Making engravings

ShinigamiYaiba

I am going for a realism approach with this project. I will be using Vray to help give realistic look to it. My question is using 3ds Max or Zbrush what would be the best way to model the engraving (triangular shape in the middle).

itzaspace

thw sword doesn't have so much details, so i will go for 3dmax, but if you want to put many detals as scratches etc go for zbrush and bake the normal