Fantasy Dagger (Next-gen)

PLyczkowski

This shot is from Blender’s viewport. I used Blender (high poly, low poly, uv's, and viewing), Photoshop, xNormal and CrazyBump.



More images (and wire and maps) here.

dejawolf

looks really nice. no crits.

Snefer

The grey on the edge of the blade looks a bit wierd and flat were the spec doesn't hit, other than that... really sweet. Your own design?

JonConley

Looks really nice. Inspired by: http://www.strongblade.com/prod/sbbr-kr-mithrodin_hist.html ?

Xaltar

Looks like the blade is painted grey and the scratches and wear have cut through the paint layer. If thats what you were after you have nailed it, if not then you may need to have a look at making the blade more metalic and less painted looking.

Other than that, it looks awesome, it conveys scale, has good form and function and manages to still look cool. Nice work.

slipsius

looks good. though... this isnt next gen. its current gen.

Axcel

Snefer wrote: »

The grey on the edge of the blade looks a bit wierd and flat were the spec doesn't hit, other than that... really sweet. Your own design?

I agree. But except this, all dagger is very nice.

PLyczkowski

Snefer - The design is inspired by http://www.strongblade.com/prod/sbbr...odin_hist.html just as JonConley spotted.

JonConley - Thanks. Yes it is.

Xaltar - It's not paint, it's patina. I could make the whole blade metallic, just like the scratched parts, but I though this way it will look more interesting.

slipsius - Isn't next-gen using normal maps from heigher poly models?

wasker

I agree what's been previously said about the metal of the blade, but other than that; awesome!!

how large is that txtr map btw?

Xaltar

Cool, then thats fine. Don't worry about what nex-gen is, hell, no one actually knows what it really is and it varies from one point of view to the next. This is current gen spec which is just what it should be.

Nice work, now make more and get yourself a portfolio. It would also be nice to see wires and texture flats.

PLyczkowski

Xaltar wrote: »

Cool, then thats fine. Don't worry about what nex-gen is, hell, no one actually knows what it really is and it varies from one point of view to the next. This is current gen spec which is just what it should be.

Nice work, now make more and get yourself a portfolio. It would also be nice to see wires and texture flats.

See my portfolio, wire and texture flats here.

wasker wrote: »

I agree with everyone on the metal of the blade looks abit grey and unmetal-ish. but other than that; awesome!!

how large is that txtr map btw?

1024x1024, as it says on the image. It's patina.

Taylor Hood

Oh for F- sake. Can you please stop saying next gen? How is it next gen anyways? You made it now so its darn current gen!!

.....aside from that, nice one dude. :P

PLyczkowski

LoM Chaos wrote: »

Oh for F- sake. Can you please stop saying next gen? How is it next gen anyways? You made it now so its darn current gen!!

.....aside from that, nice one dude. :P

Oh, sorry. I thought it was to distinguish game assets using only lighting based on geometry from the ones using also maps (for example normal maps).

I removed it from the title.

Taylor Hood

Hm, well, I guess the Next gen thing is pretty much a term used wrongly for an asset that comes equip with Bloom lighting from an engine, spec map, normal map and diffuse map and also some sort of emmisive map sometimes to make it look.... "next gen"
Well, thats what it is in my opinion. But it's just not Next gen. It's current ;D

Andreas

Looks really great, can't believe that's from the viewport. Use much GLSL shader work?

PLyczkowski

Blenderhead wrote: »

Looks really great, can't believe that's from the viewport. Use much GLSL shader work?

Well, only 3 1024^2 textures. And about five lights. I suppose it's not a big effort for the GLSL shader.

woogity

i like the design the weapon you baised it off of ive seen before, the segmented handle looks a bit strange on a dagger tho because its typically an aspect of two handed weapons. i like it alot tho, like the subtle colors


-Woog

imb3nt

I like it!

Like previously mentioned though I am kinda curious how its held... my first thought was that its a 2-hander but after looking at it for a bit it started seeming more like a dagger.

Well done!

glib

Looks good. Care to show a breakdown (high poly, low poly wires and flat shaded, texture sheets)?

ZacD

next gen would be like parallax mapping everywhere, 2k textures for everything, 2k tris for everything, motion blur, procedural textures for blood and damage... I dunno what else.

eld

I'm curious, how do you handle mirrored normalmaps in blenders realtime enviroment?, I've never been able to get them to mirror properly.

SpeCter

glib wrote: »

Looks good. Care to show a breakdown (high poly, low poly wires and flat shaded, texture sheets)?

http://plyczkowski.autokoncept.pl/wp/?cat=87

He posted this already

PLyczkowski

ZacD wrote: »

next gen would be like parallax mapping everywhere, 2k textures for everything, 2k tris for everything, motion blur, procedural textures for blood and damage... I dunno what else.

Ok, good to know. Sorry about the title, It seems that I can't change it now.

eld wrote: »

I'm curious, how do you handle mirrored normalmaps in blenders realtime enviroment?, I've never been able to get them to mirror properly.

It just worked :P I mean, I first tried baking in Blender, and he couldn't do it, so I baked them in xNormal. Then viewed in Blender they worked fine.

SpeCter wrote: »

http://plyczkowski.autokoncept.pl/wp/?cat=87

He posted this already

Thank you

carlo_c

Goodjob, presentation is very swish from a viewport grab. Nice details with the texture work too.

killingpeople

slipsius wrote: »

looks good. though... this isnt next gen. its current gen.

LoM Chaos wrote: »

Oh for F- sake. Can you please stop saying next gen? How is it next gen anyways? You made it now so its darn current gen!!P

Really looking forward to reading this debate for the next few years :poly142:

Nice texture work on your blade, welcome to Polycount.

jogshy

Nice dagger! I like the design and... all!

ZacD wrote: »

next gen would be like parallax mapping everywhere

Nein! Vector displacement mapping!

You could try to render a vector displacement map + a normal map and play with the xNormal's DX10 tessellation ( see the spherical spikes example ). DX10 can perform that... but, of course, once DX11 is oficially released will be faster to render. Most of the games gonna use vector displacement mapping. That's probably the "next gen"!