on the spec. The spec if used multiple times in the material so if it's too bright it can make the sword look overly bright.

JO420

The diffuse and spec map I it helps.

Thane-

Major help! Thanks so much. Great portfolio btw. Best of luck with the rest of your career.