Apologies for the late reply, sadly I don't know how to go about achieving the glow effect you are after but I do love your first reference image. I had a quick look online to see if I could find anything to help... This seems like a quick answer but might lead to more useful tutorials:…
Yeah for around the same price/a bit less, a GTX 770 is about twice as fast as a w5000, for game dev stuff at least. Pro type cards are really good at things like drawing anti-aliased wireframes which is good for CAD etc, but price v performance, gaming cards tend to be way more powerful. You can get a pro card that also…
edit: response to (now) non-existent post, still some interesting info for anyone who may have missed any of this so I'm gonna leave it :P https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=777023205649120&set=a.535147629836680.122125.223833394301440&type=1
hey, i remember you. didnt you used to be a wings3d troll? ryan walsh also sounds familiar. didnt you have that whole fiasco on conceptart.org? http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77794 and who could forget this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=983765#post983765
here's the link to the English version of the xbox live page ;) http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Defenders-of-the-Last-Colony/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550be1?noSplash=1
DEFENDERS of the Last Colony is released on XBOX LIVE INDIE GAMES! You can purchase the game for just 80 Ms Points or try out the demo version for free. http://marketplace.xbox.com/es-ES/Product/Defenders-of-the-Last-Colony/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550be1?noSplash=1 Cheers!!
I finished (version 1, at least) my blade for PA. I'm thinking of making it darker, as some people have said in the comments, to match her armour a little more, but I'm pretty happy with it. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=77546361
Thanks for the responses, some good suggestions there. Just out of curiosity, i`m currently building this (see link) for a game environment. http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?id=77377&PHPSESSID=qrsb9lujot3s6nr0640n6n6eh5 Basically i`m building half of the arch and duplicating/mirroring it along its length. Now i`m…