Legend OF Zelda Master Sword

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Feb 2019

This is my take on the Master Sword.
3.5k triangles
It's my first substance painter work, and unfortunately my computer is not strong enough to make 2k texture. But i hope you like it.
Sketchfab viewer: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/legend-of-zelda-master-sword-f577efde29be4ad48e68e20ef29f7ada

Image: https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/016/193/766/large/mohamed-salah-bchir-zelda-sword-iray-2.jpg?1551265019

Color/metal/normal/rough

jose.fuentes · Feb 2019

interesting take, out of curiosity, why did you bake down the color gradation on the sword itself? im referring to how the sword goes from blue to silver? thats the only thing that seems odd to me at the moment

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Feb 2019

@jose.fuentes
I don't know. How else could it be done?

Ashervisalis · Feb 2019

Hey man, looks really cool. I feel like you went a little over board with the edge mask damage. I'd also suggest adding a (very) slight bit of light blue emissive to the blade, to give it that magical glowing look you'd expect the sword to have. Lastly, your presentation is a bit weak. Just renders of the sword vertically and another one horizontally are a bit boring, would be interesting to see the sword at an angle, taking up as much room on the screen as possible.

The sword looks super dope, good job

jose.fuentes · Feb 2019

It seems like you were trying to show some sort of environment reflection on the metal. If so adding some sort of environment in your render will solve that. Perhaps ashervisalis suggestion could help as well. Make your diff all one color and add some glow.

KingKellogg · Mar 2019

What is the turqiouse at the top of the texture?

Ashervisalis · Mar 2019

I just realized that the UV mapping doesn't seem too even. The handle has far more pixel density than the blade. You might want to avoid that in future projects?

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Mar 2019

@KingKellogg
The turquoise is from the reference picture, i hand painted it.

Ashervisalis said:

I just realized that the UV mapping doesn't seem too even. The handle has far more pixel density than the blade. You might want to avoid that in future projects?

okay i will fix it thanks.

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Mar 2019

btw @Ashervisalis
i scaled the handle up so i wouldn't have unused space, there is nothing else to scale up, and the blade is at maximum scale.
If i make any changes i will post

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Mar 2019

I did some changes to the UVs

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/yo/e0x730hqd8cv.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/d7/91hp0vuc7cdg.png

Ashervisalis · Mar 2019

Sometimes when a long piece is scaled up to the max UV space, I'll throw an edge loop in the middle so I can cut the UV island in half, and then double its size/texel density. You can easily texture this properly in Substance Painter with the blade being multiple islands, and it doesn't increase the poly count by too much, but it does increase texel density by a huge factor.

Mohamed_Salah_Bchir · Mar 2019

Ashervisalis said:

Sometimes when a long piece is scaled up to the max UV space, I'll throw an edge loop in the middle so I can cut the UV island in half, and then double its size/texel density. You can easily texture this properly in Substance Painter with the blade being multiple islands, and it doesn't increase the poly count by too much, but it does increase texel density by a huge factor.

Good idea i will do that, i was just thinking about minimizing the number of uv shells

Legend OF Zelda Master Sword

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