Lightsaber

JamesWarren

Hi everyone! Although this is my first post here, I have been reading a lot on the forums over the last couple of weeks. There is a lot of great information here, and hopefully someday I can contribute.

I recently started working at Vigil Games as a temp QA person, and whenever I ask a 3d modeler or artist for advice often the first thing they tell me is to check out Polycount.

So here I am


Basically what I am posting here is a lightsaber I started a while ago. It was mainly a learning exercise in making an in-game model.

Here are the screenshots rendered in Marmoset. Even though I am ready to move on to something else, I would still appreciate any critiques.

greevar

I like the texturing, but I'm not so keen on the toon outline. I could easily see that as an option in a Jedi Academy overhaul or a new Jedi Knight game.

JamesWarren

Thanks for your comments and critiques. After looking at the lightsaber again I agree that the outline wasn't really helping. I also went back and messed with some of the settings to try to make the blade more "realistic." Since I want to render this in real time I feel like this is the closest I could get the blade to look, at least with Marmoset.

JamesWarren

Thanks SasoChicken. Looking at this again from work I can see that there is a lot more green in the center than I remember. When I get home I'm gonna figure out how to set my monitor up properly.

Jessica Dinh

Agreed, the blade looks much better now! Good job

ebridge

This model looks cool. What renderer did you use to get that glow effect?

Blaisoid

^ he wrote that in the first post...

JamesWarren

I'm glad you guys think it looks cool. ebridge, you should also check out the xoliul and 3 point shaders if you haven't already.