[DS2] Axe, BoBo

BoBo_the_seal · Mar 2012

I noticed people are having a hard time with the supplied proxy. To rectify this, I decided that I'll make an example of each.

First up is an Axe:

This Axe represents the limits to breaking the bounding boxes of the proxy mesh. As long as your Axe doesn't exceed the proportion of mine your good to go.

Again, the orange grip area is the most important piece and has the least amount of wiggle room.

You can download the axe here:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/download/DS2_Axe_Template.rar

This mesh is also an example of a blank I would take into Z-Brush. If you have Max 2012, you'll be able to turn on Nurms smoothing and see how I use smoothing groups to establish my subdivisions.

I hope this helps. If I have time I'll take this to sculpt and release the sculpt as well.

- BoBo

Dylan Brady · Mar 2012

Were all doomed

OriginLinear · Mar 2012

Cheater!!!!! Somebody Alert the Mods. <_<

Rilem · Mar 2012

Thank you Bobo, you truly are a gifted seal.

leslievdb · Mar 2012

ah this clears it up, tnx for the reference bobo
guess i'll need to scale mine down in width a bit

Snipergen · Mar 2012

Make a hammer too!

Thanks bobo, and your stream was just fantastic too, I really appreciate this.

zeroSlave · Mar 2012

That is beeautiful. I see the exceptions for the top/bottom and sides, but what about the depth? should this adhere to the proxy, or is there some leeway?

Shiv · Mar 2012

Bobo, you are a beautiful seal

Thanks so much!

MeintevdS · Mar 2012

Such a showoff

So according to the new proxy we HAVE to make a dent into the axe blade or else it'll exceed the limits. RIGHT?! (<not serious)

But thanks for this post, it's good to see how far we can exceed the actual proxy.

Habboi · Mar 2012

Thanks that helps more than you realise.

I have a question though, I made this pic to basically sum it up, could you answer it for me

http://upload.habboi.co.uk/scale.png

Seirei · Mar 2012

This realy shows how mach you could go 'overboard' with the simple proxy. I just hope it's not too bad if you stay strictly inside these little boxes.

Andrew Mackie · Mar 2012

Thanks for the reference BoBo! and thank you for helping to put this contest on!

ENODMI · Mar 2012

!Nice, more tutorials! Nurms smoothing? Is this like the crease tool in Maya?

njc6425 · Mar 2012

now it all makes sense haha

spetch · Mar 2012

Thanks for doing this

BrianP · Mar 2012

really helps a lot. bumping this so more people look at it!

LuCh! · Mar 2012

great help, I was starting to wonder how big the axe blade is allowed to be,
thanks!

LuCh! · Mar 2012

ENODMI wrote: »

!Nice, more tutorials! Nurms smoothing? Is this like the crease tool in Maya?

it's what he explains at the beginning somewhere of his live stream,
it's in Max, i haven't worked with Maya so don't know about that one

http://www.livestream.com/vigilnights/video?clipId=pla_69d386b0-0c57-444a-a1e5-4c820a55e9d2&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

Shigebon · Mar 2012

It'll be nice to have a mace example next.. There have been axes and hammers screenshot around but i still havent seen any official maces at all..

KennyMcB · Mar 2012

Was curious if we could see a few texture flat examples from existing assets for Diffuse, Spec, and Normal. I know materials and varying textures can really push and change the in-game render by a lot.

Autocon · Mar 2012

BoBo_the_seal wrote: »

I noticed people are having a hard time with the supplied proxy. To rectify this, I decided that I'll make an example of each.

First up is an Axe:

This Axe represents the limits to breaking the bounding boxes of the proxy mesh. As long as your Axe doesn't exceed the proportion of mine your good to go.

Again, the orange grip area is the most important piece and has the least amount of wiggle room.

You can download the axe here:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/download/DS2_Axe_Template.rar

This mesh is also an example of a blank I would take into Z-Brush. If you have Max 2012, you'll be able to turn on Nurms smoothing and see how I use smoothing groups to establish my subdivisions.

I hope this helps. If I have time I'll take this to sculpt and release the sculpt as well.

- BoBo

Your rar is down and you cant dl this file.

Habboi · Mar 2012

upload.habboi.co.uk/DS2_Axe_Template.rar

Here, it'll never die unless Bobo wants me to remove it.

[DS2] Axe, BoBo

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