Closeup of the grip and hilt Critiques welcome. It was supposed to be a plain scimitar but I found a katana texture I loved so now it is much more flashy. 231 faces Lower Poly version 120 faces
There are some node based shader editors in the making for Unity 3.0, but not sure if they will be free.( I'm sure there will be a free one eventualy )
DeadlyFreeze is right. PolyBoost had some of these features since version 3.0. Look at this video: http://hem.bredband.net/polyboost/PolyBoost3_video.avi