[Chivalry] Mason + Vanguard Fist of the Burning Sun

Noth · Aug 2014

Weapon Update, high-res ready for Zbrush now. I've swapped out the reference sheets for direct links too. Oh and the handle hasn't gotten any love yet, so ignore that portion for now. : D

http://i.imgur.com/nWgtyZ6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OgOI3wG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/os7Lwgt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ufiMkKv.jpg

JasonLavoie · Aug 2014

Woo these are awesome, thanks for putting these together!

Noth · Aug 2014

Concept update.

I'm planning on making a set including the Brandi. It's my go to weapon usually, I love the range. I really want to put a fist on the end of it, I think that would be bad ass.

I wanted to ask if I could get away from the sun portion of the design poking out of the Brani's usual shape. (Outlined in red) Considering 2/3 of the Brandi's attacks are pokes I don't think it would pose a problem. For the horizontal attack, since the main fist geo is within the usual contact area, the sun elements would look like they were stabbing into the enemy -- which is pretty legit I think. Let me know, if not I'll rework it or maybe design something else. It could also be a Bardiche, but hopefully I can use this in game as Brandi though.

Lucas Annunziata · Aug 2014

As long as the length of the weapons is the same, it is perfectly fine.

Noth · Aug 2014

That's what I wanted to hear! Woot, thanks.

Lucas Peinador · Sep 2014

Thanks for putting those reference images together. The design of the weapon looks really nice, the fist could also be holding the sun like it was brass knuckles.

Noth · Sep 2014

Haha, that's what I ended up doing. Funny to read that now, great minds think alike.

Noth · Sep 2014

Updates finished the high res, will take into Zbrush now. Said that earlier, but now the handle is finished. Woot! Looking forward to nicking this up a bit.

Noth · Sep 2014

Messing around in Marmoset with some preset shaders.

jackalope · Sep 2014

Marmoset

The model turned out fantastic.
Keep it up.

Nolt · Sep 2014

That's looking pretty darn cool! Is that the low poly in marmoset?

Noth · Sep 2014

Thanks.: ) No low poly yet, I'll get to that this evening. This is the smoothed high res broken up into material groups, marmoset didn't even flinch. : D I'll be making a helm to go with it in the sun theme after zbrush pass for this guy.

lewist · Sep 2014

Looking good! I can't wait to see what you do with the helm.

Noth · Sep 2014

Thanks, me too. I haven't designed it yet.

soulstice · Sep 2014

That looks awesome! looking forward to seeing it low poly'd and textured!

Noth · Sep 2014

Anyone get the error when trying to import your weapon "Name contains an invalid character" ?

I copy/pasted the exact example here, and edited it to suit my entry.

WP(weapon)_hbl(HeavyBlunt)_Maul(weapon name)_Variant_##

I wrote

WP(weapon)_hbl(Brandistock)_Spear(BurningFist)_Variant_01

Any ideas? Never used unreal. Thanks.

Noth · Sep 2014

Think I figured it out, if this works the example is confusing as F*&k.

Sophax · Sep 2014

Looks pretty cool. I assume its for the brandi stock?

Noth · Sep 2014

Yep.

Noth · Sep 2014

Made a blend-if tutorial for anyone that hasn't seen it's awesomeness in action. I'll desaturated the spec later but left colour for now cause it looks cooler. It helped me bring back the scratches and hot spots for the spec map, maybe someone will find this useful. Post questions if the diagram isn't clear, I kinda sped put this together. : )

Link here - http://i.imgur.com/U6MdSaW.png

Noth · Sep 2014

Update! Still tweaking material for the steel. Also included a close up of the blood decal, had fun with that! I've got that nasty normal seam too, so I'll have to do some fiddling there soon.

Slipstream · Sep 2014

Beautiful work

The light direction seems to be hitting the model at one angle, and the specular looks like it's catching it at another. Could flipping the y in the normal map be the solution?

Nolt · Sep 2014

Looking really solid! Great job

Noth · Sep 2014

Hey Slipstream, yeah I flipped it on import and it was crazy to see the difference. I don't do much next gen stuff, it's mostly hand-painted, so this has been a bit of a learning weekend.

I think I'm done with this for now, on to the helm!

Noth · Sep 2014

Few more with the black background, was having fun with the coloured spec. I have some orange, blue and purple in there. Pretty fun to spin around.

