Rune Enchanted Waster "Wooden Sword" (Feedback needed)

Froton

EDIT: I updated it, but I hadn't seen I gotten feedback, so I will make a newer version with said feedback(and a metal version). I blended the glowing runes into the wood itself, made them smaller, and changed the colors.




ORIGINAL POST:
So, as test, I made a "wooden sword" using procedurally/in-engine generated wood(heavily modified Voronoi and Wave textures into colorramp nodes). This was the result. Also, I guess the runes are too big/too overpowering? Maybe I need to work on the lighting a bit.

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Maybe I should have colored it brown, lol.

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Brian "Panda" Choi

Yeah the runes are too prominent and it should be more brown.

Reads less like wood and more damascus steel.  I would look into using a specific timber reference.

Froton

@Brian "Panda" Choi I see, thanks for the feedback, I made this update before reading your post, so I will see about the timber reference and turning the runes brown, I did make them blend into the wood with the udpate, lol, (although, since it's a fantasy wood "Iron Oak" with the properties of metal, which this could be the in-universe reason it looks partially like damascus steel. : P Although do you recommend I just stick to actual wooden textures even for fantasy related stuff for realism/familiarity to the viewer?)







Speaking of damacus steel, I did use a pattern similar to it for this sword, where I took the damascus pattern and blended it into itself like a repeating tile in photoshop and used it for the inner part of the blade as a normal.