[Chivalry] - Mason Knight - Mason's Executioner
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Idea for a bearded axe for the Mason's Knight - so far here is a quick ref sheet I pulled together for texture and my blockout next to the reference file. Still a lot of tweaking left to do but I'm exited to keep developing it.
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http://9thknight.deviantart.com/art/Kukri-of-the-Foregoer-466380276
How do you mean?
Also I feel the handle is a bit thin in the midsection, especially when compared to the size of the axe head. You have leather wrapping the rest, but the middle area looks like it'd snap easily. Maybe add a couple wood knots in there, like it's been rough hewn from a sturdy oak branch, or something.
The axe pommel could use a little more attention too, it looks machine-made compared with the rest of the axe.
Optimized Model
Opt with wireframe
Toned down the metal texture on the head - it looked rusted before and added VERY basic materials for blocking.
PS dont you mean AXEcutioner? hahaha I am so funny, I know.
No really, looks great! if you've got the time, maybe you can make a helmet too, as knights seem to be the most popular to buy armor for?
I hand't considered engravings, I thought I'd do a really nice cold-forged patina on it and have be very much all businesss
Any help from anyone would be awesome. Thanks
On top of that your metal is looking like stone. This occurs when you try to put too much detail into the diffuse map. For the most part, diffuse on metal in a standard workflow as basic and low detail. Most of your metallness will come from an expressive specular and gloss map. I suggest toning your diffuse details down a bit and work a bit more on your specular.
Keep on trucking.
I haven't looked at the helmet tutorial for getting them in engine yet - I'll have to find out when it comes to that, a solution might be having it go down the back?
Oh my god, thank you for noticing the normal. As for the spec I've been having issues with the stock material settings making my entire axe, even ares with VERY little specular map info looking like a hospital balloon when all is said and done. I've bumped up the Environment reflection they are using for gloss and specular intensity a bit for these caps. The second image is my axe with the tutorial settings net to the reference bearded axe. My spec map for the wood and metal is very close to the reference spec map in terms of value so I don't know what the issue is.
Spec and gloss boosted a little bit:
What happens when I drop in the default Material settings:
Ref Spec:
My Spec currently:
Thanks everyone for the feedback.
Weapon wise, dont know that a hospital balloon is but it looks like your gloss is the problem. I hadn't had the chance to open the master shader for the weapons but it might use the spec map as a gloss map as well.
Try to darken your spec areas where the wood is and make the colors white and see if that fixes it. But it looks ok in the sockets though.
In the meantime here's the WIP resculpt
Did just that - and the verdict is in, due to the 100% weighted to one point nature of how helmets are attached the hood and noose won't work without the addition of another socket to the character model, which I assume won't happen. I even tried adding two bones to the helmet and setting the hood and noose to that so it would have zero weight to bone that moves the helmet socket. In short - unless I can get some help from someone at torn banner this is probably a no dice setup.
I'm glad you like the axe!