Noth · Sep 2014

Noth · Sep 2014

Can anyone point me in the direction of getting it in the game to see a vanguard with it? I'm having trouble finding a document on that.

fozdar3d · Sep 2014

Hope this helps. Weapon is looking really good!
https://tornbannerjira.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CHIVCOM/Tutorial%3A+Adding+New+Weapon+Skins+to+Chivalry

zetheros · Sep 2014

Wow! Insanely good design, Noth. I have only one suggestion; make the blades look really sharp by making the edges of the three blades look freshly sharpened and polished. Give them nice, shiny bevels.

Pic for reference;

Noth · Sep 2014

@ fozdar3d - thanks for the link, I used that to set it up in the engine and save my package, but I'm wonder how I can get it in the hands of a vanguard now. I seen some screens of people with their weapons with characters holding them. How I do?

@zetheros - thanks for that, yeah I can revisit it pretty easy. Having fun tweaking everything now that it's in the engine. I'll post helm designs soon. : )

Nolt · Sep 2014

If you go up to the characters package and then then click on like the knight package or whichever class you want, then click on the mesh to pop it open, click on the red sockets button at the top of the window, then find probably the weapon 2h socket and add the weapon to that socket. One of those tutorials I think has that in it.

Noth · Sep 2014

I'll look around some more, but that sounds straight forward enough. Cool, thanks!

Nolt · Sep 2014

Actually if you look at the Helmet Import tutorial, it's in there for how to do it with a helmet so just kind of transfer that process to your weapon.

Noth · Sep 2014

coool, I'll try that out tonight. Thanks. Your gear is looking good in engine doood.

Noth · Sep 2014

Woot, got it to work. I swear I'll post helmet designs soon, and add that refined edge.

McGuire · Sep 2014

This has got to be one of my favorite submissions, this thing is just all kinds of badass. I'm excited to see the helm you have in mind to go with it.

Dobrin · Sep 2014

Yeah, it looks really cool

alexd · Sep 2014

Bravo !

Noth · Sep 2014

Thanks for the kind words! Here's a concept for a helm I'm thinking of making. I want to follow the great helm shape pretty close as it hold true to the time period, but I'm adding a bit of design to it. Hopefully the two balance eachother out enough to fit with the game, I had some pretty far out designs, but I think they were too fantasy based. Lemme know what you think!

pior · Sep 2014

This weapon is such a winner ! Can't wait to see the helmet shaping up

jackalope · Sep 2014

Maybe instead of having a cross design you could have a sunburst coming off the eyes.
Really like the way the weapon turned out.

Noth · Oct 2014

Couple progress shots, did the baking and texturing today. I'll finish it up and do promotional stuff tomorrow. Ended up changing the design in 3D and going with the sun theme. Glad it worked out, cause I was hoping to keep the weapon and helm consistent. I'll post the vanguard with the helm and weapon tomorrow before I make the promotional stuff. Excited to see what he looks like! C&C welcome, thanks!

Nate Broach · Oct 2014

This set is rad. That helmet is FIERCE. Great job man!

Uzziel · Oct 2014

It's nice to have the same kind of shapes on the helmet, good work.

Spudnik · Oct 2014

Damn, that came out sexy! I wished the silhouette of the helmet itself was a bit more rounded and/or more interesting to match the badass design at the front.

bounchfx · Oct 2014

dang that is scary! wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that thing, Lol. Really well done, love the look of the fist holding the blade thing at the end. The helm is viscous too, great work!

Noth · Oct 2014

Thanks guys.

@Spudnik - I know what you mean! haha, believe me I had some pretty far out sun designs at one point. After comparing those to chivalry's realistic art direction I made the decision I would try to stick with the great helm design the vanguard rocks in-game. The construction methods for that helm are super basic. I thought it would be a good challenge to try to stick with that but make it exciting, having to rely purely on design and no pointy silhouette shapes.

Check out this great helm, it's like a piece of metal wrapped around the dudes head with a cap on it. lol Punch some holes in it for air and your good to go.

Hoping the two pieces of the set balance each other out cause the weapon is a bit crazier.

Noth · Oct 2014

Here's a glimpse of him with the gear on, now I've got to figure out how to get better lighting on this than the anim viewer.

Nolt · Oct 2014

Get that stuff submitted, Noth! Finish it! Hope you get that submitted

Noth · Oct 2014

Working on presentation mats, will be submitted within the next few hours.

Noth · Oct 2014

Success! Crossed the finish line, everything is submitted. I can rest..

Check it out here @ http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=323109313

Leave your link for me and I'll do the same, best luck polycounters!

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