[Weapon Swap] - Kronen - Taareva

Port-Seven

LATEST: Model swap submitted!



Unfortunately I had to resubmit to the Steam workshop to make sure the tags showed up correctly for the contest and forgot to update the link on the final submission thread The correct link is here:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=566783021&tscn=1449026163

Again, had fun doing this contest and learned some new stuff.

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Spent the last week doing up some concepts, now I feel like I have something solid enough to start with including some base colours. The blade may look a bit chunky at the moment but that's something I'll be able to address in 3D.

low odor

very nice...I dig  the chunky look..I like the weight of the holes in the  yellow and  the green one. cool start.

Port-Seven

Thanks, LOW ODOR. I like the sharpness in the yellow/green concepts so I'm trying to bring some of that back into my model. Small WIP:

Port-Seven

More WIP, mainly some detail on the handle.

Flyhy

This is looking really good !
I really like that i looks less heavy than in your concept image.
( This makes me feel bad about my own design tho  )
keep up the good work

Port-Seven

Thanks, FLYHY   I agree with you about the heaviness. I think slimmer is better suited to this style.

WIP: tried a few different blades shapes near the top to give the weapon a sharper feel.


Ended up curving the points a bit, which I think I like:

Port-Seven

Brought some colour into the model, and then did a paint over to better the design (specifically the holes in the blade).

Port-Seven

I ended up hollowing out the inside of the weapon basically and took the current mesh into photoshop for another paint over. I'm not sure if it looks better or worse like this, more like something Warframe or not, but I want to get on to baking and texturing very soon so I need to make a decision. Any additional input would be great, too.

Port-Seven

Slight redesign to accommodate proper position of the weapon handle:

VarunaTide

I do like the silhouette and the shapes a lot better with this one. The curves are very nice too. Well done!

Port-Seven

Thanks VARUNATIDE 

Finally got the low poly into the Tenno Steam editor thing! Just experimenting with colours at the moment. I've never used alpha channels in this way before, it's really interesting so far. I think I'm going to keep a dual-tone colour scheme for the weapon.

Port-Seven

Getting a weird shading error only in the TennoGen window.Not really sure why...

Clyptic

Looks like a texture seem from the normal map. I had the same issue and we disccused it in the QA thread. You can just ignore that seem as it is apparently only an issue in tennogan and not in game. 

Port-Seven

Thanks for the info, CLYPTIC

So, I rebaked the normals with different smoothing and removed some pieces from the high poly that I felt were creating unnecessary noise in the texture. Still have that normal map shading issue as above, but that aside here's an update for on colours:

Port-Seven

Finally threw on a roughness map, now playing around with the emissive.

Port-Seven

There it is! All done and submitted. Good learning project overall.

Steam workshop thread: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=566783021&tscn=1449026163