Knife Dump

Kimono

hey guys, well I was picking through my old HDD this morning salvaging everything I needed before I install my new one (finally) and I came across a .rar file I was sent by someone who asked me ages ago if I wanted to do a little freelance work making some knives (I don't know what for). Anyway I never heard from him again but the ref's he sent were really good so I've decided to make some of them. So far 3 are modelled, unwrapped and baked, 1 is textured and I plan to make about 6 in the end If anyone wants any of these to practice on just post or send me a PM, I'll upload AO bakes+mdl files and all necessary texture files. Be warned however I'm using 3dsm 2010 : o

USAF Survival Knife







V42 Fighting Knife



Polish Mod.55

t4paN

Man, those are some sharp knives right here. I'm gonna steal some ideas for a character I'm working on, heh. :angel:

bounchfx

any reason you included the ridges on the low poly instead of saving 60 tris and just have them floating/intersect? did that not work as well?

butt_sahib

Apart from a nasty seam, i think it might've worked, but i guess it depends on how far its going to be from the viewer. If its for that fps view, i'd probably do the same.

Excellent stuff kimono

Kimono

bounchfx wrote: »

any reason you included the ridges on the low poly instead of saving 60 tris and just have them floating/intersect? did that not work as well?

That trick used to work great for stuff like this back when I was simply painting on diffuse maps but you get some errors when baking normals. Obviously if this was for 3PV I wouldn't even have the ridges modelled on the LP since they are not cut too deep into the actual blade

Rens

personaly, i would add a few more polys and get rid of the extreem tri mess, atleast add one in the middle, so you can even out the whole spiderweb a bit more.

i see that you have one poly ontop of each sawtooth, maybe those are better spend to clean up the rest if you want to keep it very low, or use a bit more to clean it up?

this works non the less

Kimono

Yeah I wondered about adding a couple a tri as you said but I did a test in engine and everything displayed perfectly so I just left it. I think if the edge was angled more than about the 15° it currently is then it would be necessary.

Rens

this is because its a flat surface, so you easely get away with it,
but if its a more organic shape, it might cause some trouble yeah (no expert)

either way, its probably better to add those 10 polygons and have a good clean structure
(keep it in mind that optimising doesnt allways mean welding everything together to the ultimate limit)

see if you can make these changes in the next one

BUSYROBOT

Hi Kimono, I took a look at your props on your website. They look amazing